Bobbi Murray

GUEST BLOG BOBBI MURRAY “DAVID BACON’S PORTRAITS OF “INVISIBLE” FARMWORKERS”

The writer, photographer and veteran union organizer David Bacon frequently refers to “people who travel with the crops.” He means the agricultural workers who move from place to place to cultivate … [Read more...]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 02.16.20 “BRING BACK DECENCY!”

February 16, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

Bring back decency! All politics is local. Former House Speaker Tip O’Neill Restoring decency into our politics should be our community’s political priority for 2020. It is a moral imperative to rid the country of the indecency, the meanness, that Donald Trump represents and manifests. We can do that by voting—plus more. Standing up to […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 02.16.20 “LLUEVE Y NO ESCAMPA”

February 16, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

Llueve y no escampa Entre la crítica, la denucia y la queja Entre los juicios, prejuicios y post juicios que me forman y desforman, acogí la excelencia como aspiración, igual lo hice con la libertad y la equidad. La experiencia de septuagenario también me enseña que está lejos la tan imperfecta humanidad de la perfecta […]

MARK GUERRERO’S CHICANO MUSIC CHRONICLES – GEORGE LANDA

February 9, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

This month’s featured CMC show is George Landa of Los Nawdy Dawgs from Tucson, Arizona. Played and discussed on the show is their 2013 album “Lalo’s Town,” which features their versions of Lalo Guerrero’s “Los Chucos Suaves,” “Tin Marin de do Pingue,” and “Marijuana Boogie.” They also do their take on Lalo’s “There’s No Tortillas,” […]

SERGIO HERNANDEZ’S ARNIE AND PORFI ON ST. VALENTINE’S DAY 02.16.20

February 16, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

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

LATINOPIA WORD THELMA REYNA

By Tia Tenopia on October 20, 2013

Thelma Reyna is the author of the award-winning “The Heavens Weep For Us and Other Stories” and the poetry collections “Breath & Bone” and “Hearts In Common.” Latinopia caught up with Thelma on October 17, 2013 when she read her poems at the public library in Altadena, California.

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature