Size doesn't matter - and it's not that small to begin with. But what The Burrito Company lacks in size they make up for in coziness, style, atmosphere, and flavor. And they give you enough food to feed an army on each plate. Seriously, the burittos cannot be eaten with your hands - each one is the size of a Christmas yule log.
The first time I went, they had me at fresh warm nachos and salsas, right when I sat down.
Free chips go a long way with me anyway, but the rest of the food sealed it. Salads are served in gigantic, crunchy tortilla bowls, the margaritas are served in delicious, sugar-rimmed bowls (try the pomegranate, watermellon, or peach), and everything can be as mild or spicy as you wish.
If you are just two for dessert (fried ice cream), the staff doesn't treat you like just another small tip. If you are a party of 8, as we were last night, they'll go out of their way to move tables together. Sometimes a groovy but relaxing Mexican jazz (or whatever you would call it) plays in the background. The bar has flat-screened tvs playing sports. The owner busses tables, chats, and treats you like family.
I live so close to this place. I'm in trouble.
I'm doing the AIDS Walk again this year to raise money for the Agape Center in Woonsocket, a drop-in program for low-income resident living with HIV/AIDS.
For more, read Mother of the Children of the Holocaust: The Story of Irena Sendler by Anna Meiszkowska.Sendler was a 29-year-old social worker with the city's welfare department when Germany invaded Poland in September 1939, launching World War II. Warsaw's Jews were forced into a walled-off ghetto.
Seeking to save the ghetto's children, Sendler masterminded risky rescue operations. Under the pretext of inspecting sanitary conditions during a typhoid outbreak, she and her assistants ventured inside the ghetto — and smuggled out babies and small children in ambulances and in trams, sometimes wrapped up as packages.
Teenagers escaped by joining teams of workers forced to labor outside the ghetto. They were placed in families, orphanages, hospitals or convents.
Records show that Sendler's team of about 20 people saved nearly 2,500 children from the Warsaw Ghetto between October 1940 and its final liquidation in April 1943, when the Nazis burned the ghetto, shooting the residents or sending them to death camps.
"Every child saved with my help and the help of all the wonderful secret messengers, who today are no longer living, is the justification of my existence on this earth, and not a title to glory," Sendler said in 2007 in a letter to the Polish Senate after lawmakers honored her efforts in 2007.
To me, Young is more funny than scary - he'll never get elected here. Because this is the northeast, because Rhode Island is a mostly Democratic state, and because I have faith in the common sense of my fellow Rhode Islanders, Young will never do anything more than make a fool of himself.Young, who has previously run for U.S. Senate and Providence mayor, and has announced his intentions to challenge Sen. Jack Reed this fall, was one of the last people to testify in a House Judiciary Committee hearing that stretched past 11 p.m.
On the subject of same-sex marriage, Young said allowing such unions would “caus[e] the citizens of this state to suffer.”
But it was his comments on the legislators themselves that caused the biggest stir. Young chided committee members for falling asleep, accused them of corruption, of not believing in God and said their need to repay favors drives their legislative decisions.
After Young quoted at length from the Bible, Rep. Raymond J. Sullivan, Jr., D-Coventry, warned him to be careful as such quotations are subject to misinterpretation.
Apparently thinking he’d heard Sullivan say something about Satan, Young asked “You say Satan a lot, don’t you? You like that term, don’t you?”
The mayor has a concealed audio/video recording system installed in a credenza behind her desk in her City Hall office.
The device recently came to light during a work session regarding the latest in the battle between the City Council and the mayor over the council’s investigation of whether city employees have misused city resources. The mayor has filed an injunction to prevent the council from conducting its investigation. In the latest twist, the mayor has asked that three council members be deposed regarding the investigation.
[Planned director Joel] Mathews said that the two historic buildings will be used to house the alternative learning center for middle school students... The other building would be used to house the media technology coordinator.
The city is soliciting a federal grant for $1.9 million to renovate the historic buildings.
