Art y Culture + People Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)

November 23, 2009

Pedro Friedeberg, master surrealist

November 20, 2009

Guatemala: The Illustrations of Roberto Galvez

November 19, 2009

Farewell to an icon: Artist who tore at racism is buried at 99 – R.I.P. José Cisneros

November 16, 2009

Feeling like an outsider inspires work of Junot Diaz

José Cisneros 1910-2009 – Iconic El Paso artist dies at age 99

November 9, 2009

Argentine Photographer Humberto Rivas Dies in Barcelona

November 6, 2009

Francisco Ayala, 103 – Acclaimed Spanish writer was a resolute opponent of Franco

Interview with mystery author Steven Torres

November 5, 2009

Francisco Ayala, honored Spanish author, dies at 103

November 4, 2009

Guatemalan Writer Jaime Barrios Peña Dies

November 2, 2009

Interview with horror author J.F. Gonzalez

October 29, 2009

Cien años después, José Limón sigue marcando el paso en danza

October 26, 2009

El Paso-style Lotería: Photographer Rick Jimenez Carrasco comes up with winning idea

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 9, 2009

City of Berkeley Honors Poet & Artist Rafael Jesús González

October 7, 2009

A conversation with Oscar Hijuelos and Esmeralda Santiago – Tuesday, October 20, 2009 at El Museo del Barrio – New York City

October 5, 2009

An Interview with Horacio Castellanos Moya – author of nine novels and five books of short stories that have made him an important literary figure in the Spanish-speaking world

Alex Rubio’s calavera print part of Chicago museo’s muertos show

Husband and Wife Team Keep Native Traditions Alive – Beatriz Ortega Ruiz y Mario Augustin Gaspar Rodriguez create using a pre-Hispanic technique called pasta de caña de maiz & maque, an indigenous form of lacquer ware that already had a long tradition when the Spaniards arrived 500 years ago.

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”

October 1, 2009

On his first day as music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic, Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel gave a lesson in geography, namely what constitutes America.

Venezuelan conductor Gustavo Dudamel became music director of the Los Angeles Philharmonic on Wednesday at the age of 28, deploying digital tools to draw a younger and less elite audience to classical music.

September 30, 2009

Daniel A. Olivas to moderate author’s panel for Latinos in Lotusland anthology

September 29, 2009

Juanita Castro, the exiled sister of Cuban leaders Fidel and Raul Castro, is set to release a first-person memoir in which she talks at length about her brothers.

September 28, 2009

Latino author works to make literature dangerous again – “The Protesters Handbook” by Tony Diaz

From the Bookshelves: Luis Alberto Urrea, Into the Beautiful North

September 24, 2009

Peru’s Mario Vargas Llosa was awarded with “Caballero Bonald” prize.

Bilingual young adult author to address children at library – René Saldaña Jr. – Texas

Vargas Llosa gana premio literario por su ensayo sobre Onetti

September 22, 2009

Author of Controversial Novel “America Libre” on Tour – Raul Ramos y Sanchez appears at community centers, colleges and bookstores to discuss issues of identity, racism and liberation

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

Noted Chicano artist Gabriel S. Gaytán and his son, Gabriel Itzai, will unveil their new mural, “El Corazón de El Paso,” during the Lincoln Park Car Show from noon to 5 p.m. today in the park. – El Paso

September 17, 2009

Legendary Colombian photographer Nereo López Meza is finally coming into focus in the U.S. with the first stateside release of a book about his work. “Nereo: Images From Half a Century”

More than 60 authors will participate in the third annual Hispanic/Latino Book Fair of New York this weekend in Jackson Heights, Queens. The fair is dedicated to ­Pulitzer Prize winner Junot Díaz.

September 15, 2009

Oscar Castillo Photography Show. Latino Book Fest. – Los Angeles

September 14, 2009

Edgardo Buitrago Buitrago, historian, university professor, intellectual and author of works on poet Ruben Dario, died of a heart attack in Leon, a city in western Nicaragua, his family said Sunday. He was 85.

