The last time we covered Jaslene Gonzalez (the winner of America’s Next Top Model: Cycle 8), she was gorging herself on the attention awarded her by a New York newspaper fluff piece. Since then, the girl—whose name we swear...

If you’re not on MySpace looking for a good time, it’s hard to remember that the social networking site was at one point a way for unknown bands to get some exposure in the biz. Deftly dodging slews of...

We haven’t read the short novel in years, but magical realism prototype “Pedro Páramo” might be worth a second peek now that its latest screen adaptation has been greenlit for production. Mexican author Juan Rulfo based the story on...

The Environment Department of Mexico has released a report asking the United States to think twice about helpless migratory species before going forward with its proposal to erect a 370 mile super-barrier along the border. (To clarify, said migrant...

Fantasy-heavy Guillermo del Toro flick “Pan’s Labyrinth” picked up Best Film honors at this weekend’s Imagen Awards, “an annual Hollywood tradition […] encouraging the television, film and advertising industries to portray Latino actors and production storylines in a positive...

Whether attendees liked it or not, this past weekend’s Puerto Rican Festival in Chicago neighborhood Humboldt Park played host to a publicity stunt by TV ratings-monger the Nielsen Company. “To inform consumers about what Nielsen does and how sample...

Due to a late-summer denouement in Latino celebrity news (i.e., Noelia’s chocha and Thalía’s impregnation are entertaining for only so long), People En Español has released its best and worst dressed list of 2007. The best dressed half of...

Exchanging pitchforks and torches for nasty comments and negative poll results, Barcelona residents want to drive Woody Allen out of town after their city and regional governments pledged to foot 10% of the budget for his latest flick, a...

Eleven years ago, Junot Díaz wrote a collection of short stories called Drown that, to quote Wikipedia, (something we try to do everyday), “became an overnight literary sensation.” To be honest, we read the book back then and were...

Some people here at the office think we can be a little heavy handed in the mornings with our political angst. So we thought we’d share a funny with you instead. Thanks to Immigrant Orange for pointing it out....

It’s a little early for sex talk, (unless you’re one of those morning people, which, ew, get away from us), but don’t worry, the University of Texas is only cockteasing us with a study published this week that doesn’t...

• Wrong in the name of all that is holy: Picklesickles are coming. [Austin-American Statesman, Picklesickle MySpace] • Penelope Cruz steals Bono, replaces him with Robin Williams. [Allie Is Wired] • Christina Aguilera canceled some shows because she’s sick,...

It’s hard when your idols go down. Especially when they go down on another man. But it’s time those of you who were too young to have gadar in the 90’s learned a glaring truth. Not only is Carlton...

In the wake of news that branding whore / rapper Chingo Bling has landed his own record imprint, we bring you his oldie, but goodie music video for “Taco Shop”. The closest we’ll ever get to a Chicano “Weird...

Remember weeks ago when we predicted that reality TV contestant Boy Shakira would become the next overnight internet sensation? Well, it turns out we were right even though we never bothered to follow up. Since his mid-June debut on...

During an instant message exchange today, certain older parties at Guanabee tried to tarnish certain younger parties’ image of Carlton from “Fresh Prince” by claiming the actor who played him, Dominican dude Alfonso Ribeiro, is gay. (A commenter on...

We tend to keep our distance from modern professional dance—especially the kind that borders on interpretive—because the artform’s pretentious and, frankly, over our heads. But when we read a gushing review of Brazilian dance company Mimulus’ Friday night performance...

In a city where ATM-goers are held at gunpoint and asked to empty their bank accounts for instant ransom payments, where cops are too busy taking bribes to care, where sinkholes and water leaks and litter (oh, my!) are...

Fresh off a low profile tour through Italy and the rest of Europe, Noelia spoke with the press the minute she stepped off her airplane in Miami. The porn star who occasionally sings has gone supersleuth, claiming she’s figured...

New Yorkers brave enough (or high enough) to catch the 2000-something extended run of “De La Guarda”—where performers suspended by cables soared over audience members and dropped water and confetti on them as a prelude to vigorous groping, all...

In this week’s “La Dolce Musto,” Michael Musto’s weekly Village Voice column, he’s gone raza crazy! First he gives us a blow-by-blow (pun intended, obvs.) of a Maria Felix gala at Christies that sent him into a gay frenzy:...

We found an article today on a BBC poll that reveals many South Asian British people, (of Indian or Pakistani heritage), don’t quite feel British or Asian enough. Over a third agreed that to get on in the UK...

While Latinos are striving to be Whiter, it seems these days White people are striving to be more ghetto. So says the Los Angeles Times, anyway, in a searing expose entitled, “The lost generation’s race to the bottom.” There...

This week the New York Times churns out the same tired, “wow, a blogger is famous,” angle that everyone else is using to describe Perez Hilton’s “sudden meteoric rise to the top,” (i.e. a Vh1 special.) We were about...

Apparently Jessica Alba “almost shows” her lady flower in the new Dane Cook flick, “Good Luck Chuck”—whatever that means. So says MTV, anyway. The fact that Dane Cook is in the movie explains why we’ve stayed far, far away...

