All categories - 12 March 2007

Old school Nickelodeon? The shows like Are you afraid of the dark?, Salute your shorts, the adventures of pete & pete, alex mack, etc...
I just think Nickelodeon got really stupid i don't watch it now.

2007-03-12 18:42:55 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous in Television

Who is better comedian: Martin Short, Will Ferrell, Jim Carrey, Sasha Cohen (aka Borat)?.

2007-03-12 18:42:51 · 18 answers · asked by Finy 6 in Polls & Surveys

What did you see?

2007-03-12 18:42:49 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

We will be travelling to Thailand for 10 days. Do you know any day trips from Bankok?

2007-03-12 18:42:49 · 9 answers · asked by random 3 in Thailand

2007-03-12 18:42:41 · 6 answers · asked by mariarhernandez@sbcglobal.net 1 in Immigration

2007-03-12 18:42:41 · 12 answers · asked by Anonymous in Singles & Dating

I hv a bf and we jz broke up last week..I don't know how to recover coz I wake up every morning and sleep at nyt weeping and I always remeber him. I gave him everything, all I need is a little trust..however, it looks like we're not makin any reconciliation..I don't know how to move on...I'm drowned in his memories and I still love him...but I don't think he feels the same...please give me good advice... I really need help..I fear God and I don't want to commit suicide...but everytime I thought of him, I wanted to scream to death just to forget him...please help me...somebody

2007-03-12 18:42:41 · 10 answers · asked by joysticks_21 1 in Other - Family & Relationships

I usually give her about 20$ a week to spend on herself, and she has been doing her wifely duties to my satisfaction. How much should I increase per week?

2007-03-12 18:42:41 · 30 answers · asked by Lothario 1 in Marriage & Divorce

2007-03-12 18:42:40 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Psychology

What was the fortune and how did it come true?

2007-03-12 18:42:35 · 3 answers · asked by Dave 6 in Polls & Surveys

2007-03-12 18:42:35 · 8 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Food & Drink

And Robbie Williams "Angels" came on.Is this a sign?

2007-03-12 18:42:35 · 1 answers · asked by rosbif 6 in Religion & Spirituality

2007-03-12 18:42:28 · 1 answers · asked by anna 1 in Programming & Design

I would like to get microsoft word by itself,can you tell me if I can do that,or if I need to get it with other software,any suggestions?

2007-03-12 18:42:28 · 7 answers · asked by ericfaul2003 4 in Software

Just tryin to figure out how many people on here know about and like the band Blue October.

2007-03-12 18:42:27 · 10 answers · asked by West Virginia 3 in Music

Survinve a Resident Evil story?

2007-03-12 18:42:19 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Other - Entertainment

I only brought this jacket for a month and the first time I wash it yesterday...there was a colour bleed. The zipper of the jacket had a brown fabric kinda thing attached to it and that thing made my white jacket have brown patches...What can I do?..is there a way to remove the brown patches from the color bleed?

2007-03-12 18:42:18 · 9 answers · asked by Anonymous in Cleaning & Laundry

You married your high school sweetheart at age 19, are madly in love with them, but secretly wish you had gotten to experience life? I love my husband, I am Bi, and want to "experiment" with other girls, but I dont want to cheat. I can't invite another women into our bedroom, but I know I can't bottle these feelings up forever. Help.

2007-03-12 18:42:18 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender

can be anything.

2007-03-12 18:42:16 · 7 answers · asked by bear2scooby 1 in Engineering

Im looking for some piano tabs by notes. I cant read music. So dont tell me to go get a teacher. i need a website where i can just print and try to play...please. Thank You :]

2007-03-12 18:42:16 · 4 answers · asked by Mr. Zombie 2 in Music

This particular person has a history of cocaine addiction at the age of 25, addicted to crack in their mid 30s early 40s, and alcholism. They begin friendships that are so close they are almost inseperable. In the end this very person becomes their worst enemy. Everything this other person did while they were friends was with an ulterior motive, an agenda, and has "screwed them over". There is no such thing as going seperate ways, it becomes a point of obsession. The "ex girlfriends" were the most evil people in the world. They have what seems to be a victim complex where everything bad happens to them and it is never their fault. Everything is one extreme to another.. there is never a middle road. Is there a classification for this type of behaviour? Something one can discern in order to research and better understand?

2007-03-12 18:42:15 · 4 answers · asked by jaided_icemaiden 2 in Psychology

2007-03-12 18:42:11 · 3 answers · asked by Gshock 2 in Celebrities

If this were true would that also mean there are no Christians? Are such people aware that the Catholic Church is the original Christian Church?

2007-03-12 18:42:10 · 24 answers · asked by Anonymous in Religion & Spirituality

want to boot from cdrom, but cant the USB keyboard isnt loaded yet.

2007-03-12 18:42:06 · 3 answers · asked by bubba429@verizon.net 1 in Desktops

2007-03-12 18:41:58 · 9 answers · asked by schneeballe 2 in Newborn & Baby

NEWS online print edition
Print Article Email Article Most Popular Change Type Size 'Little Oaxaca' sprouts in Phoenix
Mexican immigrants find familiar culture in Sunnyslope neighborhood
Yvonne Wingett
The Arizona Republic
Mar. 12, 2007 12:00 AM

If Sunnyslope had a patron saint, her name would be the Virgin of Solitude.

The black-cloaked woman is the saint of Oaxaca, Mexico, but her image drapes walls in homes and businesses throughout Sunnyslope, one of the Valley's oldest neighborhoods, nestled at the bottom of Phoenix's North Mountain.

