El Casino Ballroom

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 5.18.14 “EL CASINO”

“IF THESE WALLS COULD TALK" -- EL CASINO BALLROOM. "If them walls could talk,” El Casino Ballroom in Tucson, AZ, would be loquacious. Since its founding in 1947, El Casino has hosted thousands of … [Read more...]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 12.27.24 WHY WE LOVE ART

December 27, 2024 By wpengine

Why We Love Art: A Latino Perspective I have often wondered about the following questions about art. Can you fall in love with art? Can art change or reshape our feelings and emotions? Scientists and medical experts argue that art impacts us in many positive ways. Art is capable of conjuring strong emotions and deep […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 12.21.24

December 21, 2024 By wpengine

Our Lady of Guadalupe: Religion and Origins of Mexican National Consciousness On December 12, the Centro Cultural Aztlan opened the 29th Annual “Celebration a La Virgen de Guadalupe” Group Exhibition. The show was impressive in its depth of iconic imagery and its broadness of thematic concepts. Centro Director Malena Gonzalez-Cid invited thirty-three artists, nearly all […]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 12.13.24 “LET WHOEVER IS WITHOUT SIN CAST THE FIRST STONE”

December 13, 2024 By wpengine

He who is without sin among you, let him cast the first stone… John 8:7, New Testament I had decided to take a break from heavy political topics … but then President Biden pardoned his son Hunter, which set off a tsunami of commentary and coverage by pundits and talking heads as well as by […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 12.13.24 EL JEFE – NIEVE DE LOS ANGELES VÁSQUEZ

December 13, 2024 By wpengine

Burundanga de Zocotroco José M. Umpierre En el mundo de las artes se discute la inspiración; en el ámbito de las ciencias se adscribe valor heurístico. Se refiere a la capacidad que tiene una obra de provocar, incitar la curiosidad y la motivación de buscar más. Puede ser tenue o sutil, como puede ser insistencia […]

LATINOPIA WORD JOSÉ MONTOYA “PACHUCO PORTFOLIO”

By Tia Tenopia on June 12, 2011

José Montoya is a renowned poet, artist and activist who has been in the forefront of the Chicano art movement. One of his most celebrated poems is titled “Pachuco Portfolio” which pays homage to the iconic and enduring character of El Pachuco, the 1940s Mexican American youth who dressed in the stylish Zoot Suit.

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature

LATINOPIA WORD XOCHITL JULISA BERMEJO “OUR LADY OF THE WATER GALLONS”

By Tia Tenopia on May 26, 2013

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is a poet and teacher from Asuza, California. She volunteered with No More Deaths, a humanitarian organization providing water bottles in the Arizona desert where immigrants crossing from Mexico often die of exposure. She read her poem, “Our Lady of the Water Gallons” at a Mental Cocido (Mental Stew) gathering of Latino authors […]

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature

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