Murals of east Los Angeles

LATINOPIA ART GRONK ON THE MORATORIUM MURAL

One of the most recognized murals in East Los Angeles is the "Black and White Mural" which is also known as the "Moratorium Mural." The work was created by Willie Herron and Gronk, co-founders, along … [Read more...]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT “RICHARD ARMENDARIZ”

January 21, 2022 By Tia Tenopia

Richard Armendariz: Teacher, Artist, Borderlands Interpreter Growing up in El Paso, Texas “with Juarez, Mexico in my backyard,” Latino artist Richard Armendariz found himself “saturated with a mix of romanticism for the new and old West American cultures and the iconography of an ancestral past.” The mystique of the border region greatly influenced him, he […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 01.15.21 “EXPANSION Y TERRITORIOS”

January 15, 2022 By Tia Tenopia

Burundanga de Zocotroco Desde siempre he tenido fascinación por el modo como me conduce la curiosidad. Procurando información sobre la historia en la última cuarta parte del Siglo 18, retomé el valioso libro How to Hide an Empire de Daniel Immerwahr y encontré abono para mi obsesión anticolonial. Narra el autor que una vez que […]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MAS with SAL BALDENEGRO 1.15.21 “IT AIN’T ABOUT PRINCIPLE…”

January 15, 2022 By Tia Tenopia

It ain’t about principle … Some level of truthfulness has always been seen as essential to human society, no matter how deficient the observance of other moral principles. — Philosopher and ethicist Sissela Bok This is, in essence, a continuation of several past blogs. I’ve commented before on the fact that the Republican Party, which […]

LATINOPIA HERO FELIPE DE ORTEGO Y GASCA 1926-2018

January 9, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

Scholar and long time Latinopia blogger Felipe de Ortego y Gasca passed away on December 29, 2018. Jesus Trevino posted this remembrance of his friend and collaborator.

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