La lucha is real! ‘El Santo’ is ‘a real New-Mexican story’ for ‘real lovers’ (video)


El Santo, the Vimeo description says, is a “Real New-Mexican Story for Real Lovers.” We’ve watched it a buncha times and were not sure what it means or if we are one of those “real lovers” in the intended audience, but we like what we see. [Video by K48 PRODUCTIONS … in Milano of all places.] Also, be careful of strangely glowing cocktails with with bugs inside.

Paco Estrada, Brandon Callies as The Heart of the City: ‘The River’ (video)


The River is new video from Brandon Callies (Black Tie Vendetta, Brandon Callies and The American Revival) of Austin and Paco Estrada (SouthFM, Paco Estrada and One Love) of Dallas.

But The Heart of the City — as these Texans call themselves — won’t let life get them down.

Traditional chile lime cricket tacos are good for Mother Earth (video)


Crickets are very efficient in turning dirt and air and water and other critters into big fat delicious grillos, much more efficient than cattle who drink water like it falls from the sky and fart like they’re not breathing the same damn air as ustedes and me. And grillos are traditional, indigenous, and delicious! Bay Area bug maven Monica Martinez of DON BUGITO explains.

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Mas…Traditional chile lime cricket tacos are good for Mother Earth (video)

The Legend of The Wolf Woman/La Loba, The Bone Woman/La Huesera (video)


La Loba, from film student Margarete Laue re-imagines the traditional Mexican folk tale popularized by Clarissa Pinkola Estés in Women Who Run With the Wolves:

She creeps and crawls and sifts through the mountains and dry riverbeds, looking for wolf bones.