#Ricky López

[elbiotipo]

Jennifer López es una cantante y actriz que fue famosa en los 90/2000. (es más, ella misma atribuyó muchos años ser LA primer cantante latina, y que después se colgaron Ricky Martin, Luis Miguel, Shakira, etc)

el tema es que siempre vende la imagen de ser una “latina criada en el bronx” (y re que vivió en las partes más ricas de allá, según entiendo) , pero es una yanqui más del montón que porque algún pariente nació acá, le da el derecho a ella también de llamarse 100% latina

O sea, tengo cierta idea de que era una actriz o cantante, pero nunca escuché su música. Ricky Martin, Luis Miguel y Shakira por supuesto que los conozco. Pero sí, debe ser una figura muy importante para los latinos estadounidenses (hay muchas que acá son poco conocidas) pero para mí es casi desconocida.

Igual, ustedes saben que soy medio raro con la música así que no tomen mi opinión.

[leonfelipepeni]

✅🍀🚩¡Hola🖐️familia👨‍👩‍👧‍👦!, un día como hoy, 07 de julio pero del año 1936, en Santander, Cantabria, España 🇪🇸, nació el Músico🎹, Compositor🎶, Productor, Arreglista y Empresario: "Juan Carlos Calderón". Juan Carlos Calderón López de Arróyabe. Jazzista nato. Multipremiado. Compositor de éxitos. Participó con: "Nino Bravo", "Mocedades", "Massiel", "Trigo limpio", "Sergio y Estíbaliz", "José José", "Cecilia", "Camilo Sexto", "Ángela Carrasco", "Lani Hall", "Herb Alpert", "Sheena Easton", "Cole Porter", "María Conchita Alonso", "Luis Miguel", "Paloma San Basilio", "Emmanuel", "Simone", "Alejandra Ávalos", "Myriam Hernández", "Mijares", "Chavela Vargas", "Alejandra Guzmán", "Edith Márquez", "Sin Bandera", "Ricky Martin", "Miguel Ríos", "Chayanne", "Rocío Dúrcal", "Joan Manuel Serrat", "Natalie Cole", "Pandora", "Julio Iglesias", "Cristian Castro". Reconocido con 3 Premios Billboard, con 5 Grammy, con 5 ASCAP.

#JuanCarlosCalderon

#ElijoSerPositivo

#LeónFelipePeñaNieto

Te invito a conocerle

Mira aquí, súbele 👇

https://youtu.be/XcNnVT0NixU

[pachamama-radio]

Tacna: salvavidas rescatan a 17 personas en playas el primer día del año

El personal de salvataje desplegó una intensa labor el 1 de enero, logrando rescatar a 17 personas, entre ellas 14 adultos y 3 menores de edad, en diversas playas de la región de Tacna.

El primer rescate ocurrió en la playa El Planchón, donde salvaron a una niña de 9 años identificada como A. M. Q. En playas como Tres Cruces, Los Jardines y Las Machas, en la jurisdicción de Vila Vila, los salvavidas evitaron tragedias para personas como Rolando Espinoza Quispe (25), Alex Mamani Mamani (30), David Ladino Arisaca (29), J. O. C. (15), Freddy Flores Choquehuanca (19), Ricky Guido Chambi (18), Cristian Brian Delgado Marihuanca (28), Alejandro Huanca López (27), Jorge Condori Núñez (22) y Gabriel Antonio Moncada (47).

En la playa Santa Rosa fue rescatada Kelly Ticona (32), mientras que en la playa Siete Ahogados se salvó a Carlos Lupaca (28) y a J. C. (17). Finalmente, en la playa Meca, Antony Salazar (31) y otro joven de 29 años también fueron puestos a salvo.

En Vila Vila, tres bañistas tuvieron que ser evacuados a un centro de salud tras ingerir grandes cantidades de agua de mar. Según los primeros reportes, no se descarta que estuvieran bajo los efectos del alcohol en el momento del incidente.

