Starr Music Academy (SMA) is set to host it's annual Spring recital on Sunday afternoon, May 19, at the historic Rio Grande City Downtown Kiosk starting at 4:00 p.m. This year's Spring recital theme is Fiesta Mexicana featuring sounds of traditional Mexican folk music. "This will be our Annual Spring Student Showcase featuring over forty performers age four to fifteen on piano, violin, cello, voice, guitar, and ukulele playing traditional Mexican folk music," said SMA owner

Staff from the Rio Grande City Tourism Dept. headed to Austin Texas earlier this week to explore new new developments in tourism strategies and historical preservation at the Real Places 2019 Conference. Rio Grande City Tourism Director Sara Hernandez, and the Kelsey-Bass Museum Coordinator Belinda Trevino participated in the 3-days long conference which featured several workshops and prominent guest speakers. Featured speakers at this year's Real Places 2019 Conference inclu

Grulla native, J.M. Longoria III, will star in an upcoming dramatic short film which is set to be distributed to educators across the country as a tool for teaching tolerances. Patches Entertainment in association with Olive Productions and PR present Bibi, a ten minute short form film set in Texas’s Rio Grande Valley which the team describes as a tale of love, hope, and forgiveness. The plot of the film centers around a young Latino man who receives a mysterious last letter

The 2019 Children’s and Adults’ Mental Health Awareness Creative Arts Contest is open for entries and this year, applicants can submit their work online. The contest, which started in 2012, is part of Mental Health Awareness Month in May. Children and adults can submit original artwork, writing and photography. This year’s theme is “Why Does Mental Health Matter to You?” Winners will have their work displayed and published on the Texas System of Care website and in a publ