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A Quick Glance at what’s in the News

A Quick Glance at what’s in the News

NY Times Slams Obama For Being “New And Not Improved”
Here are a few lines of the story that’s gotten so much attention:

Senator Barack Obama stirred his legions of supporters, and raised our hopes, promising to change the old order of things. He spoke with passion about breaking out of the partisan mold of bickering [...]

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Yazoo Reunited & In Texas

Yazoo Reunited & In Texas

Yazoo released “Upstairs At Eric’s” in July 1982 and with a partnership lasting only 16 months –Yazoo’s Vince Clarke and Alison Moyet split and went their own ways soon after the release of their second album “You And Me Both.”
Vince and Alison have since gone on to have their own successful careers. Vince formed [...]

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True Colors Hits Texas

True Colors Hits Texas

Erasures very own Andy Bell will join the True Colors tour this upcoming weekend as a special guest for a handful of solo performances. The performances will be in The Woodlands on the 21 and Dallas on the 22. I will not be attending either one, to my extreme dismay… (I’m a little ticked off [...]

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Down To Two

Down To Two

Who’s getting your vote? With Hillary out of the race, allot of those die-hard fans I personally know are saying they’re going to sit this election out, or vote for McCain. Obama isn’t doing well in the valley from what I can tell, what are your thoughts? Sound off on the comment section.
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‘Hits & Mrs’ Never Misses

‘Hits & Mrs’ Never Misses

I stumbled onto this GREAT electro duo a few months ago and from the get-go I found myself visiting their myspace page every day or two to listen to their stuff.
Hits & Mrs. is an electronic band formed in 2006, originally from San Antonio, TX. The band, Kyle Keith (who is behind the keys, programming, [...]

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Are We Getting it Wrong?

Are We Getting it Wrong?

Just a reminder, this site is only as good as WE make it. Sunday I wokeup to a nice comment, it was posted in the About section and says:

MaRyT May 25th, 2008 at 3:11 pm

so wats the daily update???
i have been checking out ur site for the past 3 consecutive days…and no changes have [...]

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Our ArtWalk Rocks

Our ArtWalk Rocks

Pretty much anyone interested in art has attended at least one ArtWalk. For those of you who haven’t attended or even heard of McAllen’s ArtWalk it’s essentially a self-guided tour of art galleries in some of the oldest areas of McAllen.
You can take your time and look around and even meet allot of the artists. [...]

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Say What?!?!

Say What?!?!

I’ve been asking pretty much everyone I know, well, a simple question. “Do you ask you bf/gf or potential bf/gf how many people they’ve had sex with?” I’ve gotten allot of answers and it’s always nice to listen to who people have to say.

What they had to say:

Dude 1 – Well, no. I don’t wanna [...]

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McCain on Ellen

McCain on Ellen

Republican John McCain says same sex couples should be allowed to enter into legal agreements for insurance and other purposes, but he opposes gay marriage and believes in “the unique status of marriage between and man and a woman.”
McCain, who also opposes an amendment to the Constitution to ban same-sex unions, said people should be [...]

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Idol Season Finale

Idol Season Finale

I can’t seem to find many people who can agree on anything lately and American Idol is no different. With David VS David pretty much everyone thinks they know who’s going to win. My guess… David Archuleta. He’s got the teen and tween vote down and there’s no doubt in my mind that he’ll be [...]

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