September 9, 2009

Colorful works of artist Rafael López

September 8, 2009

Mexican writer Carlos Fuentes tends to reflect the realities of his country in his books, but never to the extent that he does in his latest novel, “Adan en Eden” (Adam in Eden), a journalistic report on drug trafficking and political corruption in Mexico to be published in November.

San Antonio’s Gallista Gallery and seven of its prominent Latino and Latina artists are being recognized with a two-DVD set

September 1, 2009

Geraldo Rivera new book “The Great Progression: How Hispanics Will Lead America to a New Era of Prosperity”

Author Tells Of A 90s Cuba – Achy Obejas

August 27, 2009

El polifacético artista cubano Manolo Torrente falleció en Miami el pasado jueves 20 víctima de varios problemas de salud. Tenía 83 años.

August 24, 2009

Interview with Oscar Casares, author of Amigoland

A British company is releasing a new line of textile designs inspired by paintings by George Mendoza, Las Cruces’ internationally renowned blind artist.

August 21, 2009

Rudolfo Anaya, BLESS ME ULTIMA Interview

August 20, 2009

Monster and Animal Hands by Hector Serrano – cool

Office of Cultural Affairs’ Artist of the Month for San Antonio – writer, producer and artist Victor Payan

August 17, 2009

Interview with Gregg Barrios

August 16, 2009

Latino Cartoonists Doing Their Thing – They now have a home on the earthlings world wide web: DontArrestUs.com

August 13, 2009

Los Angeles-based artist Ronald Llanos

August 10, 2009

Interview with author & poet Daniel Olivas

10 Classic Nuyorican Authors & Poets

August 6, 2009

Paul Martínez Pompa: His Aim Is True

July 16, 2009

Photographer Carlos Alvarez Montero

July 14, 2009

Interview with Emanuel Xavier

July 13, 2009

Ecuador: The Passing of Writer Jorge Enrique Adoum

June 23, 2009

The renowned Peruvian visual artist Carlos Runcie-Tanaka is presenting his works in Houston (Texas, US) starting on June 27th.

June 19, 2009

Famed Chicago Muralist Hector Duarte’s new work of art

June 17, 2009

2009 Winners of Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature

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 3, 2009

List of International Latino Book Award 2010 winners

Eduardo Galeano on “Democracy Now!” – Uruguayan author Eduardo Galeano has become a household name after Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez presented Barack Obama with “The Open Veins of Latin America” at the Summit of the Americas.

May 30, 2009

Art Review | Camilo José Vergara Harlem in Time-Lapse Photography

March 20, 2009

Interview With Rolando Hinojosa-Smith: The Writer’s Mission

March 16, 2009

Gregg Barrios interview with writer Rigoberto Gonzalez

February 16, 2009

Joe Cuba: The Father of New York Boogaloo has passed

February 4, 2009

Jorge Rodriguez-Gerada, created a 2.5 acre sand painting of Obama in Barcelona, Spain

January 29, 2009

A Chilean Writer’s Fictions Might Include His Own Colorful Past – Roberto Bolaño

Young Venezuelan author A. A. Alvarez makes the headlines with a fun novel where wit and reality demonstrate that money is not the only reason young Latin Americans immigrate to the USA.

January 28, 2009

The late Roberto Bolaño of Chile is among the finalists announced Saturday for the National Book Critics Circle prizes.

Entrevista con Paco Ignacio Taibo II – es uno de los escritores mexicanos imprescindibles por su manera de conducir la tradición de la novela negra y el recuento de los procesos históricos del país. En esta entrevista, da cuenta de ambas pasiones

December 24, 2008

O holy fiesta! A Mexican Christmas Eve – Gustavo Arellano and his extended family celebrate Christmas Eve at his Tía Maria’s house with a feast of epic proportions.

December 19, 2008

University of Central Florida dean aids effort to establish Hispanic museum – Jose B. Fernandez

December 12, 2008

Interview with Pedro Alvarez whose’s style of artwork is known worldwide as Neoazteca

Puerto Rican Art Now-with Antonio Martorell Presented at the Smithsonian’s Hirshhorn Museum Dec. 12

Now Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos is adding his name to the list of literary heavyweights turning their talents to minority-themed, young-adult fiction. Like Hijuelos’ best-known novel, “The Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love” (1990), “Dark Dude” is about a Cuban living in New York City, only the protagonist is second generation and a teenager.

