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Videos- Latinx KidLit Book Festival
If you missed the festival or if you want to watch the videos again, you can go to Youtube and enjoy all the panels. It was a fantastic festival....
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Before and After the Mast
The Marquez-Reyes Cemetery in the Santa Monica Canyon Forrest Marquez Freed (RIP)...
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Dispatch from Plaguelandia
Melinda PalacioWhen I started blogging about the pandemic in March, no one could have imagined we would be back in lockdown with no where safe from Covid-19 in December. As it is, we are talking about,...
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Scenes for Latinx Actors: Voices of the New American Theatre
Edited by Micha Espinosa and Cynthia DeCureFrom the Publisher:The repertoire offered in Scenes for Latinx Actors (Smith & Kraus) provides actors with a multitude of stories about Latinx life in...
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Be There Or Be Footnoted. Comida Chicana
Review: East of East: The Making of Greater El Monte. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 2020. isbn: 9781978805484 Michael SedanoI wanted to take a test, get an MA, and go get a job for the rest...
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Running
By Natalia Sylvester When fifteen-year-old Cuban American Mariana Ruiz’s father runs for president, Mari starts to see him with new eyes. A novel about waking up and standing up, and what happens...
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Chicanonautica: COVID-19 Kills X-Fic
by Ernest Hogan For months I’ve been pimping the 2020 Extra-Fiction Contest from Somos en escrito, The Latino Literary Online Magazine, but now it’s my sad duty to report that, at least this year, it...
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Sixth Grader's Book Proceeds Support COVID Relief Fund
Here's an inspirational story just in time for the holidays.The following is from Virginia Chavez, publicist.Arden Pala, who was recently awarded “Best Child Actor” by the Los Angeles Film Awards,...
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Solsticio de invierno por Xánath Caraza
Solsticio de invierno por Xánath Caraza El solsticio de invierno empezó hoy, 21 de diciembre de 2020, alrededor de las 4 de la madrugada. Hoy es el día más corto del año en el Hemisferio norte y en...
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C/S Nonfiction Three For the New Year
C/S Nonfiction Three For the New Year Michael Sedano The name “Arizona” conjures up sad images of plague-time idiocy, cowardly lethal border vigilantes, curriculum destroyers, and book burners. Books...
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Tía Chucha’s End of the Year Fundraiser
A message from our Executive Team! Tia Chucha's Centro Cultural has been transforming community in the Northeast San Fernando Valley and beyond through ancestral knowledge, the arts, literacy, and...
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A Barely Revised Neighborhood Christmas Eve Story
Note: Some readers may recall this story from last year. I thought it was worth a revisit....
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Covid Christmas 2020
Melinda Palacio In the midst of a pandemic and fresh lockdowns, I managed to make a new friend. Earlier in the week, I was walking my dog around the block. Sometimes, we take short walks in the...
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After the Revolution
A short story by Daniel A. OlivasAfter the Revolution, after the last ringing “¡Basta ya!” echoed through the plazas, calles and ranchos of Mexico, after the murders of Emiliano Zapata and Pancho...
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Book of the Peculiar Year. Your Picks For 2021. Bonus: Mural Update
This is the final La Bloga-Tuesday column for 2020. Talk about a tumultuous year! 2020 arrived with annual bonhommie in every quarter of our lives, a new year, a re-start, begin at the beginning. La...
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Chicanonautica: Toward 2021 with Twisted Optimism
by Ernest Hogan Chingao! This one is due to go up on New Year’s Eve. That changes things. I like to write these things about a week in advance, but right now everything is changing so fast. Keeping up...
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Hindsight is 2020
There’s nothing I can say that will overcome the sadness, confusion, frustration, or anger (insert your particular emotion) that will always bubble up when 2020 is the topic of future conversations....
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‘Paws Healing the Earth’
‘Paws Healing the Earth’ Paws Healing the Earth will be published by River Paw Press, and it is edited by Kalpna Singh-Chitnis. This is a book of poetry with forty contributing poets and I’m happy to...
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2021 A Year of Just Enough • Reading In Plague-time
Michael Sedano We've gone through four years of emotional austerity. Like the orphans in Annie, stead of kisses we got kicked, 'stead of Hilary we got hatred. Voters got ourselves a slap in the face...
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