Tacna

via https://pachamamaradio.org/tacna-salvavidas-rescatan-a-17-personas-en-playas-el-primer-dia-del-ano/

[conandaily2022]

Mister International 2024 predictions: Brian Faugier, Christian Anoceto, Bruno Ezequiel Fonseca

Edward Taiye Ogunniya, Kimberley Thitisan Goodburn, William Manuel Badell López (©OXIN Films) Mister International 2024 Based in Bangkok, Thailand, Mister International was founded by the late Alan Sim. Its current officers include president Pradit Pradinunt, vice president Anthony Santana, chief executive officer Ricky JungHoon Jun and chief operating officer Nicholo Paulo Ventura. On…

[ivanrosadx]

Índices de la revista Unión y Amistad, publicada entre 2012 / 2015

Unión y Amistad #1

Un artefacto de comunicación desde el Club Editorial Río Paraná Año 1, número 1, otoño 2012 Refinería, Rosario, Argentina Imagen de tapa: Maxi Masuelli

Colección brillo de poesía joven. Poemas de Alejandra Benz, Julia Enríquez, Agustín González y Virginia Negri

Ana María Ibáñez “La Cenicienta de la película” (poesía)

Julián Bejarano y Manuel Podestá “Somos jugadores de fútbol fracasados que intentan tirar fantasías editoriales” (poesía)

Nicolás Domínguez Bedini “Poesía inédita. Yo nunca estuve en África” 

Osvaldo Aguirre “En 1969 Mario Levrero pasó tres meses en Rosario” 

Guo Cheng “Comunicado de Guo Cheng” 

Damián Ríos “Desbunde y felicidad es una declaración de amor y de fidelidad absoluta” (comentario sobre el libro Desbunde y felicidad de Cecilia Palmeiro)

R. R. Montes i Bradley (editor de la revista Paraná) “Río que une i no divide” 

Éditions du cochon “Cómo será la laguna que el chancho la cruza al trote!” 

Delfo Locatelli. Conservación con Claudia del Río “Del Litoral no queda nada, Domínguez lo hizo todo” 

Octavio Garabello “Intensidad, agitación y calma. Una temporada en Amaicha del Valle” (crónica)

Maxi Masuelli “El hermano luminoso. Ricky Espinosa, año 1999” 

Enzo Nuñez “Retratos” 

Amadeo Gonzáles “Grabaciones artesanales y los fanzines que se resisten a desaparecer” (entrevista)

Biblioteca Popular D.G.Ponti Lagarde “Una biblioteca con un 80% de autores vivos y en plena producción” 

Unión y Amistad #2

Un artefacto de comunicación desde el Club Editorial Río Paraná Año 1, número 2, primavera 2012 Imagen de tapa: Jeremías Amaya

Francisco Garamona “El grado cero de las cosas. Entrevista a Raúl Escari”

Irina Garbatzky “¡Me gustaba tanto escribirte!” (reseña de Arrivederci amor mío de Agustín González)

Mariano Blatt, Alfredo Jaramillo y Pablo Katchadjian “Tres hombres en un bote”

Lila Siegrist y Georgina Ricci “Corazón valiente! Conozcamos a la editorial Yo soy Gilda”

Daiana Henderson “Como el recorrido de un hilo de oro” (poesía)

María Guerrieri “Desperté hecha un águila” (poesía y dibujo)

L.I.M.A.L Laboratorio de Investigación Mario Levrero

Biblioteca Popular D.G.Ponti Lagarde “Tesoro de la biblioteca: Norah Borges en Martín Fierro. Un cuadro sinóptico de la pintura” (póster)

Fernando Callero y Santiago Pontoni “Necesito amor en estado líquido” (poesía)

Tomás Boasso “¡Festejamos por lo inédito y por lo publicado!” (poesía)

Gustavo López “Liga de poesía bahiense” (poemas de Fabián Alberdi, Germán Arens, Mariela Gouiric, Nicolás Guglielmetti y Carolina Rack)

Pauline Fondevila “Los peces cantarán, las flores fumarán. Enciclopedia del náufrago”

Sociales del Club Editorial Río Paraná

Unión y Amistad #3

Un artefacto de comunicación desde el Club Editorial Río Paraná Año 2, número 3, otoño 2013 Imagen de tapa: Juan Hernández

Ernesto B. Rodríguez “Anécdotas y peripecias de Juan Grela”

Agustín González “Esperando por los cuentos de Corazón”

Francisco Garamona entrevista a Jacoby “¿Existe la obra de Jacoby?” 

