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Jolie Gonzalez-Padilla Letter from La Editora

Aniria Turney The Funny "Latina" Diva!

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Meet Cissy Boza Sevelin Candidate for Circuit Court Judge: Group 25. A Voice of Reason for Justice.

Bianca Marroquin RETURNS TO BROADWAY AS ROXIE HEART IN CHICAGO THE

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Meet Marcus Hernandez and Orchestra Fuego - appearing LIVE in Concert, celebrating the discovery of Puerto Rico, Saturday, Nov 18th, 2018 @ Dulcet Restaurant & Lounge!

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letter from la editora Saludos & happy 16th Anniversary to Latin Times Magazine!

LOS HEADQUARTERS Jolie GonzalezPadilla Publisher / Editor In Chief

Victor Padilla VP / Executive Editor

Hola my friends!

Welcome to the November Edition of Latin Times Magazine and our new look, the first in the kick off of our NEW MONTHLY publication schedule! Every year, we will publish 10 e-Magazine editions, and 2 expanded print/eMagazine editions of Latin Times Magazine. The 2 Expanded PRINT/eMagazine editions of Latin Times Magazine will feature: The Top Latino / Hispanic Business, health and community leaders and the 2nd edition will feature Top Latino/ Hispanic owned businesses in the U.S., including Restaurants, destinations and more!

The best way to read our editions is online where each issue will have interactive interviews, videos, live links, animation and so much more!

View: www.LatinTimesMedia.com, www.Latin-Times.com, social media.

The print editions will still be available for special events and for direct subscription!

In closing, I am looking forward to the adventures and the challenges that lay ahead, as we focus on growing our ministry!

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Check out our exciting events:

Felix “Nikko” Gonzalez

-Latin ConneXions is back -on 1st Fridays, after a long break, Latin Times Media, Inc, is so pleased to bring back our exciting 1st Friday Networking Social featuring a great line-up of entertainment and themed events!

-Con Cristo / Café with Christ, held on the 2nd Friday of every month at La Teresita Cuban Restaurant.

9-11 AM -Being Bilingual Expo: Thursday, Aug 30th, 2018 at HCC – Ybor City Campus -Viva Jesus Festival - Sept 2018 -Taste of Latino - TBA -The 7th annual season of the Cuban Sandwich Festival is also already being planned and we are excited to announce that the festival will once again be hitting the road in search of the BEST Cuban Sandwiches in the world, with Florida events planned in Kissimmee and Miami, Florida, as well as a VIP Cuban Sandwich Smackdown event under consideration in Chicago, NYC and a few other cities! Those winners would all join us here next March/April 2018 for the 7th Annual Cuban Sandwich Festival!

Zion Padilla

For more on our upcoming events visit our calendar of events!

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Aniria Turney The Funny Diva Show

As the daughter of a Puerto Rican mom and a Salvadorian dad living in the South, Aniria lives the “Cultural Bermuda Triangle” daily!

Having moved here from El Salvador at the age of 6, the culture shock and the pleasing of 3 cultural expectations lingers in her witty observations. Because she started her passion for stand up later in life, it quickly became therapy that helped her get through a divorce and juggling a new dating life with raising kids.

Now remarried, her repertoire has expanded. Her comedy expresses the “in your face” truths about cultural differences, dating, kids, sex and how men and women relate. Aside from stand up, Aniria is also an actor. She got her lucky break in the upcoming Netflix film “Naked” with Marlon Wayans and recently appeared on an episode of Chicago Med on NBC. She is currently working on producing a sketch comedy web series called “The Funny Diva Show” based on a stand-up comedy tour she was a part of bearing the same name. Aniria’s other credits include Comedy Central’s Up Next and America’s Got Talent.

Elect Cissy Boza Sevelin for Circuit Court Judge: Group 25.

A Voice of Reason for Justice.

EXCLUSIVE INTERVIEW Coming Jan 2018!

Cissy and her husband, Ralph, reside in Thonotosassa with their two Havanese pups, Buster and Mitzi.

Cissy grew up in Hillsborough County and attended the University of South Florida. She received her Bachelor of Arts Degree in Accounting and Finance. While residing in the Tampa Bay Area, Cissy attended the University of Orlando/Barry University and received her Masters of Business Administration while attending law school at Barry University Dwayne O. Andreas School of Law where she received her Jurist Doctorate.

Cissy Boza Sevelin has worked hard her entire legal career to ensure justice, fairness and an equal playing field for all of her clients. Cissy is a firm believer in the fair administration of justice and judicial integrity. The retirement of the Honorable Robert A. Foster has opened a door and created an opportunity for her to continue to serve the people of Hillsborough County. If the voters deem Cissy worthy, her goal is to ensure that she will work for a justice system that people can trust to deliver consistent treatment, fair trials and access to justice regardless of their financial standing, which is the true meaning of servant leadership.

Cissy Sevelin is a sole practitioner whose current entire practice consists of providing pro bono service to indigent clients. Prior to opening her pro bono practice in October 2013, Cissy served as a federal judicial career and 6

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term law clerk for nine years with the United States Bankruptcy Court for the Middle District of Florida for the Honorable Alexander L. Paskay, the Honorable David H. Adams, the Honorable Jeffery P. Hopkins, the Honorable Barry S. Schermer and the Honorable Caryl E. Delano. While employed with the Bankruptcy Court, Cissy wrote countless opinions on various issues.

Since opening her practice, Cissy Sevelin has donated her time in the areas of family law, domestic violence, dependency and delinquency, bankruptcy and advance directives. She volunteers for the Bay Area Legal Services’ Volunteer Lawyers Program, working at the Domestic Violence Assistance Project clinic and on the Case Referral Panel. She is also extensively involved with the nonprofit organization Are You Safe, Inc., whose mission is to provide legal and social services to victims of domestic violence, and the nonprofit organization Crossroads for Florida Kids, Inc., as an Attorney ad Litem representing children in dependency proceedings, including those charged with delinquencies. Further, Cissy serves as a volunteer teen court judge through the Juvenile Diversion Program and as a Guardian ad Litem in dependency court. If that is not enough, Cissy jumps in and helps out with other community projects when time permits.

There is no question that Cissy Sevelin is

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committed to our legal profession and our community. Throughout her professional career, Cissy has worked vigorously to provide free legal services to members of our community that could not otherwise afford the services of an attorney.

Cissy’s efforts to provide legal assistance to children, youth, victims of domestic violence and indigent clients have not gone unrecognized.

Thus far, in 2016 Cissy was acknowledged by her peers and was honored with the Florida Bar President’s Pro Bono award for the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit on January 28, 2016.

In March 2016 and March 2017, Cissy Sevelin was also recognized by Hillsborough County Bar Association and presented The Rosemary Award for Proven Producer for her pro bono contributions to the community. In September 2015 and 2014, respectively, Cissy was recognized as the Pro Bono Attorney of the Year for providing services to victims of domestic violence by Are You Safe, Inc. In April of 2015, Cissy was presented with the Outstanding Pro Bono Service by a Lawyer award by the Thirteenth Judicial Circuit & H.A.V.E. a HEART.Are You Safe, Inc. In September 2016, Cissy was presented with the Alberto Romero Pro Bono Attorney of the Year.

Over the past 30 plus years, Cissy has held various positions. She has extensive knowledge in the field of bankruptcy, banking, accounting, and mediating and in management and uses this knowledge to serve the public. Cissy believes that her work outside of the legal arena – together with the time she has served in federal court, will serve her well and will bring valuable experience to the court.

Cissy's ability to speak Spanish allows her to assist Hispanic clients without the need of a translator.

The young Cissy Boza began working when she was twelve year's old for Olympia Bakery located on Howard Ave. Cissy worked all through college and continued to work while attending law school. For much of her career, she worked full-time while raising three children trying to balance work, family, and school. Cissy was also a small-business owner, having founded Victorian Gardens in September 1998, a company that provided a ceremony and reception venue located in Thonotosassa, Fl.

