Mike Aversa

MARK GUERRERO’S EAST L.A. MUSIC STORIES – MIKE AVERSA

Singer/songwriter Mark Guerrero interviews Mike Aversa, founding member and leader of two popular East L.A. bands of the 1960s, Mickey & the Invaders and Dyna-Might. Mickey & the Invaders … [Read more...]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 10.06.24 AMALIA MESA-BAINS AT SAMA

October 6, 2024 By wpengine

Visionary Concepts of Amalia Mesa-Bains at San Antonio Museum of Art The San Antonio Museum of Art retrospective, Amalia Mesa-Bains: Archaeology of Memory, is impressive and a triumph for the museum. This exciting exhibit can be seen in the museum’s large Cowden Gallery from September 20, 2024 through January 12, 2025. Four decades ago Mesa-Bains […]

MIS PENSAMIENTOS with ALFREDO SANTOS 10.06.24

October 6, 2024 By wpengine

Bienvenidos otra vez a La Voz Newspaper. By the time you read these words, the Republic of Mexico will have sworn in its first female President of the nation. Dr. Claudia Sheinbaum Pardo will begin a six year term as Mexico’s President. And in doing so, Mexico joins a host of nations around the world […]

BURUNDANGA DEL ZOCOTROCO 9.27.24

September 27, 2024 By wpengine

Burundanga de Socotroco José M. Umpierre Se avecina a paso galopante el evento crucial para nuestra maltrecha democracia colonial. El compromiso con reflexiones sobre la cultura obliga a lo ineludible, con penas y reparos. Confieso que me pienso creativo, con seria aversión a la repetición. También pienso que la opiniones son como los culos, todo […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 9.27.24

September 27, 2024 By wpengine

A Latino Art Exhibit in Querétaro, Mexico Draws Attention to a Shared History An exhibit of Chicano art, Al Otro Lado del Espejo [The Other Side of the Mirror], opened at the Museo de Arte de Querétaro, Mexico on September 20, 2024. San Antonio artists Lionel and Kathy Sosa and Museo de Arte de Querétaro […]

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 WORD XOCHITL JULISA BERMEJO “OUR LADY OF THE WATER GALLONS”

By Tia Tenopia on May 26, 2013

Xochitl-Julisa Bermejo is a poet and teacher from Asuza, California. She volunteered with No More Deaths, a humanitarian organization providing water bottles in the Arizona desert where immigrants crossing from Mexico often die of exposure. She read her poem, “Our Lady of the Water Gallons” at a Mental Cocido (Mental Stew) gathering of Latino authors […]

Category: LATINOPIA WORD, Literature

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