Archive for August 15th, 2008
R.I.P. RBD, and Thanks for Retiring
4:37 pm By Maegan La Mala · Celebrities| Entertainment| Music · Comments Off
15 Aug 2008This just in: Perez Hilton has let me on to what might be the best news I’ve heard all week. It seems that RBD, a.k.a. a good way to make Jen randomly lash out in rage at innocent bystanders, is retiring. From their official statement:
A todos nuestros fans y medios de comunicación en el mundo:Hemos realizado juntos un sueño que jamás imaginamos podríamos lograr, cantamos, lloramos y reímos con nuestras canciones a lo largo del mundo y ante millones de personas.
Hemos dejado una huella imborrable en las vidas de millones de personas… ¡Nuestros queridos fans!
Ustedes han marcado nuestra vida de una manera inigualable; los llevaremos en nuestro corazón por siempre.
Todo gran proyecto necesita transformarse para trascender y hoy nosotros estamos iniciando ese proceso.
R.I.P., RBD. You were excellent fodder for some of the most widely read posts on VL. Thanks to you, we’ve received countless pieces of hate mail over the past 3 years from your adoring (albeit deranged and somewhat illiterate) fans.
I can’t wait to see what each of the band members has in store for us with their solo careers!
Via / Perez Hilton
Mexico City Subway Ridden with Perverts
4:08 pm By Maegan La Mala · Women| mexico| society · 1 Comment
15 Aug 2008
The head of the Mexico City transportation system announced today some alarming statistics about the metropolis’s subway system. There is an average of at least one incident of sexual harassment reported to authorities every day.
“…In 5 million trips made from Monday through Friday, there is one complaint per day. We believe that this number is low. There are perhaps 2 or 3 complaints per day that go unregistered because the complaint never gets made, either because [the victim] doesn’t have time or because they are reluctant. That’s why we are encouraging people to report [the incidents],” said Bojórquez.
The head of the system says that measures that are currently being used to curb this trend — like separate cars for women and children — seem to be helping, but there is obviously still a problem.
Countdown to the DNC : Latino Mainstream Media Expect to Rake in Dinero in Ads
3:30 pm By Maegan La Mala · Marketing| Money| US Presidential Race 2008| denver · Comments Off
15 Aug 2008
Getting excited about the Democratic National Convention, only 10 days away? VivirLatino is but we’re shelling out money, not making money. Spanish language broadcasters are looking forward to the DNC for the money it will bring in, especially those with stations in swing states.
Santa Monica-based Entravision’s political ad sales will double to $12 million from the last presidential cycle, said Lloyd Walmsley, an analyst in San Francisco with Thomas Weisel Partners.
Univision Communications Inc., which went private last year, expects to take in as much as $20 million in political ads in the second half of 2008, Chief Financial Officer Andrew Hobson said. That would represent a full-year gain of as much as 78% from 2004…
Azteca America, owned by Mexico City-based TV Azteca, almost doubled its political ad sales from 2004 during the primaries, and projects similar gains in the general election, said Brian McCullough, director of spot TV sales in New York. Azteca has nine affiliate stations in Colorado, Florida, New Mexico and Nevada, he said.
Telemundo, part of General Electric Co.’s NBC Universal, also enjoyed record primary spending, said Enrique Perez, senior vice president of sales, who wouldn’t provide specific numbers.
Via / LA Times
U.S. Border Patrol Reacts to a Rock With a Bullet Into Mexico
1:30 pm By Maegan La Mala · Controversia| Immigration| crime| mexico · 1 Comment
15 Aug 2008
Last time we checked, shooting into another country’s territory was against international law. But the United States Border Patrol isn’t one to get all bogged down international law, especially in the face of rocks.
The incident began unfolding about 10 p.m. Tuesday, when an officer with the federal agency on patrol near the 300 block of Virginia Avenue spotted three or four people attempting to scale the south side of the border fence, according to San Diego police.
The agent fired a pepper-ball gun “in the direction” of the would-be illegal immigrants in an attempt to get them off the barrier, said Lt. Terry McManus of the SDPD Homicide Unit, which investigates all officer-involved shootings in the city.Moments later, stones “larger than softball-size” and other debris began landing near the agent as he sat in his patrol vehicle, McManus told reporters during an afternoon briefing.
“He believed he was being attacked — he, in fact, was being attacked by individuals on the other side of the border,” the lieutenant said. “They were throwing large rocks, boulders, and in a couple of instances, pieces of concrete block towards him.”
Locking Lips With Strange Men? Ewww…
11:34 am By Jennifer Woodard Maderazo · Celebrities · Comments Off
15 Aug 2008Apparently Eva Longoria is not the kissing type, at least not with her coworkers.
The Desperate Housewives actress has just celebrated her first wedding anniversary with basketball star Tony Parker and she can’t get used to the idea she has to lock lips with strange men on the big and small screen.
While it’s refreshing to read a star speaking candidly about the not-so-great perks of the job, I also get a bit irritated with the insinuation that because she ‘belongs’ to a particular man, she struggles with kissing other men. Was it easier for her to make out with other men on screen before she got married?
I do appreciate Eva’s final word on the subject, “Ricardo (Chavira)(her Desperate Housewives onscreen husband) hates kissing me. We are both not really fond of the kissing scenes.”
Maybe it’s just a Latin@ thing.
Spanish Olympic Tennis Team “Winks” in China Too
10:00 am By Maegan La Mala · Beijing Summer Olympics| China| Controversia| Spain| Sports| race · 1 Comment
15 Aug 2008
Seriously, Spanish Olympic sports teams, cut it the f out! Now the Spanish Olympic Women’s Tennis team poses making “slant eyes” for a camera. Well actually it’s not a new pic, but one that is a few months old.
The latest photo to emerge shows Spanish women tennis players pulling the pose, apparently in anticipation of their Federation Cup match against China in April…
It was apparently taken after the team defeated Italy in the quarter-finals of the competition – the premier team contest for women tennis players – in February. Wine glasses are visible on the table in front of the party…
The photo is still visible on the official website of the Spanish Tennis Federation, where it was spotted.
The original is captioned “Estamos preparados para China”, which translates as “We are prepared for China”.
Via / The Latin Americanist
Need a Hug? Ecuador is Giving Them Away!
8:00 am By Maegan La Mala · Bizarro| Ecuador| Funny · Comments Off
15 Aug 2008Maybe it’s the New Yorker in me, but I generally don’t like hugging strangers, especially strange gringo tourists but the Free Hug movement went to Ecuador and seem to be well received even if their background hugging it out theme music is questionable (as in I hate it).
Via / Global Voices and Cobertura Digital
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