PUPUSAS FOR SALE
One of our favorite organizations that is active in the Latino community is Trinity United Methodist (Las Americas), located at 1548 8th ST (50314), across the street from Moulton School. A great way to meet them is on the third Saturday of every month when they have pupusas for sale! Queso, chicharrón y revueltas: $1.50 each. To order by phone call 280.8426 or 344.2438.
See you there!
Lynn's On Broadway -
475 Northeat Broadway Avenue, Des Moines, IA - 244.0085
Found!
It was never really lost, but I had been searching for Lynn’s on Broadway ever since a buddy took me there in 1996 for a beer, a shot, and a cheeseburger. It was a great, working-stiff moment, but several years later when I went looking for it again, I couldn’t find it and lamented far and wide.
Until just a few weeks ago when I was on Broadway and happened to glance over at the right time and place. It’s like finding a four-leaf clover: they are out there but you have to be looking for something else, or not looking at all, in order to find one.
Chicago has the Billy Goat Tavern and Grill and Des Moines has Lynn’s on Broadway! [Forrest] |
Real Academia Española
A question came up in yesterday’s class (over quite excellent
gazpacho and guacamole) about the advisability of having a Spanish
dictionary, versus a Spanish-English dictionary. The answer is “yes”,
it’s something you’ll eventually want to add to your arsenal. We have
several hardback Spanish dictionaries here, that I can recommend to
you later, but mostly we use the on-line dictionary at the Real
Academia Española, the definitive place to answer questions about
Spanish.
One of the tools it offers is a verb conjugator. Search for “ir”, for
example, and at the top corner of the entry itself you’ll see a blue
button that says “conjugar”; click that and you’ll get the
conjugation. At the top right corner of the entry is a button that
says “Artículo enmendado” and that has further in-progress
information about the entry.
TINGO
tin•go (n) - a word from the Pascuense language of Easter Island that means “the act of taking objects one desires from the house of a
friend by gradually borrowing all of them.”
For other humorous and interesting words be sure to check out Adam Jacot de Boinod's book, The Meaning of Tingo: And Other Extraordinary Words from Around the World, available at Amazon.
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