Today Is Frida Kahlo’s Birthday

If you grew up Latino in the U.S., then you have to know who Frida Kahlo is — it’s like a law. I remember, from the time I was young, […]

When was the last time you heard Nancy Grace rail obnoxiously from the television screen about the murder of Brisenia Flores? You know who I’m talking about – it’s hard […]

Odas a Futbolistas/Odes to Footballers is a cycle of odes written by Yago S. Cura and Abel Folgar to commemorate the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. The odes laud […]

Should Latino players boycott Major League Baseball’s highest profile game of the year? Next to the deciding game of the World Series, the MLB All-Star Game is probably the most […]

By Richard G. Santos Texas, the geographic area now called the U. S. Southwest and Northern Mexico, in 1776 was a war zone. The Spanish settlements, ranchos, haciendas and missions […]

I spent some time last night with my Dad watching Texas Ranger baseball on the TV. He’s been around for more than 90 of the U.S.’s 235 years, and he’s […]

July is almost here, and, you guessed it, that means the fashion world is about to start whipping out their fall items soon. Let’s take a look at what that’ll […]

Perhaps you have never visited Self-Help Graphics in Los Angeles, but if you had, you would have never forgotten the experience. It was a really cool place where really cool […]

Recently I was picking up my dry cleaning when the attendant asked me for my name. “Sara Calderón,” I told her, trying to shorten my name a bit to make […]

The first thing that happens when you begin reading Franco Mondini-Ruiz’s book “High Pink: Texas-Mex Fairy Tales,” is that you lose yourself in the stories the artist and former attorney […]