Art y Culture + Tomás\' Picks Hispanic y Latino News & Info (Noticias)
November 19, 2009
Farewell to an icon: Artist who tore at racism is buried at 99 – R.I.P. José Cisneros
November 18, 2009
Remembering mail art in Mexico
November 16, 2009
‘The African Presence in México’ – Anacostia museum mounts border-crossing mission
José Cisneros 1910-2009 – Iconic El Paso artist dies at age 99
November 10, 2009
Juan Misael Gonzalez-Montañez, 8, of Sacramento used crayon and watercolors to create his winning entry in an artwork competition sponsored by the government of Mexico. He was one of 15 top winners out of 6,266 entries worldwide for the official 2010 Mexican calendar.
November 2, 2009
“Day of the Dead” one of those concepts often misunderstood
October 28, 2009
Books for Día de los muertos
October 27, 2009
October 2009 NALAC eBoletin is Now Online – Día de los Muertos Issue – (lots of great content)
October 26, 2009
El Paso-style Lotería: Photographer Rick Jimenez Carrasco comes up with winning idea
October 14, 2009
Estefan, Longoria Ecstatic About National Latino Museum… We Just Need to Raise, Like $300 Million
October 12, 2009
Dudamel’s great, but he’s not the whole show – L.A. shouldn’t think that the Venezuelan conductor is the answer to its cultural neglect of Latinos.
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 7, 2009
Children’s Readings and Panels at The Latino Book & Family Festival – Los Angeles, October 10-11 CSULA at Greenlee Plaza
From Mexico to NYC stage – For director and choreographer Edgardo Lar, the challenges he faced were many when staging a musical in Spanish about a 16th-century French massacre with a cast of 25 high school and college students from Mexico. – “Anjou, A Tale of Horror”
October 5, 2009
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.
October 2, 2009
For a decade, the Luna Negra dance troupe has poured their blood, sweat and tears into their art. – Chicago
October 1, 2009
UNESCO Declares Tango Part of World Cultural Heritage
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 29, 2009
Angela de Hoyos, grande dame of Chicano poetry, dies in San Antonio
National Hispanic Heritage Month website – (I personally love the clean design)
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.
Jo Ann Hernandez – Caroling for Christmas – looking for essays written by authors covering the different ways readers/book buyers can assist People of Color authors in spreading the word about their books
September 28, 2009
Sandra Cisneros honors her mother for Day of the Dead
September 22, 2009
Mayans ‘played’ pyramids to make music for rain god
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 15, 2009
Oscar Castillo Photography Show. Latino Book Fest. – Los Angeles
September 9, 2009
Photos: National Museum of American History Explores Bracero Story in New Exhibition – website http://americanhistory.si.edu/bracero
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.
September 3, 2009
‘LOL! Latina on the Loose’ Opens September 25 at Los Angeles Theatre Center; World Premiere Comedy
Celebrate Mexico Now! festival returns Sept. 8-20 to New York City
September 2, 2009
Mummies Of Guanajanto: Amazingly Preserved Mummies Go On Display – (fotos y video)
September 1, 2009
Geraldo Rivera new book “The Great Progression: How Hispanics Will Lead America to a New Era of Prosperity”
Drama About Immigration Raids and their Human Consequences in Arizona Is No Fiction for Many – The Tears of Lives, a play produced by Phoenix’s New Carpa Theater Company and written by James Garcia
Smithsonian celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month with many free events
August 24, 2009
Supreme Court Justice Sonia Sotomayor gets a street salute from ‘Pavement Picasso’ Hani Shihada
A British company is releasing a new line of textile designs inspired by paintings by George Mendoza, Las Cruces’ internationally renowned blind artist.