Killer Chic – Hollywood’s Sick Love Affair with Che Guevara – (very good 8 minute video)

Edwin Sulca Lagos, one of the most prominent weavers of Ayacucho in southern Peru, will be exhibiting his textile designs during a five-month show at the South Dakota Art Museum in Brookings, SD.

In his latest book, The Latino Threat – Constructing Immigrants, Citizens and the Nation, Leo R. Chavez examines the coverage of recent immigrants with the desire to illustrate how prejudices have been the basis to wrong a segment of the population and outline the meaning of American.

December 10, 2008

Authors pick their 2008 favorite Latino books

Interview with Author/Illustrator Xavier Garza – new bilingual book CHARRO CLAUS AND THE TEJAS KID

Houston author’s work featured at Latin book fest – The Legend of Mariquita and Other Short Stories by Matthew Rosas

December 8, 2008

A Lifestyle Distinct: The Muxe of Mexico – Mexico can be intolerant of homosexuality; it can also be quite liberal. Gay-bashing incidents are not uncommon in the countryside, where many Mexicans consider homosexuality a sin. In Mexico City, meanwhile, same-sex domestic partnerships are legally recognized — and often celebrated lavishly in government offices as if they were marriages. But nowhere are attitudes toward sex and gender quite as elastic as in the far reaches of the southern state of Oaxaca. There, in the indigenous communities around the town of Juchitán, the world is not divided simply into gay and straight. The local Zapotec people have made room for a third category, which they call “muxes”

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 21, 2008

Young conductor Gustavo Dudamel lives his dream

November 19, 2008

Sculptor Jesús Moroles was one of several figures honored with this year’s National Medals of the Arts and Humanities.

November 18, 2008

El jefe de Estado de México, Felipe Calderón, los premios Nobel Gabriel García Márquez y Nadine Gordimer, el ex presidente del Gobierno español Felipe González y el ex mandatario chileno Ricardo Lagos encabezaron hoy el comienzo de los homenajes al escritor Carlos Fuentes.

La censura es una de las peores acciones contra la literatura y aunque hoy, a 50 años desde que Carlos Fuentes publicó su primera novela “La región más transparente”, México lo celebra con la distribución de un millón de copias de sus obras en las escuelas, tuvo que hacer un largo recorrido.

November 17, 2008

Sergio Ramírez presenta novela detectivesca “con humor” – El Cielo llora por mí

Orlando’s Fernando Bujones earns “extraordinary” tribute in new documentary

November 12, 2008

El pintor y escultor colombiano Fernando Botero afirmó que no le daba nada al fisco de Italia, que no le pagará ni un centavo y que apelará a todos los recursos legales para defender su nombre.

November 7, 2008

Eduardo Diaz, executive director of the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque, was appointed yesterday to lead the Smithsonian Latino Center.

November 6, 2008

Luis Valdez is the creator of Broadway’s “Zoot Suit,” the writer and director of Hollywood’s “La Bamba” and, more broadly, the father of Chicano theater. For Valdez, art, entertainment and social action are part of the same ball of wax.

October 21, 2008

El cineasta mexicano Guillermo del Toro sigue dando muestras de su imparable creatividad: acaba de entregar la primera novela de una trilogía sobre vampiros, cuya preventa se convirtió en todo un éxito durante la 60a. edición de la Feria Internacional del Libro en Frankfurt.

October 20, 2008

Two first-time authors bring fresh Boricua lit right from the streets – Iván Sánchez, autor of the memoir “Next Stop.” + Daniel Serrano, author of the novel “Gunmetal Black.”

October 7, 2008

Mirna Pineda and Mariela Gómez de Ell, former Telemundo anchors in Phoenix will be peforming in a local theater

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 25, 2008

25 ANIVERSARIO DE SU MUERTE – El México de Luis Buñuel

September 22, 2008

Daniel Martin Diaz will have a solo exhibition, titled “Anatomy of Sorrow,” at the Arizona State Museum.

