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Casey Donahew Band plays Thurs., June 9 after Bradley Gaskin starts the music after real P.R.C.A. Rodeo Action. Josh Abbott Band plays after George Straits Band, Ace In The Hole Band leads off for Friday, June 10. Cory Morrow wraps up the Rodeo June 11 after Brandon Rhyder and the PRCA Rodeo action.
CROSBY/ HUFFMAN– Jan. 29 will be a busy day in the Crosby and Huffman communities.
The Crosby Huffman Chamber of Commerce will hold their annual Consumer Expo on Jan. 29 in the Crosby High School commons from 10 a.m. to 3:30 p.m. Admission is free.
The purpose of the event is to allow area businesses to sell their products and promote their businesses to the community. Throughout the day there will be door prizes as well as live entertainment.
There will also be a blood drive and health fair.
FFA Auction
Saturday will also see the culmination of the Huffman FFA Livestock Show.
A buyers dinner will be held from 12 to 1 p.m. on Jan. 29. The livestock auction starts at 1:30 p.m. at the Huffman FFA Arena at Hargrave High School.
Spring Ball Signups
Saturdays event will also see the final day for Crosby Sports Association Spring baseball and softball. Registration will be at the Crosby Sports Complex from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. For those able to attend, registration will also be during the evening of Jan. 28 from 6 to 8 p.m. at the sports complex.
Rotary Chili Feast
Final preparations are also underway for the Feb. 5 Highlands Rotary Club 36th Annual Chili Feast, Raffle and Auction.
The event will be held at the St. Jude Thaddeus Catholic Church, 808 S. Main. in Highlands from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m. A live auction starts at 12:30 p.m.
Raffle tickets are $100 each. The Top prize is a 2011 Chevy Camaro or 2011 Chevy Silverado pickup. Other prizes include shotgun, camera and television. Chili dinner tickets are $7 each or free with raffle ticket.

CROSBY – The Crosby Rodeo hosts their Annual Spring Dance on April 11, after Good Friday and before Resurrection or Easter Sunday known as No-Name Saturday.
Get all bright eyed and cotton tailed and hop over to the American Legion Hall in Crosby, just South of the Fairgrounds from 9:00 p.m. until 1:00 a.m.
Jody Nix and the Texas Cowboys will play Western Swing Dance music, a style developed in the 40s and 50s by Bob Wills and Hoyle Nix. Jody Nix began his profession career playing with his dads band, West Texas Cowboys, 5 nights a week from the time he was eight years of age. Among those in his band are Johnny Cox, one of the best steel players in the world. says numerous C&W Magazines.
Nix and The Texas Cowboys were tapped by the Texas State Society Black Tie & Boots Ball for then President George Bush.
David Glenn opens for Kevin Fowler Thursday, June 11. The self described Texas-Nashville Style singer song writer is an avid outdoorsman that likes golf, hunting, fishing and dirt track racing. He likes a range from George Jones to Lenny Kravitz and lots of people in between.

Highlands Rotary Club recently listened to an update from Crosby author Charles Shafer about his book The View from the Chinaberry Tree, which has now been issued as a 4 volume CD set, with the author reading passages from the book.
The book is about his experiences, and in a larger sense all of our experiences, growing up in the small Texas town of Winfield, with a population of 251. The book was first published in 1996, and the CD set in 2008.
Titles give you a sense of this collection of short stories. These include: A Pocketful of Spinach; Hoboes and Gypsies; I Could Have Been a Cowboy; Khaki; Aubrey and the North Koreans; Sittin Nekkid in the Backyard; Television comes to Winfield; Mamas Gonna Kill Us Both.
Shafer tells these stories as if from a small boys perspective, with a sense of wisdom, and a sense of whimsey.
Shafer is a retired English professor, who taught at Lee College for 37 years, and was active in the Convict Education program.
The book is out of print, but the CD set is available by contacting the author, at 281-462-0410 or email candjshafer@verizon.net.

