Mariachi Music
Since its beginnings, mariachi music has been the music of the countryside and its inhabitants—a much-loved local and regional musical genre. But by the late twentieth century th...
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A man who once weighed well over a half ton left his house for the first time in five years Wednesday _ wheeled outside on his bed to greet neighbors and see a mariachi band. "The sky is beautiful ...
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In Mexico, a dollar goes a long way. Cough up $20 and you'll be thoroughly entertained, by anything from a professional wrestling match to a night of dancing to Latin music. And many of these optio...
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Blaxploitation flicks, badly dubbed kung fu movies and spaghetti Westerns. Cheesy effects, corny dialogue and lousy technical quality. Sex, violence and gleefully over-the-top gore.All of this and ...
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Lawmakers have called for the dismissal of the head of the Organization of American States' peace mission in Colombia, accusing him of standing by as paramilitary warlords held orgies in a governme...
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The mariachi band started playing as the Florida Gators walked off the airplane Tuesday, welcoming players and coaches to the Valley of the Sun.Although the band stuck to traditional mariachi balla...
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Election 2008: If a GOP candidate sought votes from a white group calling itself the "National Council of the Race," he'd rightly be shunned as a racist. But let Democrats do the same and they're c...
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This was my fourth restaurant wake of 2004-and by far the jolliest and least sentimental. It is fitting that Le Cirque folded its tent on New Year's Eve, when the entire world was clowning around a...
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After seven record-breaking years in a row, the number and cost of so-called pork barrel projects is way down, thanks to voter outrage and a one-year moratorium imposed by Democrats after taking ov...
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Manuel Uribe, who once weighed half a ton, left his house on Wednesday for the first time in five years.Six people pushed Uribe's wheel-equipped iron bed out to the street, as a mariachi band playe...
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You won't find any volumes of poetry in Don Scheidt's house.
A retired tax collector who is quick to point out that the IRS is not a very poetic organization, Scheidt does not enjoy readin...
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Mariachi Music
Half ton man continues weight loss
