Art y Culture + Essentials Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
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 27, 2009
October 2009 NALAC eBoletin is Now Online – Día de los Muertos Issue – (lots of great content)
October 14, 2009
Estefan, Longoria Ecstatic About National Latino Museum… We Just Need to Raise, Like $300 Million
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
2012 isn’t the end of the world, Mayans insist
Berklee music school reaches out to Latin America – the school has launched an even more aggressive effort to recruit more and be a dominant force in music education in Spanish-speaking countries.
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 29, 2009
Angela de Hoyos, grande dame of Chicano poetry, dies in San Antonio
September 28, 2009
From the Pulpit, New Moves To Change Machismo Culture – Hispanic Evangelical Pastors Try to Instill Respect for Women and Families
September 21, 2009
Celebrated artist José Cisneros has become a bit of a history lesson himself – now 99 years old and colorblind, he is an artist like no other. – The king of Spain even bestowed knighthood on him
September 17, 2009
Chilean-American author Isabel Allende explores the topic of slavery in her new novel, a subject she says is as important as ever because “there have never been more slaves in the world as there are now.”
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
July 9, 2009
Reggaeton fever shakes up Cuba’s culture
June 16, 2009
Latino authors and illustrators honored for outstanding works in children’s literature – Recipients of prestigious Pura Belpré Medal accept awards, sign winning books
June 10, 2009
New biography gets to the heart of Gabriel Garcia Marquez – Gerald Martin’s biography of Colombian writer Gabriel Garci´a Márquez, winner of the 1982 Nobel Prize in Literature, is so terrific, it makes a reviewer want to lurk around bookstores, urging readers to buy it. Really.
June 1, 2009
This looks awesome :: Sunday, June 7, 8:30 pm in Los Angeles, Gregorio Luke at the Ford, Life Size Murals will be at the Ford Amphitheatre’s outdoor stage featuring Diego Rivera (watch him talk a little about it)
May 29, 2009
Sofía Vergara, cartoonish ‘Chicago’ don’t deliver show’s old razzle dazzle
January 26, 2009
The ancient, intricate geometric patterns stamped on the surface of a desert in Peru have long been thought of as messages to the gods, or as markers that tracked celestial objects. Now new details about these geoglyphs suggest they may have been made for “prayer walking”. The Nasca lines
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 12, 2008
Killer Chic – Hollywood’s Sick Love Affair with Che Guevara – (very good 8 minute video)
December 10, 2008
Authors pick their 2008 favorite Latino books
December 8, 2008
Maria Elena Salinas: The unusual path of hemisphere’s saint – Virgin of Guadalupe
Guatemalans on Sunday celebrated a beloved tradition: “Burning of the Devil.” Across the country, people lit bonfires and burned images of Satan as a way to symbolically cleanse their houses. For the first time, the minister of the environment had asked Guatemalans not to burn the devil.
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 29, 2008
A Quixote who tells it like it is Forget magical realism – an exhaustive life of Gabriel García Márquez reveals him as a much worldlier writer than that
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
September 29, 2008
New volume collects works of Chicano writer, artist and Renaissance man :: José Antonio Burciaga – “The Last Supper of Chicano Heroes,” edited by Mimi R. Gladstein and Daniel Chacón (University of Texas at El Paso)
September 17, 2008
A prison-cell painting by Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been auctioned for US$255,000 to raise money for his socialist party.
September 10, 2008
In Pardon My Spanglish, stand-up comedian Bill Santiago chronicles the quintessentially American alegrías of his mother tongue: the quirky, hilariously improvisational fusion of inglés and español spoken by millions (even if they don’t know or admit que están doing it).
September 8, 2008
Famed Puerto Rican poet Julia de Burgos is the focus of this year’s NYSUT Hispanic Heritage Month poster – (pretty cool – I am printing one up – download link provided)
September 5, 2008
Puerto Rican novelist Edgardo Vega Yunqué dead at 72
August 12, 2008
University of Central Florida Researchers Creating Multimedia History of Puerto Ricans in Central Florida
August 5, 2008
Mexican Enough My Life Between the Borderlines By Stephanie Elizondo Griest
August 4, 2008
Teen cadet dance crews as escorts are all the rage at Hispanic girls’ coming-of-age parties -quinceañeras
July 30, 2008
U.S. graphic novelist and artist Phoebe Gloeckner is a contributor to a book funded by human rights group Amnesty International about the largely unsolved murders and disappearances of hundreds of women near the Mexican border town of Ciudad Juarez.
July 27, 2008
Collection shows Rivera’s genius in Chicano genre – Arte Público Press has now published “Tomás Rivera: The Complete Works” ($19.95 paperback), which, for the first time, brings together all of Rivera’s fiction, poetry and essays in one volume.
July 23, 2008
Thanks to Frida Kahlo, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art Finally Draws Latino Crowd
July 21, 2008
Book reveals extent of Mafia’s Cuban empire – “Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution”
July 16, 2008
Bloggings by boz: Anthony Bourdain in Colombia
July 9, 2008
‘En Mis Palabras’ Features Two Languages, Cultures: The Bilingual Performance Tells the Story of a Mexican Immigrant Family
June 24, 2008
Author Jerry A. Rodríguez dies at 46
June 10, 2008
Industrial Boulevard renaming poll has Dallas officials mired in controversy – Dallas – (to César Chávez Boulevard)
May 29, 2008
Rufino Tamayo painting sells for $7.2 million, sets record for Latin American art
May 28, 2008
The galleries of the venerable Museo del Barrio have officially closed to make way for the last stage of a $28 million renovation that will give a needed face-lift to the city’s only Latin-focused museum. – NYC
May 20, 2008
Theatres of Color Fight Marginalization – Coalition says companies face bias from media, audiences, and grantors.
May 13, 2008
Contemporary Latin musical “In the Heights” gets 13 Tony nominations
Ways of Ancient Mexico Reviving Barren Lands – the traditional milpa
April 16, 2008
Mexico marks Octavio Paz anniversary
Junot Díaz snatches Pulitzer Prize, grumbles he’s only 2nd Latino to do so
Take it easy Junot, says fellow Pulitzer Prize-winner Oscar Hijuelos
