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LIVE VIRTUAL WINE TASTING Kicks Off Thursday September 23rd!

Wednesday, September 1st, 2010

Live Virtual Wine Tasting September 23rd

Host: Devin Parr

Wine Tasting has been reserved for luxury trips to Napa and

Tuscany. Now the experience can virtually come to you in a live web streaming video shared with millions of people. Sip

Sommelier: Olivier Dufeu

some of the best wines and immediately share your thoughts with fellow virtual wine buddies while getting answers from your live virtual wine expert.

Live Virtual Wine Tasting will be hosted by wine expert, Devin Parr and feature Sommelier Olivier Dufeu of Jumeirah Essex House restaurant, South Gate. Special guests within the food and wine industry and celebrity wine enthusiasts will join Devin and Olivier as they sample and interact with the virtual audience and panel about a different wine each week.

Join the Facebook Fan Page Here! Stay tuned for updates on the broadcast on September 23rd, special guests and how to pre-order our first selected wine.

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World Cup Update + Serious Talk About WC Uniforms! By Patrick K. Sister

Saturday, July 3rd, 2010

As I watch Germany x Argentina and try to forget yesterday’s game when Brazil lost to Netherlands I find it odd that I was more upset when Brett Favre’s pass was intercepted and Vikings’ chances to go to the Superbowl were dead and gone (FYI: I’m a Vikings fan). Since the next World Cup will be in Brazil in 2014 maybe we’ll have a better chance with the home advantage and by then the Vikings can win 4 Superbowls!

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As mentioned above, I’m watching Germany’s game and I can’t help to say that I find Germany’s away jersey to be, by far, my favorite one. Second best would be Ghana’s home and Ivory Cost’s home. Both of those are slim fit (which is kind of a trend on Puma’s jerseys). And finally I would choose England’s home jersey for its classical look. Plain and simple white and one of the only ones with the classic collar.

The ugliest ones are, by far, Australia’s (both home and away). The colors, the design - it is just plain ugly!

Australia's Uniforms

And Slovenia’s home and away. Well, Slovenia’s jersey are not that ugly but it reminds me too much of Charlie Brown.

Slovenia's Uniforms

jack o'lantern Well I’m at it I have to mention that even thought I do like Netherland’s orange uniform, when they wear it with black shorts they look like a bunch of Jack O’Lanterns.

Seriously, talking about the actual World Cup: today is the second and last day of the quarter finals. Germany is winning its game against Argentina. The winner of this game will play the winner of Spain x Paraguay.

Yesterday, Netherlands eliminated Brazil and will play Uruguay on the semifinals. Uruguay won its game against Ghana.

My guess is that the winner of the Germany x Argentina will play Netherlands on the finals. Let’s see how good a sidekick I am.

Tags: 2014, Argentina, Brazil, Brown, Charlie, Cup, Germany, Ghana, jersey's, Netherlands, Paraguay, semifinals, Spain, Uruguay, Vikings, World
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World Cup Pulse: Meaning Behind “Cala Boca Galvão” + Top 10 Ugliest Players?

Friday, June 18th, 2010

Can anyone give me a call when the World Cup begins? One week ago these were the favorite teams: Brazil, Germany, Argentina, Italy, France, England, Netherlands and Spain. Eight teams and guess what: only one – Germany – played like a pro. Germany showed excellent team work with beautiful plays winning their game against Australia by 4×0. Aside from that game, all the other first games were just boring. Brazil, even winning by 2×1 weren’t spared from critics. They played North Korea which is the lowest ranked team in the World Cup. Everyone was expecting something like 4×0 or more. But the real surprise was Spain losing their game to Switzerland. This first round has the worst average of goals per game with 1.56 against 2.44 from the 2006 tournament.

The second round has already started and things are getting better and way more interesting. Argentina finally showed why they are considered one of the best teams. Messi and his gang won by 4×1 from South Korea. And guess what, we already had our second round of surprise: France 0×2 Mexico. With that score France is at serious risk of not qualifying for the play-offs. I’m anxious to see the next round of games. The teams have to win to qualify, so they should be more aggressive which should lead to more offensive plays, more goals and better games in general. So fingers crossed that round two delivers!

Let me tell you guys a funny story that has come up on the internet and has even made the NY Times, El Pais and other international newspapers. It’s the environmental campaign “CALA BOCA GALVÃO” (pictured right). Even Lady GaGa had a video released on YouTube (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AJxJ-B-zrWI). The campaign “Cala Boca Galvão” has been on Twitter’s Trending Topics for a couple of weeks.

