The Cervantes Institute has been sponsoring Ladino readings and seminars at its branches in Tel Aviv, Istanbul, Bucharest and Sofia. Now Urrutia says the institute will create a Ladino Department with a Judeo-Spanish archive at its headquarters in Madrid. And Ladino will be the focus of a new Cervantes Institute in Salonika, which will be located next to the city\’s Sephardic Museum.
Café Danssa opened for business in December 1965 on a nondescript block of West Los Angeles on Pico Boulevard. The name of the business was a morphing of the first three letters of Dani Dassa\’s first name and the last three letters of his last name.
Based on Whedon\’s short-lived 2002 TV series, \”Firefly,\” whose fan base helped spur the movie, \”Serenity\” revolves around the outlaws\’ attempts to discover the telepath\’s true identity after she beats up everyone in a bar.
To structure the sprawling \”Waters,\” James Still drew on Arthur Schnitzler\’s classic play, \”La Ronde,\” in which scenes are connected by protagonists moving from one sequence to another.
If there is such a thing, I am your typical Japanewish American Princess.
My Mom is Japanese American, my Dad is ethnically Jewish and, in a wonderful embrace, I came to be. Growing up in a town in which racial and religious combinations were not the norm, my two heritages naturally blended into one. Kamaboko (fish cake) and matzah ball soup were just as normal to me as they were odd to everyone else. On several occasions, my brother and I would joke about being double-teamed by our parents, whose academic standards were sky-high. Mom and Dad seemed to be the only ones on the block who strategically transformed games of report cards and SAT scores into two-on-one situations. But no matter how much I still accuse them of being ruthless, they didn\’t team up to be mean — they just wanted us to be the best we could be.
Monica Garcia had her daughter-to-be in mind when she designed a modest line of Barbie clothing while she was pregnant last year.
Gurinder Chadha was having one of those surreal multicultural moments you get in L.A.
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