Posted on: July 13th, 2007
Filed Under: [ Hispanic News ]
Tags: border, Cuisine, deportation, family, hispanic voters, HIV, La Raza, Mexico, NCLR, population
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You can view all of this week’s Top Stories, Tomás’ Picks and Did You Knows here
Post of the Week:
Why? Yeah, I know it isn’t politics or immigration but it a very important cultural event and I was surprised at how lavish Quinceañeras are becoming and how much of a business this has become not only in Florida but across the States. Click here to see what else I have posted about Quinceañeras
“Business owners have noticed a growth in price, production level and frequency of quinceañeras, or quinces, in Collier and Lee counties, and they’re responding by tailoring their businesses to the parties. As a result, local girls and their families are spending those dollars in Southwest Florida instead of at businesses on Florida’s east coast.
“Quinceañeras are better than weddings,” joked Isabel Albuerne, mistress of ceremonies, with one family at their final rehearsal, “because there’s only one family to please and she’ll only turn 15 once.”
Albuerne, who works out of her Naples home and has been in the business for 22 years, calls herself La Dama de las Fiestas, or The Event Lady. She began her work in the business as a quinceañera coordinator and created Florida Weddings and Special Events, a quarterly publication for weddings, quinces and sweet 16 parties, in 2006.”
Take a look at some photos of these awesome Quinceañeras
(luckily I have more than 7 years until my little girl needs one!)
My Top 10 Top Stories for the week are:
- Migrantless Arizona economic output would drop 8.2%
- Longtime Advocate for Immigrants Now Faces Deportation - Victor Toro
- Americans Not Ready for Hispanic President (almost half think that the country isn’t ready to elect one, yet more than 80% would vote for one)
- Hispanics expected to be California’s majority by 2042
- Los Angeles mayor’s infidelity costs him Latina support
- Live From Arkansas, Utah News in Spanish
- La Raza moves to mobilize Hispanic voters - Miami
- Latinos growing clout has seized candidates notice
- Quinces fit for a queen - S.W. Florida businesses responding to growing demand for expensive, elegant traditional Hispanic coming-of-age parties
- Los Angeles mayor’s infidelity costs him Latina support
My Top 10 Picks for the week are:
- Immigrants Are Denied Marriage Licenses
- Power of purse meets power of immigration law in suburb - Waukegan, Illinois
- New report shows Latino churches key partner in fight against AIDS
- Chicago - In 5th-largest Hispanic market, media chances aplenty as swelling population not fully tapped
- Ancient Americans Liked It Hot: Mexican Cuisine Traced To 1,500 Years Ago
- The Spanish new wave - The Latin Alternative Music Conference hits New York - (another one I wish I could attend)
- Hispanic impact on e-tail is growing
- Spanish newscast starts today - The first in the Pacific Northwest - (kind of hard to believe)
- Puerto Rico’s turning out Caribs best - in terms of food
- Family, friends remember brutalized teen - David Ritcheson
My Top 5 Did You Knows for the week are:
- Advertisers spent $123 million in 2006 on Hispanic media in Chicago
- Estimates vary but the Congressional Budget Office puts the expected cost of the border fence at $3 million a mile
- NCLR will focus its voter drive in 11 key states: Arizona, California, Colorado, Florida, Georgia, Illinois, New Mexico, New York, Nevada, North Carolina and Texas.
- Latino voters increased their numbers by more than a third in the past decade and constituted more than 8 percent of the nations eligible voters in 2006
- A recent study from JupiterResearch predicts that Hispanics will spend $12.8 billion online in 2007, which represents 11% of all online spending
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