Posts Tagged ‘Bruce Berman’
Borderland Moments
Photo by Bruce Berman of Border Blog
“We don’t play at the cantinas anymore because it is too dangerous. We do two funerals a day instead,” said musician Jose del Villar at the San Rafael cemetery after serenading a grieving widow, a black accordion strapped to his chest.
But residents have little hope. The only thing that the military [...]
Posted in Featured, Life in Juarez, hopeTags: Border-blog, Bruce Berman, Ciudad Juarez, hope, Mexico, Violence in Juarez
January 10th, 2010 by Matt Lindsey
Width of a Fence
Photo by Bruce Berman of Border Blog
My spirit craves relief. The desert cries out for liberation. This afternoon is dragging on and the pain in my neck has moved closer to my brain, tender lightning storms brilliant in my skull. I just read about some more people being shot up and down. Another drug rehab place. 18 dead. [...]
Posted in Featured, Life in Juarez, Violence in Juarez, hopeTags: Bruce Berman, Ciudad Juarez, El Paso, hope, Mexico, Violence
June 10th, 2009 by mmlindsey
The Desert Flux
Living on the border of the U.S. and Mexico is like living in a constant state of flux. Leaving Mexico requires a Mexican military checkpoint, then usually after an incredibly long wait, a U.S. checkpoint. Driving into Mexico these days means that you will first be checked by the U.S. Border Patrol, then Mexican Fed/Border [...]
February 7th, 2009 by Matt Lindsey
Greening the Ghetto: The Desert in Color
The concrete-gray washes over me like a tidal wave of rubble, with 100 million plastic bags and a few hundred thousand worn out tires embedded in its curling face. Even with the dusty trashy mess, our neighborhood has me enamored. Everyone keeps warning us about the sinister dust storms that roll across the desert in March and April, [...]
Posted in Art, Featured, Life in Juarez, hopeTags: Border Explorer, Border-blog, Bruce Berman, Ciudad Juarez, Greening the Ghetto, Matt and Misty Lindsey, The Desert
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Gallery
January 22nd, 2010 by Matt Lindsey