Museo del Westside

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 11.21.25 EL MUSEO DEL WESTSIDE

A Latino Museum opens in San Antonio's Westside: labor leader Emma Tenayuca among the honored. The Museuo del Westside opened its doors on October 18th with its inaugural exhibition, "Our Work … [Read more...]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 11.21.25 EL MUSEO DEL WESTSIDE

November 21, 2025 By wpengine

A Latino Museum opens in San Antonio’s Westside: labor leader Emma Tenayuca among the honored. The Museuo del Westside opened its doors on October 18th with its inaugural exhibition, “Our Work Transforms the World,” which honors women in the community who were providers or embodied the community’s spirit through their work. The Esperanza Center, led […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 11.04.25 REGINA MOYA’S LA CATRINA SCULPTURES

November 14, 2025 By wpengine

The Mexican/U.S. Latino holiday known as Día de los Muertos, or Day of the Dead [November 1 & 2], was celebrated in many cities across the U.S. In San Antonio, Texas, the Pearl District commissioned local artist Regina Moya this year to create La Catrina sculptures and a Tzompantli art installation. The Pearl is a bustling cultural and culinary destination […]

EL PROFE QUEZADA NOS DICE 11.14.25 LA SEMITA – A DELICIOUS MEXICAN CULTURAL HERITAGE

November 14, 2025 By JT

The cold winds sweeping through the streets today in San Antonio stir up cherished memories of my childhood in my beloved Barrio El Azteca during the 1940s and 1950s, where the comforting aroma of freshly baked Semitas was a winter staple. On brisk mornings, Mamá would send me out from our home at 210 Iturbide Street to […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO (ENGLISH) 11.07.25 PANORAMA OF THE REPREHENSIBLE

November 7, 2025 By wpengine

The present panorama in a nutshell It is not difficult to adopt a vision of life in which we move from crisis to crisis, one of constant problems and challenges that require adjustment and adaptation. The sirring of the federal government by virtue of partisan lock down in the US Congress is in line […]

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

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