This week, a man was sentenced to seven years in prison for setting some Texan’s trailer home on fire while he was in it. Nothing to write the ‘rents about, except that Navy officer Russel Tavares drove 1,300 miles...

With Dems flinging perjury accusations at him like a rabid pack of howler monkeys, U.S. Attorney Alberto Gonzales has employed the time-honored political move of refusing to take questions from the press and focusing on ‘the issues.’ Today, at...

We’re not even sure what Alejandra Guzman does anymore, or what she ever did, really. Something about Mexican pop music. But she got our attention anyway when she showed up at the Latin Grammy Hall of Fame induction ceremony...

Yesterday’s Cuba Revolution Day unofficially marked the one year anniversary of Fidel Castro’s last appearance in public, setting off the chain of events that would lead us to create this Deathwatch. (We would’ve covered the event as it went...

Remember that kid in college who was waaay too into politics, president of every Latino organization on campus, and had a penchant the sweater vest / tie ensemble? (We don’t apologize if the guy we just stereotyped was you.)...

After weeks of virtual silence from the left coast, a flood of developments and rumors have punctured our reclaimed virginal innocence regarding the love that dare not speak its name between Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and Telemundo anchor...

When professional sports meet geopolitics, the only real losers are those of us who watch. To prove this point Major League Soccer has begun a tournament called ‘SuperLiga,’ where four MLS teams based in the States square off against...

We heard yesterday, from J. Lo. of all people, that Rita Morena is one of only nine people in history to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award. This performance is obviously the reason why....

Ignoring daily news of the language debate in this country hitting new high and lows, we bring you our favorite Simpsons trailer airing in Latin America. Hate to get all Telemundo on you, but we prefer the baritone register...

Yesterday, at the annual dork convention known as Comic-Con International, a title was unveiled that will take the symbiotic relationship between product placement and fringe media to a new level—while buffooning Latinos at the same time! “Johnny Delgado Is...

If you happen to be in New York this weekend, the HBO sponsored New York International Latino Film Festival is showing this little number on Sunday, “638 Ways To Kill Castro.” From the site: […] 638 Ways to Kill...

Apple claims it posted a 73% increase in its 3rd quarter earnings partly on the strength of brisk iPod sales. So who’s behind the spike in purchases? If you ask anybody in devoutly religious Queretaro, Mexico, they’ll say it’s...

For this year’s biennial festivities, El Museo del Barrio in New York’s Spanish Harlem is highlighting the best from its archives of unorthodox, unsolicited submissions over the past two years. (Our rendering of Pac Man in Che silhouette wasn’t...

A four week-long online poll asking readers to name the worst pop song in Spanish has produced an unshocking Top Ten List. [Ed. Note: Neither article we consulted names the digital mag that conducted the poll, but we Googled...

We can take as much immigration news as the media can dish. • Undocumented Mexicans who spend time in the U.S. just to make money before returning home for good do exist. Just not in the same number as Santa’s...

A group of Dems are calling a special counsel to investigate whether amnesiac Attorney General Alberto Gonzales committed perjury regarding the firings of U.S. attorneys. The investigation is a follow-up to a series of painful Congress hearings where Gonzales...

After watching a segment on the The Colbert Report called “The Movies That Are Destroying America,” it dawned on us that Stephen Colbert may be taking his comedic cues from our darling little blog. We predicted the demise of...

Don’t know if you’ve heard, but ABC has made room in its fall line-up for an entire sitcom based on those smarmy cavemen that push Geico car insurance while dealing with existential crises. (Wait, it gets better.) Network brass...

After indulging us last week with a double- whammy of Latino dialogue, Overheard In New York seems to have taken that whole ‘spicy’ thing seriously. (Overcompensating much?) This round’s submissions are all about cleansing; the first one concerns itself...

With the nationwide release of “El Cantante” fast approaching, the movie we hate to love is getting the good ol’ soft news treatment in the papers—complete with profiles of people who knew the biopic’s subject, salsa legend Hector Lavoe,...

Guanabee peeks its nose out from behind the kitchen to see what the rest of the world is up to. In a medical journal released today, a cat named Oscar is noted for forecasting which residents at a Providence...

Word has gotten around about a lonely Peruvian photojournalist who posted a love letter to the country’s Minister of Foreign Commerce and Tourism (pictured here) on his personal blog, causing a mild media flurry questioning the professionalism of their...

Guanabee tracked down Edoardo Chavarin, the guy who penned the now infamous t-shirt that will be caressing irreverent Latina’s breasts all across America, to ask him how he’s holding up under all this media scrutiny. And what he was...

In light of news that Coldplay’s upcoming release carries a pre-meditated “Hispanic theme,” we present the album review—headline and all—that we imagine some dweeb at a weekly alternative paper would write if he were possessed by Guanabee. (It’s the...

As law of the land, Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez has announced a new way to deal with any foreigner who visits and publicly criticizes his government—immediate deportation. Huey explains: No foreigner, whoever it is, can come here to attack...