Music From Colombia, Mexico City, LA And More At SXSW

Tuesday was the first day of SXSW music, a day in which I realized that you couldn’t avoid watching performers even if you tried. Wander the streets surrounding the Austin […]

Descuento Libre is a discount website that has been working to break into the Latino market since its launch in 2011. At a panel Monday at South By Southwest in […]

“Los Chidos” played recently at the South By Southwest Film Festival in Austin, Texas. It is the new film by Omar Rodriguez-Lopez, a musician of At the Drive-In and Mars Volta […]

Now that it’s common knowledge that Latinos are the country’s burgeoning ethnic group, and given that this group routinely identifies as white on the Census, it begs the question as […]

My friend Richard and I have known each other since middle school, and we have been friends since he was MEChA royalty and I was part of the Ecology Club. […]

By Anita Quintanilla When Cesar Chavez visited Austin in 1971, I was unable to personally meet him, but the next year I was able to make up for this missed […]

By Richard G. Santos In movies and TV programs, the Mexican soldiers who participated in assaulting the Alamo on March 6, 1836, are always depicted in clean, almost new, beautiful uniforms. They […]

When I was in college, before I went to study in Mexico, my friend Israel gave me a CD of Akwid. I thought it was the weirdest name ever, but […]

“Culeco” is a word I remember my grandfather using when he would describe either his chickens or his children. When he used the word to describe his chickens, he would […]

By Eres Nerd To me and my family, banda is life. Banda is spiritual renewal. The sounds of the clarinet and sousaphones were part of the Pandora playlist of my childhood. […]