If you’re not already out of the office or off the computer, enjoy a video that’ll get you in the mood for this weekend’s holiday. It’s the opening credits to “National Lampoon’s Vacation,” boasting a theme song that rids...

“This is the best part of being Cuban: you got that food, you got cigars, you got the rum mojitos. Ah?” So begins the above trailer for CBS fall drama “Cane,” simultaneously eliciting a cringe and a chuckle from...

The editor-in-chief of food mag Gourmet, Ruth Reichl, done fucked up and dedicated September’s issue to Latin food. As a result, she’s encountered curious readers who thank her for appealing to their experimental side and racist ones who look...

Someone posted on Wikipedia this week that Sandra Cisneros died in Colorado Springs. Could it be wishful thinking? The Chicana bard is still alive and well and presumably painting things horrendous colors in San Antonio. The Express-News reports: No...

When the headline “Student punished for ‘white power’ call” popped up in our reader from the Denver Post yesterday, we didn’t pay it much mind. When the same story popped up today under the headline “Student disciplined for ‘white...

• CNN runs a story about a Latino college kid who does Post-It art, proving they have way more time on their hands than the kid himself. [CNN] • From 2004 to 2006, a quarter of Texans didn’t have...

In light of the 40 violent deaths involving candidates, activists and political leaders since the Guatemalan campaign for president started this spring, last night’s bullet-free debate was considered a breath of fresh air. The hot air spouted by the...

Hat tip—oh, we went there—to Mi Blog Es Tu Blog for this kernel: An international reproductive health organization outta the U.K. has apologized to the Mexican government for distributing the ad seen here at a handful of British clinics,...

What better way to play mind games with the baby’s mama of your boyfriend than lavish their newborn with extravagant crap before he does? Two days before her man—New England Patriots Quarterback, Tom Brady—got around to it, Gisele placed...

Blogger Ken Burns Hates Mexicans made an interesting prediction about the Alberto Gonzales resignation coverage that only took a few days to come to fruition: As predicted in an earlier post, the gringo journalists have begun the Alberto Gonzales/piñata...

Univisión is scheduling the first, Spanish -language, U.S. Presidential debates to air on their network on September 9 and 16 covering the Democratic and Republican parties respectively. But only one Republican candidate, Senator John McCain of Arizona, agreed to...

A strangely underreported story just made its way into our consciousness: over 10,000 people in Mexico City had to be evacuated from the country’s largest office building, (the Torre Mayor located in the financial district), yesterday afternoon due to...

Gawker has a long history of hating on Village Voice Editor-In-Chief Tony Ortega, who took over for the weekly earlier this year. That’s why they felt compelled to reach into their mailbag to post the following story ever-so-lovingly under...

A new study released by the Public Policy Institute of California shows that Latina women there outlive their White and Black counterparts, enjoying an average life expectancy of 83. (That’s three years longer than gringas.) One Mexican egghead reacting...

Early yesterday evening, just days before his resignation takes effect, White House Deputy Chief of Staff Karl Rove came back to his car in D.C. to find that pranksters had wrapped the entire thing in a sheet of plastic....

A Texas native with the same name and birthdate as an illegal immigrant was arrested Sunday, then threatened with deportation. Alicia Rodríguez spent the night in jail, and was told the following morning that la migra was coming to...

The sale of Coca Cola Zero in Mexico has picked up some steam on the internets because it contains the artificial sweetener sodium cyclamate, something banned in the U.S. for 38 years over concerns that it causes cancer. Apparently...

Saying fuck it to the conventions of celebrity endorsement, the owner of a taco restaurant in the hipster-infested Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn has taken it upon himself to paint a mural of Angelina Jolie three stories above his business....

Oh Lawd. We’ve got to hand it to VH1. They keep coming up with these horrible shows that we just can’t look away from. And they just sent us a tip for a new one that some of our...

• Tomatina, the annual Spanish tomato warfest, paints the town of Buñol red. Despite hormones a-flarin', drunken American backpackers fail to score. [USA Today] • The MySpace page for the film adaptation of "Love In the Time Of Cholera" belongs to a 27 year-old woman in the U.S. Could be one of García Márquez's putas tristes. [Popwatch]

Proving once again that Latino culture is best presented as an extravagant trainwreck, J. Lo is bankrolling a reality series about a quintet of Miami teens who operate a business that exclusively plans quinceañeras. “The Amigas Sweet 15 Club”...

Perusing the internet for gay, Latino fetishes, (like you do), we came across an interesting rant from a (presumably) gay, African-American, male blogger who laments that Black, American gays are just as guilty as their White counterparts of attempting...

