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Summer Virtual Sidewalk Art Show: Birds, Bees, Butterflies, Blossoms
Photographs by Michael SedanoTaken in Summer 2021 at The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens, except as noted.Red Dragonfly, Agapanthus, watergardenClick an image to run a slide...
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Coquí in the City - De aquí como el coquí
By Nomar Perez Publisher : Dial Books Language : EnglishHardcover : 32 pagesISBN-10 : 0593109031ISBN-13 : 978-0593109038 A heartfelt picture book based on the author-illustrator's...
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What does September 16 mean to me?
Playa del Rey, at sunset When I was a kid growing up on L.A.’s westside in the 1950s and ‘60s, September 16 meant...
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Teatro Sin Fronteras New Orleans
Melinda PalacioAn announcement in three photos, or the show must go on. Teatro Sin Fronteras New Orleans.Hurricane Ida blew through New Orleans, snapping off billboards and rooftops.An uprooted tree in...
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Small Piece of a Global Event: My Best 2 Minutes
Aside from the ability to think up something and write it compellingly, a writer’s most important skills are reading aloud, and marketing the work. Gotta be able to write, que no? Equally, if you want...
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Los Angeles Libros Festival
For more information visit, https://www.lapl.org/libros-fest Read, dream and celebrate… en dos idiomas Friday, September 24 • 9 a.m. - 12 p.m.Saturday, September 25 • 10 a.m. - 2:30 p.m. Streaming...
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Chicanonautica: Chicxulubing Into an Old/New Word
by Ernest Hogan Warning: R. Ch. Garcia is a cohort of mine and responsible for my getting involved in La Bloga, so I may not be completely objective in discussing his major achievement in speculative...
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Books & Beer
I recently wrote about CALMAhere on La Bloga, and today I'm publicizing that organization's Books & Beer book fair. CALMA is the Colorado Alliance of Latino Mentors and Authors, and I encourage...
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Celebrating _Corta la piel / It Pierces the Skin_ (FlowerSong Press)
Celebrating _Corta la piel / It Pierces the Skin_ (FlowerSong Press) I’m excited to invite our lectores de La Bloga to a reading of my book Corta la piel / It Pierces the Skin (FlowerSong Press, 2020)...
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Roll Out the Collection: Chola Debut
Review: Estella Gonzalez. Chola Salvation. Houston: Arte Publico, 2021. ISBN: 978-1-55885-914-2 Michael Sedano I took a photograph of author Estella Gonzalez during a 2008 book festival at Cal State...
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Videos- Los Angeles Libros Festival
For more information visit, https://www.lapl.org/libros-fest Friday, September 24 Este es el día completo de programación con cuentacuentos, autores locales e internacionales, talleres de arte,...
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New Fiction: "Like they say about sleeping dogs"
Dedicated to Berta. To help her through trying times. The barracks where it happened I moved from door to...
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Covid Chronicles, Ekphrastic Edition, Santa Barbara, CA
Melinda Palacio Artist Colleen Kelly has built an art installation in her front yard in Santa Barbara. The pieces quickly came together. She used a dead birch tree as the front end piece with hands...
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The Apple Tower
By Dr. Rodolfo F. AcuñaEveryone knows that we are in trouble. The university graduation statistics suggest that there will be a downturn in enrollment. Just as in previous cycles, silver bullets are...
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Access, A Question of It Coulda Been Different
Review: Dr. Cintli. Writing 50 Years más o menos Amongst the Gringos. San Antonio: Aztlán Libre Press, 2021. Michael Sedano No one ever needs ask “I Wonder what Americans are thinking?” The nation’s...
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LA LLORONA CAN’T SCARE ME / LA LLORONA NO ME ASUSTA
By Xavier GarzaSpanish translation by Gabriela Baeza Ventura ISBN: 978-1-55885-924-1Publication Date: October 31, 2021Format: HardcoverPages: 32Imprint: Piñata BooksAges: 4-8 Traditional Latin...
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Chicanonautica: ¿Whachacallus?
by Ernest HoganIt’s Hispanic Heritage Month. Or should that be Latino? Latinx? Once again we’re arguing about who we are, what we should be called, and what language we are arguing in.Gotta love it. La...
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New Books
Hard to believe but we are in the last quarter of 2021, which means, among other things, new book announcements for fall and winter. It's as though publishers are suddenly waking up as they shrug off...
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Hispanic Heritage Month / El Mes de la Herencia Hispana
Hispanic Heritage Month / El Mes de la Herencia HispanaBy Johnson County Arts & Heritage CenterJoin the Johnson County Arts & Heritage Center for a lovely evening in celebration of National...
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Antepenultimate Tuesdays In Octobers
Michael Sedano, The Gluten-free ChicanoCalifornia's on-again, off-again Fall hits with a vengeance like clockwork every October. That was true back on October's antepenultimate Tuesday in 2016, and,...
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