Mother makes history at Houston Ballet as first Hispanic principal dancer
Mother makes history at Houston Ballet as first Hispanic principal dancer
HOUSTON, Texas (KTRK) — She’s the face of the Houston Ballet, and she’s making history as the first Hispanic principal dancer. Karina Gonzalez started studying dancing in Caracas, Venezuela when she […]
NewsTaco Rundown – February 5, 2019
Latino group sues Texas over flagging potential noncitizens on voter rolls – NBCNews The nation’s oldest Latino civil rights group, the League of United Latin American Citizens, filed a lawsuit […]
No Latino Theatre Company, No Problem. Make Your Own!
*What do you think? Is it that easy? I know there are many theater-Taquistas, what do you say? VL By Diep Tran, American Theater (6.5 minute read) In 2013, Cleveland […]
How 3 Latina Comic Book Artists Carved Out a Space in a Male-Dominated Industry
*These 3 young Latinas are killing it in a white male dominated world! VL By Yara Simón, Remezcla (8.5 minute read) In 2014, comics historian and researcher Tim Hanley summed […]
Smithsonian releases Fresno musician’s songs of the Chicano movement
*This is very cool, and very relevant. VL By Andrea Castillo, Fresno Bee (2.5 minute read) Agustín Lira, whose music became the anthem of the farmworker movement in the 1960s, released […]
Argentinian piano prodigy Martha Argerich among Kennedy Center honorees
*This is good, there should be more. VL By Lucia I. Suarez Sang, Fox News Latino (4 minute read) For the second year in a row a Latin artist will […]
Gregory Rabassa, translator of Gabriel Garcia Marquez, dies
*The Paris review put together excerpts from interviews where authors praised Rabassa and his work, Gabriel Garcia Marquez included. VL By Hillel Italie, Associated Press NEW YORK (AP) — Gregory […]
Sol Project Aims to ‘Create a New Canon’ of Latino Theater
*This is not only cool, it’s also about time. VL By Joshua Barone, New York Times The Sol Project, a new initiative to raise the profile of Latino artists in theater, […]
Writing from the Trunk of the Latino Tree
*What do you do when the state of Arizona bans a number of classic Chicano literature books? You publish an anthology of Chicano literature, because you can. and why Chicano? […]
Rudolfo Anaya’s “Bless Me, Ultima” to be made into an opera
*I think this is great news. The AP story calls it calls it “one of the most recognizable works of Mexican-American Literature and a book some scholars believed sparked the Chicano […]