August 20, 2009
Office of Cultural Affairs’ Artist of the Month for San Antonio – writer, producer and artist Victor Payan
August 18, 2009
Cultura Latina: LA’s longest standing Latino bookstore
August 16, 2009
Los Angeles Latino Film Festival Seeks Volunteers – Learn the film Industry by volunteering with the 13th annuall LALIFF team
Chilean-American writer Isabel Allende said in an interview published Friday in the online edition of Colombian daily El Tiempo that her new novel, which features a female slave as protagonist, articulates her “obsession” with freedom.
August 10, 2009
Interview with author & poet Daniel Olivas
10 Classic Nuyorican Authors & Poets
August 6, 2009
On Sunday, August 2 in celebration of Ecuador’s bicentennial, hundreds of people waved their yellow, blue and red flags along the stretch of Northern Boulevard in Queens
July 31, 2009
Celebrity Tees You Can Bet On – One-of-a-kind t-shirts raise funds for Miami’s Latino community – Palomita Education Fund
Two Wise Latinas Show Their Pride – Nancy De Los Santos and Azucena Maldonado celebrate Sonia Sotomayor with “Wise Latina” T-shirts
July 15, 2009
In 39 years performing, Afro-Peruvian songstress Eva Ayllón has recorded almost 30 albums, played for audiences 30,000-strong in her homeland and, last November, packed Carnegie Hall. – catch her in NYC at the Blender Theater at Gramercy July 17 and 18.
July 14, 2009
Fernanda Cohen illustrates for The Gap
July 13, 2009
Ecuador: The Passing of Writer Jorge Enrique Adoum
July 9, 2009
Reggaeton fever shakes up Cuba’s culture
June 25, 2009
Museo Alameda’s exhibit explores influence of Latinos on American music
June 24, 2009
Paper Taco Trucks!!
June 23, 2009
Las Américas, the final and most broad-reaching program of the Nuestra Música: Music in Latino Culture Smithsonian Folklife Festival “living exhibitions” series
A Poem by Literanista: On Being Latina
June 22, 2009
Prominent Mexican women, private thoughts, in 2nd volume of essays – Denise Dresser has released a second volume of “Gritos y susurros” (“Cries and Whispers”)
June 19, 2009
Virtual book tours especially for Latino/a authors – Jo Ann Hernandez, the lady behind BronzeWord Latino Authors
Famed Chicago Muralist Hector Duarte’s new work of art
June 18, 2009
Attacks Against Sotomayor Inspire Creativity Cartoonist promotes ‘Chica Power’ Sonia Sotomayor poster: Order yours today!
June 17, 2009
2009 Winners of Américas Award for Children’s and Young Adult Literature
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 15, 2009
Thousands crowd NYC streets for Puerto Rican parade
June 11, 2009
Congratulations to Xavier Garza! His bilingual book Lucha Libre, The Man in the Silver Mask: a bilingual cuento (Cinco Puntos Press) won the 2008-2009 Tejas Star Book award.
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 4, 2009
TOP 10 Signs Your Dentist Used to be a Cholo – by Al Carlos
June 3, 2009
List of International Latino Book Award 2010 winners
June 2, 2009
June is Puerto Rican party time in NYC
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)
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Opens Vida y Drama: Modern Mexican Prints
May 31, 2009
When the New York-based Ballet Hispanico takes to the stage of the Ahmanson Theatre June 5-7, the critically acclaimed troupe will be making its Music Center debut. But it also promises to be a bittersweet farewell: Its dynamic artistic director, Tina Ramirez, who founded the company in 1970, will step down at the end of June; her successor, former Ballet Hispanico dancer Eduardo Vilaro, begins his reign in August.
May 28, 2009
San Jose’s Chicano theater troupe Teatro Visió marks 25 years of community creativity
May 7, 2009
Bacardi headquarters in Miami headed for historic status
Every now and then a dance show comes along that has such runaway enthusiasm that you bin the criticism and merrily rave to anyone who will listen. Havana Rakatan is such a show. There are reservations, such as over-long numbers and unclear narrative, and there will always be those who pour scorn by claiming Cuba peaked with the Buena Vista Social Club.
