#nochebuena #Christmas #family #mother #weekend #Miami wordbyfernie: WEEKEND IN MIAMI: Get your culture on at Viernes ...: By Fernie Ruano Jr. It’s almost Noche Buena, a night Cubans take very seriously because it signifies Christmas Day is around the corner...
Wednesday, 24 December 2014
WEEKEND IN MIAMI: Get your culture on at Viernes Culturales, shake your buns to Gente de Zona and bounce up and down with the Dolphins
Posted on 11:22 by RAJA BABU
By Fernie Ruano Jr. It’s almost Noche Buena, a night Cubans take very seriously because it signifies Christmas Day is around the corner and the year is almost over. It’s also a time of joy, cheer, music, lechon, whiskey and rowdy and very happy kids. It’s a time of reflection and sharing with family.That’s why today I am thinking about the vivid memories created as a kid while celebrating countless Noche Buenas with family and friends in Miami. My quiet, yet joyous, grandfather, with an apron around his neck, digging into the roast pork with...
Tuesday, 23 December 2014
wordbyfernie: Pastelitos: My Top-5 bakeries in Miami to find a C...
Posted on 12:41 by RAJA BABU
wordbyfernie: Pastelitos: My Top-5 bakeries in Miami to find a C...: By Fernie Ruano Jr If you live in Miami, you can eat a pastelito – or 17 – at any time of the day, whether it’s 6:15 a.m. and you’re do...
wordbyfernie: 2014: Top 5 Latin albums according to wordbyfernie...
Posted on 11:27 by RAJA BABU
#2014 #latinalbums #top5 #wordbyfernie #fernie wordbyfernie: 2014: Top 5 Latin albums according to wordbyfernie...: By Fernie Ruano Jr. Romeo Santos’ grip on the charts, Carlos Vives’ revival, Marc Anthony’s touring (again), Enrique Iglesias teaming w...
2014: Top 5 Latin albums according to wordbyfernie
Posted on 11:22 by RAJA BABU
By Fernie Ruano Jr. Romeo Santos’ grip on the charts, Carlos Vives’ revival, Marc Anthony’s touring (again), Enrique Iglesias teaming with Gente de Zona to record “Bailando”, a mainstream hit and arguably the most popular Spanish-language song in years, and the continued growth of streaming in Latin America elevated the Latin music industry to new heights in 2014 – a year that also warmed the hearts of Latin music fans everywhere with albums they will be talking about, if not dancing too, for decades. Here now are my Top 5 Latin albums of the year....
What, a wild brawl in the inaugural Miami Beach Bowl? Here are my Top-5 sports fights of all-time
Posted on 09:26 by RAJA BABU
By Fernie Ruano Jr.How does a meaningless college football bowl game between BYU-Memphis in the middle of a Monday afternoon in a near-empty baseball stadium in Miami (Little Havana) end up leading off ESPN’s 6 p.m. Sports Center and find its way into your local and national news broadcast? By ending in a wild brawl which included dozens of staffers and players from both sidelines coming together at the middle of the field, most of them shoving and punching. The melee, which erupted shortly after Memphis defensive back DaShaughn Terry intercepted...
Monday, 22 December 2014
wordbyfernie: Yo quiero una Frita: My Top-5 spots for a Cuban ha...
Posted on 12:39 by RAJA BABU
#Cuban #fritas #cubanhamburger #305 wordbyfernie: Yo quiero una Frita: My Top-5 spots for a Cuban ha...: By Fernie Ruano Jr. Where you blessed with a Cuban mother that would drive around with two kids in her backseat on a Saturday aftern...
2014? 2015? Miamians have their priorities in order, no matter what year it is. Now, go work on that Christmas shopping list!
Posted on 11:30 by RAJA BABU
By Fernie Ruano Jr.2014 in the 305 has come and gone with the quickness of a chatty, olive green-clad, Versailles waitress putting in motion your order of a pastelito de queso and café con leche from behind the bakery counter at 8:30 am on any given Saturday. Because let’s be honest: some things never change in Miami.While some really fat and pasty couple in Cleveland, Ohio, both wearing ear muffs and leather jackets because its 35 and lightly snowing and there’s not much to do outside, unless you’re into miserable weather, is turning and twisting...
