by Terry Grieve | Nov 8, 2019 | Cuisine, Culture | 0 Comments
By East Bay Express – EastBayExpress.com – Photo: Jim Stead CC. Latino street vendors are such a huge part of California’s culture, few people give them a second thought. Rocío Rosales, Assistant Professor of Sociology, UC Irvine, wanted to explore what...
by Terry Grieve | Nov 7, 2019 | Culture, History, Sports | 0 Comments
By La Vida Baseball – LaVidaBaseball.com – Video Capture: La Vida Baseball. Adrian Burgos Jr. went to Cooperstown in search of artifacts from the first Latino player to appear in the World Series. Before some of this generation’s Latino stars take the...
by Terry Grieve | Nov 7, 2019 | Cuisine, Culture, Festivals, Music | 0 Comments
By Erika Wells – AugustaChronicle.com – Photo: Erika Wells | The Columbia County News-Times. Photo: The Herencia Latina dance company performs at the 27th annual Hispanic Festival at Evans Towne Center. Rosa Colon, of Evans, Georgia, did not let rain wash...
by Terry Grieve | Nov 7, 2019 | Culture, Festivals, Music | 0 Comments
By The Scene Star – TheSceneStar.Typepad.com – Image: TropicáliaFestival.com. They’re making room, Scenestar readers. The SOLD OUT Tropicália Music & Taco Festival is moving the third edition of this festival to the Fairplex in Pomona,...
by Terry Grieve | Nov 6, 2019 | Culture, Festivals, History, Museums, Videos | 0 Comments
By Elise Mahon – DailyTarheel.com – Photo courtesy of María Lopez. Photo: A still from the short film “La Astucia y la Fuerza” by Francisco Novick. María López had worked with the Chicago Latino Film Festival for the last 10 years, but her...
by Terry Grieve | Nov 6, 2019 | Culture, Dia de los Muertos, Festivals, Museums | 0 Comments
By Oakland North – Blog.SFGate.com – Photo Not Credited. Photo: A dancer performs at the Oakland Museum’s Dia de los Muertos celebration on Saturday. Strings of colorful papel picado, decorative paper banners, were strung above the Oakland Museum of...
by Terry Grieve | Nov 6, 2019 | Cuisine, Culture, Wine | 0 Comments
By L. Stephen Velasquez – SmithsonianMag.com – Photo courtesy of Israel Valencia | ©Israel Valencia. Photo: Alejandro Castillo Llamas acquired his deep knowledge of the wine business from the ground up. Alex Llamas, Gustavo Brambila and Amelia Ceja arrived...
by Terry Grieve | Nov 5, 2019 | Culture, Festivals, LowRiders | 0 Comments
By San Diego Union Tribune – SanDiegoUnionTribune.com – Video Capture: San Diego Union Tribune. More than 25 years after the city of National City, California, banned cruising, the pastime returned to the South Bay city last month (on Sept. 21) as part of...
by Terry Grieve | Nov 5, 2019 | Culture, History | 0 Comments
Isa Torres | Hispanic Beat Reporter – BaptistStandard.com – Courtesy Photo. Alicia Laurel and children from her class pose in front of the first brick building constructed by Primera Iglesia Bautista in Laredo. The church traces its beginning to 1883....