April 22, 2009
Peru’s Potato Park – This eco-preserve is a living monument to the descendents of the Incan empire—and their most prized food. – 200 varieties on display in the visitors’ center at Peru’s Parque de la Papa – a relatively new and little-known attraction near Cusco
April 13, 2009
Iglesia Vaquera merges Hispanic, cowboy cultures – the first Hispanic church in the Texas Fellowship of Cowboy Churches.
March 30, 2009
Puerto Rico Gets a Little Richer With New Quarter from U.S. Mint
March 17, 2009
THE INTERNATIONAL LATINO CULTURAL CENTER PRESENTS THE 25th CHICAGO LATINO FILM FESTIVAL FEATURING SPECIAL EVENTS AND OVER 100 FILMS The Silver Anniversary Edition of the Chicago Latino Film Festival runs April 17-29. Added to the excitement, the special event series includes: Opening Night Gala, Noche Mexicana, A Night of Spain and Closing Night Gala.
March 16, 2009
Mexican folk healing expert discusses curanderismo with local college students – Dr. Eliseo “Cheo” Torres at The University of Texas-Pan American on March 24 at noon at UTPA’s Student Union Theater
March 14, 2009
Isabel Allende on stage — a magical translation
February 26, 2009
Newbery Award-winning advice for writers of all stripes from Margarita Engle
February 16, 2009
It’s a Bird, It’s a Chupacabra, It’s Lucha Va Voom! – Los Angeles
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
Chilean High Rise Wrapped in a Living Green Wall
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
January 21, 2009
For Peruvians, Baskets for the U.S. Market Bring a New Way of Life
December 28, 2008
Cross-border quinceañera: Toppenish teen becomes a young woman in two worlds – Some Washington residents live their lives in the U.S but their hearts remain in Mexico, where they gather to mark important events with family.
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 22, 2008
Founders of latinoteca.com wanted to create a site where teachers, students and others interested in Latino culture could find what they needed.
December 21, 2008
In Madrid, Banking on the Art Scene
December 20, 2008
The Gringo’s, er, Dummy’s Guide to zarzuela
December 18, 2008
Dos exposiciones de fotografías simultáneas reflejan en forma emotiva y vibrante la inquietud social y política que conmovió a Latinoamérica en las últimas décadas. En “Cornell Capa: fotógrafo sensible” los trabajos expuestos datan a partir de 1953 en Guatemala, y hasta 1973 en Honduras. La segunda muestra es “Susan Meiselas: en la Historia”, y entre los países fotografiados figura Nicaragua, a quien dedicó mucho tiempo a partir de 1978 – NYC
University of Texas at San Antonio’s English department emphasizing cross-cultural identity – emphasis on transnational and cross cultural studies is only seven years old and is already turning out U.S. Latino literature experts such as Patricia Trujillo and June Pedraza who have had personal experiences with these issues.
December 12, 2008
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)
The State Board of Education recently awarded Santa Barraza, professor of art at Texas A&M University-Kingsville, one of its 2008 Heroes for Children Awards during a Nov. 21 ceremony.
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.
Mexicanos en Nueva York mantienen la fe guadalupana
My big fat Dominican Orthodox Jewish wedding
December 10, 2008
Young-adult author Diana Rodriguez Wallach serves up plenty of boyfriends and family dramas — and something new, too – author of Amor and Summer Secrets
Authors pick their 2008 favorite Latino books
Interview with Author/Illustrator Xavier Garza – new bilingual book CHARRO CLAUS AND THE TEJAS KID
December 9, 2008
An art explosion in one of Mexico’s most marginalized places – Ecatepec, the largest municipality in the Mexican union
Review: The Chicano/ Latino Literary Prize. An Anthology of Prize-Winning Fiction, Poetry, and Drama
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
Lucía González and Lulu Delacre, author and illustrator of The Storyteller’s Candle / La velita de los cuentos, celebrate the remarkable efforts of New York City’s first Latina librarian, Pura Belpré, in her native Puerto Rico.
