. 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...]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MAS with SAL BALDENEGRO 4.13.19 “HONOR CESAR CHAVEZ: SUPPORT TOMATO PICKERS…”

April 13, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

“Safe” events don’t create real change… It’s the season to honor César E. Chávez and his legacy of labor activism on behalf of farm workers. However, many of the contemporary Chávez celebrations really don’t do justice to Chavez’s work and legacy. Some communities sponsor symbolic marches, and in one case (Tucson), a bike ride. Others […]

MARK GUERRERO’S CHICANO MUSIC CHRONICLES DON TOSTI

April 7, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

In this week’s Chicano Music Chronicles, Mark Guerrero interviews legendary big band leader and musician DonTosti. Tosti was part of the pre-Rock and Roll big band generation. He started his music career at age 19 with the celebrated Jack Teagarden band and later played with such musicians as Les Brown and Tommy Dorsey. In the […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA del ZOCOTROCO 03.31.19

March 31, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

No voy a negarlo, desde que Donald Trump incidió formalmente en el escenario político norteamericano se convirtió en objeto de mi fascinación, pues es de esas figuras que no dejan de causar asombro. En vista de que esa impresión dista de ser exclusiva, de que sus hazañas tienen una cobertura tan extensa y que todo […]

GUEST BLOG 4.07.19 JUAN TEJEDA ON THE MECHA NAME CHANGE

April 7, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

The National Association for Chicana and Chicano Studies national conference is meeting this week, April 3-6, 2019, in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The theme of the conference is “Indigenous Knowledge for Resistance, Love, and Land: Lecciones for our Children, for our Future.” Will NACCS be changing their name and eliminating Chicana and Chicano from it? #VivaAztlanLibre So […]

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