Archive for October, 2007
VivirLatino Does Vegas : Latin Grammy Style
10:21 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Events| Las Vegas| Music · 2 Comments
29 Oct 2007
It has been confirmed. VivirLatino (via Maegan la Mala) will be covering the Latin Grammy Awards directly from Las Vegas, where the magic will happen next week on November 8. Actual Latin Grammy coverage will begin when I arrive in sin city, on Wednesday November 7. This is one time where whatever happens in Vegas will not stay in Vegas. It will all be reported to you.
Argentina has its First (er Second) Lady.
8:59 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Argentina| Politics · Comments Off
29 Oct 2007
Nestor and Cristina are the new Juan and Eva. Partial results in Argentina indicate that current President Nestor Kirchner will switch jobs with his wife and first lady Cristina Fernandez in December. This is the first time a female president has actually been elected in the Southern Cone nation, Isabel Peron — who married Juan Peron after Evita’s death — was his vice president when he died in 1974, and served for 20 chaotic months before a military coup ousted her.Many are comparing the new power couple to Juan and Evita Peron. No plans for a musical are yet in place, though.
Designers from all over the world are descending on Mexico City for the city’s Fashion Week, as are celebrities. But might the biggest celebrity at the event be…Barbie? Mexico’s top designers are apparently dressing her for the occasion, reports Mexico City blog DFinitivo. Just what Mexican girls need, another uberthin blonde role model:
This time, and for the first time, a collection of clothing for women by renowned Mexican designer Héctor Terrones, inspired by the world’s most famous doll. Additionally, Terrones created an exclusive collection of 10 dolls which project the essence and style of the famous creative mind.“For me Barbie is the most important doll in the world and she’s the dream of so many girls as well as designers. It’s a pleasure for me to design for Barbie, since I specialize in dressing celebrities,” said Terrones.
“The most important doll in the world” really isn’t saying much. It’s a doll. But that’s not all. Apparently la Barbie also got the royal treatment when it came to her hair, which was styled by “Lety Álvarez, Presidenta de la Haute Coiffure en México”, according to DFinitivo. We non-latex women can only dream of such things.
Interestingly enough, Barbie’s relationship with Mexico isn’t all glamor and love. Let me remind you that back in 2005 Mexican sweatshops were responsible the plastic diva’s wardrobe.
Via / DFinitivo
Image: “Cinco de Mayo Barbie”, via Mi Blog es tu Blog
$100,000 for a lock of Che’s hair
12:50 pm By Maegan La Mala · Bizarro| Celebrities| houston · Comments Off
26 Oct 2007
What would you do if you had an extra $100,000 laying around? More specifically, would you buy a lock of Che Guevara’s hair? One Houston man has done just that:
Bill Butler, 61, was the only bidder for the hair, which was allegedly cut from the Marxist leader’s head before his burial in 1967.The collector described Guevara as “one of the greatest revolutionaries of the 20th century”, according to staff at the Heritage auction house in Dallas, Texas.
He plans to display the item in his bookshop in Rosenberg, just outside Houston.
Amp Up Your Webcams : Ask Barack Obama 10 Questions
11:27 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · 10 Questions| Internet| Politics| TV · 1 Comment
26 Oct 2007
Hopefully you’ve made your question to the presidential candidates via 10Questions.
If you’d rather tackle a specific candidate, now is your chance. The top community-voted question on 10Questions.com as of 10 AM EST on Monday, 10/29 will be asked in that day’s MySpace/MTV Obama dialogue. The event is taking place at 1:30 EST at Coe College in Cedar Rapids, IA. The forum will stream live on MySpace.com, MTV’s ChooseOrLose.com and MTV Mobile, and will air at 7 p.m. ET that evening on MTV. The audience will also be able to participate by MySpace IM and by rating Obama’s responses in real-time on the web. It will also be translated live into Spanish and broadcast on LaVibra.
Garcia Marquez to be honored in Italy
5:44 pm By Maegan La Mala · Colombia| World| literature · Comments Off
25 Oct 2007
Colombian literary legend Gabriel Garcia Marquez must be one of the most frequently awarded Latin American figures alive today. And Gabo’s habit of picking up honors just keeps on, as the writer will receive a special honor at the XXII Festival de Cine Latinoamericano in Trieste, Italy next month.
In homage to Garcia Marquez’s contribution to Latin American cinema, more than 40 films related to him — with scripts he’s written for the big screen, films based on his novels, and even shorts developed in scriptwriting workshops he’s been a part of — will be shown at the festival.
The festival itself also looks to be shaping up to be a grand event. Aside from Gabo’s homage, there will be a Bunuel retrospective and film tribute to the memory of the Chilean ex-president Salvador Allende.
Via / El Universal (Venezuela)
“Reina Hispanoamérica” pageant takes Bolivia
3:49 pm By Maegan La Mala · Bolivia| Events| Latin America| Women · Comments Off
25 Oct 2007
It’s objectification at its finest as all eyes in Bolivia are on the “Reina Hispanoamérica” pageant, which takes place tonight. Though judging for the title officially starts today, the beauties have already gone through a round of lesser awards:
“…’Best Hair’ went to Honduras, ‘Best Smile’ to Brasil, ‘Miss Photogenic’ and ‘Best regional outfit’ to Paraguy and ‘Best Silhouette’ and ‘Most Beautiful Face’ for the Dominican Republic.
“Let’s just hope everyone’s hair is real, there are no controversial charro skirts, and no weirdos rush the stage.
Via / Yahoo! Spain
Giving Birth in Rural Guatemala
10:40 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Guatemala| Health| Women| children · Comments Off
25 Oct 2007
Childbirth isn’t an easy process for any woman, but an article I came across this morning highlights the problems women, mostly Indigenous women, face in rural Guatemala. Part of the problem is poverty, made worse by machista attitudes towards pregnancy and childbirth
….in Guatemala, where 1 in every 71 women who becomes pregnant during her lifetime dies from causes associated with pregnancy, delivery and the postpartum period. In the Latin America-Caribbean region that’s second only to Haiti, where the risk is 1 in 44. Often women in difficult labor are carried down in a hammock by menfrom the 16-family community, a journey that takes about two hours. Once they reach the nearest passable road, they could try to flag down a ride. But more often they would still have to walk the rest of the way as well, taking at least another four hours.
San Diego could lose power because of fires
6:18 pm By Maegan La Mala · California · Comments Off
24 Oct 2007
News media is reporting that San Diego is on the brink of becoming an “electricity island”, as wildfires rage out of control and threaten to cut off the city from state power grid. ABC News reports:
If it is cut off from external electricity supplies, San Diego County would have to rely only on the power its own plants can generate, which would greatly increase the chance of major blackouts, said officials from the California Independent System Operator.Urgent pleas for conservation need to be heeded or there could be widespread outages without warning for San Diego Gas & Electric Co’s 1.3 million business and residential customers.
Reuters is reporting that a small electrical link from Mexico had been put into service, but is now threatened as well because it has fire beneath it.
So far more than 2000 homes have burned in the fires, and the evacuation of residents is the largest in California’s history.
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