Julia Enríquez “Poemas de un conductor de ambulancias” (traducción de poemas de Edward Cummings)

Cristhian Monti “Que no toque el piso” (plaqueta desmontable de poesía)

Damián Ríos “Otra vez que vino a mi cabeza el dibujo”

Ana Wandzik “Las populares tapas de Longo y amigos”

Unión y Amistad #4

La revista del Club Editorial Río Paraná Año 2, número 4, primavera 2013 Imagen de tapa: Ariel Costa

Pauline Fondevila “Escribo para no suicidarme” (texto sobre Édouard Levé)

Kiwi “Salir a cazar poemas” (poesía)

Raúl Martínez “Notas sobre Leo Gambartes”

Alejandra Benz “Un rato de diversión” (plaqueta desmontable de poesía)

Jorge Mario Varlotta Levrero “El llanero solitario” (historieta inédita)

Fernanda Laguna, Francisco Garamona y Mumi “Bocetos para el Manifiesto del Arte del Futuro”

Unión y Amistad #5

La revista del Club Editorial Río Paraná Año 3, número 5, otoño 2014 Imagen de tapa: Claudia del Río

Daiana Henderson “Sobre Al rayo del sol de Fernando Callero” 

Cristhian Monti “Sobre El entusiasmo de Tomás Boasso”

Francisco Gandolfo “¡Por siempre Gandolfo!” (relatos)

Diego Vdovichenko “Yendo de una ventana a otra” (poesía)

Pablo Montini “Espiga, letras y artes”

Coti Alberione “Payasitas” (dos pinturas)

Lila Siegrist “No se ve, o lo que se calla”

Virginia Negri “Un cuento del medio del monte” (cuento ilustrado por Maxi Masuelli) 

Unión y Amistad #6

La revista del Club Editorial Río Paraná Año 3, número 6, primavera 2014 Imagen de tapa: Alejandro Rosetti

Santiago Beretta “La búsqueda silenciosa. Entrevista a Rodolfo Elizalde”

Alejandra Benz (miembro de L.I.M.A.L.) “¡Salud, compañero Mario!” 

Jonatan Santos “Poemas infinitos”

Juan Laxagueborde “La obra pública de Lucas Martí”

Maxi Masuelli “T.R.I.P.A. Trabajo de Registro e Investigación sobre Paisaje Argentino” (plaqueta desmontable)

Nicolás Moguilevsky “En las mañanas de Argentina” (poesía)

Delfo Locatelli “La pintura. La forma. El dibujo” (ensayo)

Cristhian Monti “Hablemos de Folk” (reseña de Folk de Bernardo Orge)

Unión y Amistad #7

La revista del Club Editorial Río Paraná Año 4, número 7, otoño 2015 Imagen de tapa: Maxi Masuelli (con dibujo original en birome)

José Villa “Una ilusión objetiva” (reseña de La misma llama de Darío Cantón)

Francisco Bitar “Por la gracia de lo vivido y lo visto. Poemas de Charles Reznikoff” (traducción)

Carla Colombo, dibujos

Augusto Munaro “Vida de Santiago Dabove” (plaqueta desmontable)

Juan Laxagueborde y Santiago Villanueva “Conversación por zona Parque Rivadavia. Breve diálogo de interpretación”

María Salgado “Yo no soy más que mi deseo” (poesía)

Minireseñas “Una casa y un tambor de Pauline Fondevila por Damián Ríos” y “El libro de cuentos de Corazón de Agustín González por Rosario Bléfari”

Silvia Lenardón “Banda” (historieta)

Contratapa de Silvia Lenardón

[explorepuertoricangastronomy]

Where and What is Puerto Rico?

The beautiful island of Puerto Rico is a U.S. territory located in the Caribbean. It's southeast of Florida, to the east of Cuba and the Dominican Republic, and west of the British and U.S. Virgin Islands. Puerto Rico is one of "[...] more than 700 islands, reefs, and cays, which are organized into 30 territories including sovereign states, overseas departments, and dependencies. Many of these territories speak English, French, Spanish, or a local Creole dialect."

Puerto Rico has two official languages: English and Spanish. Spanish is the more dominant of the two languages. It's used more in businesses and homes. Names of people and street names are of Spanish origin. Why are there two official languages? Puerto Rican language and culture is unique to its history. To learn its history is to learn and experience its language and culture. But, what are language and culture?

Encyclopedia Britannica defines language as "a system of conventional spoken, manual (signed), or written symbols by means of which human beings, as members of a social group and participants in its culture, express themselves. The functions of language include communication, the expression of identity, play, imaginative expression, and emotional release."

Texas A&M University has an excellent page dedicated to defining and explaining culture, cultural relativism, and cultural manifestations. For the blog's purpose, culture is "[...] the cumulative deposit of knowledge, experience, beliefs, values, attitudes, meanings, hierarchies, religion, notions of time, roles, spatial relations, concepts of the universe, and material objects and possessions acquired by a group of people in the course of generations through individual and group striving."

In other words,

Language is how a group of people express themselves (verbally, written, symbolically, manually, within their identity.

