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Who Really Owns Inca History?

By Angie Romero | 04/23/2010 - 20:00 | 8 Comments

Who's right: The government of Peru or Yale University? It's hard to say, but a new book aims to answer the question. In CRADLE OF GOLD: The Story of Hiram Bingham, a Real-Life Indiana Jones, and the Search for Machu Picchu (Palgrave Macmillan Press, $18, ...

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Cerati’s Two Nights in the U.S.

By Angie Romero | 04/20/2010 - 18:00 | 13 Comments

Atención: Soda Stereo lovers! Or should I say, Gustavo Cerati loyalists, since he recently announced that, sadly, the seminal band is a thing of the past. In any case, the former frontman and rock en español god, whose latest solo project is titled Fuerza Natural, is treating his U.S. fans to just two shows as part of his world...

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The Joy of Journaling

By Angie Romero | 04/16/2010 - 18:00 | 0 Comments

A while ago, Cinema Tropical put together a list of the best Latin American films of the past decade. Not surprisingly, Argentina dominated the list, with 39 mentions (and 3 in the top 10 alone). Looking over the list, I realized I have a lot of catching up to do. So imagine...

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The Farthest Home

By Angie Romero | 04/13/2010 - 18:00 | 3 Comments

You know a book is worth checking out when Sandra Cisneros calls it "a book that punctures Latino insularity and connects us to the global story of ourselves." "A must-read!" would’ve done it for me but in any case, in John Phillip Santos’s new novel, The Farthest Home Is An Empire of Fire: A Tejano Elegy, the critically-acclaimed author returns to his roots. While...

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Putumayo’s Latin Party

By Angie Romero | 04/09/2010 - 18:00 | 11 Comments

Putumayo release alert! If you’re like me, you get excited every time these guys put out something, cause they do all the work of combing through vast catalogs of great but obscure music and throw the best songs onto a disc, then deliver it right to your fingertips. Plus the artwork is always pretty.

Though I’m a huge fan of their kids stuff (I have two multilingual...

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P-Star Rising

By Angie Romero | 04/06/2010 - 18:00 | 3 Comments

Back in February, a documentary from Gabriel Noble titled P-Star Rising aired as part of the Emmy Award-winning Independent Lens series on PBS about the youngest female rap star ever—and she’s a Latina! Priscilla Diaz was nine when she took it upon herself to redeem her father Jesse’s unfulfilled dreams of hip-hop stardom (mom was a crackhead)....

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An Education

By Angie Romero | 04/02/2010 - 20:00 | 0 Comments

I caught this movie while on a trans-Atlantic flight recently and loved it.

While 24-year-old Carey Mulligan is indeed ahead of the class, and, just like everyone said she would, reminds you of a young Audrey, it’s Alfred Molina who provides a lot of the warmth in this coming of age story set in a cold, suburban England of 1961. Molina, a talented British/Spanish/...

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Lucha Loco

By Angie Romero | 03/31/2010 - 13:00 | 0 Comments

I’ve always wondered about the secret lives of wrestlers, particularly masked luchadores. I love the story of how the legendary free wrestler/actor/folk hero El Santo, was buried with his silver mask at age 66 in 1984, but not before removing his mask for the first time in public on television show a week before. It was his way of bidding his fans farewell.

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