You buy a sombrero from where the sombrero originated and where they make the best ones and that's in Mexico.
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Pope Francis' sombrero falls off as he tries on a sombrero while meeting journalists aboard his flight to Havana Feb. 12.
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"Ladies love the sombrero," said Jose Ramon Diaz, who bought his sombrero two years ago in Tehuacán, Mexico, his hometown, for 4723 pesos, or about $2472.
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She creates all these bad items, most famous of all, an "urban sombrero," which is like a business sombrero, lol that is so stupid Here is the interview.
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" • Quotation of the day "Ladies love the sombrero.
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YEKATERINBURG, Russia — A sombrero, out here, has special powers.
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But the espadrilles, sombrero hats and totes were tempting, too.
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Jack Hanke, another member of the troupe, dons his favorite sombrero – the black one he took with him to Oxford University during his recent junior year abroad – accessorized with a red sombrero on top.
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"Sombrero!" said a man wearing a German flag over his shoulders.
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Dentro de unos minutos le regalaré este hermoso sombrero al papa pic.twitter.
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Pope Benedict XVI wears a sombrero in Leon, Mexico on March 25, 2012.
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And when i found out that they were offering a LEGIT Urban sombrero??
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Lionel Shriver is wearing a sombrero while discussing right to be a bigot.
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When he batted (wearing the sombrero), the band played and sang to Martin.
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That sombrero you're wearing, for instance, is never appropriate, unless you're of Mexican heritage.
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A popular request is a Nyan cat with a taco body and a sombrero.
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He'd take us to a place called El Sombrero, at 142 Kensington High Street.
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The sombrero is a reference to Shriver's comments at the Brisbane Writers Festival in 2016.
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Her husband asked to trade ponchos with me, and I returned their conch and sombrero.
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A Mexican college student ventured to the World Cup with a sombrero and a plan.
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Entró con un gran sombrero de paja y la misma barba que tenía en Canadá.
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Pique, 1986 A pepper in a sombrero was the mascot for the World Cup in Mexico.
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Pope Francis was given a sombrero on Friday while he flew from Rome to México City.
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Examples include geishas, Native Americans, Confederate soldiers or anything involving wearing blackface and/or a sombrero.
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And he'll be furiously making out with sombrero-wearing Big Bang Theory star Johnny Galecki. Yes.
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As Franklin is carted off to the hospital, he cavalierly grabs a sombrero from the wall.
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The more common "golden sombrero" is earned when a player has four strikeouts in a game.
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Rubie's sells a costume with rainbow-hued poncho shirt, sombrero and a bandolier for shot glasses.
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In Chile, Exploratorio Sombrero hopes to map poorer neighbourhoods of Melipilla, the city where it is based.
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I think Jonathan told you I'm going to Mexico to get the goddamn sombrero for O'Hurley. Wow.
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The box also depicts what appears to be a Mexican caricature wearing a sombrero and holding maracas.
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An illustration shows him in a sombrero while standing with one foot on top of a soccer ball.
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This third generation American with Mexican heritage, owns El Sombrero Mexican Bistro on Main St. in Las Vegas.
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I could toss out that damn birdbath, the one in the shape of a cat wearing a sombrero.
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"I remember last year, a Latinx-identifying kid wore a sombrero two days in a row," Campbell said.
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Early this month, before the international hordes arrived, Diaz caused a stir wherever he went with his sombrero.
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Twelve new hats joined the repertoire, including a beret, a bandanna, a small straw hat, and a sombrero.
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When he stretched, the hovering band played and sang to Martin, who wore a light-colored Mexican sombrero.
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When he threw in the outfield (while still wearing the sombrero), the band played and sang to Martin.
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A Mexico soccer fan wearing a sombrero chants as fans gather on Nikolskaya Street, in Moscow, June 13, 2018.
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One day you're professing your love to your future wife while wearing nothing but a sombrero, underwear, and Uggs.
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Magid Magid (who came to the country as a refugee from Somalia) made his announcement while wearing a sombrero.