Culture is how a group of people express their combined beliefs, systems, values, experiences, and relationships.

Centuries of colonization, foreign occupation, beliefs, language, and culture mixed together in Puerto Rico to create a Boricua. Boricua refers to someone who is from Puerto Rico by birth or descent. It doesn't distinguish between those born on the island like the great baseball player, Roberto Clemente, born in Carolina, Puerto Rico, famous singer Ricky Martin, born in San Juan, or reggaetón sensation Bad Bunny born in Almirante Sur or those not born on the island, but born to a Puerto Rican parent like singer, dancer, and businesswoman Jennifer López, salsa singer Marc Anthony, or Tony and Grammy award winner Lin-Manuel Miranda. Everyone from Clemente and Lin-Manuel Miranda, from the mountains, countryside, metropolitan cities, to your proud Boricua neighbors (the term and identity nuyorriqueño (New York-Rican) has entered the blog) all celebrate being Boriquen. Boriquen (Boríken) was the original name of the island.

Embracing being Boricua acknowledges and pays homage to ancestral roots. Puerto Rico's two official languages (Spanish and English) and culture (Indigenous, African, and Spanish) fused and blended together to create criollo (Creole). El criollo is a combination of over 400 years of Spanish colonization that witnessed the decimation of Puerto Rico's indigenous peoples, the trafficking of African slaves, and more than 120 years of American colonization. Centuries of colonization and occupation haven't lowered Puerto Rican pride. In fact, it has ridden on the backs of its people and has been passed down through generations like grandma's secret recipe that wins at every contest. It presents itself in words, appearances, celebrations, and gastronomy. To be Boricua is to be of three worlds: Native American, European, and African.

One town that remains true to celebrating, teaching, and uplifting its Boriquen and African legacy is Loíza. Located just past the popular tourist destination Isla Verde in Carolina and less than an hour from the capital city, San Juan, the northeastern town of Loíza stands out among others for their commitment to honoring the heritage and traditions of their ancestors. It's the perfect example of a modern cultural hybridization: the combination of one cultural element (Native American) blending into another culture (African) to fit and create cultural norms.

[goalhofer]

2023 World Baseball Classic Puerto Rico Roster

Pitchers

#0 Marcus Stroman (Chicago Cubs/Brookhaven, New York)

#13 Emilio Pagán (Minnesota Twins/Greenville, South Carolina)

#16 Jovani Morán (Minnesota Twins/Ciudad Mayagüez)

#28 Fernando Cruz (Cincinnati Reds/Ciudad Bayamón)

#30 Dereck Rodríguez (St. Paul Saints/Opa-locka, Florida)

#35 José Espada (Ft. Wayne TinCaps/Juncos)

#37 José Berríos (Toronto Blue Jays/Ciudad Bayamón)

#39 Edwin Díaz (New York Mets/Ciudad Humacao)

#41 Nicholas Padilla (Chicago White Sox/The Bronx, New York)

#43 Alex Díaz (Cincinnati Reds/Ciudad Humacao)

#45 Luis Qui��ones (New Hampshire Fisher Cats/Ciudad Arecibo)

#48 Jorge López (Minnesota Twins/Ciudad Cayey De Muesas)

#52 Dominic Hamel (Brooklyn Cyclones/Chandler, Arizona)

#53 Hector Santiago (Acereros De Monclava/Bloomfield, New Jersey)

#54 Jonathan Bermúdez (Sacramento River Cats/Ciudad Caomo)

#56 Duane Underwood; Jr. (Pittsburgh Pirates/Marietta, Georgia)

#58 Alex Claudio (Nashville Sounds/Juncos)

#64 Anthony Maldonado (Jacksonville Jumbo Shrimp/Wellington, Florida)

#75 Yacksel Ríos (Gwinnett Stripers/Ciudad Gurabo)

#87 José De León (St. Paul Saints/Ciudad Isabela)

Catchers

#7 Christian Vázquez (Minnesota Twins/Ciudad Bayamón)

#10 M.S. Melendez; Jr. (Kansas City Royals/Miami-Dade County, Florida)

#15 Martín Maldonado (Houston Astros/Ciudad Naguabo)

Infielders

#5 Enrique Hernández; Jr. (Boston Red Sox/Ciudad Toa Baja)

#9 Ednel Báez (Detroit Tigers/Jacksonville, Florida)

#12 Francisco Lindor (New York Mets/Ciudad Caguas)

#18 Edwin Díaz (Worcester Red Sox/Ciudad Vega Alta)

