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Negative pedo. USC Centro. Banned Books Update. On-Line Floricanto
Movimiento Veteranos Resolve Negative PedoMichael SedanoUpdate! • Late Monday, La Bloga received this email from Joe Razo:As a previous editor of La Raza Publications which included La Raza Newspaper...
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New Children's Books from Piñata Books- Arte Público Press
The Poet Upstairs By Judith Cofer. Illustrated by Oscar Ortiz A young girl learns about the power of poetry in this heart-warming tribute to an unnamed poetJuliana is too sick to go to school one...
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Una misma noche
La novela Una misma noche de Leopoldo Brizuela, además de una narración intrigante y perturbadora, es una reflexión sobre los mecanismos del terror y la complicidad del miedo.Galardonada con el Premio...
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Events, Exhibits, Awards, Music
I'm busy, busy with pre-publication work on my new book, Desperado: A Mile High Noir, plus we're getting ready for a quick trip to the Big Easy. So, here's all I have this week - a few events of note...
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Chicanada @ LoneStarCon. Melinda Palacio @ NHCC. Café Fresco @ Gallista Gallery
World SciFi Convention wants Chicano/mexicano programmingThis past summer I ran a four-part series entitled Spic vs Spec, in which I spoke to latino participation in the U.S. spec fiction world. That...
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Books and Food: Familia, Amistad & Thanksgiving Without the Sugar Highs
by Amelia M.L. Montes (ameliamontes.com)Felíz Dia de Acción de Gracias or simply Dia de Agradecimiento this Thursday! Here are two bilingual children’s books that work well reading out loud con...
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¡Announcing the first annual Brown Friday holiday shopping guide!
From Wikipedia: “Black Friday is the name given to the day following Thanksgiving Day in the United States, traditionally the beginning of the Christmas shoppingseason. On this day, most major...
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Dénouement to Negative Pedo. On-Line Floricanto Penultimate Tuesday
Next Steps As Movimiento Photogs Recover NegativesMichael SedanoAfter forty years, it all boils down to a massive misunderstanding. “Ask me next month” one photographer replies when I ask if he’s...
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COUNT ME IN A Parade of Mexican Folk Art Numbers in English and Spanish
By Cynthia WeillIllustrated by The Aguilar SistersHardcover: 32 pagesPublisher: Cinco Puntos Press (October 16, 2012)10-digit ISBN1-935955-39-X13-digit ISBN978-1-935955-39-9 Practice your numbers in...
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Chicanonautica: Arizona Election Fallout
by Ernest HoganLast time I signed off by telling of how after Obama won the election -- on a day when there were a lot of rainbows over Phoenix -- it got eerily quiet in Arizona. I had expected folks...
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It's a Brown Holiday, Alright, My Birthday.
Melinda PalacioMelinda in Havana, CubaYesterday was Thanksgiving, which sometimes falls on my birthday. This year I am not doing much because everyday has been an incredible gift. Last week, I was in...
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Support Walmart workers this holiday season: Protest
"Walmart: Always low wages. Always!""Pay us enough to raise a family!" "Give us full-time hours and affordable health care!" "Walmart: Stop bullying workers!"These are some of the chants I heard after...
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Migration and Consumption: What We Create
Title of Installation by El Anatsui“Africa is also our Mexican heritage,” mi tio Pepe would often say when there were family discussions about Mexican history, culture, and language. His words have...
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El Paso, 1942
A short storyBy Daniel OlivasJust before I was murdered, I’d lain with Federico. The horror of my past, the mistaken belief of my brother that I had raped Belén, my beautiful niece, had fallen away...
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Review: Down to the Bone. Oedipus Rey. On-Line Floricanto Ultimate in...
Second Time’s a Charm. Review: Mayra Lazara Dole. Down to the Bone.Tallahassee FL: Bella Books, 2012. ISBN-13: 9781594933172 Michael SedanoBack in 2008 and 2009, La Bloga wrote enthusiastically about a...
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Rubber Shoes: A Lesson in Gratitude / Los zapatos de goma: una lección de...
By Gladys Elizabeth Barbieri.Illustrated by Lina Safar.Spirited Gladys Elizabeth is more than disappointed when her mother buys her the "ugliest" shoes in the world. She devises a foolproof plan in...
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¿Has visto a María?
Sandra Cisneros ha escrito una hermosa fábula ilustrada para adultos sobre la pérdida de un ser querido y la posibilidad de renovación que ofrece esta experiencia difícil.¿Has visto a María? es un...
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Golden Age for Writers?
Stephen Marche writes a column for Esquire entitledA Thousand Words. Marche gives us his somewhat jaundiced but usually insightful take on "American culture" -- e.g., movies, music, television, and...
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If not the Golden Age of latino writing, no importa
Some of my Saturdays are harder than others and the person responsible is Friday's bloguero Manuel Ramos who I have to follow biweekly. This is one of those weeks. I won't tell you all of what he wrote...
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Who Helped You Become Who You Are?
Count on Me contributors: Nora de Hoyos Comstock, Esmeralda Santiago, CArolina De Robertis, Stephanie Elizondo Griest, Lorraine López, Fabiola Santiago, Teresa Rodríguez, Sofia Quintero, Reyna Grande,...
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