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As Hispanic Heritage Month 2019 ends, Brooklyn Hispanics try to carry on
(PNS reporting from BROOKLYN) Hispanic Heritage Month is ending, and without the corporate-approved celebration as a focus, local members of the Hispanic/Latino community here aren’t really sure how they can go on being local members of the local Hispanic/Latino community here.
“What now?” lamented Brooklyn native and prolific bloguera Marielena Gutierrez (photo)
“Should I tell people to call me Mary Ellen for the remaining 11 months of the year? It’s not like they ever pronounce it right anyway,” she wrote on her PobrePickle blog.
Mas…As Hispanic Heritage Month 2019 ends, Brooklyn Hispanics try to carry on
La Cucaracha: A night in the life of an ‘edgy’ comedian (toon)
WE’RE WITH GEORGE CARLIN ON THIS ISSUE:
Mas…La Cucaracha: A night in the life of an ‘edgy’ comedian (toon)
George Carlin’s advice to ‘edgy’ comedians: Punch up, not down (video)
Ground-breaking standup comedian George Carlin is all in favor of free speech, but thinks the best comedy comes from punching up, not punching down, and that means not mocking gays, immigrants, women, and other vulnerable minorities.
Mas…George Carlin’s advice to ‘edgy’ comedians: Punch up, not down (video)
WATCH: Temple B’Nai Pocho Wishes You A Happy Rosh HaShanah 5780
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 5780 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 5780
The Honey Drippers get the funk out: ‘Impeach the President’
The Honey Drippers, high school students from Jamaica, Queens, Long Island (strangely, this was Donald Trump’s home town), recorded Impeach the President in 1973.
Mas…The Honey Drippers get the funk out: ‘Impeach the President’
Talk (And Sing) Like A (Mexican) Pirate Day: ‘Santy Anno’ (video)
It’s International Talk Sing Like A Pirate Day and we’re please to present not only a “sea shanty” about being a pirate, but one about the Mexican-American war of the 1850s. It’s even in Wikipedia! This video of Santy Anno has music by Forebitter and Lord Cavendish manga-influenced artwork assembled by uploader LordDrakoArakis, probably not his real name.
Here’s the some of what Wikipedia says about this traditional song:
Mas…Talk (And Sing) Like A (Mexican) Pirate Day: ‘Santy Anno’ (video)