Cabo Mama Surf Tacos: The Best Fish Tacos in Cabo

Took a nice little break from work & school to San Jose del Cabo - or Los Cabos. Found the best taqueria serving fish tacos. (Thank you tripadvisor!) In between eating at fancy schmancy resorts and restaurants, we always craved Cabo Mama Surf Tacos. Serves tortillas in corn or flour with your choice of seafood. Everything extra you see is what I added from their salsa bar. Check the price - $2.00 USD for lunch! hehehe

Know where Cabo Mama Surf Tacos gets their fresh catch from? San Jose del Cabo is known for its sport fishing with some of the riches fishing grounds in the world. Yellowfin tuna, dorado, wahoo, dorado, and billfish migrate from the South Pacific to the Sea of Cortez. uh huh. I thought it tasted like tonga. LOL Fresh and Mmmmm good!

Shrimp Tacos



Fish and Scallops tacos. I'd skip the shrimp and just order the fish. Ask what's the catch of the day.



Cabo Mama Surf Tacos located in the Mega complex at the Fonatur roundabout

"Sin Nombre" Pre-Screens at Stanford University

"Sin Nombre" Pre-Screens at Stanford University this Sunday, March 8th, 6:00P at Cubberly Auditorium. It's a free screening so best arrive early, as seating is first come, first served and not guaranteed.

I'm thrilled to throw some love for "Sin Nombre", not because Cary Joji Fukunaga's a local Bay Area dude or his first feature debut rocked Sundance Film Festival this year, which took home the Excellence in Cinematography Award and Best Director Award, but because directors all around are showing more interest to shoot on location in gritty foreign places and screenwriters are writing gritty urban dramas. Audiences are exposed to the dramatic realities in harsh ghettos and savagery of stunning landscapes. We've been hooked on the fairytale glamour too long.

I'll throw up a review after Sunday's screening. In the meantime, enjoy the watching the trailer.

Marina

"The Sari Soldiers"

"The Sari Soldiers", a film by JulieBridgham, will be playing at the Yerba Buena Center on March 19th, 7:30pm, as part of the Human Rights Watch Film Festival. She will be there for Q&A as well.

I have yet to see the film but grew a keen interest in its development. Her mother fed me itty bits of Nepal's modern history and Julie's experience filming in Nepal as we spent weeks screening hundreds of film entries to select for the United Nations Film Festival. Two years later and having a mega exposure of humanitarian films, I still remember her stories. The message is that powerful.

Watch the trailer. Or better yet, get off your lazy ass and go watch the film. Stimulate the economy and your mind. Bring some friends too.

Marina

The Sari Soldiers

A film by Julie Bridgham

US/Nepal, 2008, 90 minutes, Color, DVD, Nepali/English, Subtitled

The Sari Soldiers is a story of six women’s efforts to shape Nepal’s future in the midst of an escalating civil war against Maoist insurgents, and the King’s crackdown on civil liberties
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2009 HUMAN RIGHTS WATCH INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL
Mar 5, 12, 19 and 26
$8 Regular, $6 Student / Teacher / Senior, $6 YBCA Member

Yerba Buena Center for the Arts

701 Mission St.
San Francisco, CA 94103
(415) 978-2787

Tina Knows Her Teddy Bears

Shameless Plug: My niece, Tina Boo, made the front page news. Awwww, I can hear "the mob" squealing!

Palo Alto Daily News 12/18/2008, Page A01

2008 Election

So When Will the Banks Give Loans?

President Bush’s failed leadership has proven that we need more than a $700 billion bailout. We need a change in government.

Marina

NYTimes

By JOE NOCERA

Published: October 24, 2008

"The markets had another brutal day Friday. The Asian markets got crushed. Germany and England were down more than 5 percent. In the hours before the United States markets opened, all the signals suggested it was going to be the worst day yet in the crisis. The Dow dropped more than 400 points at the opening, but thankfully it never got any worse.

There are lots of reasons the markets remain unstable — fears of a global recession, companies offering poor profit projections for the rest of the year, and the continuing uncertainties brought on by the credit crisis. But another reason, I now believe, is that investors no longer trust Treasury. First it says it has to have $700 billion to buy back toxic mortgage-backed securities. Then, as Mr. Paulson divulged to The Times this week, it turns out that even before the bill passed the House, he told his staff to start drawing up a plan for capital injections. Fearing Congress’s reaction, he didn’t tell the Hill about his change of heart.

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Late Thursday afternoon, I caught up with Senator Dodd, and asked him what he was going to do if the loan situation didn’t improve. “All I can tell you is that we are going to have the bankers up here, probably in another couple of weeks and we are going to have a very blunt conversation,” he replied.

He continued: “If it turns out that they are hoarding, you’ll have a revolution on your hands. People will be so livid and furious that their tax money is going to line their pockets instead of doing the right thing. There will be hell to pay.”

Let’s hope so.

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EPA Rock the Vote Concert

Saturday, October 18, 2008

Bell Street Park
University Avenue and Bell Street
East Palo Alto, CA 94303

2:00 PM - 5:00PM Pst

EPA Rock the Vote Concert is our creative solution to cultivate local San Francisco Bay Area talents with the use of music and spoken word to engage and incite young people to register to vote. A non-partisan community event sponsored by the City of East Palo Alto's Youth Advisory Council, E-PAY-AC, Peace & Unity, For Youth By Youth, Boys & Girls Club and Job Train's Sassy Youth Advisory Council. BYOP

(Bring Your Own Picnic) and Bring a Friend. What Inspires YOU?