ANGELA’S PHOTO OF THE WEEK “FAUNA & FLORA”

January 28, 2014 by

Fauna & Flora
The simple beauty you find in the garden.
Continuing from my Instagram series (http://instagram.com/amosart).

BURUNDANGA DEL ZOCOTROCO 9.27.24

September 27, 2024 By wpengine

Burundanga de Socotroco José M. Umpierre Se avecina a paso galopante el evento crucial para nuestra maltrecha democracia colonial. El compromiso con reflexiones sobre la cultura obliga a lo ineludible, con penas y reparos. Confieso que me pienso creativo, con seria aversión a la repetición. También pienso que la opiniones son como los culos, todo […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 9.27.24

September 27, 2024 By wpengine

A Latino Art Exhibit in Querétaro, Mexico Draws Attention to a Shared History An exhibit of Chicano art, Al Otro Lado del Espejo [The Other Side of the Mirror], opened at the Museo de Arte de Querétaro, Mexico on September 20, 2024. San Antonio artists Lionel and Kathy Sosa and Museo de Arte de Querétaro […]

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 9.20.24

September 20, 2024 By wpengine

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT ON VANGUARD PRINTS AT THE METROPOLITAN, EVENT PROFILE ON MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY, MOMENT IN TIME: THE 16TH OF SEPTEMBER PARADE AND A CLIP FROM PAUL ESPINOSA’S FILM SINGING OUR WAY TO FREEDOM. This has been Mexican Independence Day week, with the usual panoply of parades and celebrations. […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 9.20.24 MEXICAN PRINTS AT THE MET

September 20, 2024 By wpengine

Mexican Prints at the Vanguard at The New York Metropolitan Museum of Art Going to the New York Metropolitan Museum of Art [Met] this month is one of the many ways to celebrate National Hispanic Month. The 150 prints in this superb exhibition Mexican Prints at the Vanguard represent two centuries, from 1750 to 1950, […]

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

LATINOPIA EVENT 1966 UFW PEREGRINACIÓN (PILGRIMAGE) MARCH

By Tia Tenopia on March 19, 2013

The effort to organize farm workers under a union contract has been a long and difficult struggle. In 1965, César Chávez and Dolores Huerta created what would become the United Farm Workers Union. From the onset they faced many obstacles, not the least of which was how to get dozens of California grape growers to […]

Category: History, LATINOPIA EVENT