The trailers for “The American” portray it as a high-octane action movie a la Bourne trilogy. It is anything but. It is cold, detached, in love with long shots, tight ...
The summer’s winding down. Kids are going back to school, stores are prepping for their fall sales. But for those of you who don’t want to let summer go just ...
The city of Chicago is no stranger to music festivals, serving as homebase for major gatherings throughout the year that cater to a variety of musical tastes. There’s Lollapalooza and ...
In 1978, artist Hector Duarte attended a muralist conference in Chicago that exposed him to a rich movement of artists working in the barrios of the city. Having never seen ...
Art can change you. Be it a painting, a sculpture, a print or one of the myriad of other artistic expressions, its impact is undeniable. For the National Museum of Mexican ...
Like many other children of immigrant parents, Pablo Rejas was the first in his family to graduate from high school. His mother, a native of Mexico, encouraged him to do well ...
The buxom bombshell named Sabrina Solano stops her man Chuy drop-dead cold with impeccably arched eyebrows and a sizzling point-blank glare, as piercing as an actual bullet. “Even the worst ...
When the floodwaters rose May 1 in Nashville, turning a landlocked city into a chain of islands, Edna Garcia was downtown with her 9-year-old daughter. Her two other children, ages 7 ...
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Jan 11
2010
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For the past few days, Senate Majority leader Harry Reid has made the news for comments made during the 2008 presidential campaign about now President Obama saying that he would be successful because he was “light-skinned” and “spoke with no Negro dialect.” Now, I certainly think that Senator Reid could have used a better choice of words, but we have to look at where Harry Reid is coming from.
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Oct 27
2009
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During the past week, there has been a lot of press coverage about a hotel owner in Taos, New Mexico who has asked his Spanish speaking employees to cease speaking Spanish at work and to Anglicize their names while at work. Larry Whitten came to Taos over the summer to revive an adobe-style hotel in this old Indian pueblo town, and he has angered his employees and community members with this request, which has been reflected in local pickets and letter writing.
RT @danielayvonne: it's @AriannaNoemy's last day at @cafemagazine so this calls for cheesecake. http://twitpic.com/2km982
