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.

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 7.24.21 PROMESA A LOS CINCO”

July 24, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

Burundanga de Zocotroco PROMESA a los 5 La Ley Pública 114-187 Puerto Rico Oversight Management and Economic Stabiliy Act PROMESA, adoptada para atender la crisis fiscal de la Isla, cumple cinco años de comenzar a operar, ocasión de recuento y actualización. Entonces La declaración pública del gobernador de Puerto Rico del 30 de junio de 2016 […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 7.24.21 LATINO HISTORY LONG NEGLECTED IN TEXAS STUDIES

July 24, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

Latino History Long Neglected in Texas Studies Democracy cannot survive without a common set of facts. Charles Blow. New York Times July 19-2021 The myths behind events leading to the Battle of the Alamo are bigger and brighter than Texas itself. Those myths are being challenged in a new book, Forget The Alamo, written by […]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 7.17.21

July 16, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

On the term Chicano/a … The recent UCLA broadcasting of Jesús Treviño’s 1972 documentary “Yo Soy Chicano” (I am Chicano) precipitated much interest in the Chicano Movement as well as in the term Chicano, which, next to Mexicano/a, is the term of longest, continuous use – going back to the early 1900s – among Americans […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 7.17.21 LATINO STREET ARTIST SELLS IN GALLERIES

July 16, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

A Former Latino Street Artist Sells in Galleries The day that Albert Gonzales quit his job to devote himself full time to creating art was also the day he decided that he would become an artist completely on his own. At age 24 he had tired of the daily routine of processing and determining insurance […]

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 ANGELA ROA “TOCO DESAFINADO”

By Tia Tenopia on June 22, 2014

Angela Roa is a Chilean singer and lyricist residing in Los Angeles, California. Her songs are about the Latino experience in the United States and in Latin America. Here she performs an original song, “Toco Desafinado” (Out of Tune). She is accompanied by Fernando Losada, Rich Silva and Thiago Winterstein..

Category: LATINOPIA MUSIC, Music

LATINOPIA WORD RANDY JURADO ERTLL “HOPE IN TIMES OF DARKNESS”

By Tia Tenopia on February 9, 2014

Randy Jurado Ertll is a Salvadoran American author and political activist. He and his family fled the civil war in El Salvador by coming to the United States. He grew up in violence-torn South Central Los Angeles in the 1980s but managed to avoid gang life through the intervention of the A Better Chance Scholarship […]

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature