He shoots, he scores!
DARK BRANDON and the Malarkeys promised to drop a big one to start the year, and here it is: Chinese Spy Balloon!
COMIC SAENZ
57 Years Ago in East Los: ‘Happy New Year Baby’ from The Sisters
Fifty-seven years go – 1965 – big hair and girl groups were all the rage with the cool kids in East Los Angeles.
Sisters Rosella, Ersi, and Mary Arvizu believed they could be the next Supremes — even before there were Supremes. They called themselves The Sisters.
Mark Guerrero, son of Chicano music legend Lalo Guerrero, tells the story:
Mas…57 Years Ago in East Los: ‘Happy New Year Baby’ from The Sisters
Los Hebrew Homies cook Hanukkah latkes de papas (NSFW video)
The Jewish festival of Hanukkah חנוכה starts Sunday night, December 18, so Hebrew hermanos Jaquann and Luis are cooking up some potato latkes (pancakes) — one of the season’s signature treats. (Totally NSFW adult language.)
WATCH: Temple B’Nai Pocho Wishes You A Happy Rosh HaShanah 5783
Enjoy this musical Happy Jewish New Year greeting from our friends at Temple B’Nai Pocho.
The Jewish High Holiday of Rosh HaShanah, which marks 5783 years since the Creation of the World, starts Sunday, at sundown.
Happy New Year y Shanah Tovah tambien.
Mas…WATCH: Temple B’Nai Pocho Wishes You A Happy Rosh HaShanah 5783
Always Look for the Union Label: Music vids for Labor Day Weekend 2022
It’s Labor Day Weekend!
¡Orale!
Happy Labor Day Weekend!
Sing along with the music that celebrates the ordinary working people who keep this country — and the world — in business: 9 to 5 from Dolly Parton, Look for the Union Label, Workin’ in a Coal Mine, This Land Is Your Land, and Solidarity Forever.
Mas…Always Look for the Union Label: Music vids for Labor Day Weekend 2022
Chief Petty Officer Manuel Ray Perez (1920-2003) was a D-Day hero
Twenty-something New Mexico native Manuel Ray Perez had already been honorably discharged by the U.S. Army, but after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that started World War II, he knew he had to get back in the fight.
That determination, and a toss of the coin, put him on Omaha Beach, Normandy, Nazi-occupied France, on D-Day, 78 years ago today.
OFFICIAL DEFENSE DEPARTMENT BIOGRAPHY:
He was a yeoman on “Easy Red” sector of Omaha Beach with the 6th Beach Battalion — bullets screaming past him and hitting buddies and strangers all around during the Invasion of Normandy. And he was there because all he won a coin toss.
Mas…Chief Petty Officer Manuel Ray Perez (1920-2003) was a D-Day hero
It’s Jesus’ Last Supper in Jerusalem and we’ve got video
Cameras were rolling in Jerusalem when Nazareth carpenter Yeshua Ben-Yosef and friends gathered for a pre-Passover dinner that would turn out to be Ben-Yosef’s Last Supper. Here’s the video.
Mas…It’s Jesus’ Last Supper in Jerusalem and we’ve got video
¡Feliz César Chávez Day 2022!
Cesar Chavez Day is a U.S. federal commemorative holiday, proclaimed by President Barack Obama in 2014.
The holiday celebrates the birth and legacy of the civil rights and labor movement activist Cesar Chavez on March 31 every year. [Wikipedia.]
Who was Chavez?
Here he comes to save the day! Super Vaccine Vato is on the way!
Pocho Villa Productions proudly presents Super Vaccine Vato, the new Lalo Alcaraz public health hero. Stay tooned for new episodes of SVV as he takes on public health emergencies for CovidLatino.org and the ASU School of Transborder Studies.
WATCH: Temple B’Nai Pocho Wishes You A Happy Rosh HaShanah 5782
Enjoy this musical Happy Jewish New Year greeting from our friends at Temple B’Nai Pocho.
The Jewish High Holiday of Rosh HaShanah, which marks 5782 years since the Creation of the World, starts tomorrow, Monday, at sundown.
Happy New Year y Shanah Tovah tambien.
Mas…WATCH: Temple B’Nai Pocho Wishes You A Happy Rosh HaShanah 5782
Always Look for the Union Label: Music vids for Labor Day Weekend 2021
It’s Labor Day Weekend!
¡Orale!
Happy Labor Day Weekend!
Sing along with the music that celebrates the ordinary working people who keep this country — and the world — in business: 9 to 5 from Dolly Parton, Look for the Union Label, Workin’ in a Coal Mine, This Land Is Your Land, and Solidarity Forever.