Friday, 19 December 2014
wordbyfernie: 2014: Kim K’s oily …, too much Ariana Grande (gasp...
Posted on 12:23 by RAJA BABU
#2014 #fernieruanojr. #kimk #arianagrande #Miami wordbyfernie: 2014: Kim K’s oily …, too much Ariana Grande (gasp...: By Fernie Ruano Jr. Can you believe the year that blessed us, or sent us to the psych ward (depending on who you ask), with Kim Karda...
2014: Kim K’s oily …, too much Ariana Grande (gasp!), Bradley Cooper, Matthew McConaughey, Google glasses, way too much Ray Rice and Roger Goodell and fake boobs, especially if you live in Miami ….
Posted on 12:19 by RAJA BABU
By Fernie Ruano Jr. Can you believe the year that blessed us, or sent us to the psych ward (depending on who you ask), with Kim Kardashian’s oily ass and its balancing act, Ray Rice’s knockout power, Janay Palmer before Janay Palmer, in the name of $$$$, became …. Janay Rice, Russell Wilson’s hair, LeBron James’ moving truck, George Clooney’s wedding (finally), Facebook’s 10thanniversary, Catherine Jo Perry (NEWSALERT: Catherine is not Russian), Google glasses (for everyone), Apple’s iPhone 6, ScarJo’s mommy skills (sad), Pete Carroll’s enthusiasm,...
Thursday, 18 December 2014
wordbyfernie: WEEKEND IN MIAMI: Santa’s Enchanted Forest, please...
Posted on 12:19 by RAJA BABU
#Cuba #PresidentObama #US #Miami #weekend #santasenchantedforest #grandcentral wordbyfernie: WEEKEND IN MIAMI: Santa’s Enchanted Forest, please...: By Fernie Ruano Jr. BREAKING NEWS: After the first time in 53 years, the United States of America has a president in office the Cuban...
WEEKEND IN MIAMI: Santa’s Enchanted Forest, please mommy, Grand Central and a cheap football game….
Posted on 12:16 by RAJA BABU
By Fernie Ruano Jr. BREAKING NEWS: For the first time in 53 years, the United States of America has a president in office that the Cuban government finds deserving of “respect and recognition.”All it took was President Obama’s overhauling of U.S.-Cuba relations, the first of any kind since the two nations severed ties in 1961, which centered on the return of an innocent U.S. International contractor turned prisoner (Alan Gross) in exchange for three convicted Cuban spies. In short, the U.S. will move toward re-establishing an embassy in Havana...
Tuesday, 16 December 2014
wordbyfernie: Still haven’t started Christmas shopping, sexy? Do...
Posted on 11:49 by RAJA BABU
#shopping #Christmas #Miami #malls #women #wordbyfernie: Still haven’t started Christmas shopping, sexy? Do...: By Fernie Ruano Jr. You have nine days – NINE DAYS, BITCH! – until Christmas Day and like most of the people around you when you hast...
Still haven’t started Christmas shopping, sexy? Don’t sweat it …..
Posted on 11:48 by RAJA BABU
By Fernie Ruano Jr. You have nine days – NINE DAYS, BITCH! – until Christmas Day and like most of the people around you when you hastily pour a packet of raw sugar into your latte inside your favorite coffee shop every day at 8 a.m. and scream at the lady behind the counter of your go-to supermarket at 6 p.m. twice a week before running to the checkout line because you can’t possibly wait six minutes for a fresh order of fried chicken, even though you were stuck on I-95 for 45 minutes after leaving work yesterday, you’re a procrastinator. And you’re...
Monday, 15 December 2014
wordbyfernie: “The U Part 2”: What if Butch Davis would have sta...
