Spanish Romance: UPDATE
Spanish romance Add a Latin beat to your spring clothes with spicy Spanish accessories. Clockwise from top left: The floer barette ($32) is by Maeve Carr at La Dolce Pelle, Newport Centre, Jersey City; the cinch belt ($14) is from Raffine at AD3, Newport Centre; the crochet gloves ($20) are by Caroline Amato at La Dolce Pele; the rose hoop earrings ($9 a pair) are from EXA at AD3; the gloves ($6) are from Reflex at AD3; the cinch belt in center ($48) is from Patrick Cosgrove at La Dolce...
Spanish Romance: PARKENING AND HIS PARTNERS
Almost by definition, encore pieces come at the end of a concert. This happens more out of convention than by some hard and fast rule. But certain performers can buck tradition gracefully, delaying intermission to satisfy audience demand. Christopher Parkening did just that last night at the Kennedy Center.After back-to-back guitar concertos with a reduced National Symphony Orchestra, he returned for two brief, though predictable, encores, a Spanish romance and...
Spanish Romance: AT THE MOVIES WITH SHARON JOHNSON
The "American Pie" gang returns for "American Wedding" as Jim and Michelle marry while their friends concentrate on partying. The R-rated sequel can be found at AMC Colonial Commons 9, Cinema Center, CocoaPlex, Regal Stadium 14, Carlisle Commons 8, MoviE-Town 8 and UA Capital City 6. The import "Food of Love" makes its area premiere in an exclusive engagement at Midtown Cinema this weekend. Juliet Stevenson...
Spanish Romance: Monitor Quiz: Name That State
Native American phrases, Spanish myths, kings: These are some of the ways states got their names. Can you guess the name of the state from the origin of its name? 1. On Easter Sunday in 1512, a Spanish explorer named this state a 'feast of flowers.' 2. The Shoshone who lived here used the phrase 'ee-dah-haw,' meaning 'Look, the sun is coming down the mountain.' 3. The name first appeared in a popular Spanish romance...
Spanish Romance: Literature, history and old debates
If a scholarly writer hadn't gotten lucky with a dusty old romance, we may not even know why California is called California. If Edward Everett Hale, author of "The Man Without a Country," had not in 1862 read a Spanish romance written in 1510, California's name might still be an enigma.The mythic tale of Calafia, a black ruler of an island of Amazons, explains more than the name of the final frontier of the New World. It also suggests how...