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Mexico’s Michoacán Culture Lives On In Chicago

Mary Mata June 14, 2012

By Antonio Zavala, Voxxi At 27 years old Jose Luis Gutierrez left his home in Michoacán Central Mexico for the United States and became one of 250,000 Michoacán immigrants living in Chicago. Desperate to […]

Yes, It’s summer: Now Quit Staring At My Butt

Mary Mata June 13, 2012

Why Every Day Is Father’s Day

Mary Mata

Movie Review: Prometheus

Mary Mata

By Tyler Stevens, The Young Folks Despite liking-but-not-loving Ridley Scott’s sci-fi classic Alien, Prometheus was easily my second most-anticipated film of the year (The Dark Knight Rises is first, of course, because nothing can […]

The Long Haired Man Who Saved Me (It’s not who you think)

Mary Mata June 12, 2012

By Oscar Barajas It was the awful year of 1989, and I was getting ready to transition to junior high school. It all weighed heavily on my mind, because the […]

Xicanosmosis: Mariachi El Bronx

Mary Mata

From the textmex obsessed imagination of William A. Nericcio Thanks to Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog reader Alberto David Mercado for forwarding me this curious performance by Mariachi El Bronx on the David Letterman Show: This […]

On Gender Disparities: Can Women Be Blamed For Machismo?

Mary Mata

By Silvia Casablanca, Voxxi While teaching a family health course at the University of Cartagena many years ago, the stories students told about the different roles that members of their […]