ANGELA’S PHOTO OF THE WEEK 4.05.15 “HOMETOWN”

April 5, 2015 by

Hometown
I truly enjoy driving around my neighborhood.
Continuing from my Instagram series (http://instagram.com/amosart).

Angela’s Views of L.A.

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 2.22.25 CULTURA Y COMIDA

February 22, 2025 By wpengine

Latino Representation of Food and Culture in Confluence of Cultures: Nuestra Gente, Cultura y Comida To honor the upcoming 10th anniversary of San Antonio’s World Heritage designation, including a UNESCO Creative Cities Network in gastronomy, the City Arts and Culture Office joined with the local World Heritage team to celebrate “dynamic, diverse, and vibrant cultural […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 2.14.25 PRINTS AT THE SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART

February 14, 2025 By wpengine

Prints by Chicano/a and Latino Artists at the San Antonio Museum of Art Educate and Delight Ricardo Romo, Ph.D Texas Latino art is in vogue this winter with shows in San Antonio, Houston, Corpus Christi, and the Dallas metroplex. I rely on my Latino art network to keep me informed on upcoming shows. I also […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 2.06.25 INSTRUCTIVE HISTORY: THE TREATY OF GUADALUPE HIDALGO

February 6, 2025 By wpengine

Latinos and Chicano/a Artists View History as Instructive to Understanding the Present The 48th annual Segundo de Febrero exhibit opened February 2, 2025 at the Centro Cultural Aztlan to commemorate the 177th anniversary of the signing of the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo. The treaty ended the Mexican-American War 1846 to 1848 resulting in the “redistribution […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 2.06.25 LAS ACCIONES TIENEN CONSECUENCIAS

February 6, 2025 By wpengine

Burundaga de Zocotroco Jose M. Umpierre Decir que la vida es cambio no requiere gran sapiencia. Los cambios pueden ser a mejor o a peor y si madura coma perfila, la evidencia apunta al retroceso y deterioro, la vuelta a una condición de vida mas primitiva y la perdida de un sosiego que se ha […]

LATINOPIA WORD JOSÉ MONTOYA “PACHUCO PORTFOLIO”

By Tia Tenopia on June 12, 2011

José Montoya is a renowned poet, artist and activist who has been in the forefront of the Chicano art movement. One of his most celebrated poems is titled “Pachuco Portfolio” which pays homage to the iconic and enduring character of El Pachuco, the 1940s Mexican American youth who dressed in the stylish Zoot Suit.

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature

LATINOPIA WORD XOCHITL JULISA BERMEJO “OUR LADY OF THE WATER GALLONS”

By Tia Tenopia on May 26, 2013

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is a poet and teacher from Asuza, California. She volunteered with No More Deaths, a humanitarian organization providing water bottles in the Arizona desert where immigrants crossing from Mexico often die of exposure. She read her poem, “Our Lady of the Water Gallons” at a Mental Cocido (Mental Stew) gathering of Latino authors […]

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature

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