Month: September 2012

Remembering Ralph Mercado on His Birthday, September 29

Remembering Ralph Mercado on His Birthday, September 29

  September 29 is always a tough day for me because it’s the birthday of my friend and partner Ralph Mercado. Ralph was diagnosed with a brain tumor just weeks before my son Cristian, and he and Cristian passed away from their respective brain tumors a few weeks apart as well. Ironically, Ralph’s birthday on […]

The Taste of Italy

The Taste of Italy

   Hello chicken parmesan! If you haven’t cooked it yet you will now, the history behind chicken parm. It’s original dish originated about 400 years ago in bologna Italy. It was called Veal Bolognese. Though out the years other meats were exchanged for the veal hence. Chicken parmesan Possibly for economic reason. Chicken Parmigiana) is a fairly simple […]

Gucci’s little trendsetters.

Gucci’s little trendsetters.

Sweaters, scarves, rain boots, leather jackets & faux fur… Sounds like cold weather is right around the corner and Gucci has unveiled their fall/winter 2012 kids clothing line, we must say it is pretty chic! The designers at Gucci certainly did not hold back with this “winter wonderland” inspired campaign. For a pretty penny your […]

Tim Burton returns to his stop-motion roots

Tim Burton returns to his stop-motion roots

Soon to be released in theaters October 5th is one of Tim Burton’s classic 1984 shorts, “Frankenweenie”, a film about a boy named Victor Harness (Charlie Tahan) and his charismatic dog, Sparky whom unexpectedly lost his life. With the boy’s love of science, he sought out to revive his best friend with just a few […]

Wonder Woman is set to make her return to Television

Wonder Woman is set to make her return to Television

Out of all the comic book heroes to be portrayed through the live-action medium, Wonder Woman is definitely the hardest. As she made her debut in 1941’s “All-Star Comic #8” and receive her own comic in “Wonder Woman #1” which was released on June of the following year. Since then she has become a role […]

FDA stops imported Mangos that are linked to salmonella

FDA stops imported Mangos that are linked to salmonella

 Last week the federal food and drug administration detained imported mango from Mexican packinghouse after their product was linked to salmonella illness in 15 states. The FDA announced the alerts on Friday, September 14, against Agricola Daniella, a mango supplier with many plantations in Sinaloa, Mexico which means that the United States won’t accept any […]

Resident Evil: Retribution Manages to be loud with action and zombie killing that has ZERO point

Resident Evil: Retribution Manages to be loud with action and zombie killing that has ZERO point

Let’s get this out the way right now, Resident Evil: Retribution is a horrible movie; Paul WS Anderson manages to achieve everything that a bad filmmaker possesses, horrible acting, a plot that goes nowhere, no consistency, poor action scenes, you name it and he has almost all of it. I’ve considered the resident evil movies […]

Fashion’s Night Out

Fashion’s Night Out

Today, September 6, 2012, the fashion world of NYC comes to life… at night. Fashion’s Night Out happens only once a year, during the NYC Fashion Week, which is currently taking place.  On this special event most stores in Manhattan will prepare events, offer discounts, announce contests, and serve free food and beverages. Fashion’s Night […]

‘Live with Kelly and Michael’ Opens Big

‘Live with Kelly and Michael’ Opens Big

On Tuesday, September 5, 2012, Kelly Ripa introduced a new c-host, Michael Strahan during the broadcast of the newly-rechristened syndicated talk show. ‘Live with Kelly and Michael’ scored and impressive 3.9 Household rating, shooting up 44% over the year ago September 2011 time-period average (2.7/9) making the talk show ranked in No. 1 in the […]

McDonald’s open vegetarian-only restaurants in India

McDonald’s open vegetarian-only restaurants in India

    McDonald’s Corp is famously known for their McBurgers, Big Mac and Mc Café, but now the world famous fast food chain is now serving only vegetarian food due to customer preferences on the region. Already McDonald doesn’t not served any beef nor pork, so they have menu catering to the local taste such […]

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