I Talk About The Hard Stuff Because I Think It’s Important

I Talk About The Hard Stuff Because I Think It’s Important

Mary Mata November 9, 2011

I literally and figuratively have a big mouth. Sometimes I know I should shut the hell up, but — boy howdy — it’s so hard for me to repress my […]

Thanks To Our 3,000 Facebook Fans!

Mary Mata

We recently hit 3,000 Facebook fans and we want to thank you all! It’s been a crazy year and change to get here, we recently celebrated our one year birthday, […]

CNN Adds Latinas To Its Lineup

Mary Mata November 2, 2011

CNN is mixing up its morning broadcast:  Soledad O Brien, the network’s lead documentary correspondent will be co-anchoring the 7 a.m. newscast, according to Mediabistro. Soledad O’Brien, who is of Afro-Cuban […]

Halloween Is Sex And Violence, But Not On TV

Mary Mata October 28, 2011

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 […]

GOP Debate Reveals Truths About Romney, Perry

NewsTaco October 20, 2011

Just about everyone I spoke to yesterday asked a variation of the same question: Did you see the Republican debate? What they were asking, really, was: Did you see Mitt […]

Did A Chicago Newspaper Drop Latino Cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz?

Mary Mata October 19, 2011

Earlier this month, cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz became aware of the fact that the Chicago Sun-Times was no longer running his comic strip, La Cucaracha, in its funny pages. What ensued […]

Are Latinos Participating In Occupy Wall Street?

NewsTaco October 11, 2011

I’ve been watching the coverage of the occupy Wall Street movement — video, pictures — with an eye for color. I’m not there, in New York City, to see for […]

NewsTaco’s One Year Birthday Is Today

Mary Mata October 10, 2011

So NewsTaco’s “official” one-year anniversary is today, but if I were to really try to put a date on when NewsTaco was born, I could take it back to my […]

GOP Latino Strategy: Rubio, Immigration, Univisión

NewsTaco

In case you were wondering, Florida Senator Marco Rubio says he’s not interested in running for vice-president. Rubio was at the Washington Ideas Forum this weekend in Washington, D.C., when a […]

5 Reasons To Watch The Web Series “East WillyB”

Mary Mata October 5, 2011

When East WillyB premiered last Spring, the show received a lot of positive coverage upon the release of it’s first episode.  Much was dissected in terms of how the show tackles […]