Word: mariachi
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...This time around, there are unlikely to be any sombrero-clad boys gracing the desserts or mariachi bands serenading the diners. Keeping mum about the menu until the last minute, the White House did inform the media early on that Tex Mex would not be served. And while that may been intended to assuage fears that President George W. Bush's southwestern tastes would come to dominate state functions, the truth is that serving fajitas (or perhaps some more esteemed Mexican entr?e) to a visiting Mexican leader would not be beyond the realm of probability in light of recent White...
George W. Bush, for his part, intends to stay ahead of the curve. The day before Cinco de Mayo, he invited 200 guests to the South Lawn for mariachi music and Mexican food. "Mi Casa Blanca," he declared, "es su Casa Blanca...
...making up enough courses to graduate with his class. It's there when Sergeant Jose Campos, 62, who has been teaching Junior ROTC for 24 years, brags that this year he has "87 young ladies in my program"--the most ever. And you hear it in the school's mariachi band, practicing before sunrise. A visit to Louis W. Fox Academic and Technical High School in San Antonio, Texas, shows how far the school has come. Just five years ago, it was the worst school in Texas...
...know it's well-documented that you were able to make El Mariachi for only $7000, but how on earth did you pull off Spy Kids with a budget of just...
...kind of dazzling, turbo-charged vitality that is only enhanced by the flippant, let's-see-how-far-over-the-top-we-can-go nature of his work. Eight years after becoming an indelible symbol for the resourceful tactics of guerilla filmmaking with the taut, no-budget wonder El Mariachi, Rodriguez has become an eye-candy dynamo; a gleeful purveyor of pulp so jammed with spicy flavor that it seems ready to rupture on screen at any moment. With the propulsive mayhem of his neo-Spaghetti Western Desperado, Rodriguez established himself as a caffeine-saturated John Woo incarnate, filling...