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Guest Columnist Ricardo Muñoz: Collecting Chicanarte. In Memoriam: Serge...
Editor:"What is Chicano Art?" A question akin to answering, "What is Chicano Literature?" Clear your throat, rare back, and don't say anything. Let the art do the talking. Arte becomes in the eye of...
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New Voices And New Visions Awards
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The Great Eastern Wall
Beautifying the wall, just above Taos, NM Truly enlightened “westerners,” both liberal and conservative, once they...
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Sojourner Kincaid Rolle Raises Up a Bit of Sky in Santa Barbara
Melinda PalacioRod Rolle, Sojourner Kincaid Rolle, Salud CarbajalSojourner Kincaid Rolle is a 24th US Congressional District 2021 Woman of the Year. Congressman Salud Carbajal recognized Santa Barbara...
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Playwrights' Arena presents the world premiere of my play, WAITING
By Daniel A. OlivasIn the summer of 2018, I wrote a New York Times opinion piece about my fictional response to Donald Trump’s election in the form of my 2017 dystopian short story “The Great Wall”...
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Guest Columnist: Time & Space
Editor: La Bloga-Tuesday continues a series of essays dealing with dementia, decline, and death. Although various kinds of dementias strike so many people with ferocity, not everyone "gets" Alzheimer's...
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The Pura Belpré Celebración 2021
The Pura Belpré Celebración took place on Sunday, June 27th, 2020, at the virtual ALA Book Award Celebration. Here is the video of la celebración. ¡Felicidades a todos! The award is named after Pura...
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Chicanonautica: Can a Chicano Be Mainstream?
by Ernest HoganIntercepted conversation from an unidentified source:Ernest Hogan: Victor? What the fuck? It's 4:24 AM, for Tezcatlipoca’s sake! Victor Theremin: I'm feeling restless. Could use some...
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Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century
Today's guest blogger, Juliana Aragón Fatula, reviews Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st Century. Take it away, Juliana. ____________________________The collection of Puro Chicanx Writers of the 21st...
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Paul M. Worley on _Perchada estás / Perching_
Paul M. Worley on _Perchada estás / Perching_ “Water,” “Hummingbird,” “Syllables,” the three sections of Xanath Caraza’s Perching bring the reader into the luminous world of a poetic search for...
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Guest Columnist Nicki De Necochea: Collecting Chicanarte
Editor:"What is Chicano Art?" A question akin to answering, "What is Chicano Literature?" Clear your throat, rare back, and don't say anything. Let the art do the talking. Arte becomes in the eye of...
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Lee & Low Books Acquires Cinco Puntos Press
Press Release In major news for independent publishing, diversity-focused publisher Lee & Low Books has acquired the assets of El Paso-based Cinco Puntos Press. The acquisition brings together the...
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What are Chicano Arts and Who Creates them?
Henry "Coco" Montoya voted 1996 Best Blues...
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Itching to Pave Paradise
Melinda PalacioProposed site of a boutique hotel in CarpinteriaNo longer a secret is Santa Barbara’s sleepy neighbor, Carpinteria, where many of my friends live. The beach community boasts a charm...
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WAITING FOR GODÍNEZ is featured in The Road Theatre’s 12th Annual Summer...
The Road Theatre Company is thrilled to announce the 12th annual Summer Playwrights Festival streaming live starting on Thursday, July 15 through Sunday, August 1.Did you know that The Road Theatre...
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Review: Deep South No Place For An Artist As A Young Man
Review: Jimmy Santiago Baca. America Orphan. Houston: Arte Publico, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-55885-912-8 Michael Sedano You have to read American Orphan’s first chapters with a bit of astonishment, and more...
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Vámonos by Lil' Libros
https://lillibros.com/collections/books Introduce your little readers to Panama City, the capital and largest city of Panama. Children will travel through a futuristic skyline and tropical...
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Chicanonautica: In Search of Atlantean-Brazilian White People
by Ernest HoganI just couldn’t resist the title Mysteries of Ancient South America. I consider myself an amateur archaeologist. Combine that with my being a Chicano living in Aztlán, I have access to...
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August Heat
Here come the dog days, and that means summer books. For your reading pleasure I give you a short list of hot literature debuting in late summer.______________________________ Songs for the Flames:...
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A Poetics of Incantation by Denise Low-Weso
A Poetics of Incantation by Denise Low-Weso Sky, water, jade forests, sun—these are the palettes used by Xánath Caraza in her new book Perchada estás/Perching (Mouthfeel Press 2021). She creates poems...
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