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Archaeologists unearth ‘Aztec skull rack’ beneath Mexico City (video)
A ceremonial Aztec trophy rack for displaying the skulls of vanquished enemies has been discovered underneath the Templo Mayor Aztec complex in Mexico City’s historic center.
Mas…Archaeologists unearth ‘Aztec skull rack’ beneath Mexico City (video)
Los Hollywood: ‘Hasta Mañana’ (music video)
San Diego’s Los Hollywood says they’ll see you tomorrow. Heidy Flores is singing and playing bass. Remember her name.
Why did the Border Patrol show up at a Latino music festival? (video)
The Buenas Vibras (Good Vibes) festival last weekend in Lake Elsinore was a benefit for cancer patients. Why did the U.S. Border Patrol show up?
Leticia Juarez of ABC7 Los Angeles reports:
Mas…Why did the Border Patrol show up at a Latino music festival? (video)
In Martinez, CA, Pablo Martinez repairs shoes, shares wisdom (video)
Pablo Martinez, owner of Carlos Shoe Repair, learned the trade growing up in Mexico from his father. Will his shop, in the East Bay community of Martinez, survive the glut of cheap imported shoes? Does a family business like his matter? [Video by Rachel Aston for the Martinez News Gazette.]
Mas…In Martinez, CA, Pablo Martinez repairs shoes, shares wisdom (video)
Cops make San Bernardino safer by busting guy selling fruit (video)
We can all sleep easier now that a guy selling fruit from a little carrito on a street corner in San Bernardino has been busted by the cops. Facebook member Jason Gomez was there:
Mas…Cops make San Bernardino safer by busting guy selling fruit (video)
Good morning, Guadalajara! ‘Una mañana en la ciudad’ (video)
As the sun comes rises over Guadalajara ♬ ♫ Guadalajara, the city wakes up, cleans up, and gets to work.
Mas…Good morning, Guadalajara! ‘Una mañana en la ciudad’ (video)
Pochos With Attitude: Straight Outta Tacos (NSFW video trailer)
In the war to control the lucrative market for street food in South Central Los Angeles, one crew fought their way Straight Outta Tacos. Video by DESMADRE. [NSFW in several languages.]
Mas…Pochos With Attitude: Straight Outta Tacos (NSFW video trailer)
Lets get tacos de suadero at Taqueria Jalisco in Mexico, DF (video)
Even at 10:30 at night, at the Taqueria Jalisco – located in the car park behind the American Embassy in Mexico DF – you can get a killer plate of tacos de suadero (a cut of beef like flank steak) for $2.40. Our British guide TrueMexico takes us out to eat.
Tortillas y tacos come in colors with these natural tricks (video)
Bay Area popup caterers ThinkSalsa make colorful tortillas using natural ingredients. You can, too!
Mas…Tortillas y tacos come in colors with these natural tricks (video)
Monday Morning Music Video: ‘It’s Raining Tacos!’
It’s Raining Tacos, you say? Yum yum yum, yummity yum! It’s like a dream!
Scientists: There’s a water-filled cave under Chichen Itza (video)
Mexican scientists have discovered a cave/sinkhole/subterranean river underneath the ruins of the Kukulkan Pyramid at Chichen Itza in the Yucatan.
Euronews reports on last week’s announcement:
Mas…Scientists: There’s a water-filled cave under Chichen Itza (video)
Korea’s Mexicana Chicken now in strawberry, banana, melon flavors
Korean fast food chain Mexicana Chicken wants you stop, look, and listen, and then try their new pink strawberry chicken, yellow banana chicken and green cantaloupe chicken. For realz.
The company’s “Stoplight Chicken” — small pieces of boneless chicken coated in flavored powders colored red, yellow, and green — are the three colors of a traffic signal. Get it?
Apparently emboldened by the previous success of chicken nuggets coated in cheese powder, Mexicana has decided to go all out and add strawberry, banana, and melon to the available flavors for their fried chicken. However, according to online reaction, the result is not great.
Mas…Korea’s Mexicana Chicken now in strawberry, banana, melon flavors
Scientology enlists Bart Simpson to help Mexico ‘go clear’ (video)
Nancy Cartwright, the voice of Bart on The Simpsons, wants to see you at the big Scientology fiesta a week from Sunday in Mexico DF. Don’t let your reactive mind keep you away! Doh! Also, you snarky anti-Scientology periodistas: BEHAVE!
