Cards and comics among offerings in McAllen There was a time where Topps had the baseball card market locked up. The same can be said for DC and Marvel comic books. It was a time when a young boy or girl would wait anxiously for the next Spider Man edition to appear on the stands or opening that pack of cards maybe meant completing the set. That entire landscape has…
Grandma’s cooking. For many, those two words conjure up memories of good days with family, where grandma might make her secret-recipe menudo or chicken soup or apple pie. It didn’t really matter what she brought. It was grandma’s food – it was comfort food. Jean Petit and his parents, Veronica and Paul Petit, are now sharing grandma’s cooking – real Mexico City cooking – with the Rio Grande Valley. Pies…
When Coach Danny Soto, founder of Valley Heat Volleyball Club, was in middle school, he tried out for his school’s track team but he was not chosen. He still remembers the sadness of not making the team. “I developed late,” said Soto, who ended up going to state in track by the time he was a senior in high school. “But I still remember the hurt of not making the team…
Louis Barton has spent a lot of time learning how to protect himself from “the bad guy,” and that was before he became a leader in cyber safety at Frost Bank. At a forum on cyber security, Barton discussed ways hackers can find their way into anyone’s bank account, credit card, phone or computer and steal their identity. Many in attendance were wide-eyed during some of his examples, like…
At Bahama Bucks, people walk with cups overflowing with thin-shaved ice in deep, rich colors. The ice, piled much higher than the edge of the cup, reminded one of an iceberg – what is seen is just a small preview of what’s below. One girl held a cucumber-flavored treat, another had cherry-red flavor seeping deep into the ice. One dad sipped a frozen lemonade, while a young customer bit into…
Jackelyn Llanas had doubts about the daunting task ahead of her. The 23-year-old Brownsville native had been selected for the first cohort to undergo an intense 12-week coding boot camp in Full Stack Web Development. “I thought I couldn’t do it. I was overwhelmed and scared,” said the UTRGV mechanical engineering student. “I thought about quitting but decided to stick this out.” By early August, 10 weeks into the program,…