What Will Make You Happy This Christmas And In 2012?

What Will Make You Happy This Christmas And In 2012?

Mary Mata December 20, 2011

Sometimes, in between doing so much, we forget why we’re doing it, or what we’re doing it for. Sometimes, this happens with Christmas. With so much anticipation and media stimulation […]

Mexican Christmas Ponche

Mary Mata December 16, 2011

By Abigail Garcia December is one of my favorite months: everything is filled with red, green, white, silver- and in Mexico you also see a lot of orange, yellow and […]

“Nuestra Pastorela” At The Latino Cultural Center Dallas

Mary Mata December 14, 2011

By Andres A. Aguilar Cara Mia Theatre has done it again. The hosts of The TNA Show (Andres, Turo, and John Anthony) spent an evening at the Latino Cultural Center […]

The Top 5 Christmas Foods To Look Forward To

Mary Mata December 7, 2011

So most of us struggle to find our way around the consumerism that occupies this time of the year. What about family? Being grateful for the people in your life? […]

The Top 10 Things To Do Before Thanksgiving

Mary Mata November 2, 2011

Oh boy, here we go, this holiday roller coaster is in full swing — and there’s no stopping it! Halloween is over and you know what that means — Thanksgiving, Hanukkah, Christmas, New […]

Pocha Christmas Memories

Mary Mata December 24, 2010

My family is from South Texas, the border, but I grew up in L.A. I remember really clearly growing up how strange all my cousins seemed to me when I’d […]

A Very Latina Christmas List

Mary Mata December 6, 2010

Omg, if you’re at all like me, you have no money to spend this Christmas! Good news is, there’s really nothing that I want that’s really all that expensive. We […]

The Three Kings: A Christmas Dating Story

Mary Mata December 1, 2010

By Vincent Bosquez When Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez wrote The Dirty Girls Social Club, she turned the literary world on its head by revitalizing the “chick lit” genre, and convincingly smashed cultural […]

Not The ‘Felícist’ Navidad For 2 Million

Mary Mata

Federal jobless benefits, even after they were extended to 99 weeks, start running out this week. Some states supplement the federal unemployment insurance, so the actual numbers who will have […]