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Going Home to The Bronx

NewsTaco April 15, 2016

*I post this because I enjoyed reading it. You won’t find politics here, or any sort of controversy. It’s just a reporter going back to a place he once called […]

How Immigration Will Affect American English in the Coming Decades

NewsTaco April 5, 2016

Gregorio Cortez, the ‘one-man’ gang

NewsTaco April 4, 2016

Getty Foundation to issue $8.5 million in grants for Latino and Latin American-themed shows across SoCal

NewsTaco March 30, 2016

*This is good news. Latin@ artists are transforming the art world and getting due recognition. It’s being called “an unprecedented series of exhibitions that will add to the scholarship of […]

What Does the Future of Spanish Look Like?

NewsTaco March 23, 2016

*What’s better, selfie or auto-foto? And if hacker and tuitear are accepted by the Real Academia de la Lengua Española, why not troca or googelear? VL By Yara Simón, Remezcla (1.5 […]

This is Why Mexicans Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day

NewsTaco March 17, 2016

*In case you were wondering. I like this story because it goes beyond the same-old “San Patricios” stories we read every year in Mid-March. This one explains how and why […]

Chicano Art: Jose Montoya’s Restless Abundance

NewsTaco March 10, 2016

*Montoya was the founder of the Royal Chicano Air Force, originally called the Rebel Chicano Art Front the acronym gave way to a name change and the locura that it […]