Fanny Garcia

ASK TIA TENOPIA 2.27.14

A NEW BLOGGER! WELCOME FANNY GARCIA! Hola Latinopians! We proud to announce that this week we are adding a new blogger to the Latinopia familia. Fanny Garcia is founding editor of pLAywriting in … [Read more...]

TALES OF TORRES REMEMBERING FERNANDO VALENZUELA 10.25.24

October 25, 2024 By wpengine

REMEMBERING FERNANDO VALENZUELA By Luis Torres When Fernando Valenzuela pitched a memorable no-hitter at Dodger Stadium on June 29, 1990, legendary broadcaster Vin Scully intoned over the air: “Fernando Valenzuela has just pitched a no-hitter, if you have a sombrero throw it to the sky.” Well, Dodgers’ fans—especially those in the Mexican/Chicano community—are today seemingly […]

TALES OF TORRES 4.18.21 “FERNANDOMANIA”

April 17, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

HOW I ENDED UP BEING FERNANDO VALENZUELA’S HOMIE 40 YEARS AGO Wow! How time flies. It’s been 40 years since Los Angeles (and the Chicanada throughout the country) was mesmerized by Fernandomania. Hard to believe so much time has evaporated so quickly. Think of all you’ve done and all you’ve encountered since the ancient date […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 10.25.24 FREDERICO VIGIL PRESERVES ANCIENT ART TRADITION

October 25, 2024 By wpengine

Fresco Artist Frederico Vigil’s Passion Preserves Ancient Art Tradition. A magnificent fresco by New Mexican Maestro Frederico Vigil is near completion on a stairwell of the Convention Center in Albuquerque, New Mexico. The 2,500-square-foot fresco tells the history of viticulture [the cultivation of grapevines] worldwide with ample space devoted to New Mexican wine making. The […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 10.18.24 ¿RESULTADOS SEÑALAN CAMBIO?

October 18, 2024 By wpengine

Burundanga de Zocotroco José M. Umpierre Bien se dice que una golondrina no hace primavera y cuánto no se cuestionan y amañan los datos de las encuestas, que son meras consultas de opinión. Las que cuentan con la mejor ciencia rinden algo como una radiografía, el retrato de un instante. Recurso que se utiliza para […]

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