Cissy Boza Sevelin has been a lifelong resident of Hillsborough County for the last 58 years.

She is a family woman, married to Ralph Sevelin, with two beautiful daughters, a son, and stepson and an eight-year-old granddaughter.

Bianca made history for being the first Mexican actress to be invited in a lead role on Broadway.

Award-winning actress Bianca MarroquĂ­n was born in Monterrey, Mexico, and raised on the border between Matamoros, Mexico and Brownsville, Texas. She started her artistic career in Mexico City in the productions of Disney's Beauty and the Beast, Rent, Phantom of the Opera, Vagina Monologues and Chicago.

For her portrayal of Roxie Hart in Chicago Bianca received 5 awards from the Mexican Critics Association including New Revelation and Best Actress. In the summer of 2002, Bianca was invited to Broadway and made her debut with her English version of Roxie Hart making her the youngest actress to ever play Roxy in Chicago. She later kicked off Chicago's 3rd National Tour for which she received a Helen Hayes Award in Washington DC for Outstanding Lead Actress in 2004. After touring for two years she officially moved to New York to continue pursuing her career. She then starred as Carmen in the Revival Broadway hit, Tony Award Winner, Pajama Game starring Harry Connick, Jr. You can listen to Bianca on the special edition of the 10th anniversary of Chicago CD performing a medley version of three of Roxie's songs in Spanish. In April of 2008 The Mexican Consulate in New York awarded Bianca for her successful work as an actress on Broadway. Bianca then premiered her onewoman show in Mexico City: Solo Pido (All I ask) in honor of her late mother.

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QUIN RETURNS TO BROADWAY ART IN CHICAGO THE MUSICAL

"Catch Orchestra Fuego performing LIVE at Dulcet Lounge: Celebrating el Duscubrimiento de Puerto Rico on Saturday, November 18th!"

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Marcus & Orchestra Fuego

Exclusive Interview with Grammy Nominated Marcus Hernandez and Orchestra Fuego!

LTM: Please tell us about how you got started in the music industry?

Orchestra Fuego: I started playing piano in my 20’s and became a professional musician in 1976; performing with some famous artist such as Adalberto Santiago and Rafael De Jesus before starting my own band in 1977, called Fuego ’77.

We recorded our first album under the Alegre Records label, which was a subsidiary of the great Fania Records.

LTM: Please tell us about your band members and how this band came together and came to be known as Orchestra Fuego.

Orchestra Fuego: I moved to Florida in 2006, after discovering that several of the musicians who performed with me back in New York during the late 70’s through late 80’s also moved to Florida, I proceeded to contact my friends and formed Orchestra Fuego LTM: Tell us about your Grammy Nomination? And who you will be going up against to win.

Orchestra Fuego: This is an awesome adventure; we’re in several categories such as Latin, New Album, New Artist and Music Video of the year; we will be up against some great artist starting with

Ruben Blades, Isidro Infante and Alberto Barros.

LTM: Is your music original and if so – who writes your music? If not original, who’s music do you tend to gravitate to?

Orchestra Fuego: We compose & arrange all our music and mostly originals. Any cover songs we perform, we do our own arrangement to; take Quimbara for example; a Celia Cruz song, but we did a fresh arrangement to this song. It is part of our second album. Our style is NYC Salsa or “Old School Salsa” LTM: Who is your favorite Salsa artist?

Orchestra Fuego: Gilberto Santa Rosa is one of my favorite Salsa artist and would also say Marc Anthony.

LTM: What is next for Orchestra Fuego?

Orchestra Fuego: We are just days away from completing our third album titled “Quemando La Pista” and this will have a great variety of Latin music including, Salsa, Son Montuno, Cha Cha, Merengue and a Bachata. We just released our new music video titled “Fuego Colombiano” and we’re now in the process of shooting yet another music video titled “Recuerdos”; to be shot in a 1950’s era Read more at: on our website

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