Hit the Mexican Varmint and Double Your Score!!!

Hit the Mexican Varmint and Double Your Score!!!

Mary Mata April 26, 2012

From the textmex obsessed imagination of Memo Nericcio, textmex galleryblog Louis Marx Toy: The Lone Ranger! Hit the Mexican Varmint and Double Your Score!!! …thanks to ace toy detective, the institute […]

A Loss To L.A. Spanish Language News

NewsTaco April 25, 2012

As a former Spanish language journalist I’m sensitive to the news of my small but hard working tribe.  So I read  Adolfo Guzman-Lopez’s recent KCET post with sadness. Two important journalists died in the […]

Santa Claus, the Easter Bunny, and the day they abandoned me

Mary Mata

By Oscar Barajas When I was about eight years old, my cousin changed my life. He introduced me to a telephone line that would connect me to Santa Claus. Santa […]

Chipotle And Garlic Mashed Potatoes

Mary Mata

“Ever since the chef Aaron Sanchez cookbook fell into my hands, this was one of the recipes that caught my attention, because I love the flavors of garlic and chipotle […]

Commentary: A Collective Silence Is A License To Hate

Mary Mata April 24, 2012

By Jim Estrada It is becoming clear that too many in our society have reached a level of comfort with overt expressions of bias and racial discrimination towards non-whites, especially […]

Bien Hecho: Carmen Tafolla Is San Antonio’s First Poet Laureate

Mary Mata

Earlier this month, the city of San Antonio, Texas inaugurated its first Poet Laureate, UTSA scholar Dr. Carmen Tafolla. Tafolla, currently the university’s writer-in-residence for Children’s, Youth, and Transformative Literature was […]

Commentary: When A Mother Implodes

Mary Mata April 23, 2012

The terrifying news of mothers who murder their own children is becoming more and more frequent. It used to be a given that a mother was the only person who could protect her children from the adversities of […]

A Latina Rite of Passage Story: Girl In Progress

Mary Mata

By Laura Donnnelly Gonzalez According to mainstream press, the “sleeping giant,” Latinos, are awakening, inspiring the first Time magazine cover in Spanish.  But, despite such validating nods, mainstream television and film […]

The Emergence Of The Political Eva Longoria

Mary Mata

By Tony Castro, Voxxi When Eva Longoria was unveiled as one of co-chairs of President Barack Obama’s re-election campaign, the reaction among the national press corps was the usual rolling of the […]

Morning NewsTaco

Mary Mata

Monday, April 23, 2012 Justices to Rule on Role of the States in Immigration (New York Times): The U.S. Supreme Court hears arguments on Wednesday on the bitterly disputed immigration enforcement law that was passed […]