It's a Ruined Monkey Jesus Halloween!

Nina Del Rio

On air: Weekends and "Get Connected"
Call: 800-222-1067

You can hear me Saturday and Sunday mornings. On Sundays at 7am, I host Get Connected, a half hour of conversation with new guests each week to discuss events in the city, health, food, family and more. You can scroll down the page for recent shows. I also make appearances during the week at different times of the day... it's fun to change it up!

I'm originally from Texas, but after over a decade in New York, this is the place I call home. And I've seen a lot of it: Since 1995, I've lived in The Hotel Chelsea, the East Village, the Upper West Side and Hoboken, Maplewood and West Orange, NJ. (When we meet, ask me about life at The Chelsea!)

I'm proud to say I've been on-air at 106.7 since 1998.

A Little More Conversation

What do you do when you're not on-air at 106.7?
I do voice-overs, fix things around my house, and I cook.

What do you cook?
I'm currently in a Tex Mex phase, but I also love Italian, Greek and Arabic food.

How did you get into Arabic food?
Well, my family background is Middle Eastern. We're also big travelers, and often visit that part of the world.

Where was your last Middle Eastern trip?
To Tunisia. All the tourist info is in French, so you'd better brush up before you go! The food is super spicy, and all about tuna and eggs.

Where else have you been recently?
Sailing in the Caribbean, between Antigua & Barbuda and Guadeloupe. There's nothing like being on a 42' boat in the middle of the ocean.

Our boat, Zia, anchored off the coast of Terre-De-Haut, Guadeloupe

Places to Take 'Em

As a person who's entire family lives elsewhere, I'm often playing tour guide with guests. Here are a few places you can always take visitors, and never get bored with visiting them again and again!

The Top of The Rock at Rockefeller Center was just reopened a few years ago. I never tire of visiting it, and unlike that "other" high rise view, the lines always seem to be short!

Take the 7 train to Corona Park, Queens, to see Louis Armstrong's home on 107th Street. Louis and his wife Lucille turned a humble home outside into something stunning inside--you won't believe it until you see it. Louis called it his favorite place in the world.

Any season of the year, the New York Botanical Garden is stunning.
Not only can you get great ideas for your own garden (or window box), but you can take hike through a secluded, pristine, native forest...and in the Bronx, no less!

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Saturday, October 06, 2012

Remember the story from earlier in the year about the ruined Jesus fresco? An elderly woman in rural Spain tried to restore a flaking 19th century painting of Jesus at her local church. She didn't do so well:

While the original portrait "Ecce Homo" didn't fare so well, what's now being called the "Ruined Spanish Fresco Monkey Jesus" is emerging as the sleeper hit Halloween costume!

By the by, the woman who did the "restoration" is already annoyed she's not getting royalties because of all the fresh tourists in town. Will she want a cut of the Halloween costume fortune, too?

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