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I wore a poncho with a vaquero (cowboy) sombrero and kept my left hand thrust inside a ceremonial conch.
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And recently, for Clarín, he dressed President Trump in a sombrero through which a raging fire can be seen.
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Over the head of a little figure wearing a sombrero is a one-line equivalent of men's room graffiti.
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Pope John Paul II tries on a sombrero, the traditional Mexican hat, during his 22 January flight to Mexico City.
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The paper outfits included Native American women's clothing, a cowgirl's, a South Asian woman's sari, and of course a sombrero.
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His in-town get-up consists of calfskin boots, checked trousers, embroidered waistcoat, Prince Albert frock coat and black sombrero.
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The Queen wore a festive sombrero and shades at dinner with Kelly Rowland at Gracias Madre Friday night in WeHo.
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He was mounted on a mule, in a wide sombrero and rough riding trousers, making his usual rounds of the diocese.
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Trumpealo features Trump standing on stage in front of a poncho-and-sombrero-wearing crowd while saying derogatory things about Latinos.
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One woman in the center of the photo even wore a sombrero that has the word "MEXICAN" written across the brim.
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From cheeky Spongebob references: "He was wearing his sombrero in a goofy fashion and eating cubed cheese," one viewer chimed in.
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Del Castellano, de 55 años, viste de rojo (color del movimiento chavista) y luce un sombrero con la imagen de Chávez.
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Kruger, whose company Sombrero Hydroponics has seen a spike in customer inquiries since September, used two artificial poinsettias as stand-ins.
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No obstante, llevaba horas esperando, y los restos de un combo número 1 estaban al lado de su sombrero de paja.
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There's a kitsch quality to a lot of Latino outreach and some pretty silly pandering — you know, a sombrero, a piñata.
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He thinks I should get the tattoo removed or add a sombrero on it explaining that I'm not a white supremacist.
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The Sombrero Galaxy (NASA/ESA and The Hubble Heritage Team (STScI/AURA))It can't be stressed enough how crazy gravitational waves are.
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Sheffield's Lord Mayor Magid Magid put on a sombrero while making the announcement at a city council meeting, the BBC reported Wednesday.
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"If we had a Latin jury, we would have had a picture of him in a sombrero," Douglas says in the documentary.
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"[Channing's] room was right above mine, and he came down drunk with a sombrero on, banging on my door," Dewan Tatum tells Cosmopolitan.
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The English guy has on a black trilby with a British flag tucked into the side, while the Mexican one dons a sombrero.
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Otero grabbed my sombrero vueltiao—a striped, wide-brimmed hat popular in nearby coastal departments—and placed it upside down on the bar.
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Pope Francis tries on a sombrero bearing an image of Our Lady of Guadalupe while meeting journalists aboard his flight to Havana Feb. 12.
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Let's be honest – nobody wants to tangle with a bunch of perpetually-offended liberals who were triggered by a white guy wearing a sombrero.
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Why can't the taking on of symbols of other cultures, like the sombrero, flip flops and berets, be considered a tribute, not a mockery?
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Around the corner at El Sombrero Viejo, a lively, weathered bar, locals stopped in to charge up cellphones and maybe drink a cold Modelo.
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Today, a Subway and a Taco Bell are there, too, alongside a restaurant called El Sombrero, run by the only Mexican immigrants in town.
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Back in 2006, the chain ran an ad featuring a little person of Hispanic descent wearing a sombrero and carrying a take-out bag. Tagline?
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The green package also showcases the candy's classic M&M character Yellow, this time sporting a sombrero and holding jalapeño peppers to match the flavor.
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There were photos showing him as a young union leader, with Chávez, with Fidel Castro; one showed him as a toddler wearing a mariachi's sombrero.
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Casa Cervecera Cru Cru's newest craft beer, Amigous Cerveza, has a label that features a somber Trump donning a sombrero and swastika adorned belt buckle.
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Another one of Selyem's posts showed a man with a large sombrero with the words, "Mexican word of the day: 'Hide,'" according to the Sun.