#26 Emmanuel Rivera (Arizona Diamondbacks/Ciudad Mayagüez)

#31 Vimael Machín (Lehigh Valley IronPigs/Ciudad Humacao)

#99 Neftalí Soto (Yokohama DeNA BeiShutsuen-Sha/Ciudad Manatí)

Outfielders

#14 Henry Ramos (Louisville Bats/Ciudad Maunabo)

#17 Eddie Rosario; Jr. (Atlanta Braves/Ciudad Guayama)

#32 Johneshwy Fargas (free agent/Ciudad Trujillo Alto)

#40 Nelson Velázquez (Chicago Cubs/Ciudad Carolina)

Coaches

Manager Yadi Molina (Béisbol De Puerto Rico/Ciudad Vega Alta)

Bench coach Alex Cintrón (Houston Astros/Ciudad Humacao)

Hitting coach Vic Rodriguez (Cleveland Guardians/New York, New York)

Assistant hitting coach Juan González (Béisbol De Puerto Rico/Ciudad Vega Baja)

Pitching coach Ricky Bones (Washington Nationals/Ciudad Salinas)

Bullpen coach José Rosado (Tampa Tarpons/Jersey City, New Jersey)

1B coach José Molina (Béisbol De Puerto Rico/Ciudad Vega Alta)

3B coach Luis Rivera (Toronto Blue Jays/Ciudad Cidra)

[darlynquinn]

El responsable de este twitt pregunta:

¿Que es una Lily Téllez?

Con eso de que en twitter censuran ya que su directivo en mi país, México, es aliado y asalariado del PAN, mil veces prefiero escribir lo que realmente pienso aquí en mi sección de blogs en tumblr que en twitter ya que su directivo decide quién tiene la libertad de expresión y quien no y como la mayoría no pagamos por tener la libertad total ya que la libertad de expresión es un DERECHO mas NO un cochino negocio pues ahí está la cosa que quienes tienen una mentalidad toda retrógrada que quieren hacer negocio de lo que se les hinche la gana solo porque creen que por tener dinero y pueden hacer lo que quieran. ¡Pues no y punto! Pero eso no significa que haya terminado, en próximos blogs seguiré escribiendo temas relacionados a lo que es desiciones de rateros millonarios y pueblo trabajador para así poder resaltar la diferencia entre dinero y derecho, pueblo trabajador y saqueadores gana moneditas y billete que para tener un lugar en la clase alta, según esos monstruos de mentalidad ciega y exprimida.

¡Bien! Continuando con la pregunta que hace un tal alias Venustiano Carranza, alias albertano, alias alias alias o cualquier otro alias con el que quiera ganar su anonimato, su pregunta sobre una tal Lily -¿Qué es una Lily Téllez?- Y como aquí en mi tumblr puedo escribir lo que yo quiera sin temor a ninguna censura (en cuanto a ésta palabra: censura, haré un próximo blog de eso) siguiendo, sin temor a ninguna censura, ni anulación injusta a mi cuenta, aquí, diré lo que realmente pienso, y claro, decidí no agregar comentario a su publicación en twitter por algunas razones:

Él no tomará en cuenta mi comentario, sólo los comentarios de sus amigos los tomará en cuenta ya sea para sus video blogs o para alguna publicación que éste quiera destacar en sus redes o sitios de internet, así que, que se quede con su orgia lésbico gay hetero asexual etc de sus amigos y multicuentas al fin y al cabo que no lo sigo, aunque, si por alguna razón lo ando siguiendo y yo sin recordarlo, pues le quito el follow.

No me va a seguir, igual si lo sigo este no me va a devolver el follow, así que al carajo con él.

Tomará mi comentario como un comentario extra de los varios usuarios que le comentan pero que sólo él toma en cuenta a unos cuantos ya que éste reconoce quienes son sus amigos y quienes no, mediante usuarios previamente conocidos en otras redes sociales o en la misma red social pero con otros perfiles

Y como acabo de enumerar las razones de por las cuales no le quise comentar en su publicación, pues que se pudra, yo aquí voy a escribir mi respuesta a esa pregunta que a continuación será leída.

¿Qué es una Lily Téllez?

