More and more Americans are getting into mezcal, and that’s good news for a new generation of artisanal farmers and producers.
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Tennis on the US/Mexican border is not all fun and games (video)
Swedish sportswear brand Björn Borg orchestrated a tennis match on the US/Mexican border with one player on each side, half the court on Mexican soil and the other half in El Norte. Things didn’t work out exactly like they planned.
San Diego devises 10-dimensional grid to evaluate burritos (video)
At a recent Ignite San Diego session — where you get 20 slides and five minutes — presenter Scott Cole described his systematic evaluation of the burritos of San Diego using ten dimensions of awesomeness.
Stereotype much? TV spot for Spectrum cable’s Mi Plan has ’em all
Hot sexy salsa dancers! A party — or is it a fiesta? Hopping lowriders! Flags of many nations! Something for the kids! Did Charter/Spectrum/TimeWarner/RoadRunner miss any Latinx cliches?
We asked our favorite ad maven Bernadette Rivero what was missing and what was happening in this spot:
“Missing?” she emailed back. “An abuela kicking a soccer ball with her feet while batting a piñata with one hand and making a call to Latin America.”
Argentina’s Fernando Livschitz has a new ‘Perspective’ (video)
Argentine film magician Fernando Livschitz reports that “one day I woke up and I saw everything in perspective.”
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Mas…Argentina’s Fernando Livschitz has a new ‘Perspective’ (video)
Preparing tacos de lengua: First, get yourself some veal tongue… (video)
Preparing tacos de lengua (veal tongue) is easy if you have hundreds of dollars of state-of-the-art cooking equipment from Sammic. Still, it’s weird to look at and be sure you peel off the icky “outer membrane”. Also, we notice a distinct lack of chiles, cilantro and lime. And what is up with those mini tortillas?
Doug Fernandez, KOAT/Albuquerque, keepin’ it real (video)
News vato Doug Fernandez of KOAT/ABC7/Albuquerque was all chill with the technical glitch – until he wasn’t.
Mexico’s waltz gift to the world: ‘Over the Waves’ (videos)
Even if you didn’t know that the proper name for this waltz is Sobre las Olas — Over the Waves en Ingles — we bet you recognize the melody. Right? It’s the song they play on merry-go-rounds! And it’s not by Johann Strauss, the waltz king. It’s by Mexican classical composer Juventino Rosas, and performed here by the London Symphony Orchestra.
Mas…Mexico’s waltz gift to the world: ‘Over the Waves’ (videos)
Israeli app helps you choose: Sketchy tacos, pad Thai, or pizza? (video)
The Israeli smartphone app 10BIS (Give Me a Bite תן ביס) makes it easy to order food and pay online. Do you want the sketchy Bollywood gold chain tacos, pad Thai, or pizza? ¡Orale, guey!
David Hidalgo y Los Cenzontles salute los braceros (video, lyrics)
This homage to Mexican braceros sets archival photos and portraits to Best of Me by Los Cenzontles with David Hidalgo of Los Lobos and Taj Mahal from their American Horizon CD. [Portraits by Craig Sherod. Edited by Maureen Gosling.]
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Mas…David Hidalgo y Los Cenzontles salute los braceros (video, lyrics)
The ‘Salsa Shop’ Mexi food chain in Amsterdam is hiring (video)
The Mexican food chain Salsa Shop, with locations around Amsterdam, is looking for a few good employees and managers. Sweet video, and the food looks legit. Nice t-shirts, too.
Worth it or not? Two tacos for $9 at Dodger Stadium (video)
When you root root root for Los Doyers, it’s better with the tacos, right? But are the tacos at Dodger Stadium in Chavez Ravine worth nine bucks for two? Jose Contreras — @LosPonies on the Twitter — reports.
Castro defends ‘Blue Rubber Band Man’ as July 4 parade marshall
(PNS reporting from VISALIA, CA) Outgoing Visalia Chamber of Commerce president Adrianna Castro stands behind the selection of her brother, area broccoli farmer and businessman Eddie Reyes, as Grand Marshall for this year’s annual July 4th parade.
“Eddie is not only an outstanding, civic-mind citizen,” she told PNS early this morning, “but his blue broccoli rubber bands put our Central Valley city on the world map!”
Castro announced the selection of Reyes (family photo, right) at the closed-door meeting Monday night, her last meeting as president of the group. Her term expires at the end of the month.
After the announcement, incoming president Tony Santamaria jumped up and called her choice “nepotism” and had to be “calmed down,” according to Chamber members at the meeting who contacted PNS.
“Eddie is more than just my big brother,” Castro explained. “He was a man with a plan Panama!”
Mas…Castro defends ‘Blue Rubber Band Man’ as July 4 parade marshall
Dave Alvin (The Blasters): ‘Hey, Baby, It’s the Fourth of July’ (video)
Roots rock singer/guitar slinger and East Los homie (Downey) Dave Alvin sings a classic ode to America, folky roots, broken hearts, independence and Mexican kids shooting fireworks. Hey, baby, it’s the Fourth of July!
La Santa Cecilia y Rebel Cats: ‘Soy Mexico-Americano’ (video y lyrics)
POCHO faves La Santa Cecilia (Marisoul on vocals) team up with Mexican rockabilly band Rebel Cats on a new, live version of Soy Mexican-Americano. The video was shot at Be Bops, a 1950s-style American diner in Mexico City. If there was a washboard in addition to the cajon, we’d call this zydeco.
