Would A Latino James Bond Alter Stereotypical Perceptions?
Would A Latino James Bond Alter Stereotypical Perceptions?
By Dustin Mendus The idea of an African-American 007 has been tossed around in the past few years, if my memory serves. “Bond 23,” the next installment in the long-running […]
Is There Tejano Culture Without Tejano Music?
By Wuicho Vargas Music, for me is more than just a bunch of notes played together at a certain rhythm. Music, for me, es vida! I listen to all kinds of […]
“Dos Pocitos” Is A Play About Identity, Pride And More
By Chelsea McCullough It’s 2026 in a border town in Texas called Texaco. What was once South Texas has degenerated into an “ungoverned, lawless territory” where the only remaining residents […]
Bien Hecho: 3 Latinas Lead UTSA’S First Marching Band
Three Latinas will head the 200-plus member University of Texas at San Antonio marching band as drum majors. The three were voted in by their peers and head the first ever […]
Drag Meets Lucha Libre In San Diego’s “Exótico” Matches
The words Mexican wrestling conjure up images of masked burly men, performing acrobatic-like stunts, taking down their opponents in the most theatrical of styles while unabashedly flaunting their masculinity. Take […]
How Raúl Julia Jr Will Take On The Mexican Govt & The Mayans
Raúl Julia-Levy is a man claiming to be the illegitimate son of celebrated Latino thespian Raúl Julia, a great character actor that appeared in a couple of great movies and […]
Spanish Media Is On The Rise In The U.S., For Now
This has been a good year for Hispanic media – and by that I mean Spanish language media in general, which industry and academia insists on calling “Hispanic.” Univisión, the leader of […]
Be Afraid To Go See “Don’t Be Afraid Of The Dark”
By Cali Tamayo Courtesy of www.OurTiempo.com I really, really wanted to like “Don’t be Afraid of the Dark” since any scary movie having the Guillermo del Toro stamp of approval should […]
Learning To Clean The Beans: A Latino Rite Of Passage
I remember being a little girl on my tip toes peeking over to see what my mom was doing, making very methodical sounds, looking very concentrated, staring over a pile […]
Book Review: “A Visit from the Goon Squad”
Jennifer Egan’s novel, A Visit from the Goon Squad, is a sonic, narratively variegated timepiece in which the chapters act as cogs. As the novel progresses and the reader is […]
