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THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 04.23.26

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: PACHUCOS! EL PROFE QUEZADA ON CALÓ AND BARRIO SLANG, RAUL SALINAS READS "HAIL PACHUCO!" JOSÉ MONTOYA ON THE VILIFICATION OF THE PACHUCO AND RICARDO ROMO ON TREVIÑO, GONZALEZ … [Read more...]

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THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 4.17.26

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: MARGARET ELYSIA GARCIA'S NEW NOVEL "GRAFT," MARGARET GARCIA ON HORROR AND LONELINESS, RICARDO ROMO'S TEJANO REPORT ON MAGO GANDARA'S EL PASO EXHIBIT MUJER MODERNA AND MARK … [Read more...]

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April 17, 2026 by wpengine

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 1.08.26

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: AND NOW VENEZUELA, DIOS MIO! JESÚS TREVIÑO ON THE PRETEXT HIDES THE REAL MOTIVE, BURUNDANGA BORICUA: LET THE MAYHEM BEGIN, LUIS TORRES ON ANOTHER TRUMP PENDEJADA, RICARDO … [Read more...]

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January 8, 2026 by wpengine

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 1.17.25

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: EATON FIRE THREATENS LATINOPIA, WHERE TO GET FIRE AID, MICHEAL SEDANO AND RUDY CH. GARCIA ON THE FIRE, AND RICARDO ROMO ON BENITO HUERTA. Hola mi gente. Well this certainly … [Read more...]

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January 17, 2025 by wpengine

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 4.03.26

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: NO KINGS DAY REDUX! LUIS TORRES ON THE IMPORTANCE OF NO KINGS, RICARDO ROMO ON MARTA SANCHEZ EXHIBIT RIELES Y RAÍCES,  PROFE QUEZADA ON REPISA, HOME ALTARS, AND JORGE "COQUI" … [Read more...]

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April 3, 2026 by wpengine

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 4.10.26

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: ESMERALDA SANTIAGO ON PUERTO RICO TODAY, RICARDO ROMO'S TEJANO REPORT ON NEW EXHIBIT AT BLANTON MUSEUM OF ART, BURUNDANGA BORICUA ON OLIGARCHY AND KLEPTOCRACY IN PUERTO RICO, … [Read more...]

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April 10, 2026 by wpengine

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 3.26.26

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: REMEMBERING DR. RUDY ACUÑA,  DR. ALVARO HUERTA ON THE LEGACY OF DR. RUDY ACUÑA,  IRMA OROZCO ON 500 YEARS OF CHICANA/LATINA ROLE MODELS,  RICARDO ROMO ON THE ART OF MARK … [Read more...]

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March 25, 2026 by wpengine

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 02.19.26

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: THE ERNESTO GALARZA STORY EPISODE THREE, SPIDERS IN THE HOUSE AND EPISODE FOUR: A UNION AT LAST! BURUNDANGA BORICUA ON BAD BUNNY WITH LOVE (IN ENGLISH AND SPANISH) AND RICARDO … [Read more...]

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February 19, 2026 by wpengine

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 2.12.26

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: HAPPY VALENTINE'S DAY! ALFONSO AYALA III ON THE ELIMINATION OF MEXICAN AMERICAN STUDIES AT UT AUSTIN, SALOMON BALDENEGRO ON A HISTORIC ROLE REVERSAL,  ROGELIO SÁENZ GUEST BLOG, … [Read more...]

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February 14, 2026 by wpengine

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 02.06.26

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: THE ERNESTO GALARZA STORY! EPISODE ONE: BARRIO BOY, EPISODE TWO: A HIDDEN ENEMY, RICARDO ROMO'S TEJANO REPORT LATINOS OVERCAME A WAR AND A BROKEN TREATY. We're excited to … [Read more...]

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February 7, 2026 by wpengine

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 1.30.26

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: JUAN TEJEDA ON CONJUNTO MUSIC AND THE CONJUNTO AZTLÁN PERFORMS ROSARIO, RICARDO ROMO ON ALEJANDRO DÍAZ AT RUIZ-HEALY GALLERY, JORGE RODRIGUEZ GUEST BLOG "THE KIND ACT OF … [Read more...]

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January 29, 2026 by wpengine

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THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: JOSÉ MONTOYA'S PACHUCO PORTFOLIO,  EL PROFE QUEZADA ON TWO MEXICAN MOVIE GREATS, SONIA ROMERO ON THE MACARTHUR PARK MURAL AND RICARDO ROMO ON NEW CHICANO/MEXICANO ART AT THE … [Read more...]

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January 24, 2026 by wpengine

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 01.15.26

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: AGAIN?! RENEE NICOLE GOOD KILLING PROTEST! LATINOPIA SHOWCASE THE LAND OF BORIKÉN; RICARDO ROMO'S TEJANO REPORT ON NEW LATINO ART AT SAN ANTONIO MUSEUM OF ART AND MARK … [Read more...]

