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Quitapenas ❤️ Cali’s Inland Empire: ‘Valle Moreno’ (video)
Just so we’re all on the same page, let’s agree on terminology:
- Quitapenas is a band of SoCal homies.
- The Inland Empire is the nickname for Southern Califas east of Los Angeles.
- Moreno Valley (Valle Moreno) is a city in the IE.
In addition, Quitapenas makes the following assertions about Valle Moreno. Dark Valley is:
Mas…Quitapenas ❤️ Cali’s Inland Empire: ‘Valle Moreno’ (video)
Grammar vigilantes are on a mission to correct Quito graffiti (photos)
They may not be the heroes that Ecuador needs or deserves but they sure do get pissed off when you don’t know where a comma goes.
Since January, vigilantes in Quito, Ecuador have been correcting mistakes in the city’s graffiti.
These guerillas use stencils cut from pizza boxes to add commas, question marks and, ah yes, even accent marks to imperfect street art around town.
The members of Acción Ortográfica Quito take their pseudonyms (or superhero names) from punctuation marks: Diéresis, Tilde and Coma.
Diéresis, a 30-year-old lawyer/vigilante, told The Guardian in an interview, “Grammatical errors cause stress. We only make texts comprehensible that otherwise would not send any message whatsoever.”
Mas…Grammar vigilantes are on a mission to correct Quito graffiti (photos)
El Chapo joins El Donald as Mexican piñata (video)
If beating zee caca out of a Donald Trump piñata is too last week, perhaps mademoiselle would like our newest creation, Piñata El Chapo.
In Honolulu, TacoCat pops-up awesome Korean tacos (video)
Welcome to TacoCat, a crowd-funded Korean street pop-up in Honolulu, where everyone enjoys “food, flavor, fun and meow!” On the Twitter, they’re @TacoCatHI.
Hello, gringos! Eat like a Mexican (but we won’t say that) [video]
Wow. There is this seasoning, Cappy, and you too, Kirsten and Brooke – there is this TAJIN seasoning for your fruit AND veggies! Spicy! Salty! Lime! Totes, like, amazeballs! It adds a ZING! to everything! I wonder where they get these ideas?
PREVIOUSLY ON TAJIN:
Mas…Hello, gringos! Eat like a Mexican (but we won’t say that)
Visiting Belgrade, Serbia? Mexico is so close! In Burrito! (photos)
Pictures speak a thousand (very orange) palabras, and when it comes to words, we can’t do any better than the self-penned description of Burrito, a Mexican restaurant in Belgrade, Serbia, in the former Yugoslavia, right by the Nikolai Tesla Museum (see map below):
Mas…Visiting Belgrade, Serbia? Mexico is so close! In Burrito! (photos)
Welcome to Hotel Caesar’s, Tijuana! Enjoy your salad (video)
The family of Caesar Cardini still owns and runs Hotel Caesar’s in Tijuana, where Caesar Salad was invented.
Did you know Caesar’s original recipe calls for lime juice, not lemon? Lima, not limon?
¡Que Mexicano!
Los Lobos live: ‘Good Morning Aztlan!’ (video)
Good morning, pochos, and Good Morning Aztlan from Los Lobos, LA’s best band evah.
Cook a hamburguesa or go get one with Salma Hayek? (videos)
What will it be? A home-made “Mexican hamburger” or a ride to Burger Boy in Salma Hayek’s convertible for hamburguesas? We embed, you decide.
Cook a burger:
Mas…Cook a hamburguesa or go get one with Salma Hayek? (videos)
For one night only, the Fresno Grizzlies will be the Fresno Tacos
For one night only, August 6, Triple-A baseball team the Fresno Grizzlies will play as the Fresno Tacos.
Mas…For one night only, the Fresno Grizzlies will be the Fresno Tacos
Wassup with San Diego college guys in ‘cholo pantalones?’
Ozzie Monge unearthed this little tidbit of San Diego State University history — a bizarre attack on Mexican attire that ran in the student newspaper in 1922.
Foreshadowing Donald Trump, the students are quite sure about Mexico. “There,” they explain, “poverty is a profession.”
In Monge’s words:
Racism and Anti-Mexicanism at San Diego State College in the 20’s? Say it isn’t so….Anglos hating on Mexicans, hating on Indians, yet they proudly declare that their school is Del Sudoeste (a product of the imagined, romanticized Spanish past – and Eurocentrism) and will later take on the moniker Aztec from the imagined, romanticized version of the conquest they developed.
Mas…Wassup with San Diego college guys in ‘cholo pantalones?’
