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UTOPIAS DESCIFRADAS with JOSÉ E. MURATTI-TORO 7.18.20 CAN HAMILTON PREVAIL IN THE BLM ERA?

Can Hamilton prevail in the BLM Era? The controversy over Lin Manuel Miranda’s Hamilton could not have been anticipated in 2015, especially during the Obama presidency. Black Lives Matter, as a … [Read more...]

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 11.27.21

November 26, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: LUIS TORRES ON THANKSGIVING LEFTOVERS, RICARDO ROMO ON THE ART OF JACINTO GUEVARA, THELMA REYNA REVIEWS MIXQUIAHUALA LETTERS BY ANA CASTILLO, AND LATINOPIA SHOWCASES MEXICO’S GRUPO MIXE AND MACEDONIA’S KOCANI ORCHESTRA. A potpourri of items this week. We begin with the aftermath of our Thanksgiving dinner and, in spite of the […]

TALES OF TORRES THANKSGIVING LEFTOVERS 11.27.21

November 26, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

Thanksgiving Day has come and gone, leaving lots of leftovers – both actual and metaphorical. Above the din of football game crowds emanating from the nonstop television in the next room, there were conversations. Conversations about family chisme (gossip), politics and the very issue of what Thanksgiving is really all about. Leftover conversations continue days […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 11.27.21 “THE ART OF JACINTO GUEVARA”

November 26, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

The Art of Jacinto Guevara: Documenting Unique Latino Culture By Ricardo Romo, PhD The seventies are remembered as a monumental decade for most Americans. In the early years of the decade President Richard Nixon’s resignation and the Supreme Court decision in Roe v. Wade dominated the news. Earth Day, Godfather movies, and disco music fascinated […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 11.20.21 “OTRO VEZ Y SIEMPRE LA UNIVERSIDAD”

November 20, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

Burundanga de Zocotroco Otra vez y Siempre la Universidad Encuentra uno en el camino asuntos recurrentes, temas esenciales, teclas a las que retornar ya sea por su consonancia o su disonancia. La Universidad de Puerto Rico es uno de esos asuntos. El trato que ha recibido la institución no agota palabras y el rechazo de […]

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

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