Friday, June 7, 2013

Spanish Fashion Takes Center Stage in New York City

Spanish Fashion Takes Center Stage in New York City

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The Spanish SoHo Mile once again put the New York City spotlight back on the Iberian nation’s fashion industry, whose stores are increasingly numerous in that neighborhood of Lower Manhattan.

Family restaurant serving up authentic Puerto Rican, Caribbean cuisine - Dayton Daily News

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Family restaurant serving up authentic Puerto Rican, Caribbean cuisine
Dayton Daily News
The Matias family started its Puerto Rican and Caribbean food business by working festivals in Dayton, Columbus and Cleveland in 2009. They were encouraged to take it to the next level after winning best food at the Cleveland Puerto Rican Day Parade ... 

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Is Social Media a Form of Self-Help or an Enabler of Self-Doubt?

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The 2010s are truly the age of the share, whether Instagramming pictures of your breakfast, Facebooking all your friends about your holiday or tweeting a link to your latest blog. Social media has turned us all into broadcasters, producing special-interest programming on every aspect of our lives and thoughts. We are all our own chat show.

But while we gently mock those who overshare or bore on about their children or their dull jobs or impart half-baked political opinions, social media has also given us a window into people's lives that we've never had before. Total strangers upload pictures of themselves in new outfits, on nights out, in fabulous apartments and occasionally - on Naked Sunday, for example - undressed. And we observe, we judge, we aspire. We envy.

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Latino Rebels on NPR’s AltLatino Discussing “Immigration, Beer, and Devious Maids” 

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Today Latino Rebels were part of an inaugural roundtable discussion broadcast on NPR’s AltLatino. Our founder, @julito77, joined the shows co-cohosts, Jasmine Gard and Felix Contreras, and our friend Marisa Treviño of Latina Lista.
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We talked about three topics: “Devious Maids,” the tragedy of undocumented minors entering the U.S. alone, and the developments that led to Coors Light beer controversy with the Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City.

You can hear the WHOLE SHOW here.

We also thought the pairing up of songs to topics worked really well, and yes, ending any show with Ruben Blades is always a good decision.
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Premio latinoamericano de periodismo de investigación

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Transparencia Internacional (TI) y el Instituto Prensa y Sociedad (IPYS), con el amable apoyo de Fundaciones Open Society, están organizando una nueva edición del Premio Latinoamericano de Periodismo de investigación. El premio entregará US$30,000 al periodismo de mejor calidad publicado en prensa, radio o televisión, o en cualquier medio en línea en América Latina y el Caribe 2012.
Puedes encontrar más detalles en el sitio web de Transparencia Internacional [en].

One-third of population of Puerto Rico now getting ... - Natural News 

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(NaturalNews) According to new data, the U.S. taxpayer is forking out more than $2 billion a year to provide food stamps to citizens of Puerto Rico last year, and what's worse, as much as 25 percent of the aid is untraceable ...
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As Puerto Rican Parade Grows, So Do Complaints - New York Times 

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New York Times As Puerto Rican Parade Grows, So Do Complaints New York Times In the 1950s, before they became a prominent part of New York City's tapestry, Puerto Ricans often found themselves unwelcome as they tried to carve out a pla..

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Sotomayor's American Rise to Supreme Court - San Marino Tribune

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Sotomayor's American Rise to Supreme Court
San Marino Tribune
WASHINGTON, June 7, 2013 (AFP) – From behind an imposing wood desk in her office at theUS Supreme Court, Sonia Sotomayor reflects on her unlikely but very American rise from the Bronx to the highest court in the land. “To be a justice, that was a ... 

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See Puerto Rico from New York by ship

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El Morro fortress, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
For a novel way to visit San Juan or the Dominican Republic, take a cruise from the New York area — no airfare required.
Several cruise lines have itineraries from New York that call in San Juan. Royal Caribbean has cruises from Bayonne, N.J., that also visit Samana in the D.R.
Here are some of the options:
1. Set sail on the 3,000-passenger Carnival Splendor, round-trip from New York, on an eight-day Eastern Caribbean cruise that includes calls at Grand Turk, St. Thomas, and eight hours in San Juan (3 p.m. to 11 p.m.). Through October, fares from $489.
2. Book a nine-night Caribbean cruise, round-trip from New York, on the 2,394-passenger Norwegian Gem and spend time in St. Thomas, St. Maarten and San Juan (you’re there from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.). The cruises are October to April, fares from $649.
3. Cruise on the brand new, 4,000-passenger Norwegian Breakaway on a 12-night itinerary that sails round-trip from New York, and visit San Juan one evening, 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., as well as St. Thomas, St. Maarten, St. Lucia, Barbados and St. Kitts. Fares from $1,299.
4. Embark from Bayonne on Royal Caribbean’s 3,114-passenger Explorer of the Seas on a nine-day itinerary and combine a day in San Juan (4 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.) and Samana (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) with visits to Labadee, Haiti and St. Thomas. Fares from $659.
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See Puerto Rico from New York by ship

