Avenida de Puerto Rico is in Brooklyn, NY.
I am wondering why East Harlem or the Bronx do not have an Avenue of Puerto Rico.
Bueno, Brooklyn has one.
Go visit.
Sunday, December 21, 2008
.Christmas.
Today's featured shot from the Puerto Rico Sun photo group is a photo collage by Mi nombre es cLaRa bOw of Christmas in Calle San Francisco in Old San Juan, PR.
Saturday, December 20, 2008
Happy Holidays to All!!!
Today's featured image from the Puerto Rico Sun photo group is a Christmas greeting from artist and designer Carlos N. Molina.
Check out his site at www.carlosnmolina.com. He has some interesting paper artwork.
He does everything from shoes to nativity scenes.
Check out his site at www.carlosnmolina.com. He has some interesting paper artwork.
He does everything from shoes to nativity scenes.
Friday, December 19, 2008
Bomba para las Navidades
Navidad Criolla
Bombazo @ el Puente in Brooklyn tomorrow
Free
(Click on image to see larger text.)
Bombazo @ el Puente in Brooklyn tomorrow
Free
(Click on image to see larger text.)
Navidad Criolla
Cultura, Salud, Y Prosperidad Concert
Mario Torres Productions & Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture present Cultura, Salud, Y Prosperidad Concert celebrating Three Kings Day - Annual Toy Drive featuring: Tato Torres & Yerbabuena, Bomba Yo & Kips Bay Dance Company.
7:30 p.m., Saturday, January 3
Admission: $35, $25, $20
Main Theater
Hostos Center for the Arts & Culture
Hostos Community College, the Bronx
Please bring and donate a gift/toy for a needy child ages 1- 16. Toys collected will be distributed to Bronx based organizations helping families and children.
For more info., www.hostos.cuny.edu/culturearts
Help PRSUN do Good this Holiday Season
In this time of holiday giving, consider donating to the PRSUN for the ASPCA drive. In these tough times, many animals are being abandoned.
Thanks to those who have donated to this cause so far.
Help PRSUN do good.
www.change.org/profiles/prsun
(photo of Sol by Clarisel Gonzalez)
Thursday, December 18, 2008
Education
Centro's latest Policy Brief is now available on the website at www.centropr.org. "The Economic Consequences of Inadequate Education for the Puerto Rican Population in the United States" was conducted by Dr. Clive R. Belfield of the Economics Department of Queens College, CUNY.
Belfield uses demographic data to calculate the economic costs to the individual, state, and community of each Puerto Rican in the United States who does not graduate from high school. He shows that increasing funding for programs that would increase high school graduation rates in Puerto Rican communities would be far cheaper and more efficient than allowing so many young people to leave high school early. The report is available for downloading.
Check it out.
source: Centro
Centro's latest Policy Brief is now available on the website at www.centropr.org. "The Economic Consequences of Inadequate Education for the Puerto Rican Population in the United States" was conducted by Dr. Clive R. Belfield of the Economics Department of Queens College, CUNY.
Belfield uses demographic data to calculate the economic costs to the individual, state, and community of each Puerto Rican in the United States who does not graduate from high school. He shows that increasing funding for programs that would increase high school graduation rates in Puerto Rican communities would be far cheaper and more efficient than allowing so many young people to leave high school early. The report is available for downloading.
Check it out.
source: Centro
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
On the Puerto Rico Quarter
Que cool. La Isla del Encanto will soon have a U.S. Mint commemorative quarter. The U.S. Treasury earlier this week approved the design of the coin, which will be part of the popular U.S. states' series and will feature a little Spanish. I like that!
I can't wait to get my peseta, which also will feature a garita looking out to the sea and Puerto Rico's official "state" flower, the hibiscus.
The coin will begin circulating in March.
One of the biggest movers and shakers to get the Puerto Rico quarter approved was boricua Congressman Jose Serrano who represents the South Bronx.
At his Facebook site, Serrano states that he is "happy that, as a result of his law, Washington D.C., Puerto Rico and all the territories will now be included in the quarters program."
For more information about the Puerto Rico quarter, go to
http://coins.coinupdate.com/puerto-rico-quarter/ -- Clarisel Gonzalez
Editor's Note: Here's a link to a report I wrote on this topic last year:
http://puerto-rico.suite101.com/article.cfm/puerto_rico_to_get_a_quarter
Cemi Cinema kicks off with Corretjer film
Cemi Underground, the boricua/Latino shop in NYC's El Barrio, is launching its Cemi Cinema with Yo, Juan Antonio Corretjer Montes, a short Spanish film about Puerto Rico's national poet. Cemi Cinema will showcase independent films.
3 p.m., Saturday, December 20
Admission: $7
For more information on this and other events going on at Cemi Underground, go to
www.cemiunderground.com.
Tuesday, December 16, 2008
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