Raymation: An Interview with Artist/Director Ray Prado

Best-selling writer Victor Villaseñor, author of “Rain of Gold” and the Pulitzer Prize-nominee “Burro Genius,” will be in San Antonio Monday.

September 17, 2008

INTERVIEW WITH MICHAEL MEJIAS OF WRITERS HOUSE LITERARY AGENCY

September 16, 2008

Guatemalan Artist Exhibition a Gateway to Study Abroad – The University of Arizona Center for Latin American Studies hosts Mayan artist Carlos Chavez.

Mexican artist presenting painting to Dallas Mayor Tom Leppert in big hoo-ha ceremony on Tuesday

September 15, 2008

Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist Junot Diaz headed to San Francisco Bay Area

September 9, 2008

El Sereno instrument-maker carves out a niche – Cesar Augusto Castro Gonzalez started learning folkloric music and making the instruments as a youth in his native Veracruz, Mexico.

September 8, 2008

4 generations of El Teatro Campesino actors -bilingual theater troupe, El Teatro Campesino, in San Juan Bautista, California

September 5, 2008

Puerto Rican novelist Edgardo Vega Yunqué dead at 72

Palabristas releases group chapbook – Minnesota’s only Latino spoken-word collective

University of Central Florida’s Latin American Festival Honors Puerto Rico’s Guitar Maker – Don Manuel Velázquez

September 3, 2008

Flaco, de impecable guayabera, siempre sonriente, así recordaron los cubanos en el centenario de su natalicio, al legendario Joseíto Fernández el compositor de “La Guantanamera”, la canción emblemática de la isla.

George Rabasa Returns with Fall Must-Read

August 26, 2008

Novelist Michael Nava roars back into the literary world!

August 18, 2008

Argentine-born actress Fanny Mikey, who created and oversaw Bogota’s world-renowned Iberoamerican Theater Festival, died Saturday. She was 78.

August 17, 2008

Gregorio Luke takes Latino Museum of History, Art and Culture post

Korean Mexicans learn more of their Asian roots on visit to Southern California – descendants of Koreans lured to the Yucatan Peninsula a century ago

Lucha libre wrestlers grapple for the fun of it – Sarasota, Florida

August 14, 2008

Pérez Celis, 69; Argentine Artist Had Popular Appeal

Malinche’s Daughter, Michelle Otero, and Juan Felipe Herrera

August 12, 2008

A bicoastal legal battle has erupted over who owns 17 never-exhibited drawings by Martin Ramirez, whose artworks, created while he lived in California state mental institutions until his death in 1963, can fetch six-figure sums.

University of Central Florida Researchers Creating Multimedia History of Puerto Ricans in Central Florida

August 11, 2008

RANCHO PANCHO: A new play by Gregg Barrios

Broadway’s golden boy – Lin-Manuel Miranda hits the Heights with a Tony-winning Broadway debut

A group of college students in San Jose, California, is using interactive theatre to teach immigrants what to do to avoid being arrested by immigration agents.

August 6, 2008

Reading with a Child/ Leer con un Niño From Author Amy Costales

August 4, 2008

Alfred Arteaga, a UC Berkeley professor of Chicano and ethnic studies, died July 4 in Santa Clara of a heart attack. He was 58.

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.

Architect Nicolás ”Lin” Arroyo, who played a leading role in pre-Castro Cuba’s modernist architecture and planning movement, has died, his family said. He was 90.

July 24, 2008

Pequeñas maravillas – La habilidad de un orfebre para reproducir la cultura aborigen latinoamericana en miniatura – Ramón Cabrera

July 21, 2008

A visit with artist Cesar Martinez

La Bloga: Poets José Emilio Pacheco, Joaquín Sabina & Luis García Montero

July 17, 2008

La Bloga: Adrian Castro: As the Spirit Moves Him

July 15, 2008

Past is no prologue for writer – Mexican-American stories fuel Edison grad’s writing – Richard Garcia

Charles Rice-Gonzalez aims to boost Bronx in art

July 14, 2008

La Bloga: ¡Yo vengo a gozar! – interviewing Rolando Hinojosa

Lunes Libros : Cubano-Nuyorican Writer Charlie Vazquez brings Business as Usual » VivirLatino

July 13, 2008

Al Borrego found places for artists in El Paso, now Dallas.