See Puerto Rico from New York by ship

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EFE OUT

Brennan Linsley/AP

El Morro fortress, in San Juan, Puerto Rico.
For a novel way to visit San Juan or the Dominican Republic, take a cruise from the New York area — no airfare required.
Several cruise lines have itineraries from New York that call in San Juan. Royal Caribbean has cruises from Bayonne, N.J., that also visit Samana in the D.R.
Here are some of the options:
1. Set sail on the 3,000-passenger Carnival Splendor, round-trip from New York, on an eight-day Eastern Caribbean cruise that includes calls at Grand Turk, St. Thomas, and eight hours in San Juan (3 p.m. to 11 p.m.). Through October, fares from $489.
2. Book a nine-night Caribbean cruise, round-trip from New York, on the 2,394-passenger Norwegian Gem and spend time in St. Thomas, St. Maarten and San Juan (you’re there from 3 p.m. to 9 p.m.). The cruises are October to April, fares from $649.
3. Cruise on the brand new, 4,000-passenger Norwegian Breakaway on a 12-night itinerary that sails round-trip from New York, and visit San Juan one evening, 3 p.m. to 10 p.m., as well as St. Thomas, St. Maarten, St. Lucia, Barbados and St. Kitts. Fares from $1,299.
4. Embark from Bayonne on Royal Caribbean’s 3,114-passenger Explorer of the Seas on a nine-day itinerary and combine a day in San Juan (4 p.m. to 11:30 p.m.) and Samana (9 a.m. to 4 p.m.) with visits to Labadee, Haiti and St. Thomas. Fares from $659.
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Surfing and Serenity on a Remote Philippine Island

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The entrance to Siargao Island's legendary Cloud 9 break.
We sat facing a weathered wood pagoda set in an emerald sea, the perfect swimming distance from a private beach lined with crooked coconut trees. Grilled mahi-mahi that arrived via a banca, a Filipino fishing boat, just an hour earlier was seasoned with calamansi (a citrus fruit native to the Philippines) and served with grilled eggplant and squash from the resort’s organic farm, accompanied by a bottle of crisp white wine. Steps from the restaurant pavilion was our villa with its huge bed swathed in a white mosquito net, an open shower surrounded by local shiny white pebbles, and swinging outdoor daybeds. The pummeling of an unforgettable surfing session hours before made the idea of crawling back to such luxurious digs even more appealing.
We were on Siargao (pronounced shar-GOW), a teardrop-shaped island that’s just one of the Philippines’s 7,000-plus, and the southernmost refuge for travelers before the less politically stable region of Mindanao. Even to Filipinos, the island, on the country’s Pacific-facing side, is not all that well known. Before the airport opened here in 2011, it was an overnight ferry ride from Cebu (which Magellan put on the map when he landed there in 1521). And it’s still not so easy to reach: the two-flight, roughly four-hour trip from Manila (including a layover in Cebu) has only the semblance of a schedule part of the year because of mercurial weather.
But the island is known to surfers, largely because of its fabled break, endearingly called Cloud 9. It stands in the firmament of the best rides on the global circuit, a fast and powerful monster because of the water that sweeps in from the Philippine Trench in the Pacific Ocean. In the fall the arrival of the habagat, a weather system fed by southwest winds and easterly currents, creates even more monumental tubes. Local lore credits a drug runner-turned-surfer with putting Cloud 9 on the radar — and in the decades since, it has drawn world pros for an international tournament hosted by companies like Billabong and Quiksilver. A small industry of hippie-style guesthouses, bars and surf schools has followed.
My interest in the island was already piqued — I have invariably found in my travels that surfers get to the best beaches first, before mass-market tourism arrives. And then came word of the opening of Dedon Island Resort, a gleaming nine-villa property. Stays there come with a full menu of adventure sports, from surfing to deep-sea fishing, and it has amenities like an outdoor cinema and a private chef using organic produce from its farm. But it also had a $1,600-a-night price tag for two attached (rates have since dropped a bit) and a Web site that used enigmatic terms like “outdoor living lab.” I wondered who was taking two small planes from the Filipino capital to spend that kind of money on an island that they most likely couldn’t place on a map.
To find out, we left from Siargao’s tiny airport and followed an international mix of young backpackers and surfer types off the prop plane to the waiting fleet of jeepneys — colorful and ubiquitous fixtures of Filipino roads that are part bus, part jalopy, part canvas of personal expression. Cobbled together from former United States army jeeps and random spare parts, they barrel along at alarming speeds with passengers hanging out the open doors and bags haphazardly perched on top.
Dedon’s, however, was unlike any jeepney I had seen. It was done up in mirror-like chrome and shining cream paint, kitted out with terry-cloth seats like beach loungers, piped-in lounge music, and snacks of dried coconut and pineapple. As we traveled, Marlo, a resident surfer who doubled as the resort greeter, pointed out huge carabao, Filipino water buffalo, plowing bright-green paddy fields on one side, and small thatched fishing huts suspended over the water’s edge on the other. School was letting out for the day and children waved to us from the back of their parents’ motorbikes as we crossed through a little village. Then, nothing but empty, white sand beaches flickering between clusters of sloping palms.
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Film Review: The Purge | Latino-Review.com

