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Día de muertos / Day of the Dead at The Writers Place in Kansas City, MO
Xánath CarazaDay of the Dead at The Writers PlaceThe Writers Place celebrates Día de muertos, Day of the Dead in Kansas City, MO on November 6 at 7 p.m. Our featured writers for 2015 are, our mismísima...
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Gluten-free Chicano Cooks. DDLM On-line Floricanto.
The Gluten-free Chicano CooksTacos de Aguacate"Do they have the black ones?" was my Dad's standard question when he heard someone had avocado trees. The black avocado, variety Mexicola, was his and my...
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A Bean and Cheese Taco Birthday / Un Cumpleaños Con Tacos de Frijoles Con Queso
by Diane Gonzales BertrandIllustrated by Robert TrujilloTranslated by Gabriela Baeza Ventura Hardcover: 32 pagesPublisher: Arte Publico Pr (October 31, 2015)Language: English/ SpanishISBN-10:...
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The New Old New Orleans: Los Po-Boy-Citos
Guest Post by Steve BeisnerKatrina was a man-made, not a natural disaster. If that statement doesn’t fit your comfortable idea of the catastrophe , then I direct you to the many articles on the...
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If Trump not dumped, SNL should be
Unless something changes, tonight Saturday Night Live will have Donald Duck Trump as its host. In the "land of the free and home of the brave," the event will be a despicable indication of how...
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"San Francisco, Mi Amor!" Interview with critically acclaimed Chicana lesbian...
Photo by Sunny Bak; design by Henry PachecoFor over 30 years, Monica Palacios has been an important as well as hilarious voice on the comedic stage. She was the first “out” Chicana lesbian comic to...
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The La Bloga interview with Brian Calvert, managing editor of High Country News
Brian Calvert is the managing editor of High Country News. He grew up in Pinedale, Wyoming, at the foot of the Wind River Mountains. Calvert studied English at the University of Colorado before...
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Review: Multidimensional Tripping. Armando Baeza, Sculptor. Gluten-free...
Review: Jesús Salvador Treviño. Return to Arroyo Grande. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 2015. ISBN-13: 978-1-55885-819-0Michael SedanoNot only can you, you should go home again. But it will never be the...
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Multicultural Children’s Book Day
By Gladys Elizabeth BarbieriIn an effort to promote, educate and bring light the many multicultural and diverse picture books that have been written, Multicultural Children’s Book Day (MCCBD) was...
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Chicanonautica: The Brown Menace is Alive and Well . . .
by Ernest HoganThen he said that Trump was the second coming of Quetzalcoatl! He claimed that all the talk about building a security fence along the border and other kinds of anti-Hispanic paranoia...
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La Bloga Interview: Carlos Nicolás Flores
Sex As A Political ConditionOil Painting of Carlos Nicolás Flores by Mauro C. Martínez A native of El Paso, Carlos Nicolás Flores is a winner of the Chicano/Latino Literary Prize and author of a young...
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A Retrograde Cultural Nationalism Weakens Political Action
La Bloga guest post by Jimmy Franco, Sr.“There is no neutrality. You either have to be a part of the solution, or you’re going to be a part of the problem”- Eldridge CleaverWithin recent years there...
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IMANIMAN Anthology: A Call to Poets to Reflect on Gloria Anzaldúa and...
Olga García Echeverría I both blind them with my beak nose and am their blind spot. But I exist, we exist.--Anzaldua Sometimes when going through classifieds in literary journals, the process feels...
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OCELOCÍHUATL (Mouthfeel Press, 2015)
Pour Nohemi Gonzalez et Michelli Gil Jáimez, Ocelocíhuatls.Pour Patricia Latour et Francis Combes de cœur au cœur. Xánath CarazaGuest Blogger: Lucha...
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Bluebird farewell. La Palabra in November. The Gluten-free Chicano's Cocido....
The Last BluebirdMichael SedanoThe invitation arrived to mixed emotions. Joy, at the prospect of a themed Bluebird reading, Cien minutos de recuerdos para Márquez / One hundred minutes of memories for...
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Look Both Ways in the Barrio Blanco
By Judith Robbins RoseIllustrations by Sara Palacios Hardcover: 352 pagesPublisher: Candlewick (September 8, 2015)Language: EnglishISBN-10: 0763672351ISBN-13: 978-0763672355With humor and sensitivity,...
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Entrevista con Víctor Fuentes
Autor del estudio biográfico César Chávez y La Uniónpublicado por Floricanto Press:
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November Musings 2015
Sunset in Santa BarbaraThank you to everyone who responded to my post last month, The Case of the Missing Quilts. Fibervision was happy to recover their art. The group did not need to pay the $5000...
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Guest Columns for a November Saturday: Texas Book Fest. Reviewing Gracias by...
Why I Didn’t Go to the Texas Book FestivalBy mónica teresa ortizI live in Austin, where the annual Texas Book Festival is held. I applaud the organizers of the festival. Putting together such a large...
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