Whoa, ‘Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke’ is 40 years old, man

Whoa, ‘Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke’ is 40 years old, man

By Jim Kiest – LMTOnline.com – Photo: Paramount Pictures. Forty years after its release, “Up in Smoke” remains a cultural touchstone and a reminder of this country’s weird relationship to drugs.  What endures, even in an age of legal marijuana, is the...
Cheech & Chong Exhibit To Open At Grammy Museum

Cheech & Chong Exhibit To Open At Grammy Museum

By Roger Wink, VVN Music – Noise11.com – Photo Ros O’Gorman. Grammy-winning comedy duo Cheech & Chong will be the subject of a new exhibit opening at the Grammy Museum on 4/20.  On display through spring 2019, the exhibit explores what made the...
The Guns of Veracruz 1914

The Guns of Veracruz 1914

By Tom Laemlein – AmericanRifleman.org – Photo Not Credited. On the night of April 9, 1914, a group of nine American sailors from the gunboat Dolphin were ashore at Tampico, Tamaulipas, Mexico, to collect fuel supplies. In the midst of the Mexican...
New Frontiers for Mexican-American Literature

New Frontiers for Mexican-American Literature

By Arts & Sciences/University of Kentucky – hs.as.uky.edu – Mural Not Credited. This presentation begins by outlining the near invisibility of Mexican American writers in elite cultural circles and their rather partial depiction in popular culture...