Daniel García OrdazMar 11, 20192 min readOnly In The Valley: Twelve Bad Ass Women of the Rio Grande Valley (*R.I.P. Edition)From Hollywood icons, to musical divas, to authors to actresses, to activists to nurses, to military heroes to fighter pilots, to . . .
Daniel García OrdazMar 14, 20186 min readTHE EYE: HOMEFRONT (Part Four)The long road to recovery after a storm and a war . . . (Published originally in The Valley Morning Star, Harlingen, on the eve of the...
Daniel García OrdazMar 14, 20185 min readTHE EYE: AFTERMATH (Part Three)The aftermath of the devastating hurricane of 1933 . . . (Published originally in The Valley Morning Star, Harlingen, on the eve of the...
Daniel García OrdazMar 14, 20185 min readTHE EYE: LANDFALL (Part Two)Storm changed course, took aim at Valley . . . (Published originally in The Valley Morning Star, Harlingen, on the eve of the 2006...
Daniel García OrdazMar 14, 20185 min readTHE EYE: STORM FRONT (Part One)Life in the Valley as a hurricane approaches . . . (Published originally in The Valley Morning Star, Harlingen, on the eve of the 2006...
Daniel García OrdazMar 14, 20181 min readTHE EYE: STORM FRONT (Intro)This four-part series gives a glimpse of the Valley before, during and after the hurricane through the interweaved story of a Rio Grande...
Daniel García OrdazMar 11, 20181 min readFrom Harlingen to Hollywood: Actors and ActressesThe Rio Grande Valley of deep S. Texas is filled with talent and potential talent. Here's a glimpse at some who are working actively (or...
Daniel García OrdazMar 11, 20181 min readFrom the Rio Grande Valley to Hollywood: Actors and ActressesThe Rio Grande Valley of deep S. Texas is filled with talent and potential talent. Here's a glimpse at some who are working actively (or...
Daniel García OrdazMar 11, 20181 min readFrom Brownsville to Hollywood: Actors and ActressesThe Rio Grande Valley of deep S. Texas is filled with talent and potential talent. Here's a glimpse at some who are working actively (or...
Daniel García OrdazMar 11, 20181 min readFrom McAllen to Hollywood: Actors, Actresses, & WritersThe Rio Grande Valley of deep S. Texas is filled with talent and potential talent. Here's a glimpse at some who are working actively (or...
Daniel García OrdazMar 11, 20181 min readFrom Mission, Texas to Hollywood: ActorsThe Rio Grande Valley of deep S. Texas is filled with talent and potential talent. Here's a glimpse at some who are working actively (or...
Daniel García OrdazMar 11, 20181 min readHollywood: The DirectorsThe Rio Grande Valley of deep S. Texas is filled with talent and potential talent. Here's a glimpse at some who are working actively in...
Daniel García OrdazMar 11, 20181 min readHollywood: The ProducersThe Rio Grande Valley of deep S. Texas is filled with talent and potential talent. Here's a glimpse at some who are working actively in...
Daniel García OrdazMar 11, 20181 min readHollywood: Editing and Art and Make-Up DepartmentThe Rio Grande Valley of deep S. Texas is filled with talent and potential talent. Here's a glimpse at some who are working actively in...
Daniel García OrdazMar 11, 20181 min readHollywood: Cinematographers & Camera CrewThe Rio Grande Valley of deep S. Texas is filled with talent and potential talent. Here's a glimpse at some who are working actively in...
Daniel García OrdazMar 11, 20181 min readHollywood (R.I.P.)Just a sampling of the Rio Grande Valley's people in Hollywood and/or in films. (There are many, many more known and unknown, but it's a...
Daniel García OrdazFeb 23, 20183 min readMedal of Honor RecipientsFrom privates to generals, the Rio Grande Valley has a rich history of military participation, including several famous (or should be...
Daniel García OrdazFeb 22, 20182 min readOur OlympiansThe Rio Grande Valley has had at least three Olympians--all of them runners, . . . sort of: Bobby Morrow, Aaron Ramirez, and Germán...
Daniel García OrdazJun 11, 20176 min readTen To Know: Ten MFA in Creative Writing graduates from The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley (i01 David Rice Rice is the author of several books, including Give the Pig a Chance, a collection of short stories set in the Rio Grande...
Daniel García OrdazJun 11, 20175 min readTen To Know Ten Living Authors From the Rio Grande Valley (in no particular order)01 Rolando Hinojosa-Smith Born in 1929, Hinojosa-Smith grew up in Mercedes, Texas, in the Rio Grande Valley. He attended The University...
