

Las Fiestas de San SebastiƔn
"The crowd looked like an overflowing river of heads, bobbing up and down in the torrent of humanity that was San SebastiƔn Street. The Fiestas de la Calle San SebastiƔn had nothing to envy New Orleans' Bourbon Street on Mardi Gras. Tens of thousands of night revelers crammed into the narrow cobbled street, barely able to move, framed by an unending row of fantastically colored colonial houses. The tremendous noise of the multitude, a jumble of voices, screams, laughter, curs


The Battle for San Juan
In order for the terrorists in Justifiable Evil to take over San Juan, they must first neutralize the police station in Puerta de Tierra. Scouting the area five years ago, to determine how such an attack could be carried out (I am still amazed that nobody questioned what I was doing, roaming the police buildings and taking many photographs), I soon came to the conclusion that any kind of terrorist attempt on the police would have to start from the public housing complex that


Being Puerto Rican
Fuentes de las RaĆces (literally, the "Fountain of the Roots"), located at the end of the Paseo de la Princesa ("the Princess Promenade"), next to the Bay of San Juan. Like I did in Father's Day, this week I take a short hiatus from the discussion of the locations where Justifiable Evil takes place, to briefly address what is happening in my island. This past fourth of July, where Tampa along with the rest of the country celebrated the Independence of the United States, I fou