Dear White People/Queridos Gringos: You Want Our Culture But You Don’t Want Us – Stop Colonizing The Day Of The Dead

Dear White People/Queridos Gringos: You Want Our Culture But You Don’t Want Us – Stop Colonizing The Day Of The Dead

NewsTaco November 2, 2015

*I’m not going to overload this space with posts about the cultural appropriation surrounding Día de Muertos. If you read NewsTaco you’ll understand why we only need to post one. […]

Death is a Party: El Día de Muertos

NewsTaco October 28, 2015

*Beautiful. Death is a verb, death is a she, death is life. VL By Brenda Storch, La Vitamina T “The Mexican is familiar with death, jokes about it, caresses it, […]

Día de los Muertos Is Not Halloween

NewsTaco October 23, 2015

*I know you know this. I’m posting it so that you can share it with your misinformed friends and family. It’s not “Mexican Halloween.” VL By Daniel Cubias, Huffingon Post […]

Día de los Muertos Is Not Halloween

NewsTaco October 31, 2014

*I know, posting this here is a lot like preaching to the choir. But I do it so you can share this with folks who may not know the difference. […]

Day of the Dead growing in popularity in non-Latino community

NewsTaco October 23, 2014

*I’m not sure this is a good thing, at least not as it’s depicted in this article. Lucha Libre and a taco eating contest? I understand that culture is hybridized […]

Recipe: Pan de Muerto

Mary Mata

*Here it is! From our friends at La Vitamina T. You’ve got a week or so to make it and perfect it. VL By Chef Aldo Saaverdra, La Vitamina T […]

5 Reasons Why ‘The Book of Life’ Is the Best Animated Movie of All Time, Ever

NewsTaco October 20, 2014

*What do you think, “best animated movie of all time?” VL By Pili Valdés, Remezcla By now, you know at least a little bit about The Book of Life. (If not, […]

What’s Up With Mexicans and Death? ~ A Review of Book of Life Movie

NewsTaco October 17, 2014

*Plan on catching this movie this weekend? Melanie Mendez Gonzalez has a great, very complete, review. VL Do you know what Día de los Muertos/Day of the Dead is really […]

‘Book Of Life’ Animates The Day Of The Dead

NewsTaco July 15, 2014

*I’m looking forward to this. Premieres this Halloween. VL By Sandy Cohen, Associated Press/Huffington Post Latino Voices LOS ANGELES (AP) — Guillermo del Toro is helping to open the “Book […]

We’re Slowly Making a Mockery of Day of the Dead …

Mary Mata November 1, 2013

By Victor Landa, NewsTaco My favorite place on Día de los Muertos is San Fernando Cemetery, in San Antonio, Texas. I find time to steal away, and I visit my […]