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Konichiwa, 

Ever since arriving in New York at the tender age of nine, I have been totally in love with this city.   I love the fast-paced energy, the spectrum of lives and lifestyles, the subways, art, grime, beauty, mayhem, all of it.   But, like in most relationships, it's good to break out of

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Recently, we attended the 20th Annual Yemoja Festival at Rockaway Beach, hosted by the Egbe Omo Yemoja. 

Yemoja (also Yemaya, Iemanja), the deity of the oceans, the primordial Mother, is a major deity in orisa religion, the traditional religion of many West Africans from which the slave

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The Brooklyn Museum is my favorite museum in New York City. I go there often. I also love the Botanical Gardens next door, and the summer concerts at the Prospect Park Bandshell. A gourmand friend who lives in the area turned me on to another of Brooklyn's gems, Cheryl's Global Soul Cafe. 

The

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Mi Apogeo's Founder and Chief Executive Officer, Rosa Alonso, recently celebrated her birthday with a cohort of friends and family at Calle Ocho, a Nuevo Latino restaurant on the Upper West Side in Manhattan.

 This writer has celebrated several dozen birthdays with Rosa, as friend, neighbor,

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Welcome to Mi Apogeo!

I got involved with this project last year, when it was still just a twinkle in Rosa's eye. It's taken an incredible amount of work, most of it behind the scenes, to bring this project to you. We are pleased and proud of what we have so far, and looking forward to

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