June 30, 2008

Artist Daniel Lezama, Mexico’s provocateur

June 24, 2008

Author Jerry A. Rodríguez dies at 46

June 20, 2008

La Bloga: Juan Felipe Herrera Continues To Amaze

June 19, 2008

Luis Alberto Urrea to Speak at Santa Barbara Writers Conference

Dance Review – Israel Galván – One-Man Flamenco, Without Instruments

June 17, 2008

High hopes: A skinny Latino dreamer, with an assist from Miami’s deep theater talent pool, creates a Tony Awards heavyweight – Lin-Manuel Miranda

Guiding Hands Help Immigrant Artists Connect – New York

The Ñ Beat: “Reflections Of Ourselves” – Chicago

June 12, 2008

Cubans Wifredo Lam and Carlos Luna showcased at Museum of Latin American Art – Los Angeles

June 9, 2008

Mexican artists enrich, inspire Bay Area

Sculptor Jorge Pardo: Is it art or furniture? – Why quibble? The Cuban-born artist’s fanciful imagination knows no bounds, and his works, no boundaries.

June 4, 2008

The Puerto Rican Murder Club – The just-released thriller “Revenge Tango,” Jerry Rodríguez’s follow-up to his acclaimed “The Devil’s Mambo”

June 2, 2008

Chino Hills artist Abel Izaguirre creates tiny tributes to his old home: South L.A. – The man who watched his brothers fall victim to the streets found refuge in art. Many of his Locsters — such as ‘Tattoo Tony’ — are real people depicted as toys.

Interview with Jaime Martinez Wood, Author of Rogelia’s House of Magic

Fresno Poet Luis Omar Salinas dies at 70

May 28, 2008

Meet Charles Juhasz-Alvarado’s Giant Termite – The Puerto Rican sculptor gets buggy at Exit Art – NYC

May 27, 2008

Latino veteran (Brian Naranjo) writes about social integration challenge in new novel – (The Tamale List) – Hispanic MPR

May 22, 2008

Artist Jesus Moroles to Create Large-scale Sculpture on Prexy’s Pasture – University of Wyoming

May 21, 2008

Ismael Cazarez Art Reception – Oxnard, California

May 12, 2008

The spectral presences of Leonora Carrington

May 8, 2008

Arthur Aviles: Boricua tai chi

May 6, 2008

Union Boss Dennis Rivera To Lead NYC’s Puerto Rican Day Parade

May 5, 2008

The Mayan Way – in Oakland

April 30, 2008

Latino artist pushes benefits of higher education – Washington

April 29, 2008

MSU professor’s ‘Rumba Sinfónica’ to be performed by Detroit Symphony Orchestra

April 28, 2008

Q & A: Javier O. Huerta – My main area of interest is bad poetry

April 25, 2008

A three-day conference honoring the late Guillermo Hernández, a professor of Spanish and Portuguese at UCLA and a leading scholar of Mexican narrative ballads, will take place at the University of California, Santa Barbara in May. “The Sixth International Corrido (Mexican Narrative Ballad) Conference” will also celebrate the work and memory of composer and vocalist Lalo Guerrero.

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

April 8, 2008

Dancer Jock Soto Looks Back on a Life in Tights (and Fishnets)

Pulitzer winner stays true to Jersey roots – Junot Diaz

Junot Díaz wins Pulitzer Prize

April 7, 2008

Paul Revere of Texas – Juan Seguin

April 2, 2008

A documentary follows ballet dancer Jock Soto’s footprints – Water Flowing Together on PBS’ Independent Lens

