Judy Baca

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

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 … [Read more...]

LATINOPIA ART JUDY BACA ON THE GREAT WALL

Judy Baca is an acclaimed artist and muralist and founder of SPARC (The Social and Public Art Resource Center). She is perhaps best known for designing and painting, with the help of many assistants, … [Read more...]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT AMERICO PAREDES: SCHOLAR, POET, MUSICIAN, TEACHER, MENTOR

September 11, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

Americo Paredes: Scholar, Poet, Musician, Teacher, and Mentor In my fifty years of academic life, I have interacted with hundreds of scholars and graduate students. When I first met Americo Paredes I knew I had encountered a true “Renaissance man.” Don Americo’s career included journalism, radio broadcasting, scholarship, and college teaching. He spoke and wrote […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT LYDIA MENDOZA

September 3, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

Lydia Mendoza: Borderland Music Star Lydia Mendoza, a Tejana singer of Spanish-language ballads and Borderland Norteno corridos, was the first Latina to achieve international recognition–in any field. Over her stellar six-decade career of recording and performing live she recorded more than 50 LP albums singing more than 200 different songs. Her records exceeded more than […]

MARK GUERRERO’S CHICANO MUSIC CHRONICLES – GERI “GEREE” GONZALEZ

February 24, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 8.28.21 AL FINAL DE LA FILA

August 27, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

Al Final de la Fila La Asociación Puertorriqueña de Profesores Universitario (APPU) en la que milité activo previo a mi jubilación me privilegia con la petición de reseñar la publicación de Al Final de la Fila, primera de su estrenada gestión editorial. Me resulta imperativo comenzar con lo propuesto por Benjamín Torres Gotay y la consigna […]

LATINOPIA ART GASPAR ENRÍQUEZ 1 “RETROSPECTIVE”

By Tia Tenopia on May 4, 2014

Gaspar Enríquez is a renowned Chicano artist whose airbrush portraits of barrio youth are haunting and memorable. Drawing from museums and collectors around the United States, in April 2014, the El Paso Museum of Art mounted a retrospective of Gaspar’s art titled Metaphors of the Barrio. Latinopia visited the exhibit and asked Gaspar what inspires […]

Category: Art, LATINOPIA ART

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