¡Ban This! Anthology

No Hope Vato Turns Hero in Noir NovelReview: Manuel Ramos. Desperado. A Mile High Noir. Houston: Arte Publico Press, 2013.ISBN 9781558857704Michael Sedano"Desperado" doesn't have much meaning in English. The bad guy in cowboy stories is a desperado. The 494th most popular song in Rolling Stone's 500 best songs is "Desperado." Th […]

posting by RudyG[Daniel Olivas returns next Monday.]El VezRicardo AcuñaI was surprised last year to run across Ricardo Acuña's Kickstarter campaign fundraising for his first graphic novel The Realm. It was described as: "A supernatural, dark and gritty graphic novel about a thief searching for buried treasure who must overcome his greed in order to […]

Olga García EcheverríaGeorgia O'Keefe: Pedernal 1941I’m in New Mexicoon a do-it-yourself writing retreat with three kindred spirits—Our Lady of Birds, Snake Woman, and Little Dog. We’re here because we are of the philosophy that hibernation is critical to artistic germination. No one is going to give us a week of our own to create poems or carve prayer […]

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 […]