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There was also a picture of a man wearing a sombrero and a woman in Japanese attire at what seemed to be a costume party.
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"Oh I don't care if it's almost sundown, I am absolutely going to embarrass you on the beach with this sombrero!" she wrote in the caption.
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We had Bush with a sombrero, and monkeys crossing our border -- but the swastika got the brunt of media attention, as Trump undoubtedly knew it would.
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You're a sombrero-sporting wanderer seemingly on a retreat at a desert compound with the sun-washed colors and modernist shapes of a Ricardo Legorreta building.
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If you can't smile at a pink sombrero and matching fur outfit with gold shoes, then maybe you're just jealous of that rack in his hand?
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Those are sweet drinks, too, although they were a significant step up from the first drink I ever ordered at a bar: the, ahem, Kahlua Sombrero.
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A lonely misfit in shorts and a sombrero, precocious yet naïve, Frankie is grappling with a self she doesn't quite know and longings she can't name.
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I think the urban sombrero signed by him and I and then time-stamped because we're doing only a limited run of those will hold their value.
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Many writers would have given up the project after urinating in a public fountain or wandering alone into a dark German forest or vomiting into a sombrero.
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On the other side of the wall is a man in a sombrero holding maracas, clearly meant to illustrate that he is separating himself from Latin America.
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Her husband, Edgard Ramirez, surfaced from the bunker with a wide-brimmed embroidered sombrero in his hand, and some local residents asked him if they could take pictures.
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Pope Benedict XVI waves from the popemobile wearing a Mexican sombrero as he arrives to give a Mass in Bicentennial Park near Silao, Mexico, Sunday March 25, 2012.
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Before this sombrero-wearing sweetie was a model, actress and celeb spawn ... she was just another gal growing up in Guilford, U.K. Can you guess who she is?
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" Shriver then took out a sombrero and placed on her head in front of the audience, claiming that writers needed to "preserve the right to wear many hats.
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I ordered the Urban Sombrero—with pineapple-infused Campari, tequila, lime, and agave—and asked the hotel's food and beverage director, Joshua Benitez, about life in the desert.
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We get a mini sombrero for our corgi back home, some Mexican chocolate for our dads that both love chocolate, and a pack of hot sauces cause why not.
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While no schools are prohibiting costumes, several are highlighting attire that might offend certain ethnic groups, such as a sombrero or Native American head dress or donning black face.
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Nothing says "passive-aggressive" like a card with "peace" printed on a picture of the Sombrero Galaxy — or as anyone else would see it, a giant Frisbee of dust.
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"I go and open the door — he's going to kill me for this — and he has [on] underwear, a sombrero, and Ugg boots, and he's like, 'Let's do this.'"
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Before the start, British newspapers ridiculed the idea of a Mexican yachting crew; at least one cartoon depicted a boatful of clownish, tequila-swilling sombrero-wearers under patched sails.
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Students recall instances of racist memes spreading through the Slack chatrooms, or when a white male student wore a Mexican sombrero to a presentation in front of the class.
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Other posts on DeAgazio's Facebook page indicate he's a big Trump supporter; one features a meme of Barack Obama in a sombrero, praising Trump for "enforcing the laws" on immigration.
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Before being tapped as statewide director of coalitions, Craig Bachler of Bradenton, Florida, posted jokes in 2015 about Mexican accents superimposed over pictures of an overweight man wearing a sombrero.
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And it gets more ridiculous from there, as he channels Miley Cyrus' "Wrecking Ball" video and makes out with Johnny Galecki – also dressed as Donald Trump, but sporting a sombrero.
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The very American "Cinco De Techno" parties are popping up across the country, reworking the holiday's traditional street parties and mariachi bands into night clubs complete with sombrero-wearing DJs.
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Los caballos y el ganado pastan en las praderas que bordean las carreteras y autopistas y los vaqueros no se preocupan por quitarse el sombrero cuando suben a sus furgonetas.
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Inside, Diaz put on his sombrero and bounced along with the other 43,472 people at the game, all of whom had undertaken mini-odysseys of their own to get there.
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The literary fiction community spent 20143 debating whether it was acceptable for Lionel Shriver to wear a sombrero while she talked about why she thinks cultural appropriation is a myth.
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Other colorfully dressed cats and dogs sported a range of Halloween costumes, including a dog painted as a white tiger and a puppy wearing a tiny sombrero complete with toy pistols.
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From under his silver sombrero, trumpeter El Cucuy then breaks into a mariachi melody, and Twisted Sister's classic "We're Not Gonna Take It" morphs into its Mexican folk equivalent - "No Toleraremos".
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As anyone who has ever woken up on the bathroom floor wearing a comedy sombrero will know, much of what makes tequila fun has little to do with the spirit itself.
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This is easy to do, because the list of sins to which one may take offense grows with each passing year, from the culturally appropriated sombrero to the traditionally gendered pronoun.
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The CCA also funded a cardboard playground created by students at the Parsons School of Design that included pleated trees, an enveloping sombrero and a movable maze for children to explore.
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When Weezer play live, if Rivers is sedate he's "boring," but when he has fun with it, donning a sombrero and crawling all over the stage, he elicits even more head scratches.
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There's lots to do here: shopping, swimming, feasting Mexican food served by sombrero-clad robots, boozing around with Arthur, the android bartender, and whatever the modern version of Dance Dance Revolution is called.
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Who Tried It: Maria Yagoda, PEOPLE Features Writer-Reporter There are a handful of foods, like a sombrero filled with tortilla chips or a log of nut-studded cheese, that instantly signify party.
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Later, a woman from Kyrgyzstan asked if she could borrow his sombrero, and he sat silently for several minutes as each person in her group of six took turns taking selfies with it.
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Lionel Shriver's keynote speech at the 2016 Brisbane Writers Festival, delivered while wearing a sombrero as a response to negative commentary about her representation of black and Latino characters, provoked outrage and counterargument.
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Judge John Hodgman Martin writes: My wife and kids dressed Scooby, our Chi-wiener dog (half dachshund, half Chihuahua), in a poncho and a sombrero as part of a Mexican-themed dinner party.
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We got the pop singer Wednesday at LAX and asked about the photo she posted that got a bit of blowback for the outfit one of her friends wore -- a sombrero and poncho.
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"En este momento de la pieza me estoy acercando al sombrero de manera incierta, con temor a ponérmelo por el poder que tiene", explica la bailarina Jenna Marie, de la compañía Ballet Hispánico.
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Castro, a beloved figure for fans of the Bills, was best known for his passion for the football team and for his elaborate game day outfit that included a colorful sombrero and face mask.
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At the bottom of the hill, he handled his disappointment with good spirit, chatting with a few other skiers and laughing as a woman tossed him a sombrero to put on, which he did.
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On Avenue Cesar E. Chavez, the primary commercial street, for instance, young people with laptops and earbuds sip coffee across the street from a lone Norteño accordionist in a sombrero standing beneath a red awning.
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The University of St. Thomas in Minnesota put up "Costume or Culture Appropriation" fliers listing "unacceptable" costumes and clothing as including Native American headdresses, a Mexican sombrero, a geisha outfit or any form of blackface.
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Above the visiting dugout, a man in an ape suit made lewd gestures and led chants of "asshole" and " puto ," in an unfolding feud across the field with a chubby güey in a giant sombrero.
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After some initial hesitation, the 28-year-old settled on a dried cricket from a sombrero-wearing Mexican reporter in one of the kinds of wacky moments that have become standard at the annual event.
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Each telescope is pointed at a different astronomical feature: Jupiter, globular clusters, the Sombrero Galaxy, which I think is one of the most beautiful things in the universe, and one of the astronomy club members agrees.
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Im definitely one of those new customers and I am gonna be so upset if you don't reach that goal because I really want that fucking urban sombrero more than I've every wanted anything in my life.
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The 44-year-old coach said he would don Zorro's costume — complete with mask, Spanish cape, and flat-brimmed black sombrero hat — if Shakhtar progressed past the Champions League group stage and into the Round of 16.
