By Andrea Vargas Borderzine EL PASO – Everyone always enjoys a good laugh and at Coconuts Bar and Grill the staff invites amateur comedians to gather around every Tuesday to perform in the Underground Comedy Show. Comedians from El…
By Pablo J. Sáinz La Prensa San Diego When Jesus Mendez Carbajal started his college education at San Diego Mesa College a little bit more tan three years ago, his parents, with a lot of sacrifice, had to pay…
By Claire Weissbluth MissionLocal Mission District leaders and downtown officials inaugurated the Calle 24 District at Harrison and 24th streets in the Mission. Poet Laureate Alejandro Murguía has called Calle 24 “a little Macondo, where you can find sugared-skulls,…
By Mayra Buitron Extra News! On May 31, the Copernicus Center in Chicago will host the first edition of the Festival del Bolero, a genre full of romance. The evening promises to be a success with its artistic presentations…
Amigos805.com SANTA MARIA — Allan Hancock College English professor Marc García-Martínez, Ph.D., will soon join world-renowned researchers Jane Goodall and Noam Chomsky as authors whose works have been published by the San Diego State University Press (SDSU Press), college…
By Raul de la Cruz Rio Grande Guardian BROWNSVILLE, TX – Expanding on comments he made to Rio Grande Valley reporters at the San Juan Basilica on World Communications Day, Bishop Daniel E. Flores has sent a powerful letter…
Frontera NorteSur Estela Flores is an earth artist. On Saturday mornings, you can find her work, courtesy of Mother Earth, on display at Ardovino’s Desert Crossing Farmers’ Market in Sunland Park, New Mexico. “These used to be popular in…
By Eric Harris El Nuevo Tennessean When you think of Latin American art, what do you picture? While some may have a specific idea in mind, there’s really no way to define an artist’s style simply by looking at…
By Serjio A. Gonzales Borderzine EL PASO — Teenager Naomi Gil’s colorful and carefully mastered pieces of confectionary art and other gooey baked goods leave customers in amazement when they see these artistic pastries inside the display cases at…
By Dulce Alfaro, Emmanuel Ferrer, Kelly Ou and Stefany Garcia Mission Local Some of them have only been in the country a few months, but students at the San Francisco International High School are already tackling difficult topics that…
By Nikoleta Morales Chicago EXTRA! (LL Editor’s note: This article was published before Mother’s Day.) Not all mothers will celebrate Mother’s Day this weekend. Some mothers, like Gena Hernandez, Dorothy Rosario, Elizabeth Ramirez and Maria Torres, mourn the loss…
By Doug Maine CTLatinoNews.com Save Our Youth, a grassroots organization formed by Bridgeport parents and other concerned adults just two years ago to prevent youth violence, has grown to have a master list of more than 800 youths who…
By Frank X. Moraga AmigosNAZ Classes on filling out job applications, interview techniques prepare youth for competitive summer job season It looked like a typical classroom with adult speakers talking in front of a group of teens. But then…
By Steve Taylor Rio Grande Guardian MISSION, TX — They are in the early stages but discussions are taking place about Mexico setting up its own Border Patrol. Details were revealed by U. S. Rep. Henry Cuellar in an…
By Colton Gavin Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – When Shelly Ortiz and some classmates at Metropolitan Arts Institute in Phoenix were looking for the subject of what would become their award-winning short documentary, they didn’t have to look far….
By Pablo J. Sáinz La Prensa San Diego Norma Varela is not like most 16-year-olds. When she learned she was going to receive a $2,000 sponsorship through A Bridge for Kids, a San Diego non-profit that connects needy teenagers…
By Rebecca Grant Borderzine EL PASO — The Chief Executive Officer of ImpreMedia, the nation’s leading Hispanic Media Company, told students at the University of Texas at El Paso that media today must inform, educate and empower communities. Born…
By Andrea Valencia Mission Local Hussein Dawah, 63, didn’t have to look twice to know that there was a work of art on the wall outside his restaurant on 19th and Valencia. “This is not graffiti, this is art,”…
Frontera NorteSur Albuquerque’s Wyoming Boulevard bustles on the edge of what some people call the War Zone and others name the International District. Both names really fit, but perhaps in ways not completely envisioned by the architects of popular…
By John Newton La Voz Latina Savannah musician Alex Castillo, age 36, is a lead singer/guitarist for the Christian folk/rock band called “Reckless Mercy”. His father is a native of Colombia, South America and his mother was born in…
Amigos805.com OXNARD — From an all-time record of 1,800 entries, the “berrilious” design of 11-year-old Itzel Gonzalez from César Chávez Elementary in Oxnard was selected as the winner of the 31st Annual California Strawberry Festival Youth Art Design Contest,…
By Lurah Lowery El Nuevo Tennessean She loves history, she loves to read, she loves listening to stories and she loves telling stories. Thirty-three-year-old Carolina Quiroga Hurtado found these passions as a child, and because of her mother’s ability…
By Scott Nicol Rio Grande Guardian McALLEN, TX — “They’re arresting babies.” The thought struck hard, and it kept echoing. I had come to the border wall with a correspondent from National Public Radio to see its impact on…
By Mauro Whiteman Cronkite News Service WASHINGTON – The U.S. Supreme Court let stand a lower court ruling Monday that blocked an Arizona law that would make it a crime to harbor, transport or conceal an illegal immigrant. The…
By Silvia Foster-Frau Extra News! Chicago may not compete with the theater scene of Los Angeles or New York City, but the Latino theater scene is a different story. There are over 25 Latino theater companies of varying sizes…
