Monday, February 09, 2009

My photo page

Come visit my photo page at Facebook

www.facebook.com/pages/Clarisel-Gonzalez/66831011326?ref=ts

Prohibido el paso


Prohibido el paso
Originally uploaded by Soy Tito.
Tonight's featured image from the Puerto Rico Sun photo group is by Soy Tito.

Interesting statement
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Politics

Featured story

Former PR governor pleads not guilty to corruption

SAN JUAN — Former Gov. Anibal Acevedo Vila entered a federal court to the cheers of supporters and pleaded not guilty to campaign finance charges that could send him to prison for 20 years.
U.S. District Judge Paul Barbadoro has said he is concerned about pretrial publicity on the case and as many as 250 prospective jurors will be asked about their exposure to news coverage — something that could extend jury selection for several days.
For more, go to
http://www.google.com/hostednews/ap/article/ALeqM5iuGlrgbJv37U7c0i040OriHtfauAD96849G80

Sunday, February 08, 2009

PRSUN Poll: We are bilingual

Sixty-seven percent of blog readers who took part in PRSUN's snap poll consider both English and Spanish as their main languages. They reported that they are fully bilingual (reading, writing and speaking English and Spanish).

Meanwhile, 33 percent said their primary language is English. Nobody chose Spanish as the primary language.

The question readers were asked was: What is your primary language?

This is an unscientific poll, but it gives a glimpse of our readership.

Interesting though not surprising.

Saturday, February 07, 2009

Community calendar

El Maestro Cultural & Educational Center in the Bronx
presents

Award winning poet
Américo Casiano Jr.

Special Poetry Reading and Book Signing
4 p.m., Sunday, February 22
El Maestro
1029 East 167 Street
(between Westchester Avenue & Bryant Avenue)

Casiano will read from his book of poetry: "On The Stand." There will be music beginning at 2 p.m.

Doors open at 2 p.m.
Music by 5 En Plena
Dance by Las Princesas del Caribe

There is also an art exhibition.

El Maestro is a center that promotes the Puerto Rican culture and sports.

For more information: (646) 337-6775 or consentido5@aol.com.

Thursday, February 05, 2009

Community calendar


7 p.m. February 6
Taino Open Mic Poetry
hosted by
La Bruja
Admission: $7
Cemi Underground, NYC's East Harlem
For more informaion, www.cemiunderground.com.

Wednesday, February 04, 2009

Opportunity

Scholarship Awards Program for students of Puerto Rican heritage

Comité Noviembre has always placed special focus on educational excellence as the key to the future of the Puerto Rican community. To this end, in November of 1996 in celebration of its tenth anniversary of Puerto Rican Heritage Month, the Comité Noviembre Scholarship Awards Program (CNSAP) was established. To date, CNSAP has awarded $158,000 in scholarships. The proceeds from the Comité Noviembre Annual Gala Benefit event support the scholarship program.

To be eligible for the CN scholarship award, applicants must be of Puerto Rican descent; have community service experience and extracurricular activity; be enrolled in an accredited college or university by the fall of each year and have a B average or better. The application process includes an application form, an essay, two-letters of recommendations, academic transcripts, a short biographical sketch and a personal interview for finalists.

CN Scholarship Application deadline date: February 13
Visit www.comitenoviembre.org.

For more information:
Jaime Bello
(917) 299-4191
jaimebello@optonline.net

source: Comite Noviembre

Tuesday, February 03, 2009

PRSUN Radio chats with Aurora Flores of Zon del Barrio


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Originally uploaded by clarisel.
Aurora Flores performs with her group Zon del Barrio in East Harlem last month.

Tune in at 9 p.m. tomorrow, Wednesday, Feb. 4, to www.blogtalkradio.com/prsunradio. Aurora Flores is the guest on PRSUN Radio, a 15-minute talk show focusing on themes related to Puerto Ricans and the diaspora. If you can't listen in tomorrow night, the show will be archived and will be available at www.blogtalkradio.com/prsunradio.

Here is Flores' bio as posted at her Zon del Barrio site:

Bandleader, composer, Lead and Coro Vocals

Considered a 21st century Renaissance woman, Aurora Flores is a musician, writer, producer and activist. Raised in a musical family where her grandfather played plena and aguilnaldos on the accordion, her father wrote songs, her mother sang while her brother plays percussion she started as a classical musician playing violin, guitar and bass while singing in the school and church chorus before recording her first album at 15 with the Manhattan Borough Wide Orchestra as head of the bass section while studying bass privately with Frederic Zimmerman.