Es una presta nalgas en un tiempo récord que puede superar al tiempo que se ocupa para realizar entregas a domicilio, en especifico, las pizzas, (pero sin ofender a tan agradable alimento) continuando, es un monstruo, una zorra, una hipócrita, un monstruo que tiene una cara que da mas miedo que ver cualquier foto de archivo del auténtico Hitler, esa tal Lily llega a dar más asco que ni el monstruo vampiro que se volvió leyenda, hablo de una tal Lilith (igual una leyenda Lilith no tiene nada que ver con la que anda tras el rastro del dinero pero la mencioné creo de accidente y eso fue por creo, mera ocurrencia), continuando, Lily T. No es ninguna otra cosa más que una pseudo servidora pública que a todo México nos cuesta más caro que comprar cualquier computadora o equipo de cómputo actual incluyendo smartphones en una tienda departamental con toda la garantía de reparación gratis por un año y con el documento de que hemos hecho una compra, cara, si pero al menos con esa garantía de, por si algún defecto de f��brica tenemos el derecho de devolver el producto para que nos lo cambien por otro de la misma marca y mejor.

La comparación con L. Téllez es, que al no ser producto sino un monstruo de aspecto humanoide con máscara de maquillaje nacido vía biológica desde la barriga de una hembra de dudosa procedencia y de dudosa reputación al servirse del erario y no servir al pueblo, pues por razones del abuso y la corrupción no se puede quitar a esa malnacida del mundo de la política en mi país.

¡Bueno! He terminado con mi blog y mi respuesta a la pregunta esa... ahora que lo voy pensando, igual hubiera en mi twitter, citar la publicación para dar mi respuesta, al fin y al cabo que lo que yo haya escrito en mi cuenta aún así nunca hubiese sido tomado en cuenta ni por ese alias V. Carranza ni por ninguno de los alias del mismo sujeto o amigos que le respondieron a su publicación.

¡Claro! Yo decidí recortar la captura a una medida en la que de tal manera que no se le viera la marca de origen, es decir, que no se le viera el, de dónde proviene esa publicacion, que, si ésta proviene de facebook, twitter, tumblr, telegram, o de cualquier otra red social en la que los millones de usuarios estén dispuestos a participar. ¿Que porqué hice tal cosa? Precisamente porque me niego rotundamente a darle algún tipo de promoción a la red social, pero tampoco estoy promocionando a ningún usuario, solo expongo al usuario en cuestión de cuyos alias se ganó el anonimato y a su publicación en si.

He terminado con éste blog, tú, quien lo estuvo leyendo de inicio a fin te causó algún impacto, no dudes en ayudarme a compartirlo, dame tu rt, tu Me Gusta o reacción en las Benditas Redes Sociales

Hasta el siguiente blog.

Adiós.

Arlyn Quinn @ArleinQ @arlyn7quinn

[todocubaonline]

Shakira se irá a vivir a Miami con sus hijos a esta lujosa mansión

Será vecina de estrellas como Matt Damon, Jennifer López y Ricky Martin.

Luego de unos meses de lucha en los juzgados para decidir quién se queda con sus hijos, se vislumbra el fin de la historia entre Shakira y Gerard Piqué. El acuerdo ha quedado en que la estrella del pop será la encargada de quedarse con ellos y se irá a vivir a Miami. Allí vivirá con los pequeños en una lujosa mansión en una isla privada en la que serán vecinos de estrellas del cine como Matt…

[conandaily2022]

10 sexiest Mister International 2024 candidates in Thailand

Edward Taiye Ogunniya, Kimberley Thitisan Goodburn, William Manuel Badell López (©OXIN Films) Mister International 2024 Based in Bangkok, Thailand, Mister International was founded by the late Alan Sim. Its current officers include president Pradit Pradinunt, vice president Anthony Santana, chief executive officer Ricky JungHoon Jun and chief operating officer Nicholo Paulo Ventura. On…

[rickymerinocf]

Nuevas fotos:

Fotos de Ricky, Agoney, Alfonso y Giuseppe en el EuroMeDaIgual

[thattiredsock]

I think is kind of funny that Ricky Meléndez got replaced by Ricky Martin

[insanityclause]

It’s been a long, long time since Broadway last held a Tony Awards ceremony.

Tonight, after a 27-month hiatus, the event honoring Broadway’s best plays and musicals is back.

There will be plenty of awards — there are 25 competitive categories this year — and lots of speeches.

But the thrust of the evening is a little different: reminding viewers that Broadway has reopened after a disastrously long pandemic shutdown, and hoping that a showcase of show tunes and sentiment will persuade audiences to return. There are now 15 productions running on Broadway, and that number is growing every week, but the pandemic is not over, and tourism remains down, so the industry is looking for a boost.

The event is part streaming, and part network.

This year’s Tony Awards are taking place, live and in-person, at Broadway’s Winter Garden Theater, starting at 7 p.m. Eastern, and scheduled to end at 11.