CROSBY Internationally acclaimed songwriters and original Country/Rock duo smash hit Howard and David Bellamy, a.k.a. Bellamy Brothers play here Saturday, June 13 with local favorite Gene Watson at the Crosby Fair & Rodeo.
If I said you had a beautiful body (Would you hold it against me,) Spider & Snakes, Let Your Love Flow, For All the Wrong Reasons, Redneck Girl and Old Hippie continue to garner radio time since they were introduced in the 1970s and 1980s and became instant top of the chart favorites.
David Bellamy stated once, Our live draw is bigger than it was in the 80s. I think the same people that grew up with us and our music in the 60s and 70s obviously have raised a whole new generation of Bellamy fans who started toddling to our music.
The brothers now reside on a 150 acre ranch in Darby, Florida, North of Tampa. They raise purebred charlois cattle and Quarter horses.
Their first gig was in 1968 at the Rattlesnake Roundup in San Antonio, Florida. They developed playing for groups like Percy Sledge and Eddie Floyd as well as Little Anthony & the Imperials.
They were opening acts for Bob Dylan, James Taylor, Van Morrison, Poco and the Byrds during the L.A. heyday. When Let Your Love Shine broke out in 1976 it sold over 3 million units worldwide.
The bothers have branched into a corroborative with about thirty other artists including Alan Jackson, Dolly Parton, Willie Nelson, Tanya Tucker and Montgomery Gentry.
The Bellamy Brothers released a gospel album entitled Jesus Is Coming that features new songs written by them. The new combination looks into the Post-modern condition against the faith. One song, Grandmas God seems to be the personal story of a spiritual quest from the smoky haze of the 60s and 70s coming back around to the Old Time Religion.
Obviously, humor is a great asset for the Bellamy Brothers songwriting, on the new album is a song entitled Lord Help Me Be the Kind of Person My Dog Thinks I Am. Another song is entitled Drug Problem and speaks of how he was drug to church on Sunday morning and drug to work on his grandfathers farm. It kids today had that kind of drug problem I believe the world would be a better place. said David Bellamy. Another insightful tune is Spiritually Bankrupt, with many a reference like Dante walking through Hell, a vagabond walks through a dark valley and finds his hopelessness overcome by calling on God.
The next entertainment event by the Crosby Fair & Rodeo is to be on Saturday, April 11 at the American Legion Hall from 9:00 p.m. until 1:00 a.m. It is a major fund-raiser for the year and will feature a silent and live auction. Entertainment will be Jody Nix and the Texas Cowboys, from the Bandera Area, a large band featuring many songs similar to Jake Hooker.
CROSBY — In 2007, Crosbys J.J. Worthen released his first full-length album Devotee to rave reviews.
Worthen is back with a new release that hit stores last month, including Arlans Market in Crosby. The newest release is the self-titled album from the band Hello Love, a collaboration between Worth and Richard Whiting.
While he was trained in classical music, Worthens work shows a blend of pop, rock, jazz and funk. The blending of styles is demonstrated in the retro 1960s mod look of the album cover. This is in stark contrast the dark gray color of Devotee. Like the first album, Worthens stronger spiritual background comes through in Hello Love.
A native of Crosby, Worthen was active in the high school choir. After winning Channel 2s Gimme the Mike Houston talent competition Worthen went on to further his music studies at Houston Baptist University. At HBU he earned a degree in music theory and composition.
Worthen also serves as a worship specialist at Riverpointe Community Church in Richmond.

Live Free or Die Hard
Running time: 2 hours, 10 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13
Its safe to say that this is the last time Bruce Willis will be playing Detective John McClane, and you can tell that Willis wanted his iconic character to go out with a bang. And another bang. And …
Thats what makes Live Free or Die Hard the best action movie of the year. It is wall-to-wall stunts, gunfights and Stuff Blowin Up Real Good.
And the icing on the cake is that you can tell Willis is having the time of his life and not just phoning it in for a huge payday. Bruces enthusiasm for the character is infectious. And for all the online bluster about how a PG-13 rating was going to spoil the film, I can tell you honestly that it doesnt. Live Free or Die Hard is a solid action movie and yes, McClane DOES deliver his signature Yippy Kai Yay line.
The plot as if it matters surrounds an attack on the nations computer infrastructure, from power grids to national security systems, financial institutions, even traffic lights.
A really evil guy who is too pretty to be a nerd (Timothy Olyphant) is wreaking havoc on the country.
Det. John McClane has, in tow, a young hacker (Justin Long) who inadvertently helped develop part of the insidious code.
As the country crumbles down around them, McClane and the hacker have to try to stay one step ahead of the bad guys who can track them and then send helicopters, fighter jets and other nasty stuff their way.
One of the highlights of the film is a cameo by filmmaker Kevin Smith, who plays an uberhacker with the handle, Warlock. It was great to see Smith in the role, but it also made it glaringly obvious how weak Justin Longs characterization was. It wouldve been better to have Silent Bob himself hang with McClane and whomp some cyber-terrorist booty.
Yippy-Kai-Yay, indeed.
GRADE: A

Pirates of the Caribbean: At Worlds End
Running time: 168 minutes
MPAA rating: PG-13
The third (and hopefully final) installment of the Pirates of the Caribbean series suffers from the misapprehension that more is better.
Sometimes it isnt. And in the case of At Worlds End, more is too much: Too much plot, too much exposition, too much Keira Knightly and Orlando Bloom (Zzzzzzz), and at nearly three hours in length, too much movie.
What Pirates doesnt have enough of is Jack Sparrow. Lets be real here: Johnny Depp carried the first movie. It was his portrayal of the swishy, swashbuckling savant Jack Sparrow that made the first movie the hit that it was. It wasnt the love story. It wasnt the special effects. It was Depp. Depp. Depp. … Period.
In this film, there arent enough scenes of Depp doing what he does best, chewing up the scenery as the scheming, bumbling cad we adored from the first film.
Instead, we get a convoluted plot concerning the alliance between the East India Company and Davy Jones and the search for nine pieces of eight (yes, you read that right) and a pirate congress and plots within plots and people sitting around yelling Arrrr! and talking about what theyre supposed to be doing instead of just DOING IT.
But no. For a three-hour pirate movie, its a crime that we have to wait nearly two hours before we see a monkey get shoved into a cannon. A pirate movie should have PIRATE STUFF in it. Not a bunch of talking. And certainly no boring love story especially when the two people in love are portrayed by two of the most dull, emotionless actors on the planet.
Keira Knightly, whos looking more and more like an anorexic catfish every day, thinks that projecting emotion is simply a matter of sucking in ones cheeks. The more she sucks, the more emotion shes supposedly emoting.
Orlando Bloom reads every line as if hed just had a chemical lobotomy performed. Needless to say, SuckFace & Durrrrrr pretty much ruined most of the movie for me.
I cant recommend At Worlds End. It had the potential to be a Great White Shark, but instead, its just a blowfish.
GRADE: D