Posts tagged ‘Xicanindio’

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]