Most of the awards will be announced during the first two hours, at a ceremony hosted by the six-time Tony winner Audra McDonald. That segment of the evening will be viewable only on the streaming service Paramount+.

The second half of the evening will consist of a concert at which stars of the theater world will perform classic and contemporary show tunes. That portion of the event, called “The Tony Awards Present: Broadway’s Back!,” will be hosted by Leslie Odom Jr. (a Tony winner for “Hamilton”) and broadcast on CBS, and it will include three big awards, for best musical, best play and best play revival.

Because the coronavirus pandemic is ongoing, the ceremony is restricted in many ways.

The red carpet is shorter than usual. There is no official after-party. (A request for a permit to hold one on the street was rejected by the city.)

And the audience watching in person will be limited — the Winter Garden holds 1,500 people, compared to 6,000 at Radio City Music Hall, where the event was often held in previous years. All of the attendees must show proof of vaccination, and they are being asked to wear masks throughout the event.

The awards ceremony will honor plays and musicals that opened during a pandemic-shortened eligibility period — from April 26, 2019, to Feb. 19, 2020. Only 18 shows were eligible for awards — about half as many as usual — and only 15 scored nominations.

The most-nominated shows are the musicals “Jagged Little Pill,” with 15, “Moulin Rouge! The Musical,” with 14, and “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical,” with 12, as well as “Slave Play,” which with 12 is the most-nominated play in Tonys history.

The ceremony, originally scheduled to take place in June 2020, has been repeatedly delayed and rethought; the nominations, chosen by 41 theater experts who saw every eligible show, were announced last October, and electronic voting, by 778 producers, performers and other industry insiders, took place in March. The ballots were stored by the accounting firm Deloitte & Touche LLP, which somehow has managed to keep them secret ever since.

There are several unusual aspects to this season’s Tonys race.

All of the nominees for best score are plays — an odd situation caused by the fact that three of the four musicals that opened before the pandemic were jukebox musicals, meaning they did not have original scores, and the fourth was shut out by nominators.

In one category, best leading actor in a musical, there is only one nominee, Aaron Tveit of “Moulin Rouge!” He will win if he gets a positive vote from 60 percent of those who cast ballots in that race.

A starry concert will dominate the televised portion of the evening.

The Broadway League and the American Theater Wing, the two organizations that present the Tony Awards, decided, in discussions with CBS, that the portion of the evening with the broadest reach — that is, on network television — would be primarily a concert.

The goal is to highlight Broadway’s talent, and to remind viewers of the pleasures of live theater, with the hope that some of those viewers will then buy tickets to a show as theaters in New York (and around the world) seek to rebuild audiences.

What kinds of performances can you expect?

There will be, as per tradition, a razzly-dazzly opening number, led by Odom, at the start of the concert, celebrating Broadway and its shows.The evening will appeal to theater lovers’ nostalgia: Jennifer Holliday will recreate her performance of “And I Am Telling You I’m Not Going” from “Dreamgirls” (which opened in 1981); Audra McDonald and Brian Stokes Mitchell are expected to perform from “Ragtime” (1998); Marissa Jaret Winokur and Matthew Morrison from “Hairspray” (2002); and Kristin Chenoweth and Idina Menzel from “Wicked” (2003).

Each of the productions nominated for the best musical Tony Award — “Jagged Little Pill,” “Moulin Rouge!” and “Tina” — will perform, as always, but this year those performances were recorded in advance inside the theaters where those musicals are running. (Why? To reduce the cost to the pandemic-damaged productions. In ordinary years, producers spend several hundred thousand dollars per musical to staff and stage live numbers at the Tony Awards.)

Two shows that are receiving special Tony Awards will also present live performances. David Byrne will lead the cast of “American Utopia,” his concert show that is now running, for a second time, on Broadway, while Lin-Manuel Miranda will be featured in a closing sketch from “Freestyle Love Supreme,” the improv group he co-founded, which is scheduled to begin its second Broadway run on Oct. 7, followed by a national tour starting in San Francisco.

What else? John Legend will perform with the cast of “Ain’t Too Proud,” a jukebox musical about the Temptations that is slated to resume performances on Broadway on Oct. 16. Daniel J. Watts, a Tony nominee for “Tina,” is expected to perform a spoken-word tribute to the Broadway Advocacy Coalition, which is receiving a special Tony Award for its work on racial justice. And, at some point, Ben Platt and Anika Noni Rose are expected to pay tribute to high school theater students with a song from “Sunday in the Park With George.