Let me explain what’s this is all about. It’s all a funny hoax. Galvão refers, not to a bird but to Galvão Bueno, the most famous sportscaster in Brazil. He is, indeed, quite annoying. The term “cala boca” means “shut up” so the translation would be “Shut Up Galvão”. The hoax campaign was created so non-Portuguese speaking people would tweet the term “Cala Boca Galvão” and get it to the top of twitter’s trending topics. They made fake posters, mashup videos, and not only did it work but it became such a hit that newspapers from all over the world published stories about it.

But don’t worry about the real Galvão, he is being a good sport about it. He even said that he deeply committed to the campaign! So everyone help out!!

And to finish this post, you can all find stories about the best looking players. Since this post is all about jokes, here are the top 10 ugliest ones!

Top 10 Ugliest World Cup Players

Tags: Argentina, Boca, Brazil, Cala, Cup, England, France, Galvao, Germany, Italy, Korea, Messi, Mexico, North, Twitter, World
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“The Legendary Project” is El Museo Del Barrio’s First Ever Gay Pride Celebration in NYC!

Monday, June 14th, 2010

The Legendary Project at El Museo Del Barrio Sunday June 20th

El Museo del Barrio presents its first-ever NYC Gay Pride celebration event, The Legendary Project, a staged modern dance performance by contemporary choreographer and director, Ferdinand De Jesus, based on the spoken word/music collaborations of Nuyorican poet, Emanuel Xavier and producer El David. Through dance and movement, The Legendary Project celebrates our very own Latino Gods, angels, kings and queens, poets and dancers.

The Legendary Project is this Sunday, June 20th at El Museo Del Barrio. Admission is FREE but, you need to RSVP here. El Museo Del Barrio is located at: 1230 5th Ave. @104th Street.

Scroll down to watch the VIDEO interview with Emanuel Xavier!

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Tags: Barrio, dance, David, de, Del, El, Emanuel, Ferdinand, gay, Harlem, Jesus, Latino, Legendary, LGBT, Museo, poetry, Pride, Project, Spanish, spoken, word, Xavier
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World Cup Fever in Brazil! By Patrick K. Sister

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

Sketch of Copacabana Beach in Rio for World Cup 2010

So Brazil beat North Korea but, it’s no reason to celebrate since they barely won by one point to the team that has the lowest ranking while Brazil has the highest. The same was true with Italy tying Paraguay. Uneventful games that should have been easy and major wins have proved otherwise. Our correspondent, Patrick K. Sister reports that Germany is the team to look out for and he predicts could be the front runner… We’ll check back with him soon on more coverage in Brazil but, for now read below as he describes the overall vibe of Brazil as it enters World Cup fever!

‘Fever Outbreak’

Tuesday, 3:30 pm. You get off at Wall Street Station and walk to the NY Stock Exchange. You are the only one on the street. You go down Broadway heading to Battery Park. Not a single soul around. That “Vanilla Sky” scene where Tom Cruise walks around a New York ghost town or even that image in “28 Days Later” in London comes to mind. You think: “What is going on? Where is everyone? This can’t be normal”. You start to walk fast, looking over your shoulders scared to bump into a zombie.

Well, that’s about right. The difference is that it’s not in New York. It’s in Rio de Janeiro and other cities across Brazil. And there aren’t any zombies. Well, not quite the “undead” movie ones. During the next month, Brazil’s population will become an army of soccer zombies. It’s the World Cup Fever. And trust me, as someone who has been in Brazil for seven World Cups (two of which we won) I know what I’m talking, better yet, writing, about. (Just to make myself clear, when I say World Cup, there is only one sport I could be talking about: football, or as Americans like to call it, soccer).

I was asked by the guys at Progressive Pulse to write about the World Cup. They wanted a different perspective – a view from the inside. Inside what? Well, inside the madness that takes over my country during this sports event. And let me add that the World Cup is the most viewed event in the world. I know that in the US it is not as big a deal as the World Series finals, the Superbowl or the American Idol finals. (Just messing with you guys, after all, who watches the Word Series finals anymore!). Just to give you an idea, FIFA (the International Soccer Federation) is expecting 3 billion viewers during the event. I guess that’s quite a bit, right?

Let me go back to that zombie fever thing I mentioned before. In Brazil, the games are so important that everything stops. In Rio de Janeiro, the mayor issued a statement declaring a “semi-holiday” (half the day) for city hall employees. Banks will close. Movie theaters will close. Markets, drugstores, offices will all be shutting down early. I haven’t read anything about the stock market but I will look into it. Here in Rio, if you go downtown at 3:30pm on Tuesday (Brazil’s first game) it will look like a ghost town. You could literally lie down on the usually busiest streets because there will be no traffic. People will be home, at bars or even at the beach. There will be a big screen at Copacabana Beach where people can watch the game. They will air all of the 64 games and during the Brazilian team games there will be a second screen so the whole crowd can watch it. There will be bands playing during the break. Below is a sketch of the structure built in Copacabana.

