LatinaLista — Thanks to its millions of fans and Hollywood, most Americans recognize the iconic masked wrestlers of Mexico, who ‘perform’ in what is known as Lucha Libre. For diehard fans, the sport is pure entertainment but as the documentary Tales of Masked Men shows there is much more to the sport than two costumed [...]
Video: Contemporary dance troupe creates new ‘spin’ on meaning of Dec. 21, 2012
LatinaLista — With less than two weeks until the end of the Mayan calendar (Dec. 21, 2012), every imaginable form of media has been used to comment on the day. From film to music and jewelry to pop art, op-eds and books, the topic has proven to be a fertile source for creative minds. Now comes [...]
Intrn’l Video: Children of Paraguayan slum look to local landfill to create beautiful music
LatinaLista — The saying — One man’s junk is another man’s treasure — is especially true in Cateura, Paraguay, a slum literally built on top of a landfill. In this small, impoverished town where drugs and gangs are natural extracurricular activities of young people, it’s no wonder that a project started by an orchestra director [...]
Video: Think tank challenges communities to rethink the future of low-wage jobs
LatinaLista — A stark reality that now faces the United States is that the country’s manufacturing, high-tech and software industries don’t have enough skilled workers to fill the current job vacancies. With 40 percent of Latino students dropping out of high school, it doesn’t take a high school graduate to know that today’s dropouts are [...]
Video: Latina takes the medical, beauty and food industries to task for endangering public health
LatinaLista — Disease is big business, especially if the cure or treatment exceed the pocketbooks of many patients. The fact that medical debt drives people into bankruptcy and even to suicide or people are turned away from hospitals because of no insurance are signs that the US medical system may have its priorities switched — [...]
Viernes Video: Yiddish-speaking gang bangers torch cyberspace in new comedy web series
LatinaLista — Just in time for the start of this year’s Hanukkah (Dec. 8-16), a new web series debuts that is bound to offend, amuse and puzzle ‘in light’ that the two main characters are Yiddish-speaking gang bangers — named Jaquaan and Luis. Bubala Please has been slowly taking cyberspace by storm. Using raunchy gang [...]
