People have been writing on bathroom walls as long as there have been bathrooms with walls, and writing. But Jahaziel Galicia, a young Mexican artist living and working in New York City, has raised the bar. He turned the walls of his bathroom into a mural — drawn with pencils.
Mas…Mexican artist writes on bathroom walls – all of them (video)
We at POCHO have been around so long we remember when even Mexicans didn’t want to be Mexican. (We think that was just about two weeks ago.)
But Miami-based Cuban-American Emilio Estefan and his friends are all Mexicans now, at least in a music video.
By the way, we at POCHO also remember when Emilio Estefan threatened to sue the L.A. Weekly because of a “Mexiled” column that Lalo Alcaraz wrote portraying Estefan as the Fidel Castro of the Latin Grammys. Oh, but that was so long ago…
Let’s all be Mexican instead! Mexican, tu sabes, is the new black.
Mira y escucha: Todos Somos Mexicanos:
Mas…Emilio Estefan: ‘Todos Somos Mexicanos’ (video, lyrics, credits)
Burrito-eating Albuquerque municipal busdriver Jeremy Perea apparently picked a bad moment to take his eyes off the road – traffic in front of his vehicle had come to a halt.
KOP 4 Eyewitness News reports:
Mas…Burque bummer when burrito-loving busdriver’s bus goes BOOM (video)
LA’s best band, Los Lobos, is releasing their first album of new material in five years, Gates of Gold.
We’ve got the entire record here and then individual tracks, courtesy NPR.
On September 14 a Latina friend of mine who’s also a college professor said to me, “Brace yourself for Hispanic Heritage Month, I’m already getting phone calls about recommendations for mariachi bands.”
I laughed a bit, but her comment stayed with me. See, she’s half Colombian and I’m Puerto Rican, and the idea of becoming the “go to” people about such things struck me as, well, just another example of how stereotypes about Latinos often work.
The fact that people are asking her about mariachi bands reveals how U.S. society usually lumps us together under the umbrella label “Latino/a” or “Hispanic” despite our cultural differences and diversity.
At the same time, her warning (“brace yourself”) fittingly captured how many Latinxs/Hispanics feel about Hispanic Heritage Month (which I prefer to call Latino Heritage Month because I find it more inclusive, less Spanish-oriented).
Mas…It’s Time to #EndHispandering! Take Back Latino Heritage Month
Tacos Don Chente in Montebello, CA was juan cool place to hang out Wednesday as Power 106’s morning show host J Cruz raised hell at a Donald Trump piñata-bashing party. And free tacos.
Mexican Independence Celebrations often are more fiesta than political bashes in the United Estates, but this year is different. Cruz and his crew set up a terrific fiesta. Now if we can only get La Raza to vote with their ballots, and not just with their colorful frilly piñata sticks…
Mas…Montebello lines up to beat Donald Trump piñatas (video)
Buenas dias, Aztlan! And TGIF! Los Cenzontles (The Mockingbirds) re-imagine the Los Lobos classic Good Morning, Aztlan! with some scenes that sure look familiar!
And the Los Lobos version is here:
Mas…What do Los Cenzontles say? ‘Good Morning, Aztlan!’ (video)
You won’t believe your eyes!
California artist Xochitl Cahuenga-Alvarado (born in 1988 in Fresno) creates mixed media artworks and performances.
By investigating language on a meta-level, Cahuenga-Alvarado tries to grasp language.
Transformed into art, language becomes an ornament. At that moment, lots of ambiguities and indistinctnesses, which are inherent to the phenomenon, come to the surface. Ooooh, shiny!
Her mixed media artworks are an investigation into representations of (seemingly) concrete ages and situations as well as depictions and ideas of the Latin@ that can only be realized in mixed media art.
Mas…Latino Heritage Month Pochismo Profile: Xochitl Cahuenga-Alvarado
When the world goes insane, the insane turn pro. Donald Trump will make America great again!
Mas…Anime Music Video: Donald Trump Will Make America Great Again
I spent several days in Detroit this weekend with the UNITY Diversity in Journalism group, bringing our perspective as journalists of color to two vibrant local communities.
We had a panel at the gorgeous Arab American National Museum in Dearborn, and discussed the situation of Arab American media portrayals from our varied panelists.
At the end of this fruitful panel, I brought up how my last name Alcaraz, has Arabic language roots, and how I looked it up online to translate it. I was hopping it meant, Great Warrior, or Smart Guy, but instead it came up as “The Cherry.”
Mas…Lalo Alcaraz: My Big Fat Mexican Detroit Weekend (photos)
When a peasant in rural Argentina feels the Earth move, he leaves his lover to find out what’s going on. What he discovers is worse than he could possibly imagine.
“Lucha Libre – or free fighting – is a Mexican style of wrestling,” writes the BBC World Service. “Katinka Herbert documents the secret lives of these so-called luchadores known for their outlandish outfits and garish masks.”
Three hours into Selena night at the Regent in downtown Los Angeles, Bidi Bidi Bom Bom starts playing.
I feel this deep, animal sense of belonging.
This is my song and I need to be on stage. I claw my way up to the stage and slip in a puddle of what is maybe human sweat.
The hands of my fellow Selena enthusiasts pull me up.
We do what we came here to do: we dance.
Mas…Dancing with Selena, memories of childhood, and pepperoni pizza
OMG, you guys! There these shoes! Huaraches!
PREVIOUSLY ON LA QUIRKY:
Mas…La Quirky videos the hood: OMG! There are shoes called ‘huaraches!’
¡Feliz Hispanic Heritage Month! — Alcalde Eric Garcetti
The Maya, as we all know from Stand and Deliver, were bad ass – one of few ancient civilizations to create the concept of zero.
Since I am an awesome Latina nerd myself, I must share this awesome official Chilean government education ministry photograph of an actual ancient awesome Maya dude counting some stuff out in front of a chart of the awesome Maya counting system.
Mas…Pocho Nerd Pride Alert: The Maya counting system is awesome (toon)
If you go to a high-end restaurant in New York City, there’s a good chance that you’re dining among some of the wealthiest Mexicans in the world and being served by some of the poorest.
Antonia Cereijido of Latino USA reports:
Mas…NYC is home to America’s richest – and poorest – Mexicans (audio)
Mexico, like the United Estates, is a “nation of immigrants.”
In the 1900s, Tijuana welcomed Jewish refugees fleeing wars, hate and poverty in Europe, Asia and the Mideast.
Tijuana Jews, the story of the extended Artenstein family, has become a POCHO Rosh HaShanah (New Year) tradition ever since we noticed rosh-ha-shanah rhymes with Tijuana.
The Jewish year 5776 begins at sundown Sunday, September 13. We wish all who celebrate a happy, healthy, peaceful, loving, prosperous, and sweet New Year. In Ladino — the hybrid Spanish-Hebrew language Jews spoke in Andaluz before the Inquisition — that’s ANYADA BUENA I DULSE!
Mas…Happy Rosh HaShanah from the Jews of Tijuana! Happy 5776! (video)
Sometimes you feel like a nut, and sometimes you don’t!
Para reír un rato.
Posted by Teotihuacan on Thursday, September 3, 2015
Mas…Tlaloc, sweetie, you get a little hostile when you’re hungry (toon)
Representative Luis V. Gutierrez (D-ILL), who fights for the American dream as a Member of Congress representing Chicago, thinks we’ve got
He explained it all on the floor of the House of Representatives, using popular movie tropes and big photographs:
Mas…Congressman Gutierrez: The Pope is the antidote to Trump (video)
This pinche guero leads the polls and has a chance of becoming El Presidente.
¡Hola! It’s me, Borg Ramos, and I’m back at Univision, where it’s time to get up close y personal with Donaldo Trumpez.
Mas…Univision Interview: Donaldo Trumpez, up close y personal (video)
