Julio Medina Salazar has been taking photographs throughout his illustrious acting career. Whether in his native Colombia or some other Latin American country or in the United States, Julio's … [Read more...]

LATINOPIA ART GASPAR ENRÍQUEZ 1 “RETROSPECTIVE”

By Tia Tenopia on May 4, 2014

Gaspar Enríquez is a renowned Chicano artist whose airbrush portraits of barrio youth are haunting and memorable. Drawing from museums and collectors around the United States, in April 2014, the El Paso Museum of Art mounted a retrospective of Gaspar’s art titled Metaphors of the Barrio. Latinopia visited the exhibit and asked Gaspar what inspires […]

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 […]

LATINOPIA FOOD RECIPE “JALAPEÑO SODA BREAD”

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 […]

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SERENDIPITY WITH JULIO MEDINA 7.17.16 “BUT YOU CAN’T USE YOUR HANDS!”

SERENDIPITY WITH JULIO MEDINA “SHOW ME YOURS”

JULIO MEDINA’S SERENDIPITY 1.24.16 “THE GIFT”

SERENDIPITY with JULIO MEDINA 12.20.15 “SOLITUDE”

SERENDIPITY WITH JULIO MEDINA 6.07.15

JULIO MEDINA’S SERENDIPITY 3.01.15 “SHADOW ATTACK”

SERENDIPITY with JULIO MEDINA 9.13. 15 “HOMELESS AT 2 AM”

JULIO MEDINA’S SERENDIPITY 01.25.15 “TACTFULLY”

JULIO MEDINA’S SERENDIPITY 12.15.14 “ROMEO AND JULIET”

SERENDIPITY WITH JULIO MEDINA 7.19.15 “RUSH HOUR”

JULIO MEDINA’S SERENDIPITY 6.28.15 “ASSEMBLY, LIMA, PERU, 1966”

JULIO MEDINA’S SERENDIPITY 4.26.15 “THE FUTURE IS SKATING”

JULIO MEDINA’S SERENDIPITY 3.29.15 “SUICIDE”

JULIO MEDINA’S SERENDIPITY 11.30.14 “HER ONLY TOY”