12 YEARS A SLAVE

By Suzanne A. Marshall  from the April 2014 Edition Director: Steve McQueen Starring: Chiwetel Ejiofor, Michael K. Williams, Michael Fassbender, “In the antebellum United states, Solomon Northrup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold into slavery.” This movie was nominated for 9 Oscars and took home 3, including Best Picture and Best Supporting […]

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Ode to April

By Manzanillo Sun Writer  from the April 2014 Edition The month of April finds us looking forward to the springing of spring in most geographic areas. For example in Arizona they have already had their ‘springing’ and would like the seasonal changes to stop right where they are. Their next step into spring will be summer for […]

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Saluting Those Who Care

By Tommy Clarkson  from the April 2014 Edition We – that would be Patty and me of Ola Brisa Gardens deeply love and greatly appreciate Manzanillo, its people and all which comprises it. Accordingly, each year we join others in striving to show our gratitude to the community by our involvement with organized “causes of consequence”. Thus, […]

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Secret Gardens

By Suzanne A. Marshall from the April 2013 Edition Over the past winters here in Manzanillo and on trips to other interesting destinations in Mexico, I’ve often marveled and wondered at the unique (at least for me) long narrow streets of flat concrete walls, doorways and bricked or cobbled pathways. Sometimes they are broken by […]

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