Paul Espinosa

LATINOPIA CINEMA SINGING OUR WAY TO FREEDOM

Paul Espinosa is an acclaimed filmmaker whose credits include documentary and narratives films such as The Lemon Grove Incident, And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him and Ballad of an Unsung Hero. His … [Read more...]

LATINOPIA PLATICA PAUL ESPINOSA ON SINGING OUR WAY TO FREEDOM

Paul Espinosa is an accomplished documentary and narrative filmmaker. His credits include The Lemon Grove Incident and the feature film And the Earth Did Not Swallow Him. His latest production is a … [Read more...]

LATINOPIA EVENT 1930 LEMON GROVE INCIDENT

In 1930, the all-white school board of Lemon Grove, California voted to build a separate schoolhouse for children of Mexican descent. This provoked a community response, a boycott of the "Mexican … [Read more...]

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 […]

MARK GUERRERO’S CHICANO MUSIC CHRONICLES “SUNNY OSUNA”

January 5, 2019 By Tia Tenopia

This month Mark Guerrero interviews Tejano music legend Sunny Ozuna about his life and career and plays selected recordings from his catalog. Sunny’s signature national hit record was “Talk To Me” (1963) with Sunny and the Sunglows (later Sunny and the Sunliners). Check out this and other Mark Gerrero interviews at his podcast site: https://markguerrero.podbean.com/

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 01.01.22

December 31, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

Luis Jimenez: A Master of Borderland Art Luis Jimenez represents one of the premier sculptors and painters of the new Latino art generation. Rudolfo Anaya, the highly acclaimed New Mexico Latino writer, saw in Jimenez’s passion a “deep search for an art that portrays the border region.” Anaya called Jimenez a “forerunner of a new […]

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