Top Stories + Art y Culture Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 23, 2009
San Antonio’s Museo Alameda in financial straits
November 16, 2009
15th annual Mariachi Vargas Extravaganza in San Antonio – more than 1,000 professional & student musicians participating – 8-day festival of mariachi competitions, workshops, presentations, serenades & concerts attracts more than 15,000 visitors annually.
October 12, 2009
Beyond the Barrio, With Growing Pains – El Museo del Barrio reopens with a new glass facade, a redesigned courtyard and modernized galleries, including one devoted to its permanent collection in East Harlem, NYC – Rafael Montañez Ortiz
October 5, 2009
Senator Robert Menendez releases book celebrating Latino heritage and calling for government reform – “Growing American Roots: Why Our Nation Will Thrive As Our Largest Minority Flourishes”
September 28, 2009
From the Pulpit, New Moves To Change Machismo Culture – Hispanic Evangelical Pastors Try to Instill Respect for Women and Families
August 16, 2009
In Los Angeles, Songs Without Borders – In clubs, bars, swap meets and concert halls, from car radios and ringing cellphones, you will hear corridos, old-time folk ballads in the banda and norteño styles
December 23, 2008
A Diaper Change You Can Believe In – Why, exactly, are thousands of God-loving Spaniards paying almost twenty bucks for Barack Obama to relieve himself in their nativity scenes? Somewhere between tradition and transition lies perhaps the funniest Christmas story you’ll learn this season.
December 5, 2008
Ricardo Romo, president of the University of Texas at San Antonio, has been appointed by President George W. Bush to serve on a 23-member commission charged with exploring options for creating a national museum dedicated to American Latinos.
November 7, 2008
Eduardo Diaz, executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, was appointed yesterday to lead the Smithsonian Latino Center.
October 2, 2008
The Chicano Movement Through Music and Fine Arts – Emmy Award Winner Hector A. Gonzalez spreads the word in Texas
June 24, 2008
Author Jerry A. Rodríguez dies at 46
May 29, 2008
Rufino Tamayo painting sells for $7.2 million, sets record for Latin American art
May 27, 2008
South L.A. backyards are becoming barnyards – Once predominantly African American, the area has seen an influx of Latino immigrants, along with their roosters, chickens and other barnyard beasts not typically part of the urban scene.
May 13, 2008
Contemporary Latin musical “In the Heights” gets 13 Tony nominations
April 8, 2008
Junot Díaz wins Pulitzer Prize
February 18, 2008
Traditional music of Mexico casts spell on new generation
Celia Cruz’s story found in translation – Show hits big with Spanish language niche
February 14, 2008
Raúl Salinas, poet, teacher and activist, dies – Austin resident and bookstore owner gave voice to Chicano struggle.
January 3, 2008
Marketplace: Three Kings Day gives gift of sales – (Let us commercialize another holiday)
December 12, 2007
Mexican company launches beer in honor of unofficial drug saint – Jesus Malverde
Guadalupe Spreads Her Theatrical Wings
November 18, 2007
US Artists Organization give nine $50,000 grants to Latinos/Hispanics
October 24, 2007
Oldest Quran Sells For $2.3 million by the Hispanic Society of America
October 23, 2007
One Person’s Trash Is Another Person’s Lost Masterpiece – (A painting by Mexican Rufino Tamayo found in the garbage in NYC worth a cool million $$)
July 11, 2007
City’s Latino film fest is back: better, stronger, feistier – New York International Latino Film Festival
April 29, 2007
Mexico City stages mass quinceanera party
April 19, 2007
¡Viva Mariachi! – Teen musicians in training and thousands of spectators are drawn every year to the Tucson International Mariachi Conference
April 12, 2007
Largest Latino Museum Opens in San Antonio, Texas
April 3, 2007
Riverside veteran finds passion for art after pain of war – Simon Gonzalez
March 19, 2007
Latina author shares trailblazing tales – Sylvia Mendoza’s “The Book of Latina Women: 150 Vidas of Passion, Strength and Success.”
February 22, 2007
“In the Heights”: A young Latino’s $2.5 million off-Broadway debut
January 28, 2007
“Padre Nuestro’ wins top Sundance award
November 16, 2006
Days of anonymity for Spanish-language authors are coming to an end in U.S. – Miami Book Fair International – Florida
October 11, 2006
K-12 Teachers Seek Out Lesson in African-Latin American Links – UCLA International Institute, California
Latino film fest to feature Oscar-caliber work – Los Angeles Latino International Film Festival – California
Rapping Mexico
October 9, 2006
New wave of Latin singers spins politics in a different direction
October 4, 2006
Nothing Is Sacred, as Looters Rob Mexican Churches of Colonial Treasures
September 26, 2006
Maquilapolis – Just Across the Border, Mexican Laborers Work Cheap but Fight Hard
September 5, 2006
A nueva generation poised to shape pop culture
