Intellectually Entertaining. Socially Relevant.
- via Fox News Latino When people think high fashion, Tijuana isn’t a city that comes to mind. For most of its existence, Tijuana has been dismissed as a border town of painted burros, drunken Americans, gun-slinging drug lords and polyester Quinceañera dresses.
Welcome to this week’s Sin Palabras. From Gabriela Segovia-McGahan in San Francisco. Instead of “Illegal”, it’s nice to see someone using “Undocumented”, a term used by Associate Justice Sonia Sotomayor in her first opinion on the high court.
- via MSNBC A little snap judgment goes a long way toward making friends: According to a new study from the University of California, Berkeley, all it takes is 20 seconds to decide whether or not a stranger is trustworthy. Researchers recruited 24 couples and asked each person to talk about a time when he or… [Continue Reading]
Just when reality television could not possibly get worse, along comes “Cathouse” a program detailing the lives of women working in a Nevada brothel and the man, “Daddy,” who appears to be the owner of the establishment. Not fodder for the intellectual mind, to be sure.
- via Fox News Latino There are people who eat to live and others who live to eat. If you fall into the latter category, then it’s likely you love to sniff out cuisine that captures the specific flavor of a place when you’re on the road.
Recently I decided to try out a new cupcake shop that opened its doors last December, a place called Snazzy Sugar, in River Grove, Illinois. I went with my girlfriend, since she loves cupcakes – especially red velvet with cream cheese frosting – and I was tired of trekking all the way to Molly’s in… [Continue Reading]
