Chicano Playwrights

LATINOPIA TEATRO CARLOS MORTON ON DANNY ROSALES

Latinopia Teatro Morton On Danny Rosales from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Carlos Morton is a playwright who has worked on more than a hundred stage productions. He is the author of plays Johnny Tenorio … [Read more...]

ARNIE AND PORFI with SERGIO HERNÁNDEZ “TRUMP’S NATIONAL EMERGENCY DECLARATION”

March 22, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

POLITICAL SALSA Y MAS with SALOMON BALDENEGRO 3.17.19 “SANCTUARY CITIES – A CIVIL INITIATIVE…”

March 17, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Sanctuary cities-a civil initiative… A local activist coalition, Tucson Families Free and Together, has launched a petition drive to change our city’s status from being an “immigrant-welcoming” city to a “sanctuary city.” The difference is material. The “immigrant-welcoming” designation is merely an expression of support for Tucson’s immigrant community, an effort to “facilitate a community-wide […]

MIS PENSAMIENTOS with ALFREDO SANTOS 3.17.19

March 17, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Bienvenidos otra vez a La Voz Newspaper. Esperamos que todos se encuentran en buen salud porque como quien dice, your health is your wealth. In this issue of La Voz we wish to call to your attention the most recent accomplishment of Dr. Emilio Zamora: being named the President of the Texas State Historical Association. […]

MARK GUERRERO’S CHICANO MUSIC CHRONICLES – GERI “GEREE” GONZALEZ

February 24, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

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