The Port Arthur News obituary mourns the death of the town's second most famous native, after Janis Joplin. I wish some of the big-city paper obits spent less time tut-tutting RR's' "unevenness" and more time reminding people what a terrific painter he was. The Combines show at MOCA two years ago was like the collected works of Tennesse Williams realized in paint and street-sweepings. A video clip from his 1967 happening Linoleum is available on Ubuweb. Don't miss the person crawling around inside a chickenwire cage filled with chickens.