
¡Happy Cinco de Mayo! Sure, it's not really Mexico's Independence Day, but that shouldn't preclude you from knocking back a few beers to celebrate our southern neighbor's cultural heritage.

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Last weekend, we brought the house down at Equator Books. It was Cinco de Mayo, we had some mariachis lying around, and so we decided to put them...
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