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The Contrabando is a ghost town within the Big Bend Ranch State Park, 9.5 miles (15.3 km) west of Lajitas, Texas on the Texas State Highway 170.
The Contrabando consists of an original adobe building called 'La Casita' and several later additions that became part of the Contrabando during its use as a movie set. The movie set was constructed in 1985 for the Roy Clark film Uphill all the Way. The site has been used as a set for nine movies including John Sayles' 1996 movie Lone Star; as well as Dead Man’s Walk and Streets of Laredo, which were part of the Lonesome Dove miniseries based upon the novel by Larry McMurtry.
In September 2008, heavy rains and flooding occurred in Ojinaga, Mexico. The rain, and the ensuing release of water from local flood control structures caused widespread flooding, and resulting in damage to the movie set buildings at the Contrabando. The original Casita was not damaged.
Coordinates: 29°17′16″N 103°53′49″W / 29.2877°N 103.8969°W / 29.2877; -103.8969
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Los Tigres del Norte (English: The Tigers of the North) is a norteño-band ensemble based out of San Jose, California with origins in Rosa Morada, a sindicatura in Mocorito, Sinaloa, Mexico.
The group was started by Jorge Hernández, his brothers, and his cousins. They then began recording after moving to San Jose, California in the late 1960s, when all the members were still in their teens. They were sponsored by a local record company, Discos Fama, owned by an Englishman named Art Walker, who took them under his wing and helped them find jobs and material, as well as recording all of their early albums.
The Tigres were at first only locally popular, but took off after Jorge and Art Walker heard a Los Angeles mariachi singer perform a song in the early 1971 about a couple of drug runners, Emilio Varela and Camelia la Texana. There had been occasional ballads (corridos, in Mexican terminology) about the cross-border drug trade ever since Prohibition in the 1920s, but never a song as cinematic as this, featuring a woman smuggler who shoots the man and takes off with the money. After getting permission to record this song, Los Tigres del Norte released "Contrabando y traición" ("Contraband and Betrayal") in 1974. The song quickly hit on both sides of the border, inspired a series of movies, and kicked off one of the most remarkable careers in Spanish-language music.
"The Weight" is a song originally by the Canadian-American group The Band that was released as Capitol Records single 2269 in 1968 and on the group's debut album Music from Big Pink. Written by Band member Robbie Robertson, the song is about a visitor's experiences in a town mentioned in the lyric's first line as Nazareth. "The Weight" has significantly influenced American popular music, having been listed as #41 on Rolling Stone's 500 Greatest Songs of All Time published in 2004.Pitchfork Media named it the 13th best song of the Sixties, and the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame named it one of the 500 Songs that Shaped Rock and Roll.PBS, which broadcast performances of the song in "Ramble at the Ryman" (2011), "Austin City Limits" (2012), and "Quick Hits" (2012), describes it as "a masterpiece of Biblical allusions, enigmatic lines and iconic characters" and notes its enduring popularity as "an essential part of the American songbook."
The Weight of Chains is a 2010 Canadian documentary film directed by Boris Malagurski. The film argues that the breakup of Yugoslavia was "orchestrated by Western powers in furtherance of imperial ambitions", according to the filmmaker, it also presents stories of "good people in evil times". It was released on December 17, 2010. Since 2012, the film has been distributed by Journeyman Pictures. The sequel, The Weight of Chains 2, was released on November 20, 2014.
The film was sponsored by Serbian diaspora community organizations, the Centre for Research on Globalization, and private individuals amongst others.
The film uses re-compiled archival footage extensively, which was provided at no cost by Radio Television Serbia.
The film provides a background history of Yugoslavia, from the medieval Battle of Kosovo to the 1912 incorporation of Kosovo into the Kingdom of Serbia and then to the formation of Josip Broz Tito's Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia after World War II. It discusses the persecution of Kosovo Serbs after World War II, as well as alleged plans by Nationalists to create an ethnically pure Greater Albania.
Support the author, buy the DVD: http://www.weightofchains.ca/2#buy 'The Weight of Chains 2' is a Canadian documentary film by Boris Malagurski dealing with neoliberal reforms in the Balkans and the effects of these reforms on all aspects of life in the former Yugoslavia, from politics, economics, military, culture and education to the media. Through stories of sold off companies, corrupt politicians, fictional tribunals and various military alliances, the film deconstructs modern myths about everything the people have been told will bring them a better life. Featuring Noam Chomsky, Oliver Stone, Michael Parenti, Carla Del Ponte and others. Like the author's Facebook Page: https://www.facebook.com/malagurski/ Boris Malagurski is a Serbian-Canadian film director, producer, writer, televi...
Music video by Los Tigres Del Norte performing La Granja. (C) 2009 Los Tigres Del Norte, Inc. Exclusively licensed in the United States to Fonovisa
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Music video by Los Tigres Del Norte performing La Puerta Negra. (C) 1989 Los Tigres Del Norte, Inc. Exclusively licensed in the United States to Fonovisa
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On the film set of Contrabando Rik has a close one
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Canción de Material de Contrabando, Grabada en A Fuki Fuki Records. El Vídeo fue grabado en los alrededores de la Playa de El Bollullo en La Orotava. La grabación corre a cargo de Abián Morales Pacheco. Material de Contrabando La Orotava (Tenerife) Islas Canarias.