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Today, in front of one of those windows and next to a candle picturing the Virgen de Guadalupe, you will find a vase full of bright white flowers with a note attached...
Mehdi Savalli eschews the rituals that bullfighters typically use to ward off gorings and other misfortunes. He doesn't pray to the Virgen de la Estrella; he doesn't stand in front of a homemade shrine of religious prints when he slips on his traje de luces, the ornate, sequined costume worn by matadors; he doesn't cross himself before he steps into the ring. But these breaches of bullfighting tradition have not kept him from becoming one of Spain's most promising young toreros. Two Sundays ago, he was again demonstrating the skills that have earned the 20-year...
...quer?a que estuvieran con sus mantillas rez?ndole a la virgen de Guadalupe?, dice Vald?s-Rodr?guez, de ascendencia cubana e irlandesa. ?Esa no es mi realidad?. Vald?s-Rodr?guez naci? hace 36 a?os a una familia de clase media en Albuquerque, NM, y hoy vive con su esposo e hijo peque?o. Tiene un m?ster en periodismo de Columbia University y trabaj? como reportera para el Los Angeles Times y el Boston Globe. La perspectiva de Vald?s-Rodr?guez sobre la vida latina de EE.UU. ha encontrado una diversa audiencia. Dirty Girls ha vendido m?s de 350,000 ejemplares y est? en preparativos para...
...seven days and nights, the narrow streets of old Seville are traversed by more than 120 processions, each led by a group of hooded devotees known as Nazarenos. The floats, which take weeks to prepare and often weigh several tons each, display biblical figures or saints (notably La Virgen Macarena, the patron saint of bullfighters) festooned with flowers, lace and candles. The floats are carried through the night to mesmerizing drum beats and short bursts of melancholic flamenco from brass bands marching alongside. The processions start on Palm Sunday and continue through Easter Sunday. To join the festivities, start...
...shoulder, and she doesn't understand this. [She thinks], "Some guy with a Latino name, writing about his father--well, this must be an ethnic memoir." I'm writing about her, I'm writing about the death of her civilization. I'm writing about the fact that the Virgen of Guadalupe has appeared while she's left in Boston writing for The Boston Globe...