Posted on 12:46 by RAJA BABU
#Miami #Butchdavis #um #arianagrande wordbyfernie: “The U Part 2”: What if Butch Davis would have sta...: By Fernie Ruano Jr. Butch Davis, the Jimmy Johnson Rat Pack loyalist turned mid-90s University of Miami emancipator, makes an admission...
“The U Part 2”: What if Butch Davis would have stayed at Miami?
Posted on 12:43 by RAJA BABU
By Fernie Ruano Jr. Butch Davis, the Jimmy Johnson Rat Pack loyalist turned mid-90s University of Miami emancipator, makes an admission halfway through the first segment of “The U Part 2”, Billy Corbin’s two-hour documentary sequel chronicling the football program’s last national championship run before being engulfed in an NCAA rules violation and later its fall from prominence, that most Hurricanes fans, especially those in Coral Gables, have probably been waiting to hear for quite a while: “I wish I would have stayed at Miami,” said an unapologetic...
Friday, 12 December 2014
wordbyfernie: Lending her voice: Shakira joins Obama in launch o...
Posted on 11:33 by RAJA BABU
#shakira #presidentobama #earlyeducation #childdevelopment wordbyfernie: Lending her voice: Shakira joins Obama in launch o...: By Fernie Ruano Jr. In a Twitter Q&A on Wednesday, Shakira, a member of the President Barack Obama’s Advisory Committee on Educat...
Lending her voice: Shakira joins President Obama in launch of Early Childhood Education Campaign
Posted on 11:31 by RAJA BABU
By Fernie Ruano Jr. In a Twitter Q&A on Wednesday, Shakira, a member of President Barack Obama’s Advisory Committee on Educational Excellence for Hispanics, answered a question on the most effective way of getting a high return on every $1 spent distributing funds to needy schools by writing “every $1 invested in early education for disadvantaged kids has a return of at least 10% and reduces social spending.”“Numbers don’t lie!”Now, the Colombian pop star is continuing her efforts to promote better programs for early childhood development and...
wordbyfernie: A must in your child’s Christmas gift bag: An awes...
Posted on 09:34 by RAJA BABU
#children #books #Christmas #fernie #drseuss #thepolarexpress #frostythesnowman wordbyfernie: A must in your child’s Christmas gift bag: An awes...: By Fernie Ruano Jr. If you’re in your kitchen every weekday at 6:30 am tussling with milk and cereal, in between scribbling your sign...
A must in your child’s Christmas gift bag: An awesome book
Posted on 09:32 by RAJA BABU
By Fernie Ruano Jr. If you’re in your kitchen every weekday at 6:30 am tussling with milk and cereal, in between scribbling your signature on homework worksheets, you probably race out of your front door at 7 am with no makeup on your face and half a bagel sliding out of your mouth. And you have children in elementary school, and therefore might want to encourage them to read independently, which boasts a kid’s vocabulary, reading comprehension, verbal skills and achievement-test scores. In fact, if your son/daughter is in the second or third grade...
Thursday, 11 December 2014
wordbyfernie: Weekend in Miami: Working on your list dude, singi...
Posted on 12:11 by RAJA BABU
#shopping #josefeliciano #runningwithserena #fernie wordbyfernie: Weekend in Miami: Working on your list dude, singi...: By Fernie Ruano Jr. That time of year, again. The iPhone 6 on your desk has been vibrating violently in recent days, more than usual. Y...
Weekend in Miami: Working on your list dude, singing with Jose Feliciano and your single mommy and keeping up with Serena Williams, or at least trying…
Posted on 12:08 by RAJA BABU
By Fernie Ruano Jr. That time of year, again. The iPhone 6 on your desk has been vibrating violently in recent days, more than usual. You’re getting text messages from phone numbers you don’t recognize at all times of the day, overnight too. You smile in the mirror every morning, just because; women smile back when you acknowledge them in public, just because. You know a lot of women. You live in Miami.“Remember the winter of 2011?” recently asked a friend sharing an outdoors table of a popular Coral Gables café before taking a mini sandwich to...
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