Venezuela is going through some shit right now. There is bloodshed and anti-government protests in the streets days after the South American and oil rich nation held its first election after the death of Hugo Chavez. The winner of Tuesday’s election, Nicolas Maduro, 50, won by less than 300K votes. His challenger Henrique Caprilles, 40 and backed by the US and the Organization of American States, is demanding a recount.
Freshly minted US citizen and Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano has signed with Jay-Z’s Roc Nation Sports, a new business venture the Marcy Projects and hip hop mogul launched today in conjuction with Creative Artists Agency (CAA).
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You’ve probably never heard of BLU Products, the upstart Tiny Tim cell phone company, based in Miami, that could. If you were living in Latin America, where BLU’s core customer reside, its very likely you would be reading this story on one of its Android cellphones. Come April, you might join its ranks.
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Friend to the site Carla Aaron-Lopez is an artist, writer, educator, mother and intellectual based in Atlanta. She recently launched an Indiegogo campaign to raise funds for her second solo show titled, Long Live The Dirty South! to be shown at City of Ink in The Atl. later this Spring.
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American Idol host Ryan Seacrest wiped tears off the cheeks of devastated contestant Lazaro Arbos after the Cuban American contestant failed to impress the judges during his performance of The Beatles, “My Life” ,from the band’s Rubber Soul album, last night. The judges were brutal in their criticism of the handsome singer with a speech impediment.
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Raquel Cepeda’s first memoir “Bird of Paradise: How I Became Latina” is a must read for anyone intetested in hip-hop and Latina indentity. Released last week by Atria, the over 300 page hardcover gives us insight into the cultural and philosophical make up of the award winning journalist, mother of two and Washington Heights, NY native.
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Alina Vargas is the owner and founder of LadyBug Pin Up, the first and only photo studio in the Dominican Republic that specializes in 1950s pinup photography, a genre that launched the careers of old school celebs like Betty Page and Betty Grable.
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Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez died of a massive heart attack after great suffering and inaudibly mouthed his desire to live, the head of Venezuela’s presidential guard said late Wednesday.
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Recognizing that Latinas come in various colors and dollar amounts, US fashion magazine Glamour has launched Glam Belleza Latina this week. Jennifer Lopez is the magazine’s first cover star.
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For his first feature film actor turned director and Bronx, New York native Rashaad Ernesto Green turned to family for inspiration. His result was Gun Hill Road, a brilliant contemporary story about a Puerto Rican man, fresh from doing time up North, and his struggles with the identity and the masculinity of his teenaged, transgender son living in The Bronx.
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We’ve slept on this story for several months but it makes sense that we should post it dead smack in the middle of a NY winter. Above is Chef Roble wearing a Bolivares sweater designed by Lucho A. Bolivar. Roble posted the image on Instagram and Twitter and reminded us to pick up the ball we dropped a few months ago.
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I taught the last class of the semester a few weeks ago at Hunter College, and in looking at my course notes I remembered sharing one of my favorite books with my students. It was through an exercise for a lesson on “Text & Performance.” Among other material, I handed out my personal copy of Zora Neale Hurston’s, “Their Eyes Were Watching God.” It was only after the student read from the text that I realized I had given up and shared a very vulnerable part of myself.
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