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FIERCE POLITICS WITH ALVARO HUERTA 03.26.26 AN ODE TO A CHICANO LEGEND

March 25, 2026 By wpengine

March 25, 2026 (revised from Nov. 9, 2021, version) By Dr. Álvaro Huerta “Rudy (RIP): An Ode to a Chicano Legend, Dr. Rodolfo F. Acuña” I first met the late, great Dr. Rodolfo F. “Rudy” Acuña (1932–2026) in Fall of 1986, as a UCLA undergraduate student from East Los Angeles. It wasn’t in person, however. I met […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 03.26.26 MARK MENJIVAR’S MURMURATIONS

March 25, 2026 By wpengine

Mark Menjívar’s Murmurations, a new, expansive, mid-career survey exhibition highlighting 16 multifaceted projects from his past 20 years, is currently open at the Contemporary at Blue Star in San Antonio. His work includes socially engaged art, photography, sound studies, capital punishment, migration, and ornithology. His creative artistry also integrates social practice and participatory collaborative projects to […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 03.20.26 MAJOR EXHIBITION OF CUBAN MODERNIST WILFREDO LAM

March 20, 2026 By wpengine

“Wifredo Lam: When I Don’t Sleep, I Dream,” the first major U.S. retrospective of the famed Cuban artist, opened in November 2025 and runs through April 11, 2026 at the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York City. Known for his large-scale paintings, which reference modernistaesthetics and Afro-Cuban imagery, Lam explored themes of social injustice […]

EL PROFE QUEZADA NOS DICE 03.20.26 THE COVERING OF MIRRORS

March 20, 2026 By wpengine

During a recent thunderstorm, I was reminiscing about my days growing up in my beloved Barrio El Azteca in Laredo, Texas when my beloved Mamá had the habit of covering all the mirrors. Her custom shows up in Mexican, Indigenous, and broader folk beliefs. Mirrors were believed to attract lightning and during times of fear […]

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 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 ART SONIA ROMERO 2

By Tia Tenopia on October 20, 2013

Sonia Romero is a graphic artist,muralist and print maker. In this second profile on Sonia and her work, Latinopia explores Sonia’s public murals, in particular the “Urban Oasis” mural at the MacArthur Park Metro Station in Los Angeles, California.

Category: Art, LATINOPIA ART

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