South Carolina KKK Confederate flag march is better with tuba (video)
Earlier this week, in Columbia, South Carolina, Confederate-flag-waving Ku Klux Klan white wingers paraded downtown. The paramilitary-garbed haters were joined by an uninvited sousaphone player who provided ironic musical accompaniment. (A sousaphone is the marching band variety of tuba that wraps around the player, making it easier to carry.) Enjoy the tubalicious music (is that Wagner?) AND the play-by-play commentary from a woman who may also be the videographer/uploader. “Stupid is as stupid does,” she notes. “This is a family tree with no branches.”
Mas…South Carolina KKK Confederate flag march is better with tuba (video)
The secrets of Looney Toons animator Chuck Jones (video)
Bugs Bunny, Daffy Duck, Porky Pig, the Road Runner, Wile E. Coyote, and other Warner Bros, Looney Toons and Merrie Melodies cartoon characters were brought to life by artist Chuck Jones. Here’s a short look at how he made his magic. Chuck Jones – The Evolution of an Artist/a> is by Tony Zhou.
Watch: Mexican Dubwiser: ‘Trouble in My Soul’ (post futuristic cumbia)
The trancifying Trouble in My Soul from self-described “Post Futuristic Rebajada Cumbia Soul Experimenter” Mexican Dubwiser was released two years ago, before POCHO reappeared online. So in case you missed it, or forgot about it, here it is. You’re welcome. 🙂
Mas…Watch: Mexican Dubwiser: ‘Trouble in My Soul’ (post futuristic cumbia)
Mexican artist Axur Eneas: Videogame icons and mascots (toons)
Comic artist Axur Eneas created a series of illustrations of videogame gear, characters, mascots, logos, icons, and glyphs for a gamer convention in Mexico DF. We captioned them all for your nerdy geeky pleasure.
Mas…Mexican artist Axur Eneas: Videogame icons and mascots (toons)
Watch Alondra de la Parra conduct the Orchestre de Paris
Energetic and expressive Mexican conductor Alondra de la Parra — they call her “la jeune chef mexicaine” — rehearses the Orchestre de Paris in Danzon n°2 by Arturo Márquez, a contemporary Mexican composer.
Madonna’s new NSFW music video ‘Taco Truck Bonita’ is puro L.A.
OOPS, SORRY POCHOS.
THE VIDEO PEOPLE CHANGED THE SETTINGS TO PRIVATE.
IT WAS FUN WHILE IT LASTED!
Mas…Madonna’s new NSFW music video ‘Taco Truck Bonita’ is puro L.A.
Latino? Hispanic? Spanish? What’s the difference? (videos)
Hispanic, Latino and Spanish are often used interchangeably in describing ethnicity. But what’s the right terminology? Feminist, vlogger and “critical thinker” Kat Lazo sets people straight. Nice Venn diagram, too.
Mas…Latino? Hispanic? Spanish? What’s the difference? (videos)
Mexican artist Hector Zamora: Reality and other deceptions (video)
Mexican artist Hector Zamora filled up an exhibit space in the French countryside with empty, boarded-up campers and RVs (they call them caravans over there).
Why, exactly? Julien Zerbone explains:
Mas…Mexican artist Hector Zamora: Reality and other deceptions (video)
When la vida gets too loca: ‘F*ck That: A Guided Meditation’ (video)
When the going gets loco, the loco turn pro with F*ck That: A Guided Meditation, a totally NSFW video from Jason Headley.
Watch: Cuba’s underwater Jardines de la Reina are pristine – for now
Southwest of the island of Cuba, an underwater wonderland of sea plants and creatures thrives. It’s the natural and untouched Caribbean, protected from humanity for generations – and so-called progress.
Mas…Watch: Cuba’s underwater Jardines de la Reina are pristine – for now
Gentrification Notes from Technotopia, SF: On the Cruelty of Indifference
By GUILLERMO GÓMEZ-PEÑA
Dear Ex-local artist, writer, activist, bohemian, street eccentric, and/or protector of difference…
Imagine a city, your city and your former “hip” neighborhood, being handed over by greedy politicians and re/developers to the crème de la crème of the tech industry. This includes the 7 most powerful tech companies in the world. I don’t need to list them: their names have become verbs in lingua franca; their sandbox is the city you used to call your own.
Mas…Gentrification Notes from Technotopia, SF: On the Cruelty of Indifference
UPDATED! @LaloAlcaraz: Talk, photos, toons from Comic-Con 2015
Just like I promised the Washington Post, here are some photos from Comic-Con in San Diego:
Let’s start with the first of several selfies. Here I am with Ramon Ramirez of Smarty Cartoons:
This dude? Photo speaks for itself. Maybe:
Mas…UPDATED! @LaloAlcaraz: Talk, photos, toons from Comic-Con 2015