”Plenty of other boldface names will be taking part in the broadcast, either as presenters or performers, including Darren Criss, Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Jordan Fisher, Andrew Garfield, Josh Groban, Jake Gyllenhaal, Cyndi Lauper, John Lithgow, Bernadette Peters, Lea Salonga, Black Thought and many others.

The awards show is being executive produced by Ricky Kirshner and Glenn Weiss, who have put the ceremony together for years. Weiss is also directing the event, and it is being choreographed by Sergio Trujillo, a Tony winner for his work on “Ain’t Too Proud.”

The nominees for best musical are all jukebox shows.

The three nominees for best musical are “Jagged Little Pill,” “Moulin Rouge! The Musical” and “Tina — The Tina Turner Musical.”All of them are jukebox musicals — meaning that their scores consist of previously recorded pop songs — and all of them opened in 2019.

The three nominated musicals are reopening this fall. “Moulin Rouge!,” which is an adaptation of the 2001 Baz Luhrmann film, began performances on Friday; “Tina,” which is a biomusical about the life and career of Tina Turner, returns Oct. 8; and “Jagged Little Pill,” a contemporary family drama inspired by the Alanis Morissette album, returns Oct. 21.

Only one show with an original score opened before the pandemic — “The Lightning Thief” — but it was shut out by nominators. Several other musicals with original scores were slated to open in 2020, but didn’t make it to opening night before theaters shut down.A fourth jukebox musical, “Girl From the North Country,” opened right before the shutdown but was deemed ineligible for awards because not enough Tony voters managed to see it. That show, a drama inspired by the songs of Bob Dylan, is scheduled to resume performances Oct. 13.

There are no nominees for best musical revival, because the only one that opened before the pandemic, “West Side Story,” also was not seen by enough voters. And now that production is over — its producers have decided not to reopen it.

Keep an eye on the play categories for some drama.

As hard as it may be to believe, the last time a play by a Black writer won the Tony Award for best play was in 1987, when August Wilson won for “Fences.”

That could change this year, when the leading contender is “Slave Play,” a daring drama by Jeremy O. Harris that uses an imaginary form of couples therapy to explore the lingering impact of slavery. The play scored more Tony nominations — 12 — than any in history; it won strong review from critics and managed to achieve a level of buzz that is rare for any play, although, like most plays, it ended its run without recouping its capitalization costs.

But “Slave Play” was also polarizing, leaving an opening for another drama to claim the prize. The most likely upset would be by “The Inheritance,” a two-part drama by Matthew López about two generations of gay male New Yorkers. That play was heralded in London, but was greeted with far more skepticism in New York; its run was also unprofitable, and was cut a few days short by the pandemic.

The most likely winner in the category of best play revival will be “A Soldier’s Play” or “Betrayal.”

“A Soldier’s Play” is a 1981 drama by Charles Fuller, about the murder of a Black sergeant in the U.S. Army, that won the Pulitzer Prize when it was first published. It was then adapted into a Hollywood film, but didn’t make it to Broadway until 2020. The production, directed by Kenny Leon, starred Blair Underwood and David Alan Grier, and was presented by the nonprofit Roundabout Theater Company.

“Betrayal” is a 1978 play by Harold Pinter about an extramarital affair. The revival was a commercial production, transferred from London, directed by Jamie Lloyd and starring Tom Hiddleston.

And what about the actors?

Eight acting prizes will be given out tonight — four for work in musicals, and four for work in plays.

The musical prizes all have heavy favorites, and the favorites would all be first-time Tony winners.

Look for Adrienne Warren to win the leading actress in a musical prize for her superhuman performance as Tina Turner in “Tina,” and for Lauren Patten to win as featured actress for her showstopping vocals in “Jagged Little Pill.”

Aaron Tveit, the only nominee for leading actor, should easily pick up that prize for playing the bohemian Christian in “Moulin Rouge!” (he needs to win support from 60 percent of those who cast ballots in the category to do so), while his co-star, Danny Burstein, is the favorite in the featured actor category, for playing the impresario Harold Zidler.

The play categories are thought to be much tighter, in part because there are fewer voters — to participate in any Tony race, a voter had to have seen each nominated performance, and that narrowed the pool of qualified voters.

But watch for one possible record to be set: Lois Smith, 90, is a leading contender for best featured actress in a play, for her work in “The Inheritance.” If she wins, she will become the oldest person ever to win a Tony Award for acting, a record previously held by Cicely Tyson, who won at 88.