Cordero News

Seattle's Bumbershoot festival is named, of course, for that rain-shedding implement that can come in so helpful when navigating the Pacific Northwest's long rainy season.

Meet the artists, buy their wares, get them signed if you like. Illustration geeks will be scanning music posters and swapping stories all weekend at this 22nd annual event, organized by the American Poster Institute .

Latin fusion: it's not just for breakfast anymore. It's for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

Erik Rodriguez dances with Fumiko Tomoyose at Thirsty's Enlisted Club aboard Marine Corps Air Station Futenma during one of his weekly free lessons.

It was a passing comment from her longtime tax preparer. In April, Melvin Mora, a Pacoima-based accountant but native Costa Rican, mentioned to Yami Gallegos that he knew a woman who was restarting a beauty pageant for young Costa Rican girls in the U.S. Gallegos, a former Miss Costa Rica USA, was interested.

Sunday 28 June at 6pm in St Paul's Basilica in Rome, the Holy Father, Benedict XVI, will preside solemn Vespers on the occasion of the closing of the Year of St Paul.

Here's the set-up for A Beautiful View , now running in repertory at N.C. Stage, according to the show's press: L and M meet in a camping-goods store.

Ani Cordero and her band are all about mood. Forget all the clichs about Latin music, the spicy this, the fiery that, because none of that cuts it with this Brooklyn indie outfit that just happens to operate in Ani's native tongue rather than Engish.

Programmes for the Bath Fringe Festival which starts on May 22 should be out on the streets today - and what a line-up there is this year.