My Love-Hate Relationship With Machismo

I love machos. I hate machos. Machos are jerks. Women raise macho jerks. ¡Ay qué macho! Sigh. Sometimes, this cultural identity stuff gets kinda complicated. I suppose you could begin […]

So the truth is, most of the Latinos I know who grew up in the U.S. speak English as their dominant language, either because their parents or grandparents spoke Spanish, […]

In my own life, growing up between Los Angeles and South Texas, celebrating Día de los Muertos was always almost just a shadow on the wall that was pretty easy […]

By Dustin Mendus It’s almost Halloween. Children will be running around wired on all sorts of sugars soon, houses will be toilet paper’d, and Christmas trees will be up in […]

On Saturday, October 29 in Phoenix, Arizona the First Annual Lloronathon will be held at South Mountain Community College.  Organizer Joe Ray told NewsTaco that the premise was to celebrate what […]

Austin, Texas — First off, you may be asking yourself, “What is a hipster?” The answer is the type of difficult one that accompanies trying to distill cultural movements. But, […]

By Richard G. Santos Happiness in South Texas and Winter Garden area (south of San Antonio) are fajitas grilled over mesquite with flour tortillas warmed on the side accompanied by […]

It was a great week in NewsTaco news this week, including information about the rise of young Latinos in Texas, Steven Seagal hunting immigrants, veterans, comics, voluptuous latinas, corporate leadership, […]

One of the most well-known artists from Chile’s pop-explosion of 2010, Javiera Mena’s last album Mena catapulted her fame to regions outside of her native Santiago. Currently touring in Spain […]

Anna Maria Lopez De Leon’s first book, The Tortilla Children, is a powerfully evocative work that delves into her family’s history which spans centuries, continents, both old world  and new, […]