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 6.22.19 “WHEN ARE WE MEXICANS…INDIGENOUS?”

June 22, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

When are we Mexican … indigenous? Recently I’ve witnessed two spirited debates. One revolved around terminology, that is, what do we call ourselves? The other one revolved around the question of indigeneity, that is, are we Indian or not, or who is Indian and who isn’t? From where I sit, the two matters are, as […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 6.22.19 “DIASPORA, SI ME ESCUCHAS…””

June 22, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Diáspora, si me escuchas… No reclamo más poder que el derecho a la opinión y la libertad de expresarla. Aprovecho el privilegio de un espacio público para hacer un llamado urgente a la Diáspora, ese sector amplio de Boricuas que residen más allá de los mares y que conservan indisoluble una identidad que nos marca […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 6.22.19 “DIASPORA: IF YOU ARE LISTENING” (ENGLISH VERSION)

June 22, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Diaspora, if you are listening… I have the right to a citizen’s opinion and the freedom to express it. Within this privilege I can share these with you in this blog. So… I now make an urgent call to the Puertorican Diaspora, that wide sector of Boricuas that reside up North in the continent, those […]

TALES OF TORRES 06.16.19 WOMEN HELPING WOMEN IN HOLLYWOOD: HOW ABOUT LATINOS HELPING LATINOS?

June 16, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Women Helping Women in Hollywood: How about Latinos helping Latinos? Very recently there was a thought-provoking article in the Calendar section of the Los Angeles Times. Basically, it was a profile of actress/writer/film director Emma Thompson. The main reason for the piece was that it was a vehicle to promote her latest movie, “Late Night.” […]

LATINOPIA ART GASPAR ENRÍQUEZ 1 “RETROSPECTIVE”

By Tia Tenopia on May 4, 2014

Gaspar Enríquez is a renowned Chicano artist whose airbrush portraits of barrio youth are haunting and memorable. Drawing from museums and collectors around the United States, in April 2014, the El Paso Museum of Art mounted a retrospective of Gaspar’s art titled Metaphors of the Barrio. Latinopia visited the exhibit and asked Gaspar what inspires […]

Category: Art, LATINOPIA ART

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 RUBÉN MARTÍNEZ “IN THE SHADOWS OF BLACK MESA”

By Tia Tenopia on July 28, 2013

Rubén Martínez is a journalist, author and musician whose recent book “Desert America” chronicles, among other things, the high rate of heroin addiction among Hispanos in New Mexico’s rural communities. While living in Velarde, New Mexico Rubén was able to witness the destructive force of addiction in the lives of his two neighbors, José and […]

Category: LATINOPIA MUSIC, Music