Debate Watching Party (Voter Registration Drive)

Type: Debate Watch Party Event Date: Sep 26, 2008 Event Time: 4:45 PM PDT Address: 5475 Philadelphia St. City: Chino State: CA Zip Code: 91710 Phone: 909-613-1451 Agenda: Sens. Barack Obama and John McCain go head-to-head in the first of three debates! Meet up with other progressive activists on Friday, September 26, as the two candidates square off on foreign policy and national security issues. Election Day is right around the corner, and this historic election season is heating up! We need your help to put Barack Obama in the White House, so join us for our first Debate Watch Party and our Voter Outreach Project! - Welcome / Mix and mingle - Tune into your network or cable news channel of choice - Debate Watch - Group discussion time - Voter outreach and postcard campaign - Plan your next Watch Party * Be sure to check local listings for more information. Linked to campaigns: Obama for America

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N.J., may be a portrait of urban despair. But one neighborhood in this downtrodden city is slowly coming back to life.

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from Chanfles.com:

When it comes to tamales, the lowly and simple elote variety never seem to get the respect they deserve. You’d be hard pressed to find them at the usual locations where you get the big boys of the tamal scene; the puercos, polllos, and queso filled maiz tubes rule the roost. So when I saw this sign for just tamales de elote at the Raspados Nayarit I had to give them a try. Let’s take a closer look…

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This article from the NY times discusses an up and coming Latino Comfort food restaurant… If i lived near by i’d be sure to visit. From the New York Time article:

The steady and diverse stream of regulars is testimony to the multi-cult appeal of this nuevo comfort food, which many devotees order as takeout. To fuel a frosty morning building stone walls, day laborers invest $3.50 for an arepa packed with hearty carne mechada. High school athletes from New Canaan clean and jerk weighty containers of pork and chicken empanadas with rice, beans, avocado, plantains; blond women in workout wear breeze in for some smoky chipotle sauce to goose a humdrum chicken. Some loyalists eat two meals a day here.

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Thanks to the writers strike, Eva Longoria has a little extra time on her hands.

But don’t worry, the Desperate Housewives star is keeping busy, whipping up Thanksgiving dinner and finalizing plans for her Mexican-American restaurant, BESO.

“I love to cook!” Longoria, 32, told PEOPLE while relaxing at the soon-to-open eatery during Samsung’s BlackJack II event Wednesday night. “I’m a big, big cooker in my family, so this is kind of an extension of my house. I feel like everybody’s going to be in my living room.”

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It goes without saying that Chicago is well-known for its wealth of cheap Mexican dining. In some neighborhoods, places offering Mexican take-out can seem as ubiquitous as Starbucks.

One can’t say the same about Cuban comfort food. It takes a little more searching, but it’s worth it.

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