March 31, 2008

LA Chicano Muralist George Yepes to Speak at VC April 17 – Ventura College

March 24, 2008

La Bloga: INTERVIEW WITH AARON MICHAEL MORALES

March 20, 2008

A Puerto Rican Poets Fight With Alzheimers – Jack Agüeros

March 18, 2008

Cuban-Dominican artist Quisqueya Henríquez exhibits in Miami – DominicanToday.com

Puerto Rico Painter Rafael Tufino Dies at 85

Playwright pays tribute to his roots – Juan Felipe Herrera

March 11, 2008

Tomás Rivera Conference Honors Painter, Poet – Alfredo Arreguín and author Lauro Flores

March 9, 2008

Hispanic writers top Book Critics Circle awards – Junot Diaz won fiction prize, Edwidge Danticat was cited in autobiography

March 6, 2008

Poet Guillermo Rebollo-Gill At University of Connecticut

March 5, 2008

15 years of películas Latinas – What a long, strange trip it’s been for the Latino Film Fest’s founder, Ethan van Thillo – San Diego

Linda Nieves-Powell goes ‘Free Style’

Antonio Skarmeta Offers Wisdom at Hispanic New York Class – Columbia University

February 25, 2008

La Bloga: Max Benavidez comes to the Web

La Bloga: Interview with Juan Felipe Herrera

Manny Vega and His ‘Hip Hop Byzantine’ Art

Loss of poet Raúl Salinas is loss to literature

February 19, 2008

RECEPTION TUESDAY FOR SAN FRANCISCO DIRECTOR OF CULTURAL AFFAIRS – Luis Cancel fought eviction of artists and loss of artist’s space in New York City – San Francisco

February 14, 2008

Raúl Salinas, poet, teacher and activist, dies – Austin resident and bookstore owner gave voice to Chicano struggle.

Texas’ Peyote Hunters Struggle to Find a Vanishing, Holy Crop

February 13, 2008

La Bloga: RAULSALINAS DIES

Rick Castro – Rick Castro is the curator and owner of Antebellum Gallery in Hollywood, CA.

February 11, 2008

Listen to interview with Abel Lopez, associate producing director, GALA Hispanic Theatre and playwright Gustavo Ott about issues affecting Latinos in contemporary society and Your Molotov Kisses – Hispanic MPR

Artist Humberto Saenz deals with immigration in Irving exhibit ‘The Réel’ -Texas

Mexico’s Robin Hood a blessing to both sides of the law – Jesus Malverde

You Can’t Bite Your Lip and Deliver ‘Molotov Kisses’ – Gustavo Ott Writes Plays To Challenge Fellow Hispanics – Washington DC

February 5, 2008

UC Berkeley music professor and renowned composer Jorge Liderman (Argentinian) committed suicide Sunday morning by jumping in front of a BART train

February 4, 2008

Hispanic cartoonist Gus Arriola, creator of Gordo, dies at 90

January 30, 2008

Oscar Hijuelos Plans New `Mambo Kings’ Novel

January 24, 2008

Sought-after Peruvian conductor debuts at Carnegie – Miguel Harth-Bedoya

January 17, 2008

La Bloga: Michele Serros: Scandalosa y Fabulosa!

January 15, 2008

University of New Mexico Professor Emeritus Ángel González Dies in Spain

January 14, 2008

Spanish Poet Angel Gonzalez Dead at 82

January 8, 2008

Alberto Alonso – Cuban choreographer

January 4, 2008

Ballet’s Alberto Alonso remembered

The New Americana – David Gonzales and his Homies pay a visit to the Pasadena Museum of California Art – Pasadena

January 3, 2008

Cuban ballet choreographer dies in Gainesville – Alberto Julio Rayneri Alonso

December 11, 2007

The Death of a Mexican Musician – Heber Rasgado

December 10, 2007

Marcos Loya has gone from a rough childhood to a magic career – A kid marked for prison or grunt work surprised everyone by becoming a world-class composer and the musical force behind SCR’s ‘La Posada Mágica.’

