Most Of My Friends Are The Children Of Immigrants

I was thinking about the nastiness of the current immigration debate recently when it occurred to me that most of my friends are the children of immigrants. My best friends’ […]

My relationship with my mother when I was growing was fraught with tension because of what seemed like an enormous cultural chasm. We were never like the “Gilmore Girls,” finishing each other’s […]

Latino artist Gilbert “Magu” Lujan died this week at the age of 70 after battling cancer for several years. His loss is being felt all over the Latino arts community as […]

Now I’ve written before about how, when I’m speaking Spanish, I’m not talking about you, but what exactly are the things we talk about in Spanish in front of other […]

Steve Rogers is an asthmatic orphan attempting to be all he can be during World War II in “Captain America: The First Avenger” starring Chris Evans playing as the lead […]

Sometimes it’s the most unexpected, unplanned things that happen to you in life that will be the most important. At least, to this listener, that’s what seemed to happen to […]

I still dream the American Dream —  I am, of course, referring to the lottery. One day my numbers will come in, I know it, and I will be sitting […]

In college there was no doubt in my mind that I would marry a Mexican. I didn’t want my culture to be diluted. I wanted to live in a Spanish-speaking […]

I thought this was an interesting story about how one man transformed The Clash’s “Straight to Hell” into a son jarocho tune. Adolfo Guzmán-López reported for KCET: Inside a hilltop […]

If you’re anything like me and my family, chanclas are a super important part of everyday life — especially during the hot summer months. And there are all manner of […]