Fierce Politics by Dr. Alvaro Huerta

FIERCE POLITICS with ALVARO HUERTA 8.14.16 “URBAN PLANNERS OF THE WORLD UNITE AGAINST TRUMP”

As an urban planning scholar and a son of Mexican immigrants, I implore all planning scholars, practitioners and students to stand up and take a position against Donald Trump—the Republican nominee … [Read more...]

FIERCE POLITICS with ALVARO HUERTA 5.15.16 “FROM SHAME TO PRIDE IN MY MEXICAN IMMIGRANT PARENTS”

When I first applied to UCLA, I wrote in my personal essay that I didn’t have any positive role models in my violent neighborhood. Having grown up in East Los Angeles’ Ramona Gardens housing … [Read more...]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 6.15.18

June 15, 2018 By Tia Tenopia

Spanish is a lovely tongue… Some recent incidents involving the use of Spanish (more on these below) brought to mind an essay entitled “Saints and sinners all agree…” I wrote several years ago. I took the title from a line in a Texas Tornados song (“She never spoke Spanish to me”) that asserts that “Saints […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 6.15.18 “INFORME SOBRE EL DESARROLLO HUMANO – PARTE UNO”

June 15, 2018 By Tia Tenopia

Informe sobre el Desarrollo Humano Parte I El lunes 14 de mayo ese presentó a la comunidad el Informe sobre el Desarrollo Humano: Puerto Rico 2016, el producto de una iniciativa de un grupo grande de intelectuales y académicos del patio, aplicando por primera vez el método y modelo de análisis de las Naciones Unidas. […]

LATINOPIA GUEST BLOG MICHAEL SEDANO “FABULOUS SINKHOLE COMES TO LIFE”

June 6, 2018 By Tia Tenopia

During our various road trips–Librotraficantes, Interviews of Rudolfo Anaya, Paul Hutton and Rudy Anaya again–Jesus Treviño and I discussed the music of Hamilton, the joys of writing, the glories of the southwestern landscape, health, making music, and sundry topics like dreams and druthers. Treviño had an idea, a dream, to create a stage play from […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA del ZOCOTROCO 5.06.18 “CELEBRANDO EL CUATRO”

June 6, 2018 By Tia Tenopia

De que la ignorancia es osada mi vida es prueba. Heme aquí, lejos de solfeos y pentagramas , lanzándome a la música. Visto que la cultura es una encomienda amplia y diversa, me aventuro a comentar un concierto, deslumbrado por la experiencia, plenamente consciente que mis carencias. El Cuatro Puertorriqueño: Clásico y Contemporianeo fue el […]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 5.27.18 “WORLD WAR TWO GENERATION”

By Breht Burri on April 20, 2014

WW II GENERATION GETS IT DONE! It is beyond ironic that teaching young people about the patriotism of the Mexican American community—e.g., that Mexican Americans/Latinos have earned more Congressional Medals of Honor in proportion to their numbers than any other ethnic group in the U.S. and that Mexican American women played a crucial role in […]

Category: Political Salsa y Más

LATINOPIA FOOD RECIPE “JALAPEÑO SODA BREAD”

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 EVENT 1966 UFW PEREGRINACIÓN (PILGRIMAGE) MARCH

By Tia Tenopia on March 19, 2013

The effort to organize farm workers under a union contract has been a long and difficult struggle. In 1965, César Chávez and Dolores Huerta created what would become the United Farm Workers Union. From the onset they faced many obstacles, not the least of which was how to get dozens of California grape growers to […]

Category: History, LATINOPIA EVENT