Archive for July, 2008

Tourist in my own back yard

My little sister came to visit me from Florida this past weekend. She’s eighteen, so I was a bit nervous that she would be bored out of her mind! Last time she came to visit was atleast four years ago. I remembered that she loved Vic’s Pizza (best pizza in town!) in Raleigh’s City Market, [...]


Celebrate diversity at VIVA RALEIGH Festival this weekend

The first Viva Raleigh Festival is set to take place tomorrow, July 19, from 2:30-7:30 p.m. at Moore Square in Downtown Raleigh.
The City of Raleigh and a committee of city residents have worked tirelessly to plan the Viva Raleigh Festival. With this event, they hope to inform, integrate, empower and involve all of the Latinos [...]


A small bite out of a Big Apple…

I’ve just returned from New York City, where I haven’t been since I was a teenager. Each time I’ve gone it has been to visit with family, so this experience (visiting the city as a tourist) was quite different. I didn’t know I could pack so much of a big city in during the course [...]