Posts Tagged ‘NYC’
Met Offers Art in Spanish
11:54 am By Maegan La Mala · Arts| Events| Family| New York City| children · Comments Off
9 Jan 2006
The world famous Metropolitan Museum of Art, located in New York City, to make sure that children and their families have access to the world of fine arts regardless of what language is spoken. The Education Department of the Met is sponsoring a Spanish language program named El primer contacto con el arte. The lectures and activities are being held every Saturday from 11:30 a.m. a 1:00 p.m. in the Uris Education Center and are open to children between 6 and 12 years of age accompanied by one adult. Each month a new artistic theme or time period is studies. In January the theme is The Renaissance in Europe. The program is scheduled to run through May and is free with paid admission to the museum. For more information regarding these and other programs call (212) 650-2833 or visit www.metmuseum.org.
Via / El Diario NY
Street Easy Makes Finding a NYC Dwelling Easy
8:00 am By Maegan La Mala · Internet| New York City · Comments Off
3 Jan 2006If you’re a New York City resident and one of your New Year’s resolutions is to find a new place to buy and to move into, Street Easy is a new website that can help make the difficult process easier.
You can search for apartments and houses available for sale in all five boroughs of New York City. You can search the listings which are compiled from different real estate brokers by type of dwelling you want, number of bedrooms, price range and of course neighborhoods. The site is constantly adding new features and is a promising new online resource for New York City house hunters.
Via / zonageek
Half- Huelga on Public Transport in NYC
8:44 am By Maegan La Mala · New York City · Comments Off
19 Dec 2005
Today is the first day of a partial strike by two private bus lines that were recently acquired by the Metropolitan Transit Association (MTA). The two bus lines, Jamaica and Triboro bus lines, run through Queens, which is populated by 551,004 Latinos according to 2000 Census figures. Workers of the two lines have been working without a contract for about three years. The partial strike began because the lines are not officially under the MTA umbrella they are not subject to the high fines under New York State’s Taylor Law. The negotiations between the Transit Worker’s Union (TWU) and MTA continue today but if an agreement is not reached by midnight (EST) tonight, the entire public transport system including subways is set to go on strike.
Via / NY1
Poeta Tells Stories from and of the Cold
8:30 am By Maegan La Mala · Books| Events| New York City · Comments Off
12 Dec 2005
Ricardo León Peña-Villa is known to many simply as Poeta, and even though his latest book, Loisaida: Historias del Frío, is filled with short stories and not poems, his verse carries a rhythm that more than earns him the title. On Friday, December 9, at the Lectorum bookstore in Manhattan, the book containing 24 stories was officially presented in the U.S. The stories take readers from la Habana, to Umbrella House, occupied by squatters in the Lower East Side (a movement which the Poeta was a part of and the place the story collection is named for), to the country of his birth Colombia.
Freddy Blames His Guayabera
8:00 am By Maegan La Mala · New York City| Newspapers| Politics · 1 Comment
7 Dec 2005
It’s been over a month since the New York City Mayoral election and I have one message for losing Democrat Freddy Ferrer and his camp: let it go. Roberto Ramirez, advisor to the once Bronx Borough President, said that a Sunday Times Magazine picture that showed Freddy wearing a guayabera and Mayor Michael Bloomberg wearing a suit, made Freddy look like a stereotype. According to a Village Voice article
A Ferrer aide explained that the candidate had gone to the Times photo shoot in a suit and changed into the guayabera afterward because he was heading to a parade. The photographer asked him for quick shots as he was leaving.
El Museo to get a Makeover
4:07 pm By Maegan La Mala · New York City · Comments Off
6 Dec 2005
El Museo del Barrio, the leading NYC institution on Latino and Latin American culture broke ground yesterday on a $14 million expansion that includes adding a sleek new glass entryway and lobby to the building and a Latin café. The entire project is expected to be finished by fall 2007.
Via / NY1
Lo Que Hay: Events for December 5 – December 8, 2005
10:27 am By Maegan La Mala · Events| Lo Que Hay| Los Angeles| New York City · Comments Off
5 Dec 2005
A feature of VivirLatino, “Lo Que Hay” will feature events from across the country that we think will interest our VL readers.
To submit an event, please use our contact form.
Los Angeles Area
Mark Towns Latin Jazz Quartet
When: Monday, December 5, 8 pm
Where: Spazio’s Restaurant, 14755 Ventura Blvd. , Sherman Oaks
Cost: No cover – but two drink minimum and be sure to make dinner reservations
Performance: La Virgen de Guadalupe, Dios Inantzin
When: Wednesday, December 7, 7:30 p.m.
Where: Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels, Corner of Temple & N. Grand Ave., Downtown LA
Cost: Free
Lo Que Hay WEEKEND: Events for December 02 – December 4, 2005
9:42 am By Maegan La Mala · Lo Que Hay| Los Angeles| New York City · Comments Off
2 Dec 2005
A feature of VivirLatino, “Lo Que Hay” will feature events from across the country that we think will interest our VL readers.
To submit an event, please use our contact form.
El Paso, Texas
March Against Violence Against Women in Juarez and Chihuahua, Mexico
When: Saturday, December 3, Noon
Where: Armijo Park, March to the Santa Fe Bridge
Cost: Free
Mimi Goes to Nolita
8:55 am By Maegan La Mala · Events| Movies| New York City · Comments Off
1 Dec 2005
Mimi’s Portrait, the short film about a young Latina’s struggle with race issues, was accepted into the Nolita Film Festival scheduled from December 4th through December 9th. The film, written, edited, directed, and produced by multi-talented NY Latina Linda Nieves-Powell, will be shown on Sunday, December 4th at 4:30pm with members of the cast and crew present. This is the film’s third acceptance in two months so felicidades to all involved. It’s so important to support independent Latino film makers especially those tackling important issues, so check it out! There are other Latino films also being featured at the festival for people to get their film fix.
To buy tickets go to the Nolita Film Festival site.
Different Diplomas for Latinos in NYC?
2:07 pm By Maegan La Mala · Education| New York City · Comments Off
30 Nov 2005
Yesterday’s NYC Council meeting got heated with accusations that there is a two tiered education system in place. The accusation stems from statistics revealing that one in 10 African-American and Hispanic students earn the harder to get Regents high school diploma, with most of those students earning what has been called a “watered down” local diploma.
While some may fall back on the all too easy response that maybe those students are not made for the test based Regents diploma, many high school students of color are tracked in non-Regents classes with parents not even knowing.
Via / WNBC
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- Transgender Day of Remembrance and Latin@s
- Dear Troll(s):
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