ANGELA’S PHOTO OF THE WEEK 3.16.14 “SPECTACULAR”

March 16, 2014 by

Spectacular

The beauty of living in SoCal is the amazing skies we get when we aren’t expecting it.

ROMO DE TEJAS 4.05.20 “CORONAVIRUS: LATINAS CREATE JOBS AND OFFER HOPE”

April 5, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

The fact that more than six million Americans filed for unemployment this week suggests that work for many has disappeared. While many of these jobs may return, there is great uncertainty about when. The Covid-19 pandemic has disrupted the service industries, food production and sales, as well as hotel businesses that traditionally employ Latinos in […]

ROMO DE TEJAS 3.29.20 “LATINOS CONFRONT THE PANDEMIC”

March 29, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

Latinos live in significant numbers in four states hard hit by the Covid-19 Pandemic: California, Texas, New York, and Florida. It is already evident that the Covid-19 health crisis is changing the way we live, work, and learn, as well as the ways we interact with others. Because Latino families have a lower family income […]

FIERCE POLITICS with DR. ALVARO HUERTA 3.29.20 “TO SURVIVE CORONAVIROUS AMERICANS MUST LEARN FROM MEXICANS”

March 29, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

“To Survive the Coronavirus, Americans Must Learn from Mexicans” During the coronavirus (COVID-19) crisis in the U.S. (and beyond), it behooves Americans to learn from individuals of Mexican origin in el norte about the art of survival in a time of crisis. (For this short essay, I’ll refer to individuals of Mexican origin in the […]

ARNIE AND PORFI BY SERGIO HERNÁNDEZ 3.29.20 “DR. FAUCI”

March 29, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA FOOD “JALAPEÑO SODA BREAD” RECIPE

By Tia Tenopia on March 14, 2011

Jalapeño Irish Soda Bread The sweetness of traditional Irish soda bread ingredients—raisins, buttermilk, some sugar—are richly complimented by jalapeño heat. Here’s a soda bread recipe from Ireland brought to the USA from Galway by Mary Patricia Reilly Murray and later transformed with her blessing by her daughter, Bobbi Murray, who added jalapeño chile. A real […]

Category: Cooking, Food, LATINOPIA FOOD

LATINOPIA MUSIC QUETZAL “CANTO LISO”

By Tia Tenopia on October 27, 2013

Quetzal is an East Los Angeles band whose music mirrors the social, political and cultural struggles of Latinos in the United States and Latin America. On August 24, 2013 they performed their song “Canto Liso,” based on a poem by acclaimed Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén, at the Levitt Pavilion nin Pasadena, California.

Category: LATINOPIA MUSIC, Music

LATINOPIA MUSIC LOS FABULOCOS “UNA PURA Y DOS CON SAL”

By Tia Tenopia on January 4, 2015

Delta Groove Music recording artist Los FabuLocos is a Southern California band whose unique sound, “Cali-Mex,”is a fusion of blues, Americana and Chicano soul music. Band members include Jesús Cuevas, accordion and vocals; Rubén Guaderama, guitar,bajo sexto, tres and vocals; James Barrios, bass and vocals; Mike Molina, drums and Kid Ramos, guitar( not in this […]

Category: LATINOPIA MUSIC, Music