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Except a group of barrel-chested dudes in what are easily the wildest suits I've ever laid my eyes on: offensive plaid, one depicting the world's largest game of Pac Man, another covered in sombrero-clad skulls.
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Its designers, Ali Daniel Flores and Victor Olmos, conceived their royal palm straw creation as a tribute to the sombrero — regarded as an embarrassment by today's youth of Mexico — and to help restore local straw-weaving traditions.
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Mexican-American Ruiz, wearing a sombrero and stepping up after Joshua, was 20 stones and three pounds (128.3kg) — heavier than he was in the first showdown between the two at New York's Madison Square Garden in June.
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"If you are dressing up as someone who is supposed to be Mexican, using a sombrero, a mustache, a donkey, that tells me that you don't respect me," said Sara Hinojos, an assistant professor at Queens College-CUNY.
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Dressed in an multicolored, over-sized onesie decorated with teddy bears, a pair of yellow platform shoes and a tiny orange plastic sombrero perched on his purple wig, Perry called his edition of the annual show a "celebration".
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Elated fans waved Mexican flags and donned traditional "sombrero" hats at the iconic Angel of Independence monument in downtown Mexico City as they sang the country's unofficial soccer anthem, "Cielito Lindo," or "Pretty Little Sky," a popular folksong.
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I personally responded to this nonverbal gesture more strongly than to her words: the donning of a sombrero, an item commonly used to summarize and deride Mexican culture by, say, drunk white college students on Cinco de Mayo.
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After a week in which he fired back at Nadal for criticizing his behavior on the court, Kyrgios was full of compliments for Zverev, 21, after being presented with the championship silver pear trophy and a black sombrero.
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If he didn't recover completely, maybe it would actually improve our relationship: I could invite him on vacation, throw a sombrero on his head, a beer in his good hand, and pretend he agreed with all my feminist views.
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In docs, obtained by TMZ, Tapatio says its famous "charro" -- or Mexican cowboy -- logo belongs to them and "Trapatio" is marketing itself with a similar name and an almost identical man in a sombrero, yellow jacket and red tie.
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The sweet lady even went so far as to decorate his digs for him, with little touches like a sombrero hanging from decorative antlers on the wall, and an oil painting that reminded him of his brothers back home.
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The label of the new Amigous Cerveza craft beer, showing a frowning Trump in a sombrero, his trousers held up with a swastika belt buckle, mocks his divisive campaign rhetoric against Mexico and his pledge to build a border wall.
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Pope Francis wears a traditional Mexican sombrero hat he received as a gift by a Mexican journalist aboard the plane during the flight from Rome to Habana, Cuba, on his way to a week-long trip to Mexico, Friday, Feb.
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The reason that I was against the urban sombrero was a fake, made-up thing by Seinfeld and it didn't fit into the authenticity part and factual romance of what J. Peterman did, and the reason J. Peterman was on Seinfeld.
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Wearing a sombrero, Ms. Shriver spoke out against "cultural appropriation" as a valid critique, arguing that it censored her work as a writer, that she would not have free rein to fully imagine others' perspectives and widen her world of characters.
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Anybody whose jaw has dropped at Floyd Mayweather Jr. making his way to a match (gladiatorially, in a bronzed breastplate; in a Mexican-flag robe and shorts, complete with sombrero and hype-man 50 Cent) can attest: Nobody wants dignity anymore.
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In this April 11, 1979 file photo, Pope John Paul II wears a typical Sombrero "Charro" he was given by a member of the band from Monterrey, Mexico's Boy's Town, which performed for the Pontiff in St. Peter's Square during general audience.
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Here's How to Get Around It A Sombrero and a Dream: One Desperate Fan's World Cup Odyssey How Saying #MeToo Changed Their Lives As Search for Thai Boys Lost in Cave Hits Day 5, a Nation Holds Its Breath A Space Force?
