Without frequent exposure to art, viewers may struggle to discern whether they're looking at an impressionist masterpiece or out a heavily smudged window. Start your eye-training with today's Groupon to the National Hispanic Cultural Center. Children ages 16 and under, as well as members of the NHCC, are admitted for free. Admission is also free for everyone on Sundays. Choose from the following options:
For $12, you get an art museum outing for two (a $26 value), which includes the following:
- Admission for two (up to a $6 value)
- $20 worth of Hispanic fare at the onsite La Fonda del Bosque Restaurant
For $19, you get an art museum outing for four (a $42 value), which includes the following:
- Admission for four (up to a $12 value)
- $30 worth of Hispanic fare at the onsite La Fonda del Bosque Restaurant
For $3, you get art museum admission for two (up to a $6 value).
All options include 20% off at La Tiendita, the museum's gift shop.
The National Hispanic Cultural Center, which has earned the attention of Frommer’s and Fodor's, guides visitors on a journey through Hispanic culture with an art museum, library, and restaurant. The center’s art museum tantalizes eyes with a permanent collection full of work from traditional craftspeople and contemporary visionaries as well as exceptionally talented burros. Current exhibitions include A Room of Her Own: My Mother’s Altar, an installation created by Sandra Cisneros, acclaimed author of The House on Mango Street. Meanwhile, the center’s research library assembles 12,500 titles on Hispanic culture and history, and archives preserve documents in a haven more temperature-controlled than a refrigerator built out of air-conditioners. Exhibits offer glimpses into Hispanic life, such as the current Visas to Freedom, which recounts the valiant efforts of Spanish diplomats to save Jewish lives during the Holocaust.
Rumbling stomachs quiet at La Fonda del Bosque Restaurant, which teases taste buds with a menu of authentic Hispanic fare for breakfast and lunch. Early morning art admirers resist the urge to eat the masterpieces by filling up on chili-marinated pork, eggs, and hash browns ($9.50), and midday munchers nosh on a buffet Tuesday–Saturday ($10.75/person). Visitors also enjoy 20% off at La Tiendita, the National Hispanic Cultural Center's gift shop, which will host a holiday shopping fair on Saturday, November 26.
Groupon Says
The Groupon Guide to: Speed-Reading
If you're reading this sentence, chances are good that you're literate, but if you're still reading it, you're one of the disproportionate number of Americans who are not speed-literate. Crank your reading rate to superhuman levels with these tips:
- If you encounter a thick chunk of text, skip every other word. If a character is giving a long speech, skip the whole thing and make up your own.
- Train your eyes to move more quickly by watching recorded tennis matches on fast-forward.
- Learn Braille so your hands can read one book while your eyes read another.
- If you're reading a mystery, just read the last chapter where it's revealed who did it to save yourself from the anxiety of the investigation parts.
- Count a book as "read" if you thought about looking it up on Wikipedia.
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