Oh Yes It's Ladies Night... It's Bunko Night

On a recent Thursday night in Brawley, the clatter of dice and clamor of 12 women chattering and laughing is broken by enthusiastic shrieks of “Bunko!” A wooden spoon is tossed through the air, and then the commotion is temporarily halted by the ding-ding of a chrome bell as half the women rise from their tables and scramble to sit at another.

By Becky Hanks

February 22, 2011