INTERVIEWS

LOUIE PÉREZ – IN HIS OWN WORDS

Louie Pérez is a founding member, drummer and song writer of the legendary rock group Los Lobos. The group is one of the longest lasting successful collaborations in music history. They are … [Read more...]

FLACO JIMÉNEZ – IN HIS OWN WORDS

Flaco Jiménez is one of the most renowned accordion musicians in the world. H has performed with everyone from Willie Nelson and Ry Cooder to The Rolling Stones and Los Lobos. Latinopia asked him … [Read more...]

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

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 3.22.20 “AMOR EN TIEMPOS DE CORONAVIRUS”

March 22, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

El Amor en Tiempos del Coronavirus Suelo pensarme como un optimista empedernido. Nada me divierten las teorías conspiratorias, menos las visiones apocalípticas y catastróficas. Ni la edad avanzada, ni las decepciones que se acumulan han logrado alterar la idea de que lo mejor es posible, sobre todo cuando peor se ponen las cosas. También me […]

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