Tamale tidbits to savor
December 3, 2008
Artist Wanda Raimundi-Ortiz Tackles The Melodrama of Latina Stereotypes
December 2, 2008
Exhibit explores, celebrates African presence in Mexico – The African Presence in México: From Yanga to the Present,” a traveling exhibition currently at the Museo Alameda – San Antonio
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 19, 2008
Concurring exhibits from two extraordinary photographers offer a rare and moving portrait of Latin America’s turmoil since the 1950s. “Cornell Capa: Concerned Photographer” sets off in 1953 in Guatemala and wraps up 20 years later in Honduras, while “Susan Meiselas: In History” focuses on her visits to three countries, including Nicaragua, where she has been photographing since 1978. Both are on view through Jan. 4 at the International Center of Photography – NYC
CHARRO CLAUS AND THE TEJAS KID – A Great Book for Navidad
November 18, 2008
Chicano Mexicano Prison Project Promotes Art Among Hispanic Prisoners – Inmates learn to express themselves artistically — and send a message about what is happening in prison
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
The Maya world, in miniature – Andrés Mena Sánchez, shown in his gallery Arte Maya, has been making Jaina replicas for 20 years. Email Picture Tiny funerary figures fascinate in their depictions of everyday life in the ancient Yucatán world. They were unearthed at Jaina, a Maya island of the dead.
Abundan los eventos literarios en español en Nueva York
Sergio Ramírez presenta novela detectivesca “con humor” – El Cielo llora por mí
Mexico’s Mineral de Pozos: A ghost town comes alive as an artist colony The ruins of the former mining town are being reclaimed as new residents and visitors bring the area back to life.
November 11, 2008
PINTA, la feria de arte latinoamericano que debutó en Nueva York el año pasado, regresa este jueves a la Gran Manzana con 54 galerías de 13 países y con el entusiasmo de sus organizadores a pesar de la crisis.
She doesn’t like to use the word retire. Though at the end of this season she will relinquish her role as artistic director of Ballet Hispanico, the company she founded in 1970, Tina Ramirez plans to continue serving as a roving ambassador and spokesperson for the company and its affiliated school.
October 20, 2008
Latino Culture and Fantasy Blend in Kid-Friendly ‘World’ – “Mermaids, Monsters, and the World Painted Purple,” a well-intentioned, fitfully inspired children’s production at the Kennedy Center’s Family Theater.
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 2, 2008
Networking: A Smart Step for Latino Writers Q & A with senior book editor Johanna Castillo, Latinidad
In Photos: A different kind of torture, Stormtroopers and the next Mexican Revolution
September 30, 2008
“The Cisco Kid: American Hero, Hispanic Roots,” co-authors Gary D. Keller and Francis M. Nevins explore how the Cisco Kid, through American film and television, emerges with a new persona, what Keller refers to as a “noble bandit.” Keller is the director of the Hispanic Research Center at Arizona State University
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)
Luna Negra beautifully revives a masterpiece – “There Is a Time,” the rarely seen choreographic masterpiece that was created in 1956 by the Mexican-born, American-based modern dance pioneer Jose Limon.
September 26, 2008
Site of Tijuana drug tunnel becomes art center
September 25, 2008
25 ANIVERSARIO DE SU MUERTE – El México de Luis Buñuel
New York Tango Festival Gets New Yorkers Dancing with Strangers
September 12, 2008
Hugo Ludeña’s images capture the glory in the rundown, the beauty amid the beastly – Seattle Hispanic Community
September 11, 2008
In celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, Nordstrom is partnering with Latino Art Beat, a Chicago-based nonprofit arts organization, to feature art from their “What Hispanic Heritage and Culture Means to Me” competition at Nordstrom stores and online
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 9, 2008
Politics aside, Spanish opens rich literary terrain
‘Coqui’ SINGS – Tadpole of an idea grows into prizewinning children’s book – Marisa de Jesus Paolicelli’s ”There’s a Coqui in My Shoe!” – 2008 International Latino Book Awards for best children’s educational book and second place for best children’s picture book earlier this year.
