Artist Biography by Eugene Chadbourne. The Longoria family dynasty in Tex-Mex music begins in the 1920s in a Mississippi cotton field, with no one in the large family of Valerio Longoria Sr. aware that a master musician was growing up in their midst.
Detroit is nicknamed motor city because it has been the center of the American automotive industry for more than a century. Henry Ford located his first assembly line in Detroit. Detroit was the key hub for auto manufacturing for much of the 20th Century.
When asked to name which U.S. city has the nation's worst drivers, most people would probably guess New York City or Los Angeles, where the county has more registered cars than all but five states in the country. But among the nation's biggest cities -- those with 1 million residents or more -- Boston ranks the worst. A Boston driver, on average, will get into a collision every 4.4 years, Kari Mather, a spokeswoman for insurer Allstate Corp, said in an interview Tuesday with Reuters.