December 6, 2007

Duke University – Ramón Saldívar to win MLA prize

December 3, 2007

Author reveals his ’secret life’ writing poetry – John Phillip Santos

November 30, 2007

Unlikely hero of Mexican Revolution – Chicago professor’s work has preserved and elevated country’s historical legacy – Friedrich Katz

Mexican muralist Rivera wins back fame over Kahlo

Argentinian poet Juan Gelman wins top Spanish literary prize

November 28, 2007

Hispanic tradition in state Senate leadership – Denver

November 18, 2007

US Artists Organization give nine $50,000 grants to Latinos/Hispanics

November 12, 2007

Toes For Business: Latin Dancers Revive Ballet

November 4, 2007

Luis Valdez: the father of Chicano theater – Festival honors playwright/director who blazed a trail for Latinos in theater and film

November 1, 2007

Castro’s Cuba setting for Pulitzer winner’s early play – Nilo Cruz

October 22, 2007

La Bloga: FRANCISCO ARAGÓN TALKS ABOUT LETRAS LATINAS

October 21, 2007

La Bloga: GUEST INTERVIEW: JUNOT DÍAZ

October 20, 2007

Latino character: Professor talks chicanery, writing craft at Napa Valley College – Daniel Chacón

October 18, 2007

Latino poet shines spotlight on Lawrence – Martin Espada – Massachusetts

October 15, 2007

La Bloga: SPOTLIGHT ON EDUARDO SANTIAGO

Local filmmaker’s historic tale of Joaquin Murieta debuts – San Jose

October 4, 2007

Renowned Colombian architect Rogelio Salmona dies at 78

September 30, 2007

Carlos Acosta: a ballet superstar – The wayward Havana boy turned ballet superstar tells our correspondent why he is still fiercely proud of his roots; and, below, an extract from his new autobiography

September 26, 2007

Spanish writer Odon Betanzos dies

Comic is serious on Hispanic art – Cheech Marin

September 23, 2007

Chicago artist with Hispanic roots hopes to inspire – Carlos Jimenez

September 16, 2007

Stuart illustrator Orlando Ramirez brings story of ‘Cheech’ to life

Explorer Who Found Lost Peru Cities Dies – Douglas Eugene “Gene” Savoy found 40 lost cities!

September 10, 2007

Hispanic poet to visit Omaha Sept. 19 – Francisco Alarcon

August 22, 2007

Book Review – Papi Chulo: A Legend, A Novel and the Puerto Rican Identity

August 16, 2007

Escape artist – Kidnapping, death threats, a new life in America: Edwin Gil’s story is as dramatic as his paintings

July 26, 2007

Ricardo Favela, 62; helped create Chicano art group, was longtime professor

July 16, 2007

Theatre inspires love, family – Roberto and Jeannie Peña + Border Theatre in Mission

Cuba’s ambassador for flair – Interview with dancer Carlos Acosta

July 10, 2007

Passion for theater shapes Garcia household – Teatro en Miami Corp

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 23, 2007

Puppeteer spreads his craft to the young – Richard Diaz & Perpetual Puppets Production and Design

May 9, 2007

RAISING THE BARRE – American Ballet Theatre dancers Herman Cornejo and Carmen Corella

May 7, 2007

La Bloga: INTERVIEW WITH ALEX ESPINOZA

April 30, 2007

La Bloga: INTERVIEW WITH GUSTAVO ARELLANO

April 29, 2007

El Paso author has fine debut – Mario Chavez

April 19, 2007

The Puerto Rican diaspora of Frank Espada

April 12, 2007

Jimmy Santiago Baca intrigues University of Akron audience

April 11, 2007

Los Angeles Philharmonic names young Venezuelan next musical director – Gustavo Dudamel

