Chicano Science Fiction auithors

LATINOPIA WORD ACEVEDO ON VAMPIRES

Mario Acevedo is a Chicano author based in Denver, Colorado whose series of novels centered on Felix Gómez, a Chicano private detective who also happens to be a vampire, creates a unique Latino take … [Read more...]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 3.22.20 “AMOR EN TIEMPOS DE CORONAVIRUS”

March 22, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

El Amor en Tiempos del Coronavirus Suelo pensarme como un optimista empedernido. Nada me divierten las teorías conspiratorias, menos las visiones apocalípticas y catastróficas. Ni la edad avanzada, ni las decepciones que se acumulan han logrado alterar la idea de que lo mejor es posible, sobre todo cuando peor se ponen las cosas. También me […]

ROMO DE TEJAS 3.22.20 “JOE BERNAL: LESSONS FROM A SUCCESSFUL LATINO LEADER

March 22, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

Joe Bernal was a pioneer in securing educational rights and opportunities for Latinos. All San Antonians can be proud of his many contributions. Joe Bernal was baptized Jose Maria Bernal and is known to the Westside community of San Antonio as Dr. Bernal or Senator Bernal. He is often called “Chema” to close family members […]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 3.15.20

March 15, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

Let us forgive… By your leave, I’m going to deviate from my usual diet of politics and such and focus on a topic that is more personal, more intimate yet just as important as (community-based or partisan) politics: forgiveness. This came about due to my propensity to be a metiche (nosy, busybody). I was in […]

MARK GUERRERO’S CHICANO MUSIC CHRONICLES -THE EASTSIDE SOUND

March 8, 2020 By Tia Tenopia

This month Mark Guerrero’s Chicano Music Chronicles interviews eight musical artists of what has become known as the “Eastside Sound” of East Los Angeles in the ’60s. His guests include the late Richard “Scar” Lopez of Cannibal & the Headhunters, George Delgado of The Premiers, Sal Murillo of The Blendells, Andy Tesso and Max Uballez […]

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 QUETZAL “CANTO LISO”

By Tia Tenopia on October 27, 2013

Quetzal is an East Los Angeles band whose music mirrors the social, political and cultural struggles of Latinos in the United States and Latin America. On August 24, 2013 they performed their song “Canto Liso,” based on a poem by acclaimed Cuban poet Nicolás Guillén, at the Levitt Pavilion nin Pasadena, California.

Category: LATINOPIA MUSIC, Music

LATINOPIA MUSIC LOS FABULOCOS “UNA PURA Y DOS CON SAL”

By Tia Tenopia on January 4, 2015

Delta Groove Music recording artist Los FabuLocos is a Southern California band whose unique sound, “Cali-Mex,”is a fusion of blues, Americana and Chicano soul music. Band members include Jesús Cuevas, accordion and vocals; Rubén Guaderama, guitar,bajo sexto, tres and vocals; James Barrios, bass and vocals; Mike Molina, drums and Kid Ramos, guitar( not in this […]

Category: LATINOPIA MUSIC, Music