September 8, 2008
New documentary focuses on historical role of Puerto Ricans in Chicago – Their journey was marked by constant struggle and displacement from gentrifying areas
4 generations of El Teatro Campesino actors -bilingual theater troupe, El Teatro Campesino, in San Juan Bautista, California
Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels opens its doors to mariachi camp – Los Angeles
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
University of Central Florida’s Latin American Festival Honors Puerto Rico’s Guitar Maker – Don Manuel Velázquez
August 28, 2008
Órale, shalom! for ‘My Mexican Shivah’
August 20, 2008
A Washington Heights vendor of habichuelas dulces (sweet beans), a livery cab driver, an attorney and a college president are among 127 Dominican women whose portraits are being shown now at City College
August 19, 2008
In Chicago, A Declaration of Immigration is an exhibition of work from more than 70 artists. One interactive installation approaches the title issue through a one-of-a-kind tabletop foosball game.
August 17, 2008
In Yucatan, a maze of Maya stone temples found in underground caves
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 12, 2008
University of Central Florida Researchers Creating Multimedia History of Puerto Ricans in Central Florida
August 11, 2008
‘Laberinto de Miradas,’ a photo and video exhibition in Mexico City, explores factors driving global immigration.
Cuban posters don’t just flog a film, they distinguish their audience – Continuing our series examining great film posters. Today, Paul Rennie explains the origins of Cuban cinema promos
David Lida’s ‘First Stop in the New World’: probing, comprehensive Is Mexico City the New York of the 21st century?
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 7, 2008
Brooklyn ‘mamitas’ shine at photo exhibit
Staten Island photographer captures the Mexican experience Exhibit at Wagner College to run through Sept. 7, and to feature work of Irma Bohorquez-Geisler
A pigment unknown to art historians has been identified on ancient Maya artefacts from Mexico. The blue-green colour of veszelyite seems to have been chosen to blend in with and even imitate jade, the most precious substance used by the Maya.
August 6, 2008
Event celebrates John Steinbeck, Mexico – More than a third of the author’s work is set in Mexico or features characters of Mexican descent
Did You Know? Loisaida is a term derived from the Latino (and especially Nuyorican) pronunciation of “Lower East Side”, a neighborhood in Manhattan, New York City.
August 5, 2008
Mexican Enough My Life Between the Borderlines By Stephanie Elizondo Griest
La publicación de “La tumba de Buenaventura Roig”, la nueva antología bilingüe de Martín Espada, es un pequeño milagro para las letras puertorriqueñas tanto en la isla como en EE.UU.
August 4, 2008
Teen cadet dance crews as escorts are all the rage at Hispanic girls’ coming-of-age parties -quinceañeras
August 3, 2008
Museo Alameda Opens Escultura Social: A New Generation of Art from Mexico City Exhibition is Second Phase of Blockbuster Presentation, “Mexico at the Museo” – San Antonio
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.
New or rarely done works by writers from Ecuador, Argentina, Spain and Mexico, including an English-language comedy about aspects of globalization, are featured in GALA Hispanic Theatre’s 33rd mainstage season, at the Tivoli (14th Street and Park Road NW). All plays have English or Spanish surtitles. – Washington DC
July 27, 2008
Charrreada is not for the faint of heart Latino rodeo harks back to idealized past
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.
