Archive for October 20th, 2009
Speaking of PBS’s Latino Music series, last night’s show featured (among others) La India and Marc Anthony. I’d forgotten how much I love La India and really really hate Marc Anthony. It also reminded me of the very first time I heard India sing–with the incomparable Celia Cruz.
La India, Celia Cruz & Tito Puente – Guantanamera from http://chrysalide.vox.com/
Bill Moyers highlights Latino Health Access
20 Oct 2009PBS has been surprisingly good the past few weeks. It has highlighted Latino heritage month in a way that is relevent and interesting–usually it feels more like you get a month worth of stories about music. Not saying I have a problem with that, and I’ve really enjoyed PBS’s Latino Music series. But it’s nice to know that Latinos are beginning to be recognized in complex interesting ways that reach past ‘typical’ Latino fair (i.e. we’re all Mexicans, immigration is the only political issue on our landscape, we all like tejano music, etc). Read more…
NYC, Support Independent Rican Radical Films : Machetero
9:47 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Events|Media|Movies|New York City · Comments Off
20 Oct 2009Our own Bianca Laureano reviewed the independent film Machetero over on her site a few months ago. I haven’t yet seen the film (single mamis with toddlers and movies rarely mix) pero as Bianca’s latest review on VL demonstrates, popular support of independent films coming out of our communities is important. I got this email from Vagabond, creator of Machetero.
MACHETERO is back in NYC after the Irish premiere and award last month. It will be playing as a part of the New York International Independent Film And Video Festival Thursday, October 29th @ 8PM.
i just received word that if we sell out the MACHETERO screening on Thurs. Oct. 29th @ 8PM we will get a 2nd screening. However we need to sell out the theater by this Fri. Oct. 9th. The theater seats 150 people… Can we do it?
Let’s try! Buy your tickets now to this 1st screening and let’s gets a 2nd screening of MACHETERO scheduled! Let’s show and prove NYC that self-financed, independent, artistic, politically minded films about the de-colonization of a Latin American nation has an audience in NYC…
If 75 people could step up and bring someone else with them to the screening… (who likes going to the movies alone?) we could make this goal of selling out this screening (150 seats) of MACHETERO before Friday the 9th.
NYC Event : Oscar Hijuelos and Esmeralda Santiago at the New El Museo del Barrio Tonight
6:53 am By Maegan la Mamita Mala · Arts|Events|literature|New York City · 1 Comment
20 Oct 2009
In collaboration with the New York Times, highlighting the ever-growing influence of Latinos on culture and literature, don’t miss a conversación with Pulitzer Prize-winning author Oscar Hijuelos (Dark Dude and Mambo Kings Play Songs of Love) and award-winning writer Esmeralda Santiago (When I Was Puerto Rican: A Memoir and Almost a Woman). Authors will share insights into their sources of inspiration, delve into the influence of culture on their works, and discuss the evolving use of language. Moderated by New York Times reporter Mireya Navarro.
Free admission. Reserve your spot here.
Hola!
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