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Escaramuza riders preserve piece of rural Latino culture

By John M. Glionna | Las Vegas Review-Journal – ReviewJournal.com – Photo: Erik Verduzco | Las Vegas Review-Journal | @Erik_Verduzco. The year was 2013 and Colon, now 26, joined one of the Las Vegas Valley’s few escaramuza teams. Seven years later, she...

Natalie Dormer And Nathan Lane Talk Nailing It In ‘Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels

Matt Weiss | Showtime – Sacramento.CBSLocal.com – Video Capture: Courtesy Of SHOWTIME. Penny Dreadful: City Of Angels season one comes to an end this Sunday, June 28th at 10:00PM ET/PT on SHOWTIME. A “spiritual descendant” of the original Penny Dreadful...

Introduction to Contemporary Hispanic Literature

Instructor: Prof. Elizabeth Garrels – OCW.MIT.edu – Image: Courtesy of dalbera | Flickr. Image: Table dans un café by Pablo Picasso, France 1912. This course studies representative twentieth and twenty-first-century texts and films from Hispanic America...

5 major takeaways from the Penny Dreadful: City of Angels Episode 9 promo

By Alexandria Ingham | Follow @aingham69 – AmazonAdviser.com – Photo Courtesy Of SHOWTIME. This episode is likely to end with a major cliffhanger. It’s going to leave our two cops who are trying to save the city in a terrible place, which may or may not...

He has never boarded a commercial flight, but this Seattle-area high-school grad almost has his pilot license

By The Seattle Times – SeattleTimes.com – Photo: Erika Schultz | The Seattle Times. Photo: Cousin Stephen Cheadle, with Eazy Duz It Car Club, right, drives graduate Rafael Urrea through Raisbeck Aviation High School’s drive-thru graduation ceremonies in a...

Penny Dreadful: City of Angels Confirms Magda’s Newest & Most Powerful Form

By Renaldo Matadeen – CBR.com – Photo Courtesy Of SHOWTIME. Penny Dreadful: City of Angels has found the demoness known as Magda (Natalie Dormer) at a disadvantage recently. While she recruited a champion in Mateo (Johnathan Nieves), she lost the last...