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CAFÉ CULTURA A flyer from Café Cultura, the long-standing and very popular series of spoken word performances. This event is set for April 11 at the Inner City Parish, 9th and Galapago, Denver. Café Cultura Open Mic happens the second Friday of every month. More info: [email protected]; 720-436-1830.
The novel, which also won the National Book Critics Award, revolves about Oscar, an obese comics fan growing up in Paterson, N.J., and his dysfunctional Dominican family, going back to the Rafael Trujillo dictatorship.
Prior to Díaz, the only U.S. Latino writer to ever receive the Pulitzer Prize in literature was Oscar Hijuelos, for The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love, (Farrar, Straus, 1989).
Michael Ramirez won in the editorial cartooning category. Ramirez is a senior editor and the editorial cartoonist for Investor's Business Daily's editorial page, Issues & Insights. He has won several awards during his career, including a previous Pulitzer in 1994, the UCI Medal from the University of California, Irvine and the Sigma Delta Chi Awards in 1995 and 1997. He has been the editorial cartoonist of the Los Angeles Times, the Commercial Appeal and USA Today, and is nationally syndicated in over 450 newspapers around the world.
DÍA DE LOS NIÑOS April 27, Noon – 4:00 pm Free general admission to the Denver Art Museum, Denver Public Library, Colorado History Museumand Byers-Evans House Museum. Enjoy hands-on art activities, storytelling, and live dance and music performances throughout the day. Introduced in Mexico in 1924, Día de los Niños is now celebrated in more than 120 countries as a way to recognize the important role of children in the community and to promote a sense of understanding among young people of all nations. 720-913-0169 MANIFEST DESTINIES Dr. Laura E. Gómez will sign and read at the Denver Book Mall, 32 Broadway (between 1st and Ellsworth Avenues) at 3:00 on Sunday, April 27, 2008. She will discuss Manifest Destinies: The Making of the Mexican American Race(NYU Press, 2007). The book traces origins of Mexican Americans as a racial group in the U.S. The title of her presentation is Shifting Meanings of Race and Law. The book focuses on the experience of “the first Mexican Americans” -- the 115,000 Mexicans who became American citizens by virtue of the peace treaty that ended the U.S. war with Mexico in 1848. This event is a presentation by Who Else! Books, one of the shops in the Denver Book Mall.
BEYOND CHICANISMO Another flyer, this one from Beyond Chicanismo, announcing an event scheduled for April 15 at the Tivoli, on the Auraria Campus, Denver.
“Well now we know why Miss Shannon had that big silly grin on her face a couple days ago. She’s got herself a brand new warrior page!”
“Ooh, it’s got everything! Let’s see, there’s Kishi and her ring, and her cape and arrows and it’s even got three different kinds of earrings!”
“It is a pretty nice page, huh?”
“Okay ladies, me and hunter girl over here have got our warrior stuff together. Let’s get with it! Where’s your new pages?! We’ve got four to go!”
“Oh my goodness”
“Heheee.. Ooh, if you wanna read one of the stories from Shannon-sama’s book when she’s the Huntress and fights monsters with her magical cat named Kishi, you should go see the Call of the Huntress page, ’cause we gots lots of neat stories! Have fun minna!”
LadyStar is the story of a group of girls who each have a powerful weapon they wear disguised as a priceless jeweled treasure. With their magical weapons, Jessica Hoshi and her friends can transform into the Ajan Warriors, champion defenders of the enchanted realm of Aventar!
“Hi! I’m Jessica Hoshi! If you like stories about action and adventure and discovering magical treasures and fighting evil monsters, you’ll like our books a lot! Me and my friends have lots of fun adventures together! You can read LadyStar: The Palace in the Sky for free! The whole book! Right in your browser! So tell all your friends and come visit us as much as you want! There’s always something fun happening on our site!”
LadyStar is the story of a group of girls who each have a powerful weapon they wear disguised as a priceless jeweled treasure. With their magical weapons, Jessica Hoshi and her friends can transform into the Ajan Warriors, champion defenders of the enchanted realm of Aventar!
“Hi! I’m Jessica Hoshi! If you like stories about action and adventure and discovering magical treasures and fighting evil monsters, you’ll like our books a lot! Me and my friends have lots of fun adventures together! You can read LadyStar: The Dreamspeaker for free! The whole book! Right in your browser! So tell all your friends and come visit us as much as you want! There’s always something fun happening on our site!”
“Okay Z-bot, I want to make sure we don’t lose Cici. If she lets out a yell, I want the Hana over there with weapons charged before the echo dies, understand?”
“Affirmative, Commander. The ship is on full autonomous combat readiness. Sensors, battle computer and perimeter defense systems are on maximum alert.”
