Art y Culture + Did You Know Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

April 8, 2008

Did You Know? Junot Diaz is the second Latino to win the Pulitzer for fiction, after Cuban-American writer Oscar Hijuelos

September 27, 2007

Did You Know? Blacks and Latinos combined make up only about 4 percent of the musicians in American professional orchestras

September 15, 2007

Did You Know? 5 million people who have seen Forever Tango

August 13, 2007

Did You Know? In May, Dr. Rivera-Barnes, a Spanish professor at Penn State Worthington Scranton campus, won the 2006 International Latino Book Award prize for best romance novel for her book, “Do Not Pass Go.”

June 11, 2007

Did You Know? Gabriel Garcí Márquez’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ celebrates its 40th birthday this year. This is also the authors 80th birthday, and the 25th anniversary of his Nobel Prize for Literature.

May 15, 2007

Did You Know? Albuquerque is home to one of the hottest flamenco dance companies in the world. Eva Encinias and her family have made the National Institute of Flamenco the envy of dance companies around the country.

January 29, 2007

Did You Know? Cubans celebrate Jan. 28 ”” the birthday of Martí, the father of Cuban independence ”” by giving children born that day layettes called “Canastilla Martiana” as a way to honor and remember Martí.

December 12, 2006

Did You Know? Cheim & Read sold six paintings of Hispanic immigrants by Los Angeles artist John Sonsini, priced $25,000 to $75,000; one was bought as a gift for the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

September 25, 2006

Did You Know? Gaspar de Villagrá’s epic poem “History of the New Mexico,” published in 1610, describes the 1598 Spanish expedition to conquer and colonize what is now New Mexico. The poem predates John Smith’s “A Description of New England.”