Go Latino This Weekend!
Come celebrate the 17th year of la Fiesta del Pueblo and savor the culinary and cultural delights of Latin America and the Caribbean, while you enjoy arts and crafts, pop and folk music, cultural exhibits and traditional dances.
Plus Niñolandia for the kids, and a wide variety of flavorful dishes from across the Caribbean and Latin America — all in the air conditioned comfort of the Jim Graham Building at the NC State Fairgrounds.
When:
Saturday, Sept. 11 – Noon to 8 P.M.
Sunday, Sept. 12 – Noon to 6 P.M.
Admission:
Adults – $5 | Kids under 12 – Free.
It's Tuesday the 13th? Yikes!
Churchy LaFemme, the mud turtle who was one of the principal characters in cartoonist Walt Kelly‘s satirical comic strip Pogo (1948-1975), was as superstitious as a summer day is long — so much so that he would panic whenever he discovered that: “Friday the 13th come on a Tuesday this month!” (Or on any other day of the week, for that matter).
As it turns out, though, for Latinos Friday the 13th does come on a Tuesday, because in Spanish-speaking countries, Tuesday — not Friday — the 13th is traditionally considered to be the day of bad luck.
Do you see the problem?
People in Latin America are forced to face the purported hazards of Tuesday — though not Friday — the 13th, while non-Hispanic folks in the U.S. and Canada need to navigate the perils of Friday — though not Tuesday — the 13th.
We bicultural U.S. Hispanics, however, must contend with both.
So, you know, yikes!
