That’s what Hollywood found out when the three Mexican directors who took the Oscars by storm this year, Guillermo del Toro, Alfonso Cuaron and Alejandro Gonzalez Inarritu, decided to market themselves together while shopping for a deal. And now...

Among the many advantages of being bilingual (not least of which is not having to wait for people to leave the room before you talk shit about them) is the added humor that comes with unwitting bilingual headlines. Take...

Oh my gahhhh! They're bringing Menudo back and YOU, well probably not you because you're too old, but some 14 year old, bilingual boy near you, (hey what are you doing with that 14 year old bilingual boy, you...

Super cool high school teacher bends the rules to take gifted students on life-changing field trip. It’s the stuff that "Stand and Deliver", "School of Rock" and many other terrible movies are made of, but this time it happened...

NPR and CNN journalist Maria Hinojosa, she of the overemphasized Spanish diction, is getting her own show on PBS this August. Maria Hinojosa: One-on-One will feature interviews with “Latinos who are thinking and creative and engaged, real policy makers...

The Bureau of Justice Statistics released a study that says while Whites, Blacks and Latinos get pulled over in traffic in equal measures, Blacks and Latinos are more likely to get arrested. The study that covered police interactions with...

Hey everybody. New Mexico Governor and U.S. Presidential Candidate Bill Richardson is on the MySpace hompage. Let's see how the MySpace community is responding. Says his "friend" Public Prob: well i wouldn't mind voting for you as long as...

In Latin America you can date someone for months before finally planting a kiss, and maybe, maybe getting to squeeze a little butt-cheek. So it makes sense that young Latin Americans seem to be exploring their sexuality on a...

Thousands of Mexicans disrobed May 6th for a massive photo taken by legendary nudie photographer Spencer Tunick. His famous series of naked people from all over the world now includes the 20,000 Mexicans who got naked at the downtown...

Certain friends of ours of the homosexual persuasion have alerted us to a fascinating, internet trend among the gays: The Brazilian fotolog site. According to one such site called Made In Brazil, whose tagline is “Brazilianizing the world one...

Sorry to start your day like this, but we just woke up from a terrible nightmare. This total jerk we went to high school with, one of those guys who always got his butt kicked for being such a...

Everyone knows the best thing about being Latin, (besides being bestowed with incredible sexual prowess), is the food. Which is why we are always on the lookout for the best of the best in Latino culinary creativity. To that...

L.A. Artist Joe Bravo (left) claims growing up poor with no toys forced him to develop his imagination. Here we see his creative use of tortilla as canvas and his even more creative ability to get rock star Flea...

Former CHiPs star Erik Estrada received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame proving once and for all what a meaningless honor that is. Estrada who sold Florida real estate on infomercials before reviving his career on the...

The New York City Department of Health and Mental Hygiene is recommending that you not keep the chorizo in the casing. They have begun asking local organizations to spread the word to ethnic groups who are less likely to...

Guanabee answers all your questions about Latinness. Has anyone ever told you they’re Latin and you were all, nuh-uh! Or perhaps it is you who is often accused of misrepresentation simply because you do not resemble Juan Diego—he of the...

Poor Miss Mexico, Rosa Maria Ojeda, only wanted to wear a dress adorned with sketches of religious persecution to the Miss Universe pageant and now everyone’s getting all bent out of shape about it. What’s this world coming to...

The New York Times spent two pages recently claiming that even though fake tans have replaced real tans in desirability [Editor's Note: In what universe?], women are still only using fake tanner as an auxiliary to the very dangerous...

Due to a shortage of attractive Latin celebrities, People En Español has named Beyonce Knowles one of their 50 Mas Bellas (50 Most Beautiful). While she does have a booty that looks rice and bean fed, it comes as...

See what happens when we don’t watch the Miss Universe pageant? We miss out on eeeeverything. In the above video, Miss USA Rachel Smith trips on her dress and falls smack on her bottom on live television. Below she...

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich apologized via YouTube to the Latino community for his attacks on Spanish speaking in America. During a speech he gave on March 31 to the National Federation of Republican Women, Gingrich said...

Good news: The Catholic Church has decided that limbo, the special place in hell just for unbaptized babies, doesn’t exist! Apparently it was never part of church doctrine, but was taught to Catholics well into the 20th century. Oops....