Here’s Los Cenzontles’ version of the song, which is on heavy rotation at POCHO World Headquarters in East Los:
Mas…La Santa Cecilia y Rebel Cats: ‘Soy Mexico-Americano’ (video y lyrics)
In Chicago’s Pilsen barrio, the molé is made with love (video)
The Pilsen neighborhood in Chicago’s West Side — in the middle of a fierce battle against gentrification — is the center of the Windy City’s Mexican-Americam community. The recent Molé de Mayo fiesta highlighted the classic Mexican magical slow-cooked sauce of many ingredients: Molé. [Video by the students at Northwestern University’s Medill School of Journalism.]
Lin-Manuel Miranda ‘Hamilton’ video: ‘Immigrants get the job done!’
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s powerful new video for Immigrants (We Get The Job Done) is based on a track from The Hamilton Mixtape.
Mas…Lin-Manuel Miranda ‘Hamilton’ video: ‘Immigrants get the job done!’
Molé is the mero mero magical mezcla madre (video)
An energetic dreamscape captures Mexico’s passion for molé, a signature celebration dish, through the eyes of Mexican chef Enrique Olvera.
No ‘taco trucks on every corner’? We’ve got a Taco Truck Playhouse!
We could have elected Hillary and ended up with the dread TACO TRUCKS ON EVERY CORNER, but no. Resist and teach your children well with this adorable carboard Taco Truck Playhouse, just $69 right here.
Now we’re sad. We made this Taco Trucks Anthem and what did it get us? Nada!
Mas…No ‘taco trucks on every corner’? We’ve got a Taco Truck Playhouse!
Blueberry mota molé chicken tacos and kale carrot salad (video)
In this episode of Cooking With the Giggles, our munchified host Jim Jensen aka Mr. Giggles shows how molé can be medicine. SPOILER: Mota-infused butter.
Mas…Blueberry mota molé chicken tacos and kale carrot salad (video)
Up in the Argentine sky – it’s a bird, it’s a plane, WTF is it? (video)
What is that shiny, solvery thing in the sky near Salta, in Northwest Argentina?
The excellent Inexplicata blog explains:
Mas…Up in the Argentine sky – it’s a bird, it’s a plane, WTF is it? (video)
TV chef Chris Oh doesn’t like NYC tacos except for chapulines (video)
Bravo celeb chef Chris Oh brings his L.A. taco-loving Asian chef tastebuds to a table of (anonymous) New York tacos looking for that Los Angeles sabor. Those chapulines (grasshoppers), though!
The Food Network says ‘taco cones’ are the ‘new tacos’ (video)
Opinions are like culos; everybody has one. The Food Network is of the opinion that “taco cones” are the “new tacos,” for example, and Christopher Columbus thought he “discovered” a “new world.” Trump thinks he has the best “taco bowls.” Not so fast, you bad hombres! If you circumcise the tips of the cones, what is gonna keep all the juices inside? #fncravings, huh?
Lalo Guerrero: My hyna is named Juana – ‘Marijuana’ (video, lyrics)
Lalo Guerrero, the Father of Chicano Music, loved tortillas and loved to boogie with his chucos suaves homies. He also loved this hyna (jaina) called Juana, as he notes in this 1949 release Marihuana Boogie. She makes him feel like he’s flying!
Mas…Lalo Guerrero: My hyna is named Juana – ‘Marijuana’ (video, lyrics)
Moby is tired, feels it’s all been goin’ wrong (Steve Cutts music video)
Moby and the Void Pacific Choir think everything has been going wrong In This Cold Place. Are they pointing out one Orange Cheeto guy as the guilty party? The so-called “alt reich” hates that shit! [The video by Steve Cutts features amazing homages to classic superheroes, animated TV series, old video games, and even modern anime (especially mecha).]
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Mas…Moby is tired, feels it’s all been goin’ wrong (Steve Cutts music video)
ZZ Top fan ZZ Tom recreates, eats LP cover Mexican dinner (video)
Greatest LP food photo of all time? The Mexican food porn from ZZ Top’s 1973 Tres Hombres album. Austin chef Thomas ZZ Tom Micklethwait recreated this dinner for the cameras and then ate it.
Online commenter KublaConn added these deets:
Mas…ZZ Top fan ZZ Tom recreates, eats LP cover Mexican dinner (video)
Dance your space suits off: ‘Pachanga en la Luna’ (video)
We like the cover art even more than the tune: It’s Los Autenticos, dancing their Moon landing spacesuits off in Pachanga en la Luna.
Mas…Dance your space suits off: ‘Pachanga en la Luna’ (video)
Pittsburgh’s Las Palmas taqueria looks muy rico in Russian (video)
A Russian voiceover lauds the tacos at Las Palmas in Pittsburgh, PA, which seems to be pretty legit, at least on Yelp. Why is the narration in Russian? Get used to it, covfefe!
Bang Data is heading to the stars in ‘Galactica’ (lyrics video)
Even pocho-level bad Espanish is understandable with this new Galactica lyrics video from Bang Data. Someone — we won’t say who — is lookin’ for a love to call their own. The band plays today at L.A.’s Fonda Theatre.
How to make ‘Mexican Chicken’ (Welsh recipe video)
As we consider the ramifications of the United Kingdom’s election yesterday, let us not lose sight of the fact that the U.K. is comprised of three separate entities — England, Scotland, and Wales. In Wales, they speak and write Welsh, with all those long words and weird consonants, and also make taco casseroles.
Mex ex-prez Fox to Trump: Not paying for your wall (NSFW video)
Dear @realDonaldTrump: Here's a friendly reminder from @VicenteFoxQue that Mexico will not pay for your wall. pic.twitter.com/Osg8ZUYLlG
— Super Deluxe (@superdeluxe) June 7, 2017
Mexico’s ex-president Vicente Fox is back with another video message for Donald Trump, just pendejo to pendejo. “You’re fat,” he says, “taco bowls suck, and, by the way, а ты говоришь по русски?” [NSFW F-bomb.]