Breathlessness

YOGA TALK WITH JULIE CARMEN 01.18.15. “BREATHLESSNESS”

Julie Carmen ( http://www.juliecarmenactress.com/ ) is an accomplished actress, licensed family therapist and yoga therapist. In this continuing monthly blog “Yoga Talk With Julie Carmen,” Julie … [Read more...]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO “THE SCARCITY OF EGGS”

November 16, 2024 By wpengine

Wrong does not cease to be wrong because the majority shares in it. Leo Tolstoy Like millions of Americans, I’m struggling to process what the U.S. just did. By electing Donald Trump to a second term the U.S. normalized a sociopath … a convicted felon … an adjudicated sexual abuser … a profligate liar […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO – ON IMMINENT DANGER AND FIRST AID

November 16, 2024 By wpengine

Burundanga de Zocotroco José M. Umpierre On Imminent Danger and First Aid The Autocratic State To my better understanding, anyone attempting to comply with his/her civic duty to be informed is inevitably exhausted after the recent election in USA. The battle has been long and hard, intensified by news media in their sensationalizing the drama […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT A TRIBUTE TO CÉSAR A. MARTÍNEZ

November 16, 2024 By wpengine

César Martinez’s Retrospective Show: A Tribute To A Maestro Of Chicano Art On October 24, 2024, the Ruiz-Healy Gallery in San Antonio opened a marvelous Chicano art exhibit, César A. Martínez: Smoke & Mirrors. The exhibit includes recent paintings by Martinez and drawings from the 1970s. César Martinez is a major Latino artist, among the […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 11.09.24 LA ELECCIÓN DESDE ALLÁ Y ACÁ

November 9, 2024 By wpengine

Burundanga de Zocotroco José M. Umpierre Por Allá ¿Que decir después los resultados electorales? Pues hay un saco de emociones y de razones en busca de conciliación. La primera reacción es de alivio al fin de la incertidumbre, más dista de ser la única. La victoria de Donald Trump ha sido un golpe fuerte a […]

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 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