Ranch Market findings

The King Ranch Market, located on Puente and Citrus in Covina is finally open. The market, once located in Azusa, was closed to make way for a new Target (coming soon) and the closest one was in Monrovia. Lucky for me I got a chance to go today and found some curiosidades  along the way.

We all are familiar with the alcancillas made of "felt." Well, these piggy banks are not your  abuelita's standard puerquitos that you slip coins into. Now, they are available in soccer balls, complete with your favorite Liga Mexicana team's logo on it. Not only that, but they come in various animal forms, such as lions, (por supuesto), dogs, and eagles. Finally included in the bank collection are lovable childhood icons such as Elmo, (with dots that look similar to nail polish,) "Bob Esponja," and an orange Winnie the Pooh. Let's just say it...they are cute and fun.

Finally, while browsing through the produce section, me di cuenta de que Columbian University grows its own bananas!

Why?! There is no excuse for this error.We are all culpables of misspelling...but it is the country...and in a popular market that prides itself on displaying where each specific type of produce comes from. All in all, I have a blast(an affordable blast) when in the King Ranch Market. Anyone can appreciate the quirky, and the low-priced in these times. Te quiero, Ranch!

Times reviews "al" George Lopez

"George Lopez, meanwhile, maintained his position as a Latino Everyman (though one with seats good enough to hear the Lakers trash talk their opponents)." 


So True!
 " He wandered through the well-trodden valley of male comedy where married people don't have enough sex and Mexican food makes you fart. " 


-Television critic Mary McNamara in her review  of George Lopez's new late night show "Lopez Tonight" and Wanda Sykes' "The Wanda Sykes Show." 


Take of the talk, Wanda Sykes, George Lopez

Panamanian parade includes crowd

A Cuban spectator caught my eye as he enjoyed and grooved along with the festivities that took place on Broadway November 7.
Click for Justin Sullivan's beautiful images of the parade.

"El Chupacabras" moves to Mexico for his Chiquita

"Don't feel bad, Ben---no one can make sense of our immigration bureaucracy. It's a cruel machine of contradictory rules and arbitrary decision-making that routinely tears marriages and families apart."
-Columnist Hector Tobar assures former Idaho radio disc jockey in his column about Reed and his wife Deyanira Escalona, who was detained by immigration officials and deported before her wedding was to take place.

Read the entire column:
In an immigrant's moccasins