I have to say, it is something amazing and disturbing at the same time. To see a whole country united like this can give you mixed feelings. Especially when you know there is so many wrong things going on here with politics and people are so inert about it. Even thought we are in election year for president, governors, senators, and representatives, it’s not time to talk about politics. Let us join the army of soccer zombies and sing: Brazil! Brazil! Brazil!

Next week I’ll write about how people paint and decorate streets like a yellow and green Christmas holiday. I’ll have some pictures of the empty streets and the decorated ones and let’s see what my soon to be soccer fever infected brain lets me write about.

Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.

Patrick K. Sister

Tags: Brazil, Copacabana, Cup, football, Rio, soccer, World
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All You Need to Know About the 2010 Soccer World Cup in South Africa. By Aldo Diez

Thursday, June 10th, 2010

World Cup Soccerball

What: The 2010 FIFA World Cup (Federation international of Football association) http://www.fifa.com/

Where: South Africa (different cities)

When: June 11 through July 11

Get your DVR’s and TiVo’s ready and your remote control handy for the upcoming Soccer World Cup 2010, 8 groups of 4 teams per group for a total of 32 countries will participate in one of the most anticipated competitions in the world, South Africa being the first African country to be chosen after a controversial drawing, most of the countries running to be the host country for this cup criticized the FIFA because they said that South Africa was one of the most unsafe places on earth to have such a competition.

Cristiano Ronaldo wearing Emporio Armani for the Portuguese team

This time some of the well-known players won’t be participating such as David Beckham, who broke his Achilles tendon last March on a friendly match, Brazilian star Ronaldinho Gaucho was not “invited” to be part of his team, rumor has it that he and the team coach “Dunga” never got along. Now all of the attention will concentrate in the talented Portuguese Cristiano Ronaldo, who also got his “star status” like Beckham after his underwear campaign for the Emporio Armani label.

Lionel Messi for the Argentina team

According to the experts Argentina has the most “all star” team in the cup, most of the players play in Spain and in Italy, the biggest star is of course Lionel Messi, also known as “la pulga” (the flee) because of his height, and he was voted the best player in the world in 2009.

If I will have to predict, here’s my final 4? This would be my list:

Brazil

Argentina

Spain

England

The countries that are considered the “underdogs” with a little chance to make it to the next round would be: South Korea, Switzerland, Australia and Honduras, but hey, there are always surprises.

The first match will always start at 4:00 pm (local time in South Africa). There is a 9 hour difference between South Africa and the SF/Bay Area and a 6 hour difference between South African and New York, so either you wake very early before you head to work to see a match or use your lunch break to see a part of a game, or again you can record it or use your DVR if you have one.

There will be a giant screen at the Civic Center Plaza in San Francisco where the matches will be shown. The 13×18 screen will be mounted on a truck and hydraulically lifted and will broadcast as many World Cup games as possible.

And I almost forgot, people can also watch the cup in the internet There are several websites devoted to the cup, like:

http://www.livesoccertv.com/

http://www.justin.tv

And of course the ESPN station has a dedicated soccer website: http://soccernet.espn.go.com/world-cup/?cc=5901&ver=us

The following is a list of places in San Francisco, Los Angeles and New York you can see the matches while grabbing a drink:

SAN FRANCISCO:

Foley’s Irish Pub

243 O’Farrell Street
San Francisco, CA 94102-2118
(415) 954-0777

www.johnnyfoleys.com

Jillian’s Billiard Club

101 4th Street,

San Francisco, CA 94103

415 369 6100

www.jilliansonline.com

4^th street Bar & Deli

55 4th St

San Francisco CA 94103

415 442-6734

Mercury Lounge

Soccer Cafe

2797 16th Street

SF, CA 94102

www.sfsoccercafe.com

Cava 22

3239 22nd Street

SF, CA 94110

www.cava22sf.com

The Napper Tandy Bar

3200 24th Street

SF, CA 94110

wwwnappertandysf.com

SF GAY SPORTS BAR:

The Mix

4086 18th Street

SF< CA 94114

www.sfmixbar.com

LOS ANGELES:

