Latino arts, history and culture
BASIC TRAINING. The last moment of civilized rest any of us zombies got for a while was the Mother’s Day picnic in Joshua Tree. That’s the picnic I didn’t attend because the Oñate zombies had … [Read more...]
CHISPAS! IT'S THE END OF THE YEAR! What up Latinopians! Well here we are at the end of 2013 and what a year we’ve had. Your Tia Tenopia is reeling from the many blogs and videos we produced this … [Read more...]
WRITING OUR OWN HISTORY! Alfredo Gutiérrez is doing what many of us should be doing. He not only made history, and is continuing to make it, he is also writing history. His memoir, “To Sin Against … [Read more...]
ALFREDO GUTIÉRREZ, DOLORES HUERTA & FLACO JIMENEZ. Hola Latinopians! Your Tia here with another week of Latinopia videos and blogs. We continue this week with our best of Latinopia videos with … [Read more...]
THE WORSE DAY OF MY LIFE. At seven on the dot there was a group of about eight of us sitting around a large conference table in room 27 of the secret Mano Poderosa underground laboratory under the … [Read more...]
HOW MANY GENERATIONS UNTIL LATINOS BECOME “AMERICAN?” I consider myself Latina, close even to my family’s Mexican culture, bilingual and happily comfortable in that identity. But, more often than … [Read more...]
CAPIROTADA. TAMALES, ESOTERIC GRAFFITI AND MORE! Hola mis queridos Latinopians. Your Tia Tenopia here and I can’t believe my eyes–December is already on us! I’m barely getting over Thanksgiving–hay … [Read more...]
Here's TWO Arnie and Porfi cartoons this week from maestro Sergio … [Read more...]
JFK, DOÑA JULIA’S CHILDREN, RICKY LUV, CHICANO SCIENCE FICTION Y MÁS! Hola my gente! We got a great week of Latinopia coming at you! Our two videos involve our home grown Latinopia bloggers, … [Read more...]
JFK ASSASSINATION, PANCHO VILLA PRAYERS AND AN HOMAGE TO POETS RAÚL SALINAS AND JOSÉ MONTOYA! Hola mis peripatetic, pensativos y muy precocious Latinopians! Hey, this is Levi Romero week on … [Read more...]
Driving Hollywood Blvd. When you drive down Hollywood Blvd. you see glimpses of gone by era’s still going strong, like this old hotel marquee. I love it! Continuing from my Instagram series … [Read more...]
DEATH IN DALLAS, et tu OSWALD By Felípe de Ortego y Gasca Fifty years ago on November 22, 1963, I was the French teacher at Jefferson High School in El Paso, Texas. That day, a death in Dallas … [Read more...]
Cycles Even when nature is breaking down, it still has beauty. Continuing from my Instagram series (http://instagram.com/amosart). … [Read more...]
REBEL WOMEN, UNBANNING BOOKS AND GEORGIA LATINOS . Hola mis queridos! Great news this week, the Tucson Unified School District which had banned dozens of books written by Latinos and utilized in … [Read more...]
SCHOOL AGAIN? It was first good sleep I’d had in several days. I awoke to the sound of someone jamming a piece of paper, loudly and persistently, under the sill of my bedroom door. For a moment I … [Read more...]
THE UNBANNING OF MEXICAN AMERICAN HISTORY. A serendipitous encounter in a public library during Banned Books Week precipitated a chain of events that resulted in the un-banning of Mexican American … [Read more...]
GENETIC RIDDLES. “A zombie dog?” I asked. It was a few minutes after our arrival at the underground chambers of the Mano Poderosa laboratory, secretly situated underneath the Los Angeles County … [Read more...]
AZTLÁN ART SHOW, PLANE WRECK AT LOS GATOS & ARCHITECTURE. Hay mis queridos, your Tia is working overtime! We finally got our computer problems solved. We got a cool art video this week, The … [Read more...]
QUETZAL, MEXICAN MASKED MEN, DOG WHISPERERS, AND MORE! Tia Tenopia with a GREAT BIG SHOUT OUT to all of you loyal Latinopianos–no, not Wurlitzer or Steinway. Okay, your Tia working overtime here, … [Read more...]
Water Lily Early morning beauty. Continuing from my Instagram series (http://instagram.com/amosart). … [Read more...]
