Archive for October, 2007
Microsoft strikes out at iTunes for Latino listeners
11:50 am By Maegan La Mala · Marketing|Music|Tech · 1 Comment
22 Oct 2007
Anybody out there got a Microsoft Zune (a what?)? That’s Bill Gates’ answer to an iPod, and the Zune is out to conquer Latino music lovers and challenge the manzanita‘s iTunes Latino, released at about this time last year. Microsoft is leaning on some Latino celebs to promote the Zune and hopefully lure listeners away from the ubiquitous iPod:
Wisin & Yandel, the reggaeton duo with an uncanny knack for delivering hit singles, will become the first act to get its own customized Zune player, Billboard has learned.The limited-edition Wisin & Yandel Zune device will hit Wal-Mart stores nationwide October 29, before the release of the duo’s new album, “Los Extraterrestres,” November 6.
MTV LatinoAmerica Awards
1:08 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Events|mexico|Music · Comments Off
19 Oct 2007
Last night was the MTV Latinoamérica awards 2007 in Mexico City and the big winner was Mana, taking home awards for being the Artists of the Year and the Best Group or Duo. According to Despierta America on Univision being in their home country of Mexico didn’t mean that Mana and Belinda, who won two awards out of her five nominations, were spared being booed.
Bachelet and the Pope make friends
11:09 am By Maegan La Mala · Chile|Latin America|Politics|Religion · Comments Off
19 Oct 2007
Who says the left and the church can’t get along? Chilean president Michelle Bachelet is out to prove the opposite on a recent trip to the Vatican where it seems that she and Ratzi got on like a house on fire. The pope and the president chatted in Spanish and German, respectively, about the importance of the Catholic church in Chile, particularly its “positive contribution” to Chilean education and society.
Michelle Bachelet also presented the Pope with a message of gratitude from the Chilean people for its role during the time of the country’s military dictatorship. The president seemed quite grateful herself to the church:
I’m extraordinarily happy to have given, in the name of the Chilean people, the recognition that Chile has for the relevant role that the Catholic church played in our most difficult moments, when we lost our freedom,” she said.
Virtual Border Fence Ready to Go Live
8:15 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · arizona|Immigration · 2 Comments
19 Oct 2007
The first section of a high-tech “virtual fence” along the U.S.-Mexico border is just about ready to be switched on. What is a virtual fence? It’s a 28 mile stretch of the border armed with heat sensors, radar, cameras and 9 towers to detect immigrants crossing into the U.S. just southwest of Tuscon.
So far the pilot project has cost $20 million. Hmmm I wonder how much children’s health insurance we could buy with that money? Anyway, the fence project has had software problems which have kept the radars turned off. But Boeing (yes the airplane people) are ready for live testing later this month.
Via / AP
Chavez to reduce workday to 6 hours
6:17 pm By Maegan La Mala · Controversia|Labor|Venezuela · Comments Off
18 Oct 2007
I was beginning to think it was all bad in Chavez’s Venezuela, what with the disappearance of telenovelas and beer. But Huguito has gone and done something I’m sure many will be happy about: he’s trying to push forward a change to the constitution which will limit the workday to 6 hours.
But before you go out and buy a Chavez t-shirt, the rest of his proposed constitutional amendments are less fun; among them the elimination of the right to information and the elimination of the right to due process “during periods of exception decreed by the government,” reports Spain’s 20 Minutos.
Okay, I promise no more Chavez news until next week. Unless he doesn’t something loco, which is possible.
Via / 20 Minutos
Prince William County Passes Anti-Immigrant Policy
12:13 pm By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Immigration|Justice|Virginia · 2 Comments
18 Oct 2007They’ve been planning it for awhile and while the state of Virginia rejected a controversial proposal to create the country’s first state-run facility where illegal immigrants arrested for certain crimes could be held while awaiting trial or until federal officials deport them, Prince William County‘s supervisors unanimously voted yesterday to move forward with a plan to deny certain county services to illegal immigrants and to direct the police to enforce immigration laws.
Even Dinosaurs Want to be Latinos
11:04 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Brazil|science · Comments Off
18 Oct 2007
Being Latino is so “in” right now that even science and prehistoric animals are trying to get in on the action. Argentine and Brazilian palaeontologists think they have found a new species of giant plant-eating dinosaur, Futalognkosaurus dukei (say it with a Spanish accent please), that roamed the Earth some 80m years ago. El gran Duke, as we’ll call him, would have been around 105 feet long, making him one of the biggest dinos ever found (go ahead insert your Latino size stereotype in here, you know you want to).
Chocolate Jesus is back!
10:14 am By Maegan La Mala · Arts|Controversia|New York City|Religion · 1 Comment
18 Oct 2007Back in March, Maegan told us how a sculpture of Jesus made in chocolate was raising a stink among Catholics. The artist, one Cosimo Cavallaro, even had to cancel his exhibit due to the controversy. But now the chocolate Chuy is back:
“My Sweet Lord,” an anatomically correct milk chocolate sculpture of Jesus Christ that infuriated Catholics before its April unveiling was canceled, returns Oct. 27 to a Chelsea art gallery, its creator said Tuesday.This time, artist Cosimo Cavallaro said he expects the public exhibit to proceed without a problem.
“There is nothing offensive about this,” Cavallaro said of his controversial confectionary work. “If my intentions were to offend, if I did do something wrong, I wouldn’t be doing this. But I didn’t do anything wrong.”
Cavallaro, who received death threats before the April show was canceled, said the vast majority of his mail was in support of his six-foot piece.
AP reports that the exhibit, to be held at the Proposition Gallery in New York City, will also feature chocolate Virgin Marys and Saints.
Via / Yahoo! Entertainment
Anti-Chavez Billboard Gets a Second Look Because of Word Choice
8:49 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Controversia|Florida|Venezuela · 10 Comments
18 Oct 2007
A billboard put up and paid for by self-proclaimed “true American” John McCombs in Florida is drawing fire but not for reasons you might think. It’s not that Bay Minette has a strong pro-Hugo Chavez lobby, it’s that the billboard’s choice of language is offensive. Don’t Buy Gas from This Ass is the most intelligent response McCombs could come up with after Chavez said Bush was the devil and made nice with Iran. But locals aren’t happy with seeing “ass” everyday. They have complained to the city about the sign to try and get it removed. Just as smart is the placement of the billboard. It’s right near a BP station.
Via / WKRG
Circo Antes Del Fin Video
18 Oct 2007
Circo – Antes Del Fin – Celebrity bloopers here Good Morning!! This is the video of the first single off the band’s new cd, Cursi.
Hola!
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