Mas…Always Look for the Union Label: Music vids for Labor Day Weekend 2021
Señor Flavio y Su Banda: Invasion of Beings from Another World
Argentina’s Señor Flavio first made his name as a member of Rock en Español superstars Los Fabulososos Cadillacs. Here he offers a ska-toned pessimistic pandemic warning — La Invasión de los Seres de Otro Mundo has already begun.
PREVIOUSLY ON SEÑOR FLAVIO::
Mas…Señor Flavio y Su Banda: Invasion of Beings from Another World
PNS Hot Flash: Apartment 2B loud sex stops, neighbors worry
(PNS reporting from SANTA MONICA) Neighbors in the south wing of the Casa Sanchez Apartments on South Lincoln Boulevard are concerned that the nice couple in apartment 2B has stopped having the nightly loud sex that intrigued, amused, and stimulated everyone else in the building.
“Everyone hopes they’re OK,” 2C tenant Scott Alvarado (photo, right) told PNS Monday.
“They seemed like such sweet kids and very much in love. Relationships are hard.”
Mas…PNS Hot Flash: Apartment 2B loud sex stops, neighbors worry
L.A. OGs WAR (the ORIGINAL band): ‘Cinco de Mayo’ (1981 complete)
This 1981 single from WAR was the first time many non-Latinos heard of Cinco de Mayo. This photo shows the original guys at the Sunset Grill (7439 Sunset, next to their offices (Far Out Productions) at 7417 Sunset. The Guitar Center swallowed up 7417 a while back.
L-R: Charles Miller (sax, RIP), Lonnie Jordan (keyboards, the only original member in the new WAR), Howard Scott (guitar, Lowrider Band), Harold Brown (drums, Lowrider Band), B.B. Dickerson (bass, RIP), Lee Oskar (harmonica, Lowrider Band). Not pictured, Papa Dee Allen (RIP, percussion).
- DISCLOSURE: I was WAR’s National Director of Album Promotion for a while and ate so often at the Sunset Grill (like in the Eagles song) I could run a tab.
Mas…L.A. OGs WAR (the ORIGINAL band): ‘Cinco de Mayo’ (1981 complete)
Happy May Day 2021 from the Workers of the World (video, lyrics)
Enjoy the Internacional, the world-wide (Get it? It’s international!) anthem of those commie cabrones in Russia and Cuba and Venezuela and China and North Korea (and lurking in secretive corona-is-a-hoax cells here in the Homeland but the lamestream media won’t tell you that).
Today, May 1, is May Day AKA International Workers’ Day, when the comrades sing this stirring appeal, with its hummable melody and a vague vision of making the future great again that’s hard to disagree with, except maybe the LUCHA FINAL aspect.
Mas…Happy May Day 2021 from the Workers of the World (video, lyrics)
¡Feliz César Chávez Day!
Cesar Chavez Day is a U.S. federal commemorative holiday, proclaimed by President Barack Obama in 2014.
EDITOR’S NOTE: This is a version of the “evergreen” feature we run every Cesar Chavez Day. This version lacks the listing of what’s open and what’s closed because everything is closed. Stay safe at home, pochos!
The holiday celebrates the birth and legacy of the civil rights and labor movement activist Cesar Chavez on March 31 every year. [Wikipedia.]
Who was Chavez?
“If you’ve got the dinero,” the Texas Tornadoes sing, “we’ll have a good time!”
Sir Doug Sahm, Flaco Jimenez, Augie Meyers, Freddy Fender, and the rest of the Texas Tornadoes remind us that despite all the pendejos in charge, don’t mess with Texas.
New Smithsonian video celebrates the art of POCHO Jefe Lalo Alcaraz
The Smithsonian American Art Museum writes:
Artist Lalo Alcaraz created the striking digital portrait “I Stand with Emma” of Emma González after watching the high school senior advocate for stronger gun control in an impassioned speech days after surviving the shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Florida.
Mas…New Smithsonian video celebrates the art of POCHO Jefe Lalo Alcaraz
The Amber Ruffin Show: Why we need a ‘White History Month’
The PEACOCK star has some learning for you.
Los Hip Hop Hoodíos spark ‘Ocho Kandelikas’ for Chanukah (video)
Feliz Chanukah from POCHO and the Hip Hop Hoodíos!
‘Happy Asian Thanksgiving’ from the Fung Brothers (video)
American children of immigrants are all the same when it comes to dealing with Thanksgiving.
Y digamos: “Amén.”
POCHO History 101: Undocumented Pilgrims’ first Thanksgiving (video)
The Pilgrims, after all, were boat people fleeing religious oppression, ordinary families seeking freedom in a new land. But no one expects the Algonquin Migra. [Video by the 18 Mighty Mountain Warriors.]