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LATINOPIA CINEMA “JULIE CARMEN ON THE MILAGRO BEANFIELD WAR”

Julie Carmen is an accomplished actress whose breakout performance in John Cassavetes' film Gloria won Julie a Best Supporting Actress award at the Venice Film Festival. Among her many credits is the … [Read more...]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 10.16.21 “PRESERVING MEXICAN CULTURAL HERITAGE IN SAN ANTONIO”

October 16, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

Preserving Mexican Cultural Heritage in San Antonio A recent article in the New York Times, “Growth Tests a New San Antonio” by Patrick Sisson [Oct. 5, 2021], noted that “Some fear projects will threaten downtown’s Mexican American heritage.” The actual threat to the Mexican American communities of the downtown Mexican section of San Antonio is […]

POLITICAL SALSA Y MÁS with SAL BALDENEGRO 10.09.21 “STEREOTYPES ARE NOT FUNNY”

October 9, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

Stereotypes are not funny… A subscriber to a Listserv I am a member of recently criticized Jewish comedians from yesteryear for having invoked Mexican stereotypes in their routines. He’s right to protest the stereotyping of our community. But comedians stereotyping Mexican Americans is not a Jewish phenomenon. Mexican American comedians such as George López, Paul […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 10.08.21 ‘HONORING LATINO MILITARY HEROES”

October 9, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

Honoring Latino Military Heroes Every American war has produced Latino heroes. In the American Revolution, General George Washington counted on the help of Spanish colonists living thousands of miles away from the battlefront. For example, General Bernardo de Galves, a Spanish Army Officer and Governor of Louisiana, in 1777 sided with Washington’s Revolutionary Army and […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 10.02.21 MISSING IN U.S. HISTORICAL MEMORIALS

October 2, 2021 By Tia Tenopia

Latinos Missing in U.S. Historical Memorials By Ricardo Romo PhD History usually belongs to the victors. Although the Union won the Civil War and saved democracy in the United States, there are more than 2,000 Confederate monuments, place names, and other symbols that remain in public places across the country. This disturbing fact is found […]

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