April 8, 2007

La Bloga: Words That Raise the Dead: Interview with Martin Espada

April 3, 2007

Riverside veteran finds passion for art after pain of war – Simon Gonzalez

April 2, 2007

Felipe Cazals: the conscience of Mexican cinema

March 22, 2007

La Bloga: Chica Lit, Meet Johnny Diaz

March 21, 2007

Hispanic group to honor comic strip’s creator (Hector Cantu) – Baylor University

March 12, 2007

Spanish-language editor discusses Latino culture – Battle Creek, Michigan

Local Boy – Lin-Manuel Miranda – in The New Yorker no less

March 9, 2007

Words That Raise The Dead: An Interview with Poet Martín Espada

Cal State professor receives national award – Marcos Martinez

March 6, 2007

Longtime sportswriter does fine job with family epic – Ray Sanchez

Essayist Examines Art of a Former Migrant Worker – Martin Ramirez

March 5, 2007

La Bloga: Words That Raise the Dead: Interview with Martin Espada

February 13, 2007

Exiled Salvadoran novelist settles in Pittsburgh – Horacio Castellanos Moya

February 8, 2007

Argentine filmmaker Vallejo dies – Director and writer of ‘Martin Fierro’ was 65

February 5, 2007

La Bloga: SPOTLIGHT ON DANIEL ALARCÓN

January 29, 2007

His book charts an American dream – Abelardo de la Peña’s Mi Barco: El Sueño Americano My Ship: The American Dream

January 23, 2007

LOS BROS HERNANDEZ EXHIBITION AND SIGNING AT FANTAGRAPHICS BOOKSTORE FEB. 10! – Seattle

January 11, 2007

From paper bags to canvas, this Afro-Cuban artist inspires – Boston

Richardson Appoints Board President for Hispanic Cultural Center – New Mexico – Daniel Ortega

January 10, 2007

Lin-Manuel Miranda: Scaling the Heights, First Person

December 21, 2006

Hector J. Santa Anna, 83; B-17 pilot portrayed in Latino play

December 15, 2006

Chicano author’s love of literature leads to young adult novel – Our House on Hueco by Carlos Flores

December 8, 2006

Interview: Filmmaker Guillermo del Toro

Kansas State’s Clemente Jaquez-Herrera Receives Gilman International Scholarship To Study Abroad In Orvieto, Italy

December 5, 2006

Bridging Two Worlds: Gustavo Pellón Translates Seminal Work of Mexican Revolution

October 23, 2006

LULAC, schools are keen on teen’s artistic promise – Norbert Garcí – Arizona

October 13, 2006

Hispanic playwright, Eduardo Machado, keeps his sights set on Cuba

October 10, 2006

Deportation to Mexico approaches for sculptor from Utah

October 3, 2006

Monica Brown’s bilingual children’s books go beyond borders

September 28, 2006

‘Every day is Latina day where I live’ – Interview with Sandra Cisneros

September 15, 2006

Professor co-edits book about her father, Juan Felipe Toruno

September 14, 2006

La Bloga: Brother Trini, 2006: D.E.P.

A glorious evening with gifted Cuban soprano Eglise Gutierrez – Miami, Florida

September 12, 2006

Daisy Martinez of “Daisy Cooks!” on PBS

September 8, 2006

‘Baldo’: Speaking Appearance and Reader Appearance

September 5, 2006

Mexican writer Carlos Monsivais honored with Juan Rulfo award

September 1, 2006

Actress-writer, Evelina Fernandez, will share journey during Latino Institute Conference in Phoenix, Arizona

August 28, 2006

Taos flamenco dancer honored by Spanish king – New Mexico

August 27, 2006

Documentaries boost volume for valued Barrio Logan ‘Voices’ in Southern, California

August 22, 2006

Stealth fighter – This Cuban woman toiled as a man in the Civil War. So why has no one heard of her?

August 16, 2006

Adios, Trino

August 15, 2006

Julio Galán, 46, Mexican Painter of a Personal, Dreamlike World, Dies

August 10, 2006

Superheroes: Invisibles No Más

August 9, 2006

Charismatic leader creates Austin Puerto Rican center. Texas

Noted historian, art aficionado dies at 80 in New Mexico

August 5, 2006

Exclusive Interview: Emily Rios from the movie Quinceañera

August 1, 2006

Lorna Dee Cervantes: Farewell to Trinidad Sanchez, Jr & Other Fundraising Events For Trino’s Expenses

July 28, 2006

Arts community plans events to raise money for ailing poet in San Antonio, Texas

July 23, 2006

Guillermo Hernandez, 66; Expert on the Corrido, a Mexican Ballad Tradition has passed away.

July 19, 2006

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