2012 America the Beautiful Quarter Design Proposals
Candidate designs for the 2012 America the Beautiful Quarters are now available. Although release of the coin is still more than a year away, the design process involves different levels of review, which begin years before the actual circulation release dates. For the...
Nuyoricans on the Move
The first and second generation of Puerto Ricans ,who are educated and earn higher salaries, are moving from the neighborhoods of New York where their parents settled down. The suburbs of Nassau, Suffolk and Westchester, as well as New Jersey and Connecticut are some...
Carlos Beltran Becomes Eatery Partner
Carlos Beltran might have a career in restaurants after baseball. The Puerto Rican-born Mets slugger had so many meals with his family at Sofrito on East 57th Street, he approached owner J.R. Morales. Beltran, 33, is now a partner and his name is on the liquor...
Monument Honors Fallen Police Officers
Government officials paid homage to the police Thursday with the unveiling of a monument paying tribute to the men and women who died in the line of duty. The monument consists of a 20-foot tall granite obelisk commemorating the institution of the police, and two...
Ponce Carnival
During the week leading up to Ash Wednesday, Ponce celebrates Puerto Rico's version of Mardi Gras called the Ponce Carnival. This carnival is the biggest and most celebrated and colorful festival on the island. It’s also one of the oldest celebrations, dating back to...
National Park Quarters
National Park Quarters, also referred to as America the Beautiful Quarters, will include five different designs per year featuring National Parks and National Sites of America. El Yunque America the Beautiful Quarter The first coin in 2012 to appear as part of the...
En Ponce los Reyes Cantores Isabelinos
Plaza Del Caribe celebrará la llegada de los Reyes Magos el 5 de enero con una gran fiesta familiar. Para la ocasión, los miles de asistentes recibirán a los Reyes Cantores Isabelinos, quienes con cuatro, guitarra y güiro entonan villancicos y canciones de la época...
Carnaval de Ponce
In a place as romantic as Puerto Rico, love is most definitely in the air in February. But even Valentine's Day takes a back seat to the Ponce Carnival, the island's biggest, most colorful, and most traditional festival. And for those who loce classical music,...
Posponen las Fiestas de Juana Díaz
Ante la amenaza de disturbios atmosféricos que se aproximan a la zona Caribe, el Gobierno Muncipal de Juana Díaz ha determinado posponer las fiestas en honor a su santo patrón, San Ramón Nonato. Los festejos deportivos y musicales, programados para comenzar el 1ro. de...
Puerto Rican Day Parade 2010
Celebrate the 53rd annual Puerto Rican Day Parade on Sunday, June 13, 2010. The parade will start at 11 am at Fifth Avenue and 44th Street and proceed uptown along Fifth Avenue to 86th Street.Crowds in excess of two million are expected to line Fifth Avenue on Sunday,...
Protected: Wishes For You
Taino Art
The art of the Tainos is the Rock Art or Petroglyphs and abstract motifs. They were made by engraving into the walls of caves, large rocks and the stones that made up the fences of the bateyes. The...
Preciosa
(Lyrics)
Yo se lo que son los encantos
De mi borinquen hermosa
Por eso la quiero yo tanto
Por siempre la llamare Preciosa
Puerto Rican National Anthem
La Borinqueña
La tierra de Borinquén
Donde he nacido yo,
Es un jardín florido
de mágico fulgor
Fiesta del Acabe de Café
A todo vapor la Fiesta del Acabe de Café Este año, también se llevará a cabo el Certamen de la Talla de la Taza de café. El Programa de Promoción Cultural y Artes Populares del Instituto de Cultura Puertorriqueña anunció el inicio de la 32da. Fiesta del Acabe del...
El Carnaval de Vejigantes
Vibrante el Carnaval de Vejigantes Por Damarich M. Calvo Almodóvar La unión de familias, vivir momentos imborrables, compartir juntos como comunidad y no abandonar la tradición que por décadas los han distinguido. Estas poderosas razones conspiraron una vez más con el...
Feliz Navidad 2009
MERRY CHRISTMAS AND HAPPY NEW YEAR FELIZ NAVIDAD Y PROSPERO AÑO NUEVO FROM ALL OF US AT "YOSOYBORINQUEN."
Christmas Food
Main Dishes Pernil 3 tbsp. olive oil 1 tbsp. red wine vinegar 1 tbsp. minced fresh garlic 1 1/2 tsp. oregano leaves, crumbled fine 1 tsp. salt 3/4 tsp. ground cumin 1/2 tsp. pepper 2 large baking potatoes, scrubbed, cut lengthwise, 1 large red onion cut into wedges 1...