“Acknowledged. Here’s our first update, folks. We have a new Varcarel Jade web comic page for you over on the comic side
“Alanna! What’s wrong? My timepiece said something was enchanted, and. . .”
“Thank goodness I found you. Listen carefully to me, okay?”
“Okay.”
“Something is terribly wrong. We went to look for Leila, Talitha and Shannon earlier today at Doubler’s. I thought they might have all gone there together for lunch. On the way there, Ranko and Jessica both vanished.”
“Where did they go?”
“I don’t know. I can’t find them anywhere. I’ve got one more place to check. Ranko might have gone over to the athletics building to look for them. I need you to be ready to transform, because I have a bad feeling this has something to do with that Sorcerer.”
“I got my timepiece. Me and Hikousen will go with you!”
“No, Cici. We can’t take a chance that both of us will be attacked. I’ll be right back. Just stay here in the band room, okay?”
“Errrr… Ranko called me and said there wasn’t anyone to do updates today, so uhhh… well, here we be. I’m Tara Blaylock and this is my pal Irina. Let’s see here I wrote down what Ranko
said. . .”
“Whoa! Almost snuck this one in when nobody was lookin’ This is the fifth book in our series, and it’s called Among the Many Clouds. This is the book when I get my treasure and my powers and it’s going to be a blast.”
“Can’t wait to see what happens! We’re gonna get some preview chapters soon I think, because that’s why we announced it today. Thundercaller has to be the best treasure and the most powerful. We’re going to have some great battles.”
“Word. Check for some previews soon, folks. Back to your regularly scheduled goof-out! See ya!”
“This must have been why we’ve had that tough-looking girl on our main page for the past few weeks, huh?”
“I never thought we’d be surprised by big events on our own site, but I know I was surprised.”
“Cici, how did you know about all of this before anyone else did?”
“”Cause I’m the Warrior of the Rocks and I’m ready for anything! My lantern tells me when things are enchanted and stuff.”
“So you found out about the web comic and halloween stuff ’cause of your lantern?”
“Makes sense, right? LadyStar webcomic, enchanted webcomic. We got no shortage of magical artifacts and such. That Chronicler’s Lantern doesn’t miss much.”
“I wonder what we’re gonna get to do for Halloween? I hope it’s fun and not scary.”
“Okay, the rules are pretty simple. We’re going to put up five questions, and if you want to answer, you just add a comment on this article. We’ll put up the answers on Monday of next week, so you’ve got the weekend to study.”
“All the answers are in our books, so if you read up and you’re a good studier like me, you’ll know the answers!”
“Okay, Alanna-sama asks the first question.”
“Question Number One: What kind of flowers grow alongside the walkway in front of Jessica’s house?”
“Ooh, good question.”
“Cici gots the second question.”
“Yeah! Okay Question Number Two: Where was I when I first found the Chronicler’s Lantern and what was nearby?”
“Talitha-chan gets question number three.”
“Question Number Three: What is the room number of the Tree Shores High School Band Room?”
“Ranko-chan gets question number four.”
“Question Number Four: What treasure did we get from the big demon monsters in Palace in the Sky?”
“And I get Question Number Five: In the Legend of the LadyStar, where did the battle against the Vulture Crest take place?”
“There you go folks. If you get all five right, you’re a certified LadyStar champ! Don’t forget to vote!”
“Yeah! It’s got a girl with red hair and she’s got a super powerful sword and then you know what?”
“What.”
“She can fly around when she’s fighting too! And her sister is named Kai and there’s this really fat guy that she beats up in the game and it’s soooo pretty all the places you get to go.”
“Well, that about covers the review. What do you think, Space girl?”
“We’ll take it.”
“Affirmative. Review transferred to core circuits for priority transmission to the Hana.”
“There you go, Cici. You’re an official Gamepowa.com reviewer.”
“That’s right Ladies and Gentlemints. Ten updates in one day, right here on the world of ferocious guard cats and Professor Planets. We’re also going to have a special event to top it all off later today.”
“Sweet. I love our events.”
“Hooray for us! Ja minna!”
zzzzzzz….
“Oh, and if you haven’t voted yet, go vote. Left side. Big red box with gold letters.”
“Alanna-sama’s the Winterdancer, ’cause that’s her title of lore when she gets all her neat powers. Did you know the Warrior of the River’s powers are all from snow and ice? It even says so on her warrior page! Looky!”
Correct me if I'm wrong, but doesn't Michael Ramirez represent an element of the extreme Right in this country?
If so, why are we giving him attention in La Bloga?
If I'm wrong, I apologize to Mr. Ramirez.
Concerned Chicano
perhaps because this is an open forum. let's not extend the discrimination we face in gringolandia to our own.
Una Latina