Los 10 libros más vendidos de la semana en algunos países de las Américas
July 24, 2008
Pequeñas maravillas – La habilidad de un orfebre para reproducir la cultura aborigen latinoamericana en miniatura – Ramón Cabrera
July 23, 2008
A growing demographic: Hispanic superheroes
“Novel Embodies True Teenage Latina” – New novel “Esperanza” about a 14-year old Mexican-American girl growing up in the barrio – Sandra Lopez
In Oaxaca: tastes that transcend time
July 21, 2008
A visit with artist Cesar Martinez
Book reveals extent of Mafia’s Cuban empire – “Havana Nocturne: How the Mob Owned Cuba and Then Lost It to the Revolution”
July 17, 2008
Jets, Yes! Sharks, ¡Sí! in Bilingual ‘West Side Story’ Production Planned for Broadway
July 16, 2008
Tex[t]-Mex: Chihuahuas, Burros, T-Shirts, and “Mexicans”: A Micro-Rant
Bloggings by boz: Anthony Bourdain in Colombia
Latino Film Fest grows in diversity — and everything else – New York International Latino Film Festival
July 15, 2008
Charles Rice-Gonzalez aims to boost Bronx in art
July 13, 2008
Tex[t]-Mex: Tex[t]-Mex Versus the Sleeping Mexican
July 10, 2008
Texas Woman’s University Latino Dance & Music Festival next week
Play portrays lives of illegal immigrants – Plaza Midwood show aims to offer particular insight into the experience of children. – North Carolina
July 9, 2008
‘En Mis Palabras’ Features Two Languages, Cultures: The Bilingual Performance Tells the Story of a Mexican Immigrant Family
June 30, 2008
On the trail of California’s Mexican past
Researchers make noises of pre-Columbian society
June 20, 2008
La Bloga: Juan Felipe Herrera Continues To Amaze
June 17, 2008
Guiding Hands Help Immigrant Artists Connect – New York
June 12, 2008
Rough Events at Mexican Rodeos in U.S. Criticized
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 3, 2008
Cuban native makes sock monkeys for love as well as money – Dulce VanDyken in Michigan
June 2, 2008
Mexican drug capital turns into perfect setting for narco novelists
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.
May 28, 2008
Mexican painter Rufino Tamayo tops bidding lists at Latin American art auctions in New York
Meet Charles Juhasz-Alvarado’s Giant Termite – The Puerto Rican sculptor gets buggy at Exit Art – NYC
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 27, 2008
Latino veteran (Brian Naranjo) writes about social integration challenge in new novel – (The Tamale List) – Hispanic MPR
Book review: Talk Dirty Spanish « ñ-marketing
May 22, 2008
Museo Alameda is assembling collection of Mexican art in San Antonio
Girl Interrupted: Death forces a young Mexican ‘princesa’ to discover a different life in Brigham Young University stage – Utah
May 21, 2008
Sculpting an Identity – the sculpture of Ana Flores in Rhode Island
Lola Montes, 90; influential head of Spanish dance company – Los Angeles
May 20, 2008
Laguna Hills woman pens book about her Mexican American roots – Sarah Rafael Garcia’s first book “Las Niñas: A Collection of Childhood Memories”
Latina writers blend “Words” and “Wisdom” in special kind of blog tour
May 13, 2008
Ways of Ancient Mexico Reviving Barren Lands – the traditional milpa
May 12, 2008
Illegal Farm Workers Get Health Care in Shadows
Mariachi bands celebrate culture, mothers in emotional performances – in North Texas
Mexican moms have their day
May 7, 2008
When Mexican wrestlers hit U.S. rings, cultures unite
Portly Botero sculptures featured in Miami botanic garden
May 5, 2008
The Mayan Way – in Oakland
May 1, 2008
Mariachi students, Colorado Symphony Orchestra to team up – Denver
Repertorio Español turns 40 – New York City
April 30, 2008
Latinos one step closer to a D.C. museum
April 29, 2008
Ancient Sunflower Fuels Debate About Agriculture In The Americas – confirmed evidence of domesticated sunflower in Mexico — 4,000 years before what had been previously believed!
The art of evolution: ‘Unbroken Ties’ explores a Cuban identity that endures despite politics and exile
April 28, 2008
A rediscovering of East L.A.’s core – Latino artists help revamp a place where the community (and freeways) intersects.