The Village Idiot

7383 Melrose Ave.

L.A. CA 90046

www.villageidiotla.com

The Happy Ending

7038 W Sunset Blvd

L.A. CA 90028

www.thehappyending.com

Industry Cafe & Jazz

6039 Washington Blvd

Culver City, CA 90232

www.industrycafeandjazz.com

Upper West

3321 Pico Blvd

Santa Monica, CA 90405

www.theupperwest.com

Cock N Bull Pub

2947 Lincoln Blvd

Santa Monica, CA 90405

www.cocknbullbritishpub.com

Bossa Nova (Various Locations in Los Angeles)

www.bossanovafood.com

Cafe Brasil

10831 Venice Blvd.

L.A., CA 90034

11736 W. Washington Blvd.

Los Angeles, CA 90066

www.cafe-brasil.com

3rd Stop

8636 W. 3rd St.

Los Angeles, CA 90048

8636 W. Third St.

L.A., CA 90048

Cat & Fiddle

6530 Sunset Blvd.

L.A., CA 90028

www.thecatandfiddle.com

Circle Bar

2926 Main St.

Santa Monica, CA 90405

www.thecirclebar.com

Dakota Music Lounge

1026 Wilshire Blvd.

Santa Monica, CA 90401

www.dakotalounge.com

L.A. GAY SPORTS BAR

GYM

8737 Santa Monica Blvd

West Hollywood, CA

www.gymsportsbar.com

NEW YORK:

Boqueria

53 West 19th Street

171 Spring Street

www.boquerianyc.com

Esperanto

145 Avenue C

New York, NY 10009

Novecento

343 West Broadway

New York, NY 10013

www.novecento.com

La Nacional

239 West 14th Street

New York, NY 10011

www.lanacionaltapas.com

Fontana’s

105 Eldriege Street

New York, NY 10002

www.fontanasnyc.com

Bunny Chow

74 Orchard Street

New York, NY 10002

www.bunnychowny.com

NEW YORK GAYS SPORTS BARS:

Boxers NYC

37 West 20th Street

New York, NY 10001

www.boxersnyc.com

Tags: Africa, Argentina, bars, Beckham, Brazil, Cristiano, England, Lionel, Messi, Ronaldo, South, Spain, World Cup
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L.A. Nightlife is being Redefined at ‘bar 210′ and ‘plush’

Thursday, February 11th, 2010

'bar 210'

'plush'

DNA (Diabolical Nightlife Associates) presents a new redefined nightlife in LA with the opening of two hot spots situated on the corner of Santa Monica and Wilshire otherwise known as the Beverly Hilton. This hotel was screaming for a renovation but, it looks like with ‘bar 210′ and ‘plush’ it will get the star treatment it deserves.

‘bar 210′ is an upscale lounge featuring signature libations with fresh ingredients, communal dining with an eclectic menu including late night bites and a private intimate space for VIP guests.

If you can believe it, ‘plush’ is the first dance club in Beverly Hills featuring world class DJ’s with an outdoor patio featuring a sexy fire pit.

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“HOPE FOR HAITI” TONIGHT! -WATCH IT AT 8 p.m. ET/PT (7 p.m. CT)

Friday, January 22nd, 2010

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“Hope For Haiti” airs tonight on all the major networks which was conceived as a telethon by George Clooney to raise much needed money for the devastating earthquake catastrophe in Haiti that has reported to have killed over 100,000 Haitians to date.

See the video below as George Clooney talks about “Hope For Haiti” tonight which will feature many celebrities including Bill Clinton, Madonna, Will Smith, Meryl Streep, Chris Rock, Jennifer Hudson, Christina Aguilera, Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder, Sheryl Crow, Jay-Z and many more.

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Airline Ambassadors Brings Compassion Into Action!

Monday, December 7th, 2009

From Far Left: Jim McCord, H.E. Ambassador Francis Lorenzo, Dominican Republic, Darlene McCord, Artist Jamia Nash

Last Thursday December 3rd in New York City The Airline Ambassadors celebrated CHILDREN OF THE WORLD at the United Nations. Airline Ambassadors provides humanitarian assistance to children and families in need as well as international relief and development to under-privileged communities worldwide. AAI is the only non-profit in the world leveraging connections with the airline industry to facilitate humanitarian efforts, and is recognized by the US Congress and the United Nations. AAI has been granted official U.N. Non-Governmental Organization status.

President and Founder, Nancy Rivard is employed by American Airlines and has been since 1976. She was moving up the management line of American Airlines but, decided to move back to her original position as a flight attendant. She founded Airline Ambassadors in 1996. Originally, AAI began with airline personnel bringing relief and aide to smaller underdeveloped countries whenever Rivard and her colleagues had a layover. AAI has now expanded to 6000 member including medical and business professionals, students and retirees. Rivard has gotten American Airlines to get involved and provide needed aircrafts to deliver shipments to smaller countries. Monthly volunteer mission groups organize in the several selected countries to distribute relief and aide to the needed countries.

