Latino Democrats

THINKING LATINA WITH SARA INÉS CALDERÓN 8.11.13 “WENDY DAVIS”

3 WAYS WENDY DAVIS RUNNING FOR GOVERNOR OF TEXAS WOULD AFFECT LATINOS. Wendy Davis, according to my sources and the hints she’s been dropping, is going to make a run for Texas governor. The state … [Read more...]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT TEXAS RESTORES SEGREGATED SCHOOL BUILT FOR MEXICAN AMERICANS

September 25, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

Marfa, Texas Restores Segregated School built for Mexican Americans In perhaps a first for Texas education history, Mexican American residents of Marfa, Texas have initiated an important community project: restoring their “Mexican” school built in 1909. Their intentions are that the creation of the Blackwell School Museum will shed light on an earlier historical period […]

CHICANO MUSIC CHRONICLES WITH MARK GUERRERO – RENÉ AND RENÉ

December 3, 2017 By Tia Tenopia

This month Mark Guerrero welcomes René Ornelas of the sixties music duo René and René to Chicano Music Chronicles. René and René is the awesome Latino pop duo whose hits Angelito (1964) and Lo Mucho Que Te Quiero (1969) peaked on the national Billboard 100 Chart. Originally from Laredo , Texas, René Ornelas (born August […]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS WITH SAL BALDENEGRO 9.18.21

September 18, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

The hypocrisy overwhelms… It’s discouraging to think how many people are shocked by honesty and how few by deceit. Noel Coward, English playwright, composer, director, and singer Esa gente no tiene madre (They have no shame, no scruples) … Mexican adage The stench of hypocrisy emanating from the Republican right-wing is overwhelming. It is nauseating. […]

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 […]

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