Over the past decade, so many immigrants from the southern Mexican state have moved into Sunnyslope that the working-class community in north-central Phoenix is becoming known as "Little Oaxaca." advertisement




Sunnyslope has always been a haven of sorts. Its first settlers were Midwesterners who suffered from tuberculosis, rheumatism and asthma and set up tents in the early 1900s in the desert after being forced out of Phoenix. In the mid-1980s, refugees from Vietnam and immigrants from Asia made Sunnyslope home and a section was known as "Little Saigon."

Now, waves of Mexican immigrants fleeing poverty in Oaxaca are drawn to Sunnyslope for its affordable housing and its access to major bus routes, which provide quick rides to jobs throughout the city. Many in the neighborhood are undocumented immigrants, and longer-term residents help newcomers find places in the community where legal status isn't required.

They are transforming pockets of the neighborhood, and re-creating pieces of the Mexican villages they left behind. Immigrant enclaves are as old as this country. In Sunnyslope, Oaxacan immigrants are creating an indigenous-flavored subculture within the Valley's Mexican culture.

On soccer fields and street corners, men and women speak with the sing-song accent of Oaxacan Spanish. In restaurants, families flock for plates of mole, a dark chocolaty sauce. Oaxaqueños live side by side in fixer-uppers and reminisce about the green, mountainous fields of their homelands, finding comfort in familiarity.

"Everyone here in this neighborhood is going through the same thing," said Rogelio, a day laborer waiting for work one recent morning. He asked that his last name not be used because of his undocumented status. "You miss your family, your country. The greenness of everything down there (in Oaxaca). The good thing is, you can always find someone from Oaxaca around here to talk to about it. They're everywhere."


New land portals


Immigrants from all over Latin America live throughout the Valley. But there are areas where concentrations of people from different Mexican states influence entire city blocks with their regional cultures.

Along stretches of Van Buren Street in west Phoenix, for example, hundreds of immigrants from Sinaloa fill homes, taco shops and Western-wear businesses. Central Mesa is known for its large population of Guatemalans and Peruvians. And north Phoenix's Palomino neighborhood is home to Mexicans from the northern states of Sonora and Chihuahua.

The neighborhoods typically begin with the arrival of a few immigrants from a Mexican town or city, said Steve Murdock, state demographer of Texas. They grow as those immigrants send word of good-paying jobs in hotels, kitchens and golf courses. Sons, relatives and friends follow, and many send for wives and children later.

The neighborhoods help cushion immigrants' adjustment to the U.S., experts said, and allow them to still feel close to their homelands. Earlier immigrants help recent immigrants navigate, introducing them to people in the neighborhood, showing them how the bus system works and connecting them to priests and churches.

The neighborhoods also create opportunities for immigrants to climb the economic ladder. Many open businesses and sell region-specific food and other products to their neighbors.

"The new enclaves become a . . . stepping stone for immigrants," said Gregory Rodriguez, an Irvine Senior Fellow at the New America Foundation, a Washington, D.C.-based think tank where he studies acculturation.

"It's lonely and disorienting, moving to a land with different expectations. These neighborhoods help ground people and help root them in the past, even as they're obviously charging forth in the future."


Feeling at home


In Sunnyslope, Oaxacans boom banda music from stores and homes. Their cars and trucks announce Oaxacan pride with stickers on rear windows in the shape of the state. Families fill Sunnyslope's five Oaxacan restaurants and panaderias (bakeries), which opened in the past decade.

Mini Mercado Restaurant Oaxaca, on the corner of Central Avenue and Hatcher Road, has become a gathering place for the Oaxacan community. Immigrants stop in to buy bags of mole ***** (black mole), little loaves of the region's sweet egg bread and pounds of strong Oaxacan coffee. Some pop in just to pray in front of a shrine for the Virgin of Solitude or drop off money that is donated to churches in Oaxaca.

Jorge Lopez Sr., an immigrant from Oaxaca, opened Mini Mercado in 1999. He saw that the Oaxacan community was growing and no one in the area was selling regional products.

Today, the restaurant is a cornerstone of the Oaxacan community, and Lopez plans to open a stand-alone bakery across the street.

"(Sunnyslope) is like a town of Oaxacans," Lopez, 38, said.

In Oaxaca, Roberto Bolanos, 32, worked the region's cornfields until a few years ago, when the water dried up and the crops died, he said. Three months ago, Bolanos and his wife, Beatriz Herrera, both undocumented, moved to Sunnyslope, where they share a rental house with a cousin. They are saving money they earn cleaning movie theaters and hope to return to Oaxaca in a year.

2007-03-12 18:41:57 · 4 answers · asked by illegals_r_whiners 2 in Immigration

who sings it


also, does anyone know a song with the saying "ill take you there"..i think a woman sings it...its old as well

2007-03-12 18:41:52 · 10 answers · asked by Anonymous in Music

What if I don't want to?

2007-03-12 18:41:50 · 13 answers · asked by Anonymous in Polls & Surveys

I kind of liked club penguin but i didnt want to pay money just to dress my penguin.Do you guys know anyother games for me to play? if u know any other games like club penguin please do tell .

thankyou !

2007-03-12 18:41:49 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous in Video & Online Games

L.C. or Kristen? Laguna Beach

2007-03-12 18:41:49 · 4 answers · asked by jordan s 1 in Polls & Surveys