Comic-Con has landed! An exaltation of pop culture if there ever was one! Despite being sold out for months, there is still a lot of fun to be had by enjoying the scene outside of the convention center. Also check out all the Comic-Con related events such at Chicano-Con at Border X!
While Comic-Con may be stealing the spotlight, there is a plethora of wonderful music acts to enjoy in the coming days, including: Manny Cepeda, Ozomatli, Lea Salonga, Viva La Quebradita, the Yale Strom Quartet, Sharon Katz and the Peace Train, Jorge Aragao, Los Darth Vatos, Ana Tijoux, Los Lobos, the Camila Meza Trio, and one of our favorite music and dance groups, SAMAHAN, who will be celebrating their 50th anniversary! We are also excited to let you know about the Japanese Obon Festival this weekend and the Heiva Tahitian Cultural Festival next weekend. Sunday, the House of Peru will hold their annual lawn program. Agatha Christie whodunit aficionados are sure to enjoy Ms. Holmes & Ms. Watson – Apt. 2B, opening at the Old Globe tomorrow!
All these and more wonderful cultural happenings await you! Go forth and explore!
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Our Recipe for this month is Irish Chips with Curry Sauce. A pub and chip-shop favorite that blends the tastes of two great cultures!
A couple of decades ago, my family visited Ireland. It was a wonderful trip. Being a great fan of food from around the world, I must say, food was not exactly a highlight of our trip. While in recent times, nuevo and international cuisine has been making inroads into the Irish food scene, basic Irish food remains . . . rather basic.
Our International Music selection of the month is Al-Maraya by the Al Andaluz Project. Al-Marayœ (The mirror) is the sonorous title of the new and second Al Andaluz Project album. The title is to be taken literally. Al-Maraya mirrors the Spanish traditions of the Jewish-sephardic, Arabic and Christian music in contemporary and vivid interpretations and shows the true face of the European folk music in all it's variety and facets.—Amazon
A mythic love story set in Trinidad, Ayanna Lloyd Banwo's radiant debut is a masterwork of lush imagination and exuberant storytelling—a spellbinding and hopeful novel about inheritance, loss, and love's seismic power to heal.
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