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...]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SALOMON BALDENEGRO “CESAR CHAVEZ FOUGHT SCABS, NOT IMMIGRANTS…”

April 10, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

“César Chávez fought Scabs, not immigrants…” Arizona Congressman Paul Gosar is sponsoring a bill to create a commemorative coin minted in César Chávez’s honor. Hopefully, his bill will die a quick death. Not because César Chávez doesn’t deserve recognition for his body of work but because of who is sponsoring the bill and because it’s […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 4.03.21 “MY MESTIZO FAMILY CROSSED THE RIO GRANDE: 1752”

April 3, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

My Mestizo Family Crossed the Rio Grande: 1752 South Texas, a U.S.-Mexico borderland region extending for nearly 300 miles along the Rio Grande, has one of the most profound concentrations of Mexican Americans in America. In nearly every one of its communities extending from the Rio Grande River to the Nueces River 50 miles north, […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 3.27.21 JUDY BACA: WEST COAST ARTIST WITH GLOBAL IMPACT

March 27, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

Judy Baca: West Coast Artist with Global Impact The longest mural in the world began 43 years ago when Latina artist Judith Baca spotted the unattractive, but extensive pathway in the Tujunga Wash flood protection concrete complex north of Burbank, California. Built to steer flood waters toward the Pacific Ocean, it protects the Van Nuys […]

FIERCE POLITICS with DR. ALVARO HUERTA

March 27, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

Photo Caption: Dr. Álvaro Huerta organizes legalize street vending event at Cal Poly Pomona (May 19 2016) “Four Ways to Support Latinas/os during the Pandemic and Beyond” The COVID-19 pandemic has not only devastated the U.S. economy, healthcare system and educational way of learning, it has also exposed or exasperated the racial and class inequalities […]

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 ANGELA ROA “TOCO DESAFINADO”

By Tia Tenopia on June 22, 2014

Angela Roa is a Chilean singer and lyricist residing in Los Angeles, California. Her songs are about the Latino experience in the United States and in Latin America. Here she performs an original song, “Toco Desafinado” (Out of Tune). She is accompanied by Fernando Losada, Rich Silva and Thiago Winterstein..

Category: LATINOPIA MUSIC, Music

LATINOPIA WORD RANDY JURADO ERTLL “HOPE IN TIMES OF DARKNESS”

By Tia Tenopia on February 9, 2014

Randy Jurado Ertll is a Salvadoran American author and political activist. He and his family fled the civil war in El Salvador by coming to the United States. He grew up in violence-torn South Central Los Angeles in the 1980s but managed to avoid gang life through the intervention of the A Better Chance Scholarship […]

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature