Thursday, March 7th, 2013
By Louis Nevaer, New America Media MEXICO CITY – Mexican youths living in border cities from Tijuana to Ciudad Juarez are reclaiming civil society via cultural movements emerging on the heels of a six year, government-led “War on Drugs” that has left many Mexican border communities ravaged by violence. The new wave of border music In
Monday, February 4th, 2013
By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog What’s nice about the Los Angeles of today is that you can go out a meet folks with worthwhile stories almost without trying. I was in the area once called South...
Wednesday, November 14th, 2012
By Oscar Barajas, NewsTaco Back in the good old, waning days leading to graduation, everyone wanted to be friends. People who had otherwise ignored you or taken you for granted for the past three and a half...
Monday, July 9th, 2012
By Sam Quiñonez, A Reporter’s Blog One of the great arts events in all Mexico takes place in Tijuana. It is the Tijuana Opera Street Festival (Festival Opera en la Calle), now in its ninth year. I wrote...
Friday, November 4th, 2011
Before I even learned to speak Spanish I knew every word to every song on Julieta Venegas’ breakthrough album Sí. It didn’t matter that I couldn’t understand the lyrics at first because I understood the sentiment through...

