National Poetry Month

Melinda Palacio            Some say the old zoo at Griffith Park is haunted. The animals may be gone, but the smells remain, as do their wild spirits. The wafting of pungent earth might be left by nocturnal creatures who have taken up residence in the former dens. The old zoo was built in 1912. By the late 1930s, the cages and structures were deemed too smal […]

by Ernest HoganI have a strange relationship with Disney. My parents took me to the grand opening of Disneyland while I was still in the womb. During the Great Depression, Walt offered my grandfather a job that Grandpa turned down because it didn’t pay enough to support his family. I fell in love with cartooning early, but Mad Magazine, CARtoons, and undergr […]

Interview with Jorge Tetl ArguetaWhere is Luna's Press & Bookstore? Luna's Press & Bookstore is located in San Francisco CA, in a very special place in the Mission District, 3790 Mission Street.  We are between a neighborhood grocery store an a day care center. There are also a few Salvadoran, Mexican and Nicaraguan restaurants and a coffee […]

Lalo DelgadoInstitutional Alternatives “These palomas like I, belong here in the barrio?”by Abelardo B. Delgado Share I found our city to be lacking in terms of enough alternatives. The same story of long-waited lists was told by two manager of the two high-rise housing units. I was happy to learn that some two such high-rise units are scheduled to be erecte […]

Rodolfo F. AcuñaIs the Glass Half Full or Half EmptyA Stupid QuestionBy Rodolfo F. AcuñaShare                  The day the Supreme Court handed down its decision Arizona’s SB 1070, I received about a dozen text messages saying, “We won!” Knowing the history of the Court and dealing with this sort of wrongheaded thinking since the Bakke Case of 1978, I knew t […]

Arturo Islas Born on This Day(May 25, 1938 – February 15, 1991)Share

SOUL FOOD: Abelardo Delgado and the Word Keynote presentation at the 5thAnnual Lalo Delgado Poetry Festival, Metropolitan State University, Denver, Colorado, April 24, 2012. By Felipe de Ortego y GascaScholar in Residence/Founding Member, Past Chair, and Member of the Executive Committee (2008-2011), Department of Chicana/Chicano and Hemispheric Studies, Wes […]

Saving ASARCO's smokestack to create “superjoint” to cost $14M Preserving ASARCO's smokestack to make a giant marijuana joint to the benefit of UT El Paso (UTEP) students would cost $14 million a new study says.Last year, the City of El Paso held public meetings regarding the fate of the old American Smelting and Refining Company (ASARCO) smelter. […]

ShareAP Associated Pest UT El Paso (UTEP) Student Health Services Prepares for Chipotle Grand OpeningCholera Epidemic Imminentby Dolores TómagoPosted:   03/13/2012 12:17:33 AM MDT  ShareUTEP Student Health Services has gone into “Disaster Alert” as El Paso's first Chipotle is set to open this week across from UTEP's Don Haskin's Center. Chipol […]