The new owners of Lobo and their friends hope to accomplish the following goals in the near future:

• Renovation of all public buildings (gas station, saloon, general store, town hall, swimming pool)
• Creating opportunities for others to express themselves in a multitude of artistic, musical and professional ways, or just to enjoy the peace and quiet of the desert.
• Organize an annual art, music, film, and performance festival in Lobo.

Lobos Make - Bobos Take

In the 70's and 80's, many people disillusioned with mainstream culture and politics, especially artists, musicians, and former political/environmental activists moved away from the urban centers to smaller towns, which had been bypassed by the interstate highways and the suburban culture. They stopped, and then reversed, the slow decline of these towns by rebuilding and renovating the existing structures and made them their homes and places of work. Some of these small towns, now called "latte towns", like Bisbee, AZ, Lambertville, NJ/New Hope, PA, Silver City, NM, Marfa, TX are, since a number of years, becoming increasingly populated and/or visited by bobos (bourgeois bohemians). Bobos are financially well off, college educated, middle-aged people interested in music, arts, philosophy, etc. Bored with their corporate jobs in the big cities in which they live, the bobos are now buying second/retirement or vacation homes in those towns or stay there a couple of weeks every year in fancy hotels or bed and breakfast inns. The major way the bobos contribute to those communities is by spending money on fancy restaurants, entertainment (art), taxes, etc., otherwise leaching off the cultural environment created by others.

Lobos (lowlife bohemians), by contrast, feel more akin to the spirit of those who originally revived these small towns. They want to restore and revive through their own efforts, actively participating and contributing to the cultural life of their communities. They don't mind eating macaroni and cheese and prefer drinking coffee from an old percolator to a triple mocha latte.

Because the bobos are driving up real estate prices and the cost of living in many places, it is becoming increasingly difficult for the lobos to find a place to live/vacation and express themselves. Lobo, Texas (www.lobo-texas.com) wants to be one of those places and invites all interested people to actively participate in its rebuilding and cultural activities.

*** The term bobo comes from the book "Bobos in Paradise" by David Brooks.