Peter Greenberg and Nancy Rivard, President & Founder, AAI

Watch a short video that tells a little more about Airline Ambassadors and Nancy Rivard talked about by front- line travel and news journalist, Peter Greenberg:

Joaquin Antuna for Paz y Cooperacion: 2009 Global Compassion Award

Thursdays event presented two awards. The 2009 Global Compassion Award went to Joaquin Antuna and Paz y Cooperacion. Paz y Cooperacion was founded by Joaquin Antuna in 1982. It has been centered on promoting a movement of non-violence and creativity and on building a world of solidarity. Airline Ambassadors has partnered with Paz y Cooperacion since 1996 with their annual international school competition, The Peace and Cooperation School Award. The school Award encourages students and teachers to reflect upon the important issues of our time.

The 2009 Global Humanitarian Award went to The McCord Foundation, Jim and Darlene McCord. The McCord Research Foundation is the philanthropic arm of McCord Research, supporting programs and causes close to the hearts of Jim and Darlene McCord. The foundation currently funds activities in three areas at The University of Iowa; research fellowships in the University of Iowa Biosciences Department; and independent labs at Michigan State University, Millersville University and the University of Tennessee working on research cures for Buruli Ulcer which effects many children in Africa.

Darlene McCord informed the audience that Buruli Ulcer is the quiet epidemic that is affecting children in Ghana. Buruli Ulcer is a skin disease caused by bacteria that is a genetic cousin to the bacteria that causes leprosy and tuberculosis. Like leprosy, patients with Buruli ulcer develop ulcers on their body that can eventually cripple and even kill them.

The CHILDREN OF THE WORLD event last Thursday raised continued awareness and acknowledged those coming together through shared resources and public engagement to make an international global difference. To help celebrate the evening performances were led by George Sigma and Jamia Nash. Mr. Sigma debuted an original one of a kind song, entitled, “PEACE”, which in 3 minutes and 12 seconds he includes the word ‘peace’ in 77 most spoken languages and idioms.

George Sigma Performs "Peace"

Thirteen year old singer and actress Jamia Nash sung the inspirational and appropriate song of the night, “Hero” by Mariah Carey. Jamia spoke very eloquently about how passionate she is about AAI and the work that is to be done. Ms. Nash is known for appearing in the film, “August Rush” and singing the song, “Raise It Up”. She currently stars in the daytime soap, “The Young and the Restless”.

Singer and Actress Jamia Nash

To find out more about Airline Ambassadors or to volunteer on an upcoming mission visit their website: www.airlineamb.org

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FASHION ART BRAVURA: Latin Art & Fashion Merge at The Setai

Friday, October 23rd, 2009

Raul Moncada: "The Weight"

The SETAI CLUB NEW YORK presented FASHION ART BRAVURA on Wednesday night featuring ARTISTS OF THE AMERICAS and the current collection of fashion designer, Gustavo Arango. ARTISTS OF THE AMERICAS was founded by Astrid Amaya and is directed by her son, Alejandro Garcia-Amaya. There mission is to bolster recognition of talented international emerging Latin American artists by exhibiting their art works in the United States. Ms. Amaya has met many talented Latin American artists throughout the years and wants to share the beauty of the artists work with a larger audience. Garcia-Amaya also adds that you can learn a lot about a civilization by dissecting its arts, but what good comes to its citizens when a talented artist has not been able to expose his/her art form? His goal is also to bridge together talented international emerging artists to a greater audience in order to expand our cultural knowledgebase and increase our understanding of one another.

Wednesday’s event featured the artists works of: Leonardo Salazar, Mario Ayerbe, Raul Moncada, Andres Santo domingo, Enrique Daussat and Jorge Luis Santiesteban. Visit ARTISTS OF THE AMERICAS to view their current artists where you can purchase the art directly from their site: www.artistsoftheamericas.com.

Enrique Daussat

Gonzalez Yerandee

Astrid Amaya, Gustavo Arango, Alejandro Garcia-Amaya & Model

Guests were also treated to an up close and personal viewing of Gustavo Arango’s beautiful 2010 Spring Collection. The collection featured silk prints, chiffon and vibrant colors. Mr. Arango was born in Cali, Columbia and was raised in San Juan, Puerto Rico. His collections can be found in Sak’s Fifth Avenue, Neiman Marcus, Nordstrom, Bloomingdale’s Catalog and other specialty stores in the U.S. His flagship store is located in San Juan. Visit www.gustavoarango.com and view some of his current collection below.

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