‘Universal story’ told in film of immigrant deaths – ‘19 Victoria’ documents horrors using unconventional style – (short film on immigration)
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.
Latino art fair to run – Chicago ARTEahora
April 24, 2008
Publishers, Booksellers, Librarians Partner to Kick Off Latino Books Month
April 21, 2008
Painting over O.C.’s Latino past – A move in Fullerton to obliterate Chicano murals is typical for Orange County.
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 14, 2008
Teatro Luna paints unvarnished portrait of Latina life – all Latinas in Chicago
April 10, 2008
Why Wao’s Pulitzer Matters
Emerging from the supernatural shadows – Junot Diaz’s Pulitzer-winning novel pulses with the energy of Latin America’s post-Marquez generation
April 8, 2008
Experts apply high-tech tools to a Spanish altarpiece, peering back 500 years to solve a mystery
April 7, 2008
Chicano art, beyond rebellion – ‘Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement’ provides a rare showcase at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
April 2, 2008
A documentary follows ballet dancer Jock Soto’s footprints – Water Flowing Together on PBS’ Independent Lens
Latino show speaks with several voices – Con Safos: Contemporary Chicano Art From the Joe A. Diaz Collection at the National Museum of Mexican Art – Chicago
April 1, 2008
5TH ANNUAL CALL FOR ENTRY HBO/NYILFF
March 31, 2008
Sor Juana Festival is a celebration of Mexican women – Houston
March 24, 2008
Hispanic listeners embraced – Changing demographics offer new opportunities for Cleveland Orchestra
March 20, 2008
A Puerto Rican Poets Fight With Alzheimers – Jack Agüeros
March 18, 2008
Luna Negra concert shatters stereotypes
Puerto Rico Painter Rafael Tufino Dies at 85
March 17, 2008
Solo Tu is by Latinas, about Latinas – Teatro Luna in Chicago
March 13, 2008
Cuban Art Finds a Home in Miami Galleries
March 10, 2008
For Those Who Fled, a Retort to Cuba – Carmen Peláez created a play about her parents’ homeland. “I had somebody come to me after a show and say, ‘Don’t ruin Cuba for me!’ ”
March 9, 2008
Hispanic writers top Book Critics Circle awards – Junot Diaz won fiction prize, Edwidge Danticat was cited in autobiography
February 28, 2008
Longer fest shows depth of Mexican arts, culture – Nuestras Raices Literary Arts Festival in Tucson
February 25, 2008
Loss of poet Raúl Salinas is loss to literature
February 21, 2008
Club tries to keep Mexican folklore alive – Cal State Fullerton introduces a new organization on campus — Ballet Folklorico de CSUF.
February 20, 2008
Defining Latino identity in poetry – The Wind Shifts: New Latino Poetry
February 19, 2008
State Symphony Orchestra of Mexico – Hispanic Classics Flavor a New York Debut – New York
February 18, 2008
Margarita Engle wins 2008 Pura Belpre Award for “The Poet Slave of Cuba: A Biography of Juan Francisco Manzano”
Frida Kahlo’s phenomenal art – “Frida Kahlo” showcases the works, not the legend, of the woman who sneered at suffering while wedding Mexican folk to European modernism. – Philadelphia
February 14, 2008
Museum exhibits explore heritage of Afro-Mexicans – California African American Museum in Los Angeles.
Texas’ Peyote Hunters Struggle to Find a Vanishing, Holy Crop
February 13, 2008
‘In The Heights’ hits the spotlight, vowing to end ‘Capeman’ curse
February 11, 2008
Artist Humberto Saenz deals with immigration in Irving exhibit ‘The Réel’ -Texas
The Search for a Civic Voice: California Latino Politics – Book Review
You Can’t Bite Your Lip and Deliver ‘Molotov Kisses’ – Gustavo Ott Writes Plays To Challenge Fellow Hispanics – Washington DC
February 6, 2008
Playing to Latino audiences – First-class theaters are planned for inner-city areas – Los Angeles
U art professor (Kim Martinez), students to paint a mural downtown – Salt Lake City, Utah
February 5, 2008
Cuban art makes a grand showing in Montreal
February 4, 2008
Madrid museum hosts unique Picasso exhibition
St. Fabiola: An art exhibit reminds a Cuban exile how she learned to appreciate her name.
