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THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA 9.13.25

September 13, 2025 By wpengine

THIS WEEK ON LATINOPIA: WHAT IS MEXICAN INDEPENDENCE DAY? SALOMON HUERTA’S MASKED MEN AND SWIMMING POOLS AND ON BEING PIGEON-HOLED, RICARDO ROMO ON JUAN MIGUEL RAMOS, AND EL PROFE QUEZADA ON LA ADELITA. It’s that time of year again, Mexican Independence Day. For a reminder of what it’s all about, we post an event profile […]

RICARDO ROMO’S TEJANO REPORT 9.13.25 JUAN MIGUEL RAMOS

September 13, 2025 By wpengine

Latino Artist Juan Miguel Ramos Returns to Making Art An enthusiastic crowd of San Antonio art lovers greeted Juan Miguel Ramos’s return to Artpace’s Hudson Showroom last week [August 28, 2025]. A few of the guests were present twenty-three years ago when Ramos participated in Artpace’s 2002 Texas Artists residency as part of the International […]

EL PROFE QUEZADA NOS DICE 9.13.25 THE REAL LA ADELITA

September 13, 2025 By JT

A very important historical event will occur on Monday, September 8, 2025, which marked the 125th anniversary of the birth of Adela Velarde Pérez, also known as La Adelita. When I was growing up in my beloved Barrio El Azteca in Laredo, Texas, during the 1940s and 1950s, I often heard the song, “La Adelita,” that […]

LE PROFE QUEZADA NOS DICE 9.05.25 CURANDERISMO IN THE BARRIO

September 5, 2025 By wpengine

Curanderismo (folk healing) is an integral component of the fabric that is very much a part of the Mexican American cultural, social, and historical heritage. My paternal grandmother, Doña Emilia, or Memia as we fondly called her was a curandera (healer). Her older sister, Doña Ester, was a renowned curandera in Nuevo Laredo, Tamaulipas, Mexico, […]

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

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