Guatemalan artist Mike Alfaro is the creator of “Millennial Lotería” — updated Lotería cards for a “new generation.”
Mas…Everything old is new again, like Loteria cards for Millennials (toons)
CHALE KNICKERBOCKER
The French Revolution . . . In A Nutshell (video)
You say you want a Revolution? You know you’ll maybe lose your head. In this episode of History in a Pinche Nutshell, the French king, the Nobility, the Clergy and the Peasants move into This Modern World as the Dangerous Ideas of the Enlightenment turn the old order in La France upside down. Also, gillotines.
And that’s how they make tacos in Tijuana, Baja California (video)
If this short video featuring the preparation of tortillas and tacos in TJ doesn’t make you hungry, ask your doctor if having Don Jr. jerk your email chain is right for you.
New ‘Amigous’ cerveza from Mexico trolls Trump (video)
Mexican and U.S. brewers have reinvented Donald Trump as a gun-slinging mariachi to promote a new beer celebrating cross-border cooperation.
Around Our Town: Puro Party Picks for Father’s Day Weekend 2017
Father and Son Chile-Eating Contest: Quién es más macho? The East Pocho Optimists Club once again sets up shop at Fernando Valenzuela Field for their annual chile-eating contest, which pits father-son teams against each other to see who can ascend the Picante Podium of Pain. The winning team wins even more chiles! Sunday, noon.
Bronche: Angry Bull cocktails (Red Bull, tequila, orange juice) are just $3 and dads get all the Mexican Meatloaf Sliders they want for free on Father’s Day at TGI Viernes in the Rancho Pocho Mall. Sunday 10 AM – 2 PM. Mention my name, Chale Knickerbocker, for a blank stare.
Mas…Around Our Town: Puro Party Picks for Father’s Day Weekend 2017
Soup_or_Sara: ‘I stitched my favorite conversation starter’ (photo)
Reddit user soup_or_sara has the right idea!
Around Our Town: Where to go, what to do on Mother’s Day weekend
BRUNCH: Nothing makes for a mellow mom like the All You Can Drink Micheladas Mother’s Day Brunch at stylish Bar Racho at the Ritchie Valens Hilton on East Olmos Boulevard.
Executive Jefe Gustaco Naranjero once again promises his extensive buffet featuring a soft and hard taco station, the always-popular Holy Habanero salsa challenge and the spectacular Flan Fountain.
New this year is the Fusion Fiesta featuring creations like the Banh Mi Burrito, the Tamales de Lox and the Philly Cheesesteak Chimichangas. Don’t miss the free giveaway of the new mini Tapatio espray bottles for when you absolutely, positively need to spice stuff up.
Mas…Around Our Town: Where to go, what to do on Mother’s Day weekend
Joseph Campbell: Everyone ❤️ ‘Star Wars’ because myths (video)
Star Wars creator George Lucas re-imagined universal myths, and that’s why the films resonate with audiences, according to Bill Moyer’s 1988 interview with The Power of Myth author Joseph Campbell.
Mas…Joseph Campbell: Everyone ❤️ ‘Star Wars’ because myths (video)
Reagan tells Mex Prez on Cinco de Mayo: ‘Mi casa es su casa’ (video)
QUESTION: Why are Mexican rapists and drug dealers streaming North to enter the US of A illegally?
ANSWER: They were invited by “The Great Communicator.”
Check out this video about the 1988 Cinco de Mayo ceremony at the White House when Republican President Ronald Reagan told Mexican President Miguel de la Madrid Hurtado, “Mi casa es su casa.”
We all know how that worked out! #BUILDTHEWALL
What language is that? Funny, you don’t look Nahuatl (video)
Languages around the world share similar characteristics, but how do we know if they are related?
La Marisoul interviewed Cheech Marin and we’ve got the video
Two of our favorite pochos — Cheech Marin and La Marisoul Hernandez of La Santa Cecilia — sat down for a talk last month at the Los Angeles Public Library.
Kelvin Peña, the Dominican ‘deer whisperer’, has a deer squad (video)
Kelvin Peña — they call him the “Dominican deer whisperer” — has his own deer squad in the woods outside of East Stroudsburg, Pennsylvania.