Hispanic cartoonist Gus Arriola, creator of Gordo, dies at 90
January 31, 2008
A Latin American plaza springs up in Chicago – at The Old Town School of Folk Music
January 28, 2008
Gates grant launches Su Teatro – Denver
January 24, 2008
Perú Negro showcases new CD ‘Zamba Malató’ at City Center – NYC
Arte / Vida: Actions by Artists of the Americas, 1960-2000 – El Museo del Barrio in New York
January 23, 2008
Chicano/Chicana Life Across America Exhibition at the Muzeo Museum in Anaheim « THE LOS ANGELES EASTSIDE SCENE
January 22, 2008
All-hispanic Luna Negra dance company debuts in New York
January 17, 2008
Selling… en Español – Translated Books
January 16, 2008
Yuyi Morales, Margarita Engle win Pura Belpré Awards
January 14, 2008
Austin School District To Host Second Annual All-City Mariachi Festival on Saturday, January 26, 2008
January 11, 2008
Boise Art Museum throws a fiesta for Mexican art exhibit – Idaho
January 10, 2008
Learning the Language: Immigrant Teens Show Their American Lives in Photos
January 9, 2008
NALAC Fund for the Arts Awards $143,000 to Support Latino Artists and Arts Organizations
January 8, 2008
Alberto Alonso – Cuban choreographer
January 7, 2008
“The Finishing Touch: Accessories from the Bolivian Highlands,” on View at The Textile Museum February 15 through September 18, 2008, Showcases the Region’s Cultural Wealth – Washington DC
Moms teach Hispanic culture to children – Livermore, California
January 4, 2008
Book offers pictorial history of Mexicans in Phoenix
The New Americana – David Gonzales and his Homies pay a visit to the Pasadena Museum of California Art – Pasadena
January 3, 2008
The politics and love of Isabel Allende
Latin choral group mirrors San Francisco community
December 12, 2007
Man Eegee – El Día de Guadalupe Redux
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.’
Houston dancers celebrate Lady of Guadalupe – Annual event draws 3,000 Catholics to celebrate the upcoming feast day – Houston
December 9, 2007
Tigard playwright creates a modern-day nativity story – ‘In from the Cold’ is a multi-cultural story of forgiveness – Oregon
December 6, 2007
San Antonio museum inspires N.Y. designer’s commissioned pieces – Marisol Deluna
December 5, 2007
La Bloga: Picture Books for Navidad
December 4, 2007
Her dye is cast – “From the Earth: Modern Art From Traditional Hispanic Papermaking Roots,”
December 3, 2007
Latino growth brings more healing botanicas in New Jersey
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
COLOMBIA: The Chibcha Culture – Forgotten, But Still Alive
Professor Adriana Zavala revalues lesser-known figures in Mexican art – Tufts University
November 25, 2007
Rebel with many cause – After nearly four decades, Vibiana Aparicio-Chamberlin remains an artist for justice – Pasadena
“Palladium Nights” brings back mambo era at Joyce Theatre – New York City
Lowrider culture gets high profile – L.A. museum’s exhibition looks at cars’ beauty and significance – “La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels.”
It’s rough times for Latino art galleries in San Diego and Tijuana
November 14, 2007
La Bloga: New Books From Cinco Puntos Press
November 13, 2007
Film celebrates achievements of only all-Hispanic military unit – The Borinqueneers
November 12, 2007
Toes For Business: Latin Dancers Revive Ballet
Help this movie get a theatrical distributor – AMERICAN HARVEST MOVIE (THE REAL TRUTH ABOUT IMMIGRANT AMERICA)
