Faustino Diaz: Trombone master from Oaxaca in L.A.
Faustino Diaz: Trombone master from Oaxaca in L.A.
*What a wonderful interview! What a wonderful opportunity to listen and learn from a Latino master – from Oaxaca to the Rotterdam conservatory. The podcast is in Spanish,well worth the […]
Hundreds Crowd to Watch Barefoot Triquis in Pico-Union
By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog The by-now world famous barefoot Triqui Indian basketball players from Oaxaca played their first games to huge crowds at a children’s tournament at Toberman […]
Barefoot Triqui Indian Basketball Players Tour Los Angeles
By Sam Quiñones, A reporter’s Blog The barefoot Triqui Indian basketball team, from the mountains of Oaxaca, is in Los Angeles for a couple weeks. The team of 10 and […]
We’re Slowly Making a Mockery of Day of the Dead …
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 […]
LOS ANGELES: Oaxacan Indians, the Bonds & Binds of Tradition
By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog In the background to the lives of many Oaxacan Indian migrants is the system of usos y costumbres, a system of Indian local governance in Mexico […]
LOS ANGELES: Oaxacan Marching Band
By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog I attended the inauguration of the L.A. office of FIOB — Frente Indigena de Organizaciones Binacionales (Indigenous Front of Bi-national Organizations), which works to help Indians, […]
Happy Birthday Mexico. Love You, But I’m Glad My Parents Left
Some of the happiest moments of my life have taken place in Mexico. The highlights of my childhood were from our trips to my parents’ hometown of Tepehuanes, Durango — […]
Cook Book Review: Oaxaca Al Gusto
[Editor’s Note: This story by Roberto Ontiveros was originally published in the Texas Observer.] MY LATE GRANDMOTHER MARTHA made mole—which I knew as a dark peanut and chocolate sauce over chicken—for […]