How will Trump’s budget cuts impact PBS? (video)
Today’s episode of Sesame Street is brought to you by the letters F and U.
Neighborhood Guatch: Where to go, what to do on St. Patrick’s Day
LUCK OF THE IRISH: Look for a pot o’ gold at the end of the rainbow today at Gustavo O’Grady’s Bar y Grill on East Olmos Boulevard. The popular hangout will serve corned beef tacos, potato-stuffed chiles rellenos and beer-marinated enchilada irlanda sliders at $1 each during Happy Hour.
Happy Hour, you lucky leprechauns, lasts all day long, and GO’G’s always keeps 100 bottles of beer on the wall.
For $144 and a signed damage waiver, you high-rollers can try GO’G’s One Night in Dublin Lifestyle Tasting Menu — generous pours of Guinness and Jameson’s followed by a course of impassioned story-telling and poetry, more pours, then a rich hour of melancholy singing, pours again, all capped off by your choice of a bar fight or vomiting in the alley.
Wear a wee bit o’ green and Gay Gus O’Grady himself will kiss your Blarney Stone.
Mas…Neighborhood Guatch: Where to go, what to do on St. Patrick’s Day
Adios dinero, adios hyna, bienvenidos ‘Tacos,’ hola amor (video)
Life can be better…. But it can be so much worse…. Those Tacos, though. [Video by Eric J. Vasquez]
White Sox manager Rick Renteria visits Chicago’s South Side (video)
Southern California homie Rick Renteria, manager of the Chicago White Sox, visits Tours the South Side Mexican-American Culture in this video from from the team’s SoxTV.
Exploring the no-man’s land south of the border wall (video)
There's a small stretch of soil north of the Rio Grande that's still part of the United States south of the Mexican border wall. The Atlantic went inside this No-Man’s Land to uncover what life is like in a place that feels like not-quite America, but not-quite Mexico.
Exploring ‘The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema’ (student video)
Antioch College student Cristian Perez-Lopez put together this cool short video for a history of film class. How many of these films have you seen?
Mas…Exploring ‘The Golden Age of Mexican Cinema’ (student video)
Oral History: ‘I came to the U.S.A. in 1962 as a bracero’ (videos)
When labor was short in 1950s and 60s, the American and Mexican governments worked together to import laborers across the border to work as “braceros.”
The American Friends service Committee explains:
Mas…Oral History: ‘I came to the U.S.A. in 1962 as a bracero’ (videos)
Orange President salutes Black History Month (transcript, audio, toon)
Our historic President knows more about Black History Month than the last President, who was not so historic.
And instead of teaching us in American, the President is going to speak English to you, you know, to class up the history of this carnage-loving people, his African-Americans.
Our speech researchers here at the National Pochismo Institute took Wednesday’s speech transcript and ran it through a text-to-speech thang with a British-accented robo-bloke. And it sounds classy! You’ve never heard classy as bigly as this — all the words — the best words — plus a Ben Carson shoutout — and some bragging, lots of lies, and ignorance in abundance. Not to mention dissing CNN and non sequitors, slang, and muddled thinking. You’re welcome, mate.
Mira el transcript, with notes from POCHO’s Comic Saenz, and audio below:
Mas…Orange President salutes Black History Month (transcript, audio, toon)
In Oaxaca, the Zapotecs include a third gender: Muxes (video)
In the indigenous communities around the town of Juchitán de Zaragoza, Oaxaca, the world is not divided simply into males and females. The local Zapotec people have made room for a third category, they call Muxes – men who consider themselves women and live in a socially-sanctioned limbo between the two genders. [Video by Ivan Olita.]
For Cyber Monday (or not): Happy Hipster Holidays! (photos)
Tired of the same old same old Nativity with the holy homeless Jewish family and the animals in a manger and Los Tres Reyes Magos? So 2000 years ago, am I right?
What you need is the new Hipster Nativity Set, an actual product, available from ModerNativity.com for $129 plus taxes and shipping.