Married, Mexican-American, director Robert Rodriguez is leaving his wife of sixteen years, Elizabeth Avellan, for actress Rose McGowen who stars in Rodriguez's recent film Grindhouse. Avellan co-produced five films with Rodriguez, as well as five children. Let's hope the...

Mexico City opened its arms wide for the Miss Universe pageant this week and in case you missed the televised competition last night, the Latina beauties completely let us down for the Guanabee launch by giving the crown away to...

Mexican-born actress Salma Hayek and Hollywood studio Metro Goldwyn-Mayer have team up to form a production company called Ventanazul (for you non-spanish readers, that means “Bluewindow,” but all jammed together for reasons too creative for you to understand) to...

Hello, America. We’re Guanabee. You’ve probably noticed by now that there are too many Latinos in this country for you too avoid. So why not join the party? From media and entertainment, to pop culture, food, fashion, music, and...

Michael Moore’s newest movie SICKO is set to come out in the States next month and, as per usual, he’s managed to drum up the traditional, media-friendly, political hoo-ha that will assure him box office success. What’s the prob...

Perhaps sweat-shop free Mexicans don’t have the same resonance on the east coast that Woody Allen in ringlets (actually called peyes, we know; we’re not culturally ignorant, just smartass) does. We snapped this American Apparel billboard (hey, photojournalism) in...

For more than a decade, Miami Dade College has sent a letter to the President of the United States asking him to deliver a commencement address. This year, the President finally said yes. The Miami New Times describes the...

Last week we were invited to attend a lecture at the New York Public Library entitled, “How to be Mexican: An Instruction Manual in Music and Song,” given by Mexican writer, Alma Guillermoprieto. It was one of those cultural...

In case you haven’t heard, former Moral Majority spokesman and active homo hater Reverend Jerry Falwell was found dead in his office this month. But in San Francisco, not even a handful of gays turned out to a planned...

A study says that Hispanic Catholics are more likely to perform charismatic rituals, like speaking in tongues, than their non-Hispanic counterparts. Such practices more commonly found in Pentecostal churches also include prophesying and other snake handling/voodoo type stuff that...

The Lower East Side Tenement Museum in New York has created a documentary of real, 21st century, immigrant teens living in New York City through an online comic book called, For Real. The stories we found there reveal the immigrant...

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Take a break from playing Snood to learn the plight of your brothers and sisters. We know it’s confusing, but Wonkette has a nice breakdown for those of us who hate to read the paper: The most popular plan...

Our continuing coverage of Fidel Castro’s health is one more way Guanabee is committed to the issues that matter to you. The papers are all abuzz today with news of Castro’s improving appetite after suspected surgery for “inflamed bulging...

We noticed this little number in the margin of one of our favorite blogs and had to find out what gives. Clicking on it leads to an online proprietor called, Wakey’z Drugmall. After a few seconds, though, the site...

Here at Guanabee, we are cueing the mariachis as news comes to us of a Latina transgender teen who was crowned prom queen at her high school in Fresno, California over the weekend. Blabbeando, our fave gay, Columbian blogger...

There’s a new arts festival coming to New York City this month as if we needed another one. But hey, what’s one more week of trust-fund babies pissing on a canvas and calling it art? The High Line Festival...

French-based, indie band Cocorosie find themselves unable to complete some American tour dates as they are holed up in a San Francisco jail today. According to Brooklyn Vegan, one tipster alleges that some of their bandmembers didn’t have proper...

This just in and just in time for your cinco de mayo celebrations: Chocolate Tortilla Chips from Food Should Taste Good. What does blog Cool Hunting hunting have to say? They are salty enough to accent the corn and...

San Antonio, the city that would be Mexicoland, lines up another weekend of…wait for it, wait for it… fiestas! What’s the occasion this week? Why it’s cinco de mayo-- the historic anniversary of Corona beer increasing its market share....

El 5 de mayo is tomorrow and even though it's mostly a beer marketing strategy, it also happens to be our publisher Daniel Mauser's birthday!!!! He won't tell us his age, (we had a dream last night that he...

In our continuing coverage of our nation's proms, we bring you the story of Cinthia Covarrubias who recently ran for king, and lost, at her high school in Fresno, California. The seventeen-year-old’s school ruled last week to allow a...