Even during a pandemic, QuinceaËneras are an important coming of age celebration
Even during a pandemic, QuinceaËneras are an important coming of age celebration
By: Victoria Balderrama
and last updated 2020-12-24 12:07:55-05
CORPUS CHRISTI â Quinceaneras mark a young women s transition from childhood into adulthood and Elsie Ortiz is getting ready for her daughters quince on Saturday. We started in January of last year and because COVID started we had to wait six months and so I m 6 months behind on the planning, said Ortiz.
The to-do list was extensive. Oh first was the dress hunt, Elsie Ortiz said.
hard eight pit barbecue in dallas, texas which is amazing. i ve got greg and jessie with me here. are you ready to eat. t? we re so hungry. at 5:36 p.m. every day in the commercial break, you ask this question. every day at 5:36, greg in the commercial break will ask what am i going to eat tonight and it s usually ribs. i think i eat ribs four times a week. what s in greg s cup, by the way? is that sweet tea? i call it sweet h tea. some people may call it hard tine. i may hate the democrats, i may hate the libs, but man, i love ribs. you can tell that the dallas cowboys lost by the mood of the place. you can feel it because the redskins just beat the cowboys.
door in a ski mask, he may be a burglar. if he s in his drawers, he s home. it s not even what she has done, but what about i m sorry. what about this was a tragic mistake. well, he didn t comply. well, if you are just going home and he wasn t under suspicious or you weren t there in official capacity, why is he supposed to follow your command? he was in his apartment. black people can t barbecue. we can t swim and now we can t be in an apartment. now i think and one of the things i talk about in the book is really just kind of indifference. there s never been in my estimation a black person killed where the country was so outraged they were driven to action. a man should not be dead in his home. that s irrefutable. when they kill you, when you re an innocent blackman that s just killed, they have to kill your character. now they have to find all these pictures and find out what he
memorial day. it s about their service and sacrifice. it is memorial day weekend. not just a weekend to it barbecue, but to remember and honor those who have fallen. and there was a poignant moment on this weekend when americans gathered on the national mall to read the names of nearly 7,000 fallen u.s. service members killed in the line of duty in iraq, afghanistan and elsewhere since 9/11. among the speakers, secretary of defense, chuck hagel, who talked about our nation s responsibility to its heroes. america s obligations to those who answered the call to serve more than 2 million americans. are only just beginning. this nation has a sacred obligation to take care of them and their families for however long is necessary. it is part of the compact that we make with those who step forward to safeguard our freedom. and among the others who are
beef to report heights just in time for summer grilling season. let s check in with jeff cuttimore. do you guys grill over there? yeah. you know what, brian? we re back to that language thing again. we call it barbecue, my friend. we do barbecue here, but not that often given how rotten the weather is over in the uk most of the time. every now and again we put our aprons on and we get out there and we try to pretend we are real men with a beer and generally we burn the burgers, the sausages and everything else we cook. we re not good at it. but at $4.81 a pound, we will not be sticking a lot of beef o. feed costs are having an impact on beef prices leading to this all-time high. another story, the picture is becoming clearer at the chicago sun times. they have laid off as many as 30