. Chicano authors

LATINOPIA WORD DANIEL ACOSTA “HOMEBOY 2”

Daniel Acosta is a writer whose short stories have appeared in Nuestro and Lowrider magazines and in Anthologies. Latinopia caught up with Daniel at the 2010 Flor y Canto Literary Festival convened by … [Read more...]

RICKY LUV VIDEO “OFFICE IS…”

Multi-talented author and filmmaker Ricardo Lira Acuña is back on Latinopia this week with his regular monthly video blog, Ricky Luv Video. This video is all about working in an office and how it … [Read more...]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 12.09.18 “2018: AÑO DE RECUPERACIÓN”

December 8, 2018 By Tia Tenopia

Visto que estamos en el ultimo mes de año y que aprovechamos el cierre de los ciclos para hacer recuento y procurar balance, adelanto mis impresiones de lo que ha sido y aventurar ideas de como será. Con certidumbre podríamos llamar el 2018 como el año de recuperación post huracanes, agravado por el cataclismo previo […]

LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG GIL CHÁVEZ “MACHOS AND HEMBRAS”

December 2, 2018 By Tia Tenopia

It is a commentary on much of 21st century life that one of the strongest role models for social roles and behavior come from movies and television,rather than from community and family. Regarding gender terms,and social roles being influenced by movies: I remember how in the late 1940s, as a child I liked to attend […]

MIS PENSAMIENTOS with ALFREDO SANTOS 12.02.18

December 2, 2018 By Tia Tenopia

Well, I have been for a few weeks now to read comments and thoughts about the migrants from Central America who have been making their way toward the United States. So far, the activists among us have been fairly quiet, so here are my two cents. The people coming up from Honduras, El Salvador, and […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA 11.25.18 “JUNTA FISCAL”

November 25, 2018 By Tia Tenopia

La Junta de Control Fiscal celebró vistas públicas el 23 de octubre para notificar la aprobación del Plan Fiscal que ha de regir el futuro inmediato del país. La credencial de prensa que me extendiera Latinopia me logró acceso a la actividad y allí estuve la mañana como testigo del poder, el puro y duro. […]

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

LATINOPIA TEATRO “ENRIQUE’S JOURNEY2”

By Tia Tenopia on December 8, 2014

“Enrique’s Journey” is a Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative by Sonia Nazario about the harrowing experiences of a seventeen-year-old Honduran boy who sets out alone to travel to the United States to find his mother whom he hasn’t seen in more than a dozen years. The riveting true story was adapted for the stage by Anthony J. […]

Category: LATINOPIA TEATRO, Theater

LATINOPIA WORD “DOÑA JULIA’S CHILDREN”

By Tia Tenopia on November 24, 2013

Latinopia’s blogger Luis R. Torres has recently published a biography of Mexican American education activist Vahac Mardirosian. It was Mardirosian who led the Educational Issues Coordinating Committee, the activist group made up of parents, teachers and students following the 1968 East Los Angeles high school Walk-outs. In later years Mardirosian founded the Parent Institute for […]

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature