Aztlan to Magulandia: the Journey of Chicano artist Gilbert Magu Lujan

LATINOPIA ART THE WORLD OF MAGULANDIA

Latinopia Art The World of Magulandia from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Chicano artist and social activist Gilbet "Magu" Lujan (1940-2011) created a mythical world of spirit animals inhabiting an … [Read more...]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT LATINO ART GAINS NATIONAL RECOGNITION

September 6, 2024 By wpengine

Latino Art Gains National Recognition The news that the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. recently purchased sixteen screen prints from San Antonio artist Michael Menchaca for its permanent collection excited me. I credit the September 1, 2024 edition of San Antonio Current for calling attention to this amazing accomplishment for Menchaca. Menchaca was […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 8.31.24

August 31, 2024 By wpengine

A Latino Art Journal: South Texas 2024 Walking into the University of California Los Angeles Chicano Studies Research Library one day in 1970 I saw the first Chicano mural in a higher education setting in the U.S.– art history in the making. I learned over time that our duty as trained historians is to gather […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 8.23.24

August 23, 2024 By wpengine

The Ornelas Family Blends Delicious Puerto Rican Food with Outstanding Latino Art San Antonians love their Mexican food and appreciate Latino art. Dating back to the 1880s, writers and artists were fascinated with the Alamo City’s Mexican cuisine, later defined as Tex-Mex food. Now Latino non-natives of San Antonio, Manuel and Iris Ornelas and their […]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SALOMON BALDENEGRO 8.17.24

August 17, 2024 By wpengine

Hypocrisy, thy name is MAGA! When the debate is lost, slander becomes the tool of the loser. Socrates The above quote captures perfectly the current situation regarding Donald J. Trump vis a vis Kamala Harris. Trump is in a state of panic. He is absolutely terrified of Kamala Harris, for he cannot deal with strong […]

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