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LATINOPIA WORD ACEVEDO ON VAMPIRES

Mario Acevedo is a Chicano author based in Denver, Colorado whose series of novels centered on Felix Gómez, a Chicano private detective who also happens to be a vampire, creates a unique Latino take … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature Tagged With: Chicano Science Fiction auithors, Chicano writers, horror wrtiers, Latino writers, Mario Acevedo, Nymphos of Rocky Flats, Werewolf Smackdown, Zombie Jailbait

June 7, 2015 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA WORD ERNESTO HOGAN “HIGH AZTECH”

Ernest Hogan is a science fiction author of Irish and Mexican descent. His works include the novels "Cortez on Jupiter," "High Aztech," and "Smoking Mirror Blues."  In "High Aztech" he envisions a … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature Tagged With: Ernest Hogan, High Aztech, Latino literature, Latino Science Fiction, Latino writers

January 14, 2013 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA WORD ROLANDO HINOJOSA “KLAIL CITY”

Dr. Rolando Hinojosa Smith is a pioneering Chicano author whose writings transcend genres. His novel "Klail City" won the prestigious Casa de las Americas literary award. Hinojosa has created the … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature Tagged With: Casa de las America award, Chicano writers, Klail City, Latino writers, Rolando HInojosa, Rolando Hinojosa Smith, What's New

April 15, 2013 by Tia Tenopia

LATINOPIA WORD DAGOBERTO GILB ON HUIZACHE

Latinopia Word Dagoberto on Huizache from Latinopia.com on Vimeo. Dagoberto Gilb is a celebrated author of novels, short story collections and essays and winner of the PEN Hemingway Prize for … [Read more...]

Filed Under: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature Tagged With: Dagoberto Gilb, Huizache, Latino literary anthologies, Latino literary magazines, Latino writers

February 28, 2016 by Tia Tenopia

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 4.30.26 A POSTMODERNIST SAYS ¿QUE?

April 30, 2026 By wpengine

The Centro de Artes, located in San Antonio’s Market Square, recently opened its new exhibition titled “A Postmodernist Says ¿Qué?” that brings together Latino artists exploring identity through humor across a range of mediums. Curator Vikky Jones told Texas Public Radio that the exhibit includes collages, sculptures, ceramics, and installations.” Jones added, “The show uses […]

EL PROFE QUEZADA 04.30.26 – 113 DICHOS (SAYINGS)

April 30, 2026 By JT

For the past forty years, my wife, Jo Emma, has been compiling some of her own dichos y refranes (sayings and proverbs), and they are all originals. Depending on the occasion or the circumstances at hand, she would come out with her own dicho, and I would tell her to write it down immediately before she would forget […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 04.23.26 – TREVIÑO, GONZALEZ AND LUNA AT THE BLANTON

April 23, 2026 By wpengine

Latino Artists Treviño, Gonzalez, and Luna, Featured at UT Austin’s Blanton Museum Latino Artists Treviño, Gonzalez, and Luna, Featured at UT Austin’s Blanton Museum The UT Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art is currently featuring ten Chicano art prints from the Gilberto Cardenas-Dolores Garcia collection. Among the works on exhibit are prints by José Francisco Treviño, […]

EL PROFE QUESADA NOS DICE 4.23.26 – ON CALÓ AND BARRIO SLANG

April 23, 2026 By wpengine

I would like to share with you some of the slang Spanish words that I heard while growing up in the Barrio El Azteca in Laredo, Texas during the 1940s thru the 1960s.  When I was growing up in the Barrio El Azteca, the second oldest working-class neighborhood in Laredo, batos was slang for boys.  I […]

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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 […]

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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 ART SONIA ROMERO 2

By Tia Tenopia on October 20, 2013

Sonia Romero is a graphic artist,muralist and print maker. In this second profile on Sonia and her work, Latinopia explores Sonia’s public murals, in particular the “Urban Oasis” mural at the MacArthur Park Metro Station in Los Angeles, California.

Category: Art, LATINOPIA ART

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