Mas…For Cyber Monday (or not): Happy Hipster Holidays! (photos)
¡Orale! We’re getting $5.2 million for Christmas! (audio)
OMG! We’re getting a $5.2 million ATM Card for Christmas! Here are the deets:
GOOD DAY MY FRIEND.
How are you, and with your family,All the arragement is done about your ATM CARD,there is no problem again
but i let you know that .Our ATM DEPARTMENT OFFICE Benin republic here are delivery your ATM MASTER CARD
with very little amount If you are ready to receive it which can cost you $100
dollar only. Now i let you know that all your total Amount of your ATM CARD is
( $5.8 MILLION UNITED STATE DOLLAR ONLY ) so i let you know that to Activation
fee of ATM CARD before is $200 dollar in any country in this world wide. but
the COMMISSIONNER OF POLICE And MR IYA BONI PRESIDENCE of Benin republic
held a meeting with there Cabinet the cocultion is that the activation of
ATM CARD will be $100 dollar only.
Mas…¡Orale! We’re getting $5.2 million for Christmas! (audio)
This happened backstage today at a big store near you (video)
It takes a tough team of retail warriors to work at the Big Store in the Big Mall on Thanksgiving Day, and a tough manager to keep ’em in the game. [Video by Más Mejor.]
Superman’s 1960 Refugee Policy: ‘Lend a friendly hand’ (toon)
Help the refugees, kids, said Superman in this 1960 one-page PSA. Lend a friendly hand! is from DC’s World’s Finest #111, August 1960. It was World Refugee Year on a distant planet just like Earth where people just like Americans cared about others.
OPINION: We’ve got to get back to the Hotel California
Return your focus to powerhouse California:
Don’t let post-election blues stop you in your tracks
As I write this, it appears the Democrats won the popular vote but lost the presidency, and did not gain control of the House or Senate.
The Democratic Party is INCLUSIVE – embracing all racial and ethnic groups and religions – and is PROGRESSIVE, looking forward and not looking back.
I think it’s important to keep that in mind: Let’s build a hopeful and enlightened future based upon knowledge and science, and not on desperation, ignorance, superstition, and outmoded colonialist notions.
As an educator who works with mostly newly arrived adults and their children to this country, I have the responsibility of ensuring they are not only able to communicate in English, but they are aware of their rights.
I share with them one of their choices, which is the pathway to citizenship and getting the right to vote, both hard-won and still having to be vigilantly protected by generations of women, blacks, Latinos, and Asians in this country.
Day of the Dead: Los 4 Judios Mas Importantes de la Historia (video)
The Four Most Important Jews in History are back from the dead just in time for Dia de los Muertos. Can they all just get along? [Video by Abraham Luna.]
These are the DOs and DON’Ts of online dating (video)
Can you find true love online? Maybe you can, but there are some things you need to learn first.
The secret to a perfect body? Try GENETICS™ (video)
You’ve tried a dozen different diets, you’ve exercised until you could barely walk, and yet the pounds and the inches stick around like bad karma or that weird kid Rob from ninth grade who stalks you on Facebook. What exactly is the secret to a perfect body? It’s simple: GENETICS™
Take pounds off and keep them off with the all-new Churro Diet (video)
Santa Monica celebrity lifestyle guru Marisol Weaver shows how you can eat all the churros you want and still lose weight — if you follow her Churro Diet.
Na-nu na-nu! Shazbot? KO! We miss Robin Williams (toon, videos)
America’s favorite funny man, Robin Williams, died on this day in 2014.
Mas…Na-nu na-nu! Shazbot? KO! We miss Robin Williams (toon, videos)
What is it? UFO/OVNI photo’d over San Antonio high school (photos)
Have the Space Brothers come to straighten out a screwed-up America and an especially messed-up Lone Star State? Were they here Monday?
Photos submitted to MUFON sure show something strange in the skies over a San Antonio high school named after the racist traitor Robert E. Lee. [All photos are minimized on this page. Click on an image to biggify.]
Here’s what the eyewitness/photographer reported to the Mutual UFO Network, and all of his photos:
Mas…What is it? UFO/OVNI photo’d over San Antonio high school (photos)