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Meade, a technocrat with a sharp command of the minutiae of the economy, launched his campaign for the PRI candidacy in a straw sombrero festooned with red and green streamers in the poor southern town of San Juan Chamula on Dec. 14.
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Her name is Lionel Shriver, and she was clearly out to provoke a reaction, wearing a sombrero throughout her talk (an allusion to a kerfuffle at Bowdoin College last year, where a couple of students were censored for wearing "mini-sombreros" to a tequila party).
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He's so fucking insane that he celebrates Cinco de Mayo by wearing a sombrero, eating five taco shells filled with mayonnaise, and downing a blender full of tequila, all while standing in a pool or a fountain or some kind of decorative water feature.
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Witness his Facebook feed on anti-immigrant protests in Italy, courtesy of the Russian propaganda network RT, the photo of Bill Clinton with a woman that he spuriously identifies as the former president's new girlfriend, and a caricature of Barack Obama in a sombrero.
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That neither parent is capable of parking the family's finned Ford Galaxie, its bonnet as wide as a mariachi's sombrero, in the tight patio without scraping its sides seems like an allegory of a country whose political system no longer contained its developing economy and evolving social structure.
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Yes, it very much is and it's an artifact of a great TV show and a great cultural moment O'Hurley: J. P. and I have been arguing about this quite candidly for nearly twenty years, often vehemently, about taking the urban sombrero and putting it in the catalog.
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Ms. Shriver donned a sombrero for much of her speech — an allusion to a case in the United States in which articles of impeachment were drawn up (and later rescinded) against non-Mexican student government members for doing the same during a fiesta-themed tequila party at Bowdoin College.
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Los grandes fanáticos se sobreponen a la falta de dinero, alimentos y entradas, como el mexicano José Ramón Díaz, quien viajó a Rusia con un sombrero tradicional que lo ha convertido en un personaje pintoresco y le ha ganado nuevas amistades, boletos para partidos y conocer al cantante Maluma.
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"Una vez más, somos testigos de cómo se desarrolla la historia, el Emmy va para Billy Porter", dijo la actriz Kerry Washington antes de que el actor subiera al escenario con zapatos de plataforma, un traje a rayas brillante y un sombrero con un ala extendida hacia un lado.
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Jake was at a barbecue at his uncle's when he got his Bandidos patch -- a "fat Mexican," they call it: a round-bellied, grinning caricature with a handlebar mustache and sombrero, wielding a pistol in one hand and a machete in the other (bikers are not known for political correctness).
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A sporting goods company (with 675 locations across the United States) might not seem like an obvious buyer of tech companies, but it's been building up its suite of digital products for youth sports — which it calls Dick's Team Sports HQ — thanks to recent acquisitions of Blue Sombrero and Affinity Sports.
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We called Holland on a sunny Thursday afternoon in Southern California to find out how the hell he got in the hot sauce business, what The Offspring's version of a Gringo Bandito theme song would sound like, and why you should give his sombrero-emblazoned hot sauce an honest shot.
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Los fanáticos se sobreponen a la falta de dinero, alimentos y entradas, como es el caso del mexicano José Díaz, quien viajó a Rusia con un sombrero tradicional que lo ha convertido en un personaje pintoresco y le ha ganado nuevas amistades, boletos para partidos y conocer al cantante Maluma.
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Some of the images have appeared online in publications such as Vanity Fair and the Guardian, which posted — to Jackson's surprise — the two images that drew the most legal concern: one of the KKK and another showing Trump with a rifle, his nearby targets decorated with a sombrero and a Hillary Clinton mask.
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Not only was Dan known for his kitchen prowess and generosity with the local homeless community, he also possessed a dry wit and was known for his "Brophyisms" and other quirks — like making students wear oven mitts when they neglected to wash their hands, or making them wear a sombrero or clown hat if they forgot their chef's hats.
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Not only was Dan known for his kitchen prowess and generosity with the local homeless community, he also posessed a dry wit and was known for his "Brophyisms" and other quirks — like making students wear oven mitts when they neglected to wash their hands, or making them wear a sombrero or clown hat if they forgot their chef's hats.