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January 15, 2026 by wpengine

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 12.26.25

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: CELEBRATING CHRISTMAS WITH FOOD! PROFE QUEZADA ON BUÑUELOS, JOSÉ UMPIERRE ON PUERTO RICAN CUISINE, DIANE VELARDE HERNANDEZ ON CAPIROTADA RICARDO ROMO ON MASTER ARTIST LUIS … [Read more...]

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December 26, 2025 by wpengine

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 12.11.25

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA:  RICARDO ROMO ON GREAT BOOKS FOR CHRISTMAS GIFTS, BOBBI MURRAY ON UCLA LAW AND IMMIGRATION PANEL ON ICE RAIDS, EL PROFE QUEZADA NOS DICE ON THE INFLUENCE OF ARAB CULTURE ON THE … [Read more...]

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December 11, 2025 by JT

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 12.05.25

THIS WEEK N LATINOPIA: LATINOPIA HERO DR. RICARDO ROMO, BOBBI MURRAY ON CARWASHEROS PRESENTE! TEJANO REPORT ON THE PHOTOGRAPHY OF GRACIELA ITURBIDE AND CONGRESSWOMAN ADELITA GRIJALVA AT THE NO KINGS … [Read more...]

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December 5, 2025 by wpengine

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 11.27.25

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: EL PROFE NOS DICE ABOUT THE REAL FIRST THANKSGIVING! RICARDO ROMO'S TEJANO REPORT LOOKS AT AN EXHIBIT OF FOUND ART  IN THE YA HECHO READYMADE IN THE BORDERLANDS AT THE TUCSON … [Read more...]

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November 27, 2025 by wpengine

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 11.20.25

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: CELEBRATING THE LIFE OF JOSÉ LOZANO, RICARDO ROMO'S TEJANO REPORT ON THE NEW MUSEO DEL WESTSIDE, SAN ANTONIO, EMMA TENAYUCA IN HER OWN WORDS AND A BIOGRAPHY OF EMMA … [Read more...]

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November 21, 2025 by wpengine

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 11.07.25

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: BOBBI MURRAY ASKS ARE THE DODGERS PLAYING BALL WITH ICE? BURUNDANGA BORICUA ON A REPREHENSIBLE PANORAMA, RICARDO ROMO ON MARMOLEJO AND RAQUEL AT CENTRO DE ARTES AND EL PROFE … [Read more...]

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November 7, 2025 by wpengine

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 10.31.25

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA:  HAPPY HALLOWEEN! AMALIA MESA BAINS DAY OF THE DEAD, EL PROFE QUEZADA ON DAY OF THE DEAD POEMS, SAL BALDENEGRO ON WE'RE ALL ANTIFA, ALEJANDRO MORALES' NEW NOVEL PLACE OF THE … [Read more...]

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October 31, 2025 by wpengine

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 10.23.25

This week, on October 18th, more than seven million Americans took to the streets to protest Donald Trump and his anti-American edicts that would curtail the U.S. Constitution and the rule of law. The … [Read more...]

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October 23, 2025 by wpengine

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RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 04.23.26 – TREVIÑO, GONZALEZ AND LUNA AT THE BLANTON

April 23, 2026 By wpengine

Latino Artists Treviño, Gonzalez, and Luna, Featured at UT Austin’s Blanton Museum Latino Artists Treviño, Gonzalez, and Luna, Featured at UT Austin’s Blanton Museum The UT Austin’s Blanton Museum of Art is currently featuring ten Chicano art prints from the Gilberto Cardenas-Dolores Garcia collection. Among the works on exhibit are prints by José Francisco Treviño, […]

EL PROFE QUESADA NOS DICE 4.23.26 – ON CALÓ AND BARRIO SLANG

April 23, 2026 By wpengine

I would like to share with you some of the slang Spanish words that I heard while growing up in the Barrio El Azteca in Laredo, Texas during the 1940s thru the 1960s.  When I was growing up in the Barrio El Azteca, the second oldest working-class neighborhood in Laredo, batos was slang for boys.  I […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 04.17.26 MAGO GÁNDARA’S MUJER MODERNA EXHIBIT

April 17, 2026 By wpengine

El Paso’s new Mexican American Cultural Center’s (MACC) exhibit, Mujer Moderna: The Life and Artwork of Mago Gándara, opened in the fall of 2025. Curated by Ramon Cardenas, the exhibition honors Margarita “Mago” Orona Gándara (1929–2018), celebrated as the first Chicana Modernist artist and the first female muralist and sculptor of the U.S.–Mexico Borderlands. On view […]

BURUNDANGA BORICUA DEL ZOCOTROCO (ENGLISH) 4.10.26 OLIGARCHY AND KAKOCRACY: MONEY TAKS

April 10, 2026 By wpengine

Oligarchy and Kakocracy Boricua: money talks… Two events currently dominate public attention in Puerto Rico: the legislative views to attend the lobbying firm founded by the current secretary of the governorship and the Esencia megaproject, a residential development in the southwest of the island. They grab attention for the large sums of money they handle, […]

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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 […]

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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.

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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.

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