Archive for May 16th, 2007
Shakira finally getting hitched?
7:23 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Chismes|Dominican Republic|Latin America · 1 Comment
16 May 2007
We’ve been listening to rumors that Shakira is going to wed her long-time boyfriend, Antonio de la Rua for years now. We’re skeptical that this is actually going to happen, but are just gonna put it out there for you. Las malas lenguas say that Shaki is going to go through with it, and in the D.R.:
Dominican Republic is again under the international spotlight after a Latin Celebrities radio program reported yesterday that the singer Shakira and her fiancé Antonio de la Rúa are planning to wed in this country next September.The newspaper El Dia, quoting the website Labotana, says that the famous singer’s wedding will be in her mansion located in the resort Punta Cana, in Dominican east coast. That same program didn’t reveal the date of the wedding, but several indications point to that month.
And according to Spain’s 20 Minutos, Shakira’s mother-in-law-to-be, Inés Pertiné, has already hired designer María Pryor to make Shaki’s wedding dress.
Via / Dominican Today and 20 Minutos
Diego Luna: On the other side of the camera
2:36 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities|Entertainment|Movies|Sports · 3 Comments
16 May 2007
Most of us know Diego Luna from his role in Y tu mamá también (and, if you are a connoisseur of bad telenovelas like me, from Televisa’s El Premio Mayor), but now the actor is branching out and becoming a film maker, and his first film, JC Chávez, explores the life of Mexican boxer Julio César Chávez. Why Chávez? According to Luna:
“…because for 14 years he never lost a fight and for 11 and a half years, he maintained his title as champion of the world.”
The documentary, which chronicles the life of the “greatest living Mexican athlete” will debut on Friday in Mexico City, Guadalajara, Tijuana, Monterrey and Culiacán (Chávez’s hometown). There’s still no word on if and when it will make it the U.S.
Pass the Brazilian Wine Please
10:58 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|Food · Comments Off
16 May 2007
I love South American wines and recently wines from vineyards in Argentina and Chile have been growing in popularity. But now a new Southern Cone nation is getting into the wine business, Brazil. Part of the reason is that new technology is allowing lands that were thought unsuitable for grape growing to become viable.
“For years we have drawn two bands around the globe, roughly between latitudes 30 and 50, to denote those parts of it deemed suitable for viticulture,” Jancis Robinson, a well-known British wine expert, wrote of the new phenomenon on her Web site. “But all this is changing fast. Advances in refrigeration and irrigation techniques, not to mention much greater control over how and when vines grow, have opened up to the grapevine vast tracts of the world previously thought unsuitable for viticulture.”
I haven’t tasted wines from Brazil, yet but I am certainly looking forward to.
Via / The New York Times (Registration Required)
Canada Threatening to Deport Nicaraguan Because They Don’t Believe He’s Gay
8:39 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · GLBT|Immigration|Justice|Nicaragua · 1 Comment
16 May 2007
There is a really interesting story up on the Advocate site that takes the issue of immigration from a different perspective. It’s the story of a young gay man named Alvaro Orozco who ran away from Nicaragua at the tender age of 12 to escape the abuse he dealt with at home from his homophobic father.
Without his own remarkable energy, Orozco might not be in Canada—or anywhere. Raised by an alcoholic father who beat him daily for being gay, Orozco ran away from his home and family in Managua, Nicaragua’s capital, in 1998, just before he turned 13. He hitchhiked up the Pan-American Highway through four countries and swam the Rio Grande river into Texas. Once in the United States, Orozco was held in detention centers in Texas and then bounced from Dallas to Miami to Buffalo until he reached Toronto in January 2005. There he filed for asylum on the grounds that he would be persecuted for being gay if he had to return to Nicaragua.
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