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The Purge is the kind of high-concept mumbo jumbo that most people would dismiss out of sheer absurdity but, if done right, could function in a delightfully bashit crazy topical manner to render permissible its ridiculous concepts as a legitimately scary what-if scenario. I’m in a huge Twilight Zonething lately, so I was ready for a potentially on-the-nose story about the possibility for escalating violence in America’s socio-political environment mixed with some allegorically thrilling elements, so it was a huge disappointment to me that The Purge barely delivered on anything intelligently close to that.
Through cleverly Verhoven-esque public service announcement exposition we find out the movie takes place in a future fascistic America when unemployment and crime are at an all time low due to the new US government corporatocracy’s policy of letting all crime—including murder—be legal for an annual twelve-hour period. James Sandin—played by Ethan Hawke in a role in a movie about as far away from Before Midnight as you could possibly get—is an upper class home security developer who lives in a wealthy neighborhood with his wife Mary (Queen Cers…I meant Lena Headey) and two children, Charlie and Zoey.
The family and the neighborhood ready themselves for The Purge behind their new security system, and before you know it the idiot son lets a bloody screaming stranger in the house for no good reason.  Also, the daughter’s boyfriend is in the house and masked killers who look like the Harvard rowing team and their Amish dates show up threatening the Sandins’ lives if they do not hand the stranger over to them.
Yes, the “lower class” man did call for help and claimed people were after him so the son felt the need to help him out of the goodness of his heart, but presumably The Purge has happened for some time now and it goes unsaid why the son suddenly grew a conscience. It’s a jumbled mess for the Sandins and an equally jumbled mess for the audience as well because the perspective is constantly changing about whom we should care about. People in my audience actually cheered when the 99%-ers were about to kill the homeless guy I suppose because he’s the quote-unquote “intruder,” but what does that say about the filmmaker’s dramatic intentions? This film also has absolutely no idea how to build and sustain tension. The editing in sequences where we are supposed to be on the edge of our seats either cuts away and alleviates any built up anticipation or abruptly goes into an incomprehensible shaky-cam confrontation without anyone knowing the stakes. Also, this movie has got to be the frontrunner to win the contest for the most amount of shots of people about to kill someone only to be killed by someone else off-screen.
It’s dumb, very dumb, and merely place-sets the really interesting concept that for one night the “Haves” can filter their prejudices and achieve a level of catharsis by “purging” the country of all its problems with the “Have-nots” without delving into it in a truly meaningful way. You may say that maybe the filmmakers didn’t want it to be anything more, yet the details they pepper throughout makes it seem as though they think they have gotten to some underlying truth about society. But simply mentioning the 99% versus the 1% and then letting the rich people fire guns at the poor people doesn’t really say much other than the obvious point that rich people don’t like poor people all that much, and would rather see them go away. It’s no spoiler to say that in the end they learn the moral of the story is that killing is not right, but did we have to go through all this other unintelligent bullshit just to make it to that simple truth?
Rating: D
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Obama: Only overseas Internet being monitored

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Tenemos un camino largo por recorrer, pero si seguimos juntos en este camino, estoy seguro de que algún día no muy lejano, de costa a costa, TODOS nuestros jóvenes mirarán hacia el futuro con el mismo sentido de promesa y posibilidad. Estoy seguro porque he visto el talento, la pasión y el compromiso de los defensores de la comunidad LGBT y sus aliados, y sé que cuando las voces se unen en un propósito común, nadie puede detenerlos. –Barack Obama
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Nike LGBT Sports Summit 2013: Sports Leaders, Media Prepare To Meet For ... - Huffington Post

Nike LGBT Sports Summit 2013: Sports Leaders, Media Prepare To Meet For ... - Huffington Post

Nike LGBT Sports Summit 2013: Sports Leaders, Media Prepare To Meet For ...
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History was made in October 2012 when active professional …

Puerto Rico mayor signs LGBT orders

Puerto Rico mayor signs LGBT orders - Washington Blade

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Puerto Rico mayor signs LGBT orders
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San Juan Mayor Carmen Yulín Cruz. (Photo by Melvin Alfredo via Wikimedia Commons). SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico—The mayor of …

Around the world, May 17 recognized as 'gay day'

Around the world, May 17 recognized as 'gay day' - Washington Blade

Around the world, May 17 recognized as 'gay day'
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Thousands of people are expected to take part in a march for LGBT rights in San Juan, Puerto Rico, on the same day. …

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