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I Am Not Your “Wetback”
Guest essay by Alvaro Huerta, Ph.D.“Anti-Mexicanism is a form of nativism practiced by colonialists and their inheritors.”...
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Spring At Last. April songs
Spring At LastMichael SedanoFirst morning's snowfall in November 1969, Admin Area (Base Camp), B 7/5So that’s what they mean by “Winter.” I reeled for months in shock until the yellow Forsythia began...
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New Lil' Libros- Little Libros for Little Hands
Lil' Libros baby board books uses a simple one word/one image per page format to introduce the littlest readers to first concepts such as numbers, colors, and body parts. Lil' Libros also introduces...
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Chicanonautica: From Mexico City to Mars
by Ernest HoganPrime Meridian, a novella by Silvia Moreno-Garcia is getting Hugo buzz, and will be in The Year’s Best Science Fiction. And I’m giving it the Chicanonautica Seal of Approval. It’s about...
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Phoning It In
Literary news was slow this week. Meaning, I got nothin' for La Bloga.Or maybe I was sidetracked and didn't pick up on what I should have. I can be as distracted as the next guy, more so, actually. Ni...
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Nightime Basketball in the Barrio by AntonioSolisGomez
Broadway Streetcar in Lincoln Heights in the 50's (similar one ran on Main Street)Our family rented homes in Lincoln Heights through all of the 1950’s. One of those homes was on Workman Ave near the...
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La Feria de Poesía en el Midwest
La Feria de Poesía en el MidwestPor Xánath CarazaAbril es el Mes Internacional de la Poesía y hoy es el último día. Para cerrar con más poesía, les comparto sobre un evento anual que se celebra y...
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Portrait of the Artists. LibroMobile Needs A Crowd.
Portrait of the Portraitists Painting the PhotographerMichael SedanoIt’s my version of Las Meninas. That is, a foto of what the subject sees looking back at the painter, at others in the space, at the...
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The Curse of the Bully’s Wrath: A Mickey Rangel Mystery/ La maldición de la...
By René Saldaña Jr.ISBN: 978-1-55885-866-4Publication Date: May 31, 2018Bind: Trade PaperbackPages: 64 pagesFifth-grade detective Mickey Rangel is back on the case in this short, bilingual novel about...
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Little Book Houses, Hemingway, and Cruising into the Past
Daniel Cano (For Esther Carranza) Rocky and Phoebe riding shotgunMornings, to keep my dog-walking chore invigorating, Rocky, Phoebe,...
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Jazz Fest: Locals Thursday Should Be Renamed to Less Crowded Day
Melinda PalacioThe end of "Locals Thursday" at Jazz FestThe New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festivals is spread over two three-day weekends with an additional day on Thursday, known as locals Thursday....
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A Tribute to Aristeo Brito, Camarada y Autor by AntonioSolisGomez
Dr. Aristeo Brito was professor of Spanish at Pima Community College and in his later years, the head of the department. He was an active member of the Southside Presbyterian Churc that actively...
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It’s time for LitFest Pasadena 2018!
WHEN: Saturday & Sunday, May 19 & 20, 2018TIME: 1:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m.WHERE: Pasadena’s Playhouse DistrictPRICE: It’s free!WEBSITE: http://litfestpasadena.orgThe city and Southland’s free...
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Review: Feathered Serpent. High School Summer Teatro. 5+3 de Mayo On-line...
Review: David Bowles. Feathered Serpent, Dark Heart Of Sky. Myths of Mexico. El Paso: Cinco Puntos Press, 2018. ISBN 1-941026-71-7Michael SedanoDavid Bowles’ Feathered Serpent Dark Heart of Sky Myths...
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The Season of Rebels and Roses
By Virginia Sánchez-KorrolISBN: 978-1-55885-865-7Publication Date: May 31, 2018 Bind: Trade Paperback Pages: 258This engrossing novel for teens sheds light on the nineteenth-century independence...
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Chicanonautica: Another Cinco de Mayo in Trumptopia
By Ernest Hogan And suddenly, another Cinco de Mayo . . . Didn't we just do this? My timespace coordination is all screwed up again. Where am I? Is Trump still president?Yes. He is. This last year was...
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Living the Dream
This morning I woke up, groaned because of the back ache and cramped leg, and gave thanks. One more day. It gets like that, at least it does for me. A couple of months into seventy years and sometimes...
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Walking the John Muir Trail and the Harmonic Covergence by AntonioSolisGomez
I have always been a walker. In the early 1970’s, I had gone for a short walk on the Mt. Wilson trail and after walking a few miles, realized I didn’t want to stop. I didn’t have any water and it was...
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Chavela in Kansas City
Chavela in Kansas CityBy Xánath CarazaIn the words of Jackie Madrigal, President of UMKC’s Friends of the Library: “Before all of the hipsters started painting on unibrows and putting flowers in their...
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Michael SedanoI hired the USC Trojan Marching Band to accompany Mariachi Reyna to wake my first wife on her 74th birthday Monday. I had to cancel them at the 3 in the morning when the ER medico tells...
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