POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 10.16.16 “DEMOCRACY BE DAMNED”

Democracy be damned—let’s hate! Conservatives and progressives claim to be polar opposites, but when it comes to hating on people whose political views and actions they don’t like, conservatives … [Read more...]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 9.21.14 “HISTORY MATTERS IN POLITICS”

HISTORY MATTERS IN POLITICS. Historian Rudy Acuña periodically reminds us that history matters. Indeed it does, and it behooves us to remember that during the political season. Our history teaches … [Read more...]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO 6.18.17 COINCIDENCIAS Y ACCIDENTES DEL DESTINO

June 18, 2017 By Tia Tenopia

¡Vaya con los accidentes del destino! Coinciden el 11 de junio de 2017 el Desfile Puertorriqueño en Nueva York y el Plebiscito para la Descolonización Inmediata de Puerto Rico en la Isla. Dos fenómenos que en este año particular, sirven para ejemplificar esa Burundanga en que se forja nuestra identidad. Recuerdan la coincidencia de que […]

CHICANO MUSIC CHRONICLES GABRIEL MANZO

June 7, 2017 By Tia Tenopia

This month Mark Guerrero interviews legendary guitar stylist Gabriel Manzo on his decades-long musical career playing and discussing the tracks on Manzo’s acclaimed CD “Manzo Rally.” Gabriel Manzo is a unique musician vocalist, accomplished in many genres including Latin Rock, Jazz, Rock, Blues and Funk. He is lead guitarist, vocalist, songwriter, musical director of the […]

BORICUAS AND CHICANOS – A COMMON BOND

June 4, 2017 By JT

I was eight years old when I was became aware that the universe I inhabited in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles included people who were Latino but not Mexican like me. When I asked my mother about the neighbor woman that spoke with a funny accent, I was told she spoke Spanish […]

ARNIE AND PORFI WITH SERGIO HERNÁNDEZ “PUTIN’S ADVICE”

June 18, 2017 By Tia Tenopia

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 EVENT 1966 UFW PEREGRINACIÓN (PILGRIMAGE) MARCH

By Tia Tenopia on March 19, 2013

The effort to organize farm workers under a union contract has been a long and difficult struggle. In 1965, César Chávez and Dolores Huerta created what would become the United Farm Workers Union. From the onset they faced many obstacles, not the least of which was how to get dozens of California grape growers to […]

Category: History, LATINOPIA EVENT

LATINOPIA FOOD RECIPE “JALAPEÑO SODA BREAD”

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

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POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 10.16.16 “DEMOCRACY BE DAMNED”

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 9.21.14 “HISTORY MATTERS IN POLITICS”