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Desnudo, travestido, en zapatillas o tacos aguja, la película muestra cómo Lemebel ponía el cuerpo en performances con fuego, caracterizado como la artista mexicana Frida Khalo, con una especie de sombrero de jeringas con sangre para llamar la atención sobre el sida y en la comisión de la memoria en reclamo de desaparecidos de la dictadura, entre otras.
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There are some very satisfying depictions of hipster culture, like a white guy in a sombrero leading a tour of local food spots, but the show really shines when it's investigating the fraught fault lines of gentrification and the immigrant experience: For minority art to be embraced by the white creative mainstream, is a degree of exploitation inevitable?
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One of the most combative conversations around appropriation and exchange in the last year revolved around the novelist and self-proclaimed iconoclast Lionel Shriver, who caused a stir in September after appearing at a writers' festival wearing a sombrero and lamenting the effect of "identity politics" and its potentially censorious influence on literature, experimentation and creativity.
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All photos provided by the band "Sunshine Seems Important" is the grueling, vitamin D deficient realization that hits you when you wake up in a coconut bra on a floor stained with cheap beer and sticky love in a darkened living room that you just raved in for more hours than there are glowsticks in that sombrero you're inexplicably wearing.
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If these university students were owning their mistakes and saying "Maybe in the future I won't wear a prison jumpsuit with a sombrero because that's a bad idea and people will be hurt by that" instead of threatening people with their lawsuit-happy papa or sending out rapid fire tweets about SJW's like a malfunctioning bot, well, maybe we would be getting somewhere.
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Well another half hour and i would have been on the horn with my Dr. Van Nonstran If youre not a huge seinfeld fan, first of all i dont want to know you, but also you may be wondering, "whats all this HOOPLA over this Urban sombrero?" basicaly J Peterman goes insane and runs off to Burma, and Elane ( Seinfeld character) becomes president of the Peterman Company.
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Bursting with zaniness, it is filled with dated humor and antiquated references: cartoon characters hoist martini glasses and tell bawdy jokes through word bubbles, a Sergio Aragonés scene features sombrero-wearing banditos with bulging eyes ogling a maiden, and a caricature of Abe Beame depicts the former New York mayor as haggard and waving a beggar's cup (presumably in reference his shabby re-election prospects that year).
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Lionel Shriver, an American novelist with a new book out (The Mandibles), opted to make her keynote address at the Brisbane Writers Festival in Australia last week an extended rant against the concept of "cultural appropriation," and to do so while wearing a sombrero—a reference, in part, to a controversy at Maine's Bowdoin College where non-Mexican students got in trouble for wearing miniature sombreros at a tequila-themed party.
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Clad in head-to-toe black, the musician, music producer, photographer, technology evangelist and rock 'n' roll Zelig, now 63, sat down at the Crosby Street Hotel in Manhattan last week to talk about his new memoir "Sweet Dreams Are Made of This: A Life in Music," in which he recounts nearly a half-century in music, doing tequila shots with a sombrero-clad Bob Dylan, downing hallucinogens with Daryl Hall and romping under the covers with Stevie Nicks.
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A group of two dozen or so young men from Le Bourget-du-Lac and Chambéry, a nearby city, set up turntables and speakers in a clearing that featured a heterogeneous array of objects reminiscent of an American fraternity house: a barbecue grill, a hookah, a sombrero, a flat-screen television balanced on an old wooden desk, two refrigerators filled with beer, a hammock, a shopping cart, a coffee maker, many pairs of flip-flops and assorted costumes.
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If there had been no sombrero, no wrath at the Whitney Biennial over the inclusion of the white artist Dana Schutz's painting "Open Casket," depicting the murdered Emmett Till in his coffin, no furor over the model Karlie Kloss wearing a Native American headdress while strutting down the Victoria's Secret runway — events that demanded reckoning and discussion — perhaps Rumaan Alam and his publisher would not have felt compelled to print a letter with review copies of his new novel delineating the differences between creator and protagonist.
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