Mark Saturday April 18th down now for your visit to the 2nd Annual Mermaids and Pirates Extravaganza in Shrimp Plaza. This year promises to be a very special day because Russ and Naomi have located a phenomenal Cajun Zydeco Blues band called the “Bayou Brothers!”
Peacemakers—the hardcore fans (by the way, they are all hardcore fans) of Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers are made up of an eclectic group of wildly gregarious peace loving partiers who know the lyrics to every RCPM song, and sing along to every note, word and gesture; on their feet for the three to four hour 10,000 Volt performance that…
In last month’s PART X of our monthly series of reports on the impact the upcoming home port will have on the economy of our little slice of paradise by the sea, we hope you may have begun to realize that said impact will be Home Port 2-14-15 (2) greater, wider, longer, deeper, more angular, higher, more inner and inter-twined, intricately webbed and woven than you could have reasonably imagined…
The Piñata has a deep historic meaning and actually dates back over 700 years to Asia-where they invented paper—when Marco Polo discovered them being used for celebrations with bright colors and elaborate decorations.
By the time they arrived in Spain, the Catholics had figured out how to use the design and the game of bursting the Piñata as a method of religious conversion. Piñatas were made with seven pointed, brightly colored cones around a clay center representing the seven deadly sins…