She went on to become the first Latina editor of Latin New York Magazine in 1974 later becoming the first female music correspondent for Billboard Magazine from 1976 to 1978. During this time she sang in the bands of Cortijo & Maelo y sus Cachimbos as well as a few local groups.

She attended the Columbia School of Journalism before breaking into mainstream journalism, writing and reporting news for television, radio and print before starting a family and her own public relations agency, Aurora Communications, Inc in 1987.

With thousands of articles to her name, Aurora Flores organized her own septet in tribute to the music of Rafael Cortijo and Ismael Rivera called Zon del Barrio featuring some of her own original compositions.

Flores continues to write for various mainstream newspapers and magazines while teaching a Latin music history course and lecturing on the roots of the music.

A cultural consultant, she has written bilingual tunes for the hit children's show, Dora, the Explorer and conducts tours of East Harlem in a cultural, political and socio/economic content. She can be seen singing alongside Tito Puente in the Edward James Olmos Docudrama, Americanos, Latino Life in the U.S.; lecturing in the Bravo documentary, Palladium: When Mambo Was King and in the Smithsonian film accompanying the traveling exhibit: Latin-jazz, La Combinación Perfecta. Flores is currently working on a book based on her experiences in the Latino New York world.
For more information on Zon del Barrio, go to www.zondelbarrio.com.

Remember 9 p.m. tomorrow www.blogtalkradio.com/prsunradio.

(photo by Clarisel Gonzalez)
Community calendar

Tribute to José ‘Chegui’ Torres (May 3, 1936-January 19, 2009)

1965 LIGHT HEAVYWEIGHT CHAMPION MEMORIAL- TRIBUTE

7 p.m., Saturday, February 7 (Doors open at 6:30 p.m.)

FREE with ticket

Hostos Community College
450 Grand Concourse, the Bronx
(718) 518-4455

Music by Grupo Folklorico de Ponce and Las Princesas del Caribe

Organized by Ponce Laspina of Juan Laporte's Boxing Gym, Julio Pabon of Latino Sports and Ramon Jimenez of Friends of the South Bronx

Monday, February 02, 2009

Community calendar

The Puerto Rican Photographic Society, NYC chapter, is having its first meeting at 6 p.m., Thursday, February 12, Cemi Underground in East Harlem. We will discuss our local society's agenda for the year.

To join The Puerto Rican Photographic Society's global group on Facebook, go to
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=95958105537&ref=mf

For more information on the NYC chapter, go to our Google group at
http://groups.google.com/group/prphotographicsociety

While this photo group highlights Puerto Rican photographers, it is open to any photographer interested in photography and/or Puerto Rican culture. Membership is free.

Again, our February 12 meeting will be at 6 p.m. at Cemi Underground, 1799 Lexington Avenue @ 112th Street.

Clarisel Gonzalez
administrator, NYC chapter, The Puerto Rican Photographic Society

Sunday, February 01, 2009

Sagrado Corazon


Sagrado Corazon
Originally uploaded by carlos aviles.
Tonight's featured shot from the Puerto Rico Sun photo group is by carlos aviles. It was taken at a church in San German, PR.

Boricuation Radio to interview Linda Nieves-Powell on MTV's 'True Life' and more

Boricua Entrepreneur




Website is www.boricuationradio.com .
The show airs on www.esp51.com.
3-6 p.m.
Call in 718 384 6813/Web Cam/Live Chat
(Click on image for larger text.)

Linda Nieves Powell, author of the book Free Style, is an outspoken advocate against the negative portrayal of Puerto Rican New Yorkers on MTV, which recently aired a new episode of their popular "True Life" series entitled "I'm a Nuyorican."

"Unfortunately, MTV chose to highlight three young people who embrace and embody all of the most negative and damaging stereotypes of the Nuyorican community," writes Nieves-Powell on her Facebook page.

She will speak on her gripe with MTV, her book, her Latino Flavored Productions as well as her other projects today on Boricuation Radio. Tune in.

By the way, there is an online petition circulating related to the MTV show.

Go to this link for more information

http://www.gopetition.com/petitions/nuyoricans-against-mtv-true-life.html