Mas…Scientology enlists Bart Simpson to help Mexico ‘go clear’ (video)
Could the Hellow Festival in Monterrey top this commercial (video)
Bud Light’s Hellow Festival, 29 de Agosto del 2015, Parque Fundidora, Monterrey, N.L. México, couldn’t possibly be as cool as this commercial, we don’t think? It could? ¡Vamanos!
Mas…Could the Hellow Festival in Monterrey top this commercial (video)
This is not your pineapple under the sea (videos)
Picking pineapples is hard work!
Celebrate ‘Mexican Week’ – Romanian-style – with Lidl (video)
Euro-wide discount supermarket chain Lidl is celebrating “Mexican Week” (it started Monday) at its stores in Romania.
We’ve traveled the world and the seven seas; who are we to disagree?
Cliches and stereotypes included at no extra charge.
Mas…Celebrate ‘Mexican Week’ – Romanian-style – with Lidl (video)
Sweet cactus juice: The agave ‘sugar’ of Guadalajara, Jalisco (video)
Australian foodsters Sugars of the World made this video to promote Agave Sugar, and its birthplace, Guadalajara, Jalisco, Mexico.
Ramiro Gomez remembers ‘The Forgotten – Los Olvidados’ (video)
Los Angeles artist Ramiro Gomez, Jr. first captured our attention when he began placing carboard cutouts of immigrant laborers in front of fancy mansions in Beverly Hills. Why? He wanted to celebrate the workers who are usually invisible by making them visible for all to see.
Gomez subsequently began creating cutouts memorializing immigrants who died on their journey to El Norte, and installed these new figures in the Sonoran desert on the border with Mexico.
Gomez and his partner David Feldman documented the project in Los Olivados — The Forgotten. Their documentary — which has been playing the film festival circuit for a year — is now online for the first time.
Here’s what they wrote on YouTube:
Mas…Ramiro Gomez remembers ‘The Forgotten – Los Olvidados’ (video)
What’s for lunch? Tacos al vapor – steamed tacos in a basket (video)
Also known as Tacos de Canasta (tacos in a basket) and Sweaty Tacos (tacos sudados) these Mexico City soft tacos are cheap, delicious and easy to scarf down during a short lunch break. Just look for the taquero with a bicycle — and a basket!
Burrito rolling not so easy, Beverly Hills lawyer learns (NSFW video)
POCHO amigo Jeff B. Cohen, a child actor (Chunk in The Goonies) who grew up to be a Beverly Hills entertainment lawyer, learned the hard way that rolling a burrito on a hot grill is no piece of cake. [NSFW F-bombs.]
Mas…Burrito rolling not so easy, Beverly Hills lawyer learns (NSFW video)
Nom nom nom: The pastries of South America (video)
Got your cafecito ready? Sit down at the mesa and enjoy delicious fracturas from Argentina and sweet quesadillas from Ecuador.
Tough Taco says ‘Don’t hate the player, hate the game’ (video)
A Bay Area taco makes the most of his mellow until a magical Crown of Bling gives him a more energetic lifestyle – for a while. But you Don’t Hate the Player, Hate the Game.
King of Pop’s ‘The Way You Make Me Feel’ in Quechua (video)
Michael Jackson’s music moonwalks like an Inca in The Way You Make Me Feel, performed in indigenous language Quechua by 14-year-old Peruvian Renata Flores Rivera.
More like this? How about a mariachi and Spanglish-ish version of Get Lucky by Daft Punk?
Mas…King of Pop’s ‘The Way You Make Me Feel’ in Quechua (video)
Mexican Street Corn Salad mit Bulgur: Rezept und Anleitung (video)
Heute gibt es meinen mexikanischen Mais Salat in der Version mit Bulgur als Rezept für euch. Der Salat ist so einfach selber zu machen, den bekommt jeder Trottel hin 😉
Das schöne ist noch, dass ihr diesen Salat das ganze Jahr machen könnt da er asaisonal ist.
…And that’s how the Mexicans make fish tacos, Skippy (video)
And that’s how they make fish tacos in Centla, in the state of Tabasco, on the Gulf Coast, in southeast Mexico.
Hot fun in the Summertime? Too hot! ‘Sun of a Beach’ (video)
Man, it is hot out here today. Sun of a Beach!
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)
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)