Finally someone does a great job of explaining why hipsters wearing the Che shirt will always offend old Cubans. Thanks, Pitbull! Da Pit Stop: The Che Shirt [Mun2]...

According to LAist, this T-shirt, snapped at last weekend’s Sunset Junction Street Fair in Silver Lake, Los Angeles, contained the cheapest food offer they saw all day. Sunset Junction 2007 Bonus Photo Essay [LAist]...

On the second anniversary of Hurricane Katrina making landfall, many Big Easy residents can’t help but refer to their city as New New Orleans. From what we’ve read, however, it’s more like Nueva New Orleans. (Azúcar!) We’re no mathematicians,...

Hats off to an astute reader for pointing out that the Mexican market for endangered turtle eggs, which sell as aphrodisiacs there and were highlighted in the second item from today’s Watchando, was addressed by a PSA campaign two...

Something about the sneaker on the left—created by a slickly marketed, enviro-conscious company in California—made us say, “OMG! We totally need a pair.” It dawned on us when we read the fine print about the way the shoe’s sidewall,...

In keeping with our policy of only reporting on the most beautiful of athletes, we bring you the sad news of Sevilla soccer star Antonio Puerta: he died yesterday just three days after collapsing in the middle of a...

• Chewy from “Star Wars” (not your barrio) hands the original lightsaber prop used by Luke Skywalker over to NASA so they can jettison it into space, marking only the bajillionth shameless publicity stunt in the franchise’s history. [CBS...

The controversy surrounding Ken Burns’ upcoming WWII documentary “The War” has hit a fevered enough pitch to guilt trip PBS. You see, after Latino advocacy leaders bitched months ago about the dearth of Hispanic soldiers appearing in “The War,”...

A news item about a Los Angeles based casting company for the ABC TV NBC show, “Friday Night Lights” not being able to fill 400 Mexican extras roles in Brownsville, Texas made us chuckle. Mainly because Brownsville, located spitting...

There appears to be truth behind the “swayback” slur that has haunted Jessica Alba since the 8th grade. While most of the third world continues to starve, drown or die of AIDS, scientists at Cambridge University have been busy...

The woman we and many others consider Spain’s first lady of hip-hop, María “La Mala” Rodríguez, weathered a recent recording sesh with Mexican singer Julieta Venegas and described the duet they had produced to a daily—not without a hint...

The 4 year-old Cuban girl at the center of a Miami custody battle between her Coral Gables foster parents and her biological father from the island was routinely beaten by her suicidal mother, according to court testimony by the...

The poor man’s George Lopez will host the poor man’s Emmy’s on September 8th at Los Angeles’ Shrine Auditorium. Carlos Mencia, who is most well known for not being funny, will host the 2-hour television special to be broadcast...

News today of two of our favoritest people in the world suffering ill health. First Bo Didley is in “serious” condition in a Florida hospital after suffering a heart attack. The 78 year old legendary blues singer and guitarist...

Apparently tired of the glamor behind clichéd forays into the world of fashion mag spreads, Brazilian übermodel Gisele has signed on to this season’s installment of celebreality contest “Dancing With the Stars.” We’ll give you a second for this...

As a rule, we don’t watch any program with any combination of the words “Teen,” “Choice,” or “Awards” in its title. Thankfully, L.A. Times award show feature “The Envelope” does that for us so we can skip such an...

Fidel Castro ain’t dead yet, readers, so this graphic has caught an unexpected second wind. When we said that he danced the babalu yesterday all over reports of his passing, what we really meant was that he was penning...

It seems SAT scores for the high school class of 2007 are the lowest in 8 years and the College Board says its cuz “a more diverse pool of students is taking the exam.” Hmmmm, what could that mean?...

Even though you may have heard about it last Friday, it’s only official today: a federal judge has ruled that ex-Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega (interpreted here by English actor Bob Hoskins) can be extradited to France once his 15-year...

The above is a stylized version of the opinion expressed by Fresno Bee political columnist María Elena Salinas, and we tend to see some truth in it. This, kiddies, is how you piggyback onto expertise: It now seems to...

While the American press protects us from such realities of life as dead bodies and breast feeding, readers of the Latin American press are regularly treated to life in all its wondrous glory. Feast your eyes, and hold your...

It’s that time of year again, for these great States to look in the mirror and hate themselves! In other words, the Trust for America’s Health has ranked every state of the nation (plus D.C.) according to its rate...

At the beginning of the summer, we reported on the dawn of a new drug trend among Dallas Chicanos called cheese—the powdered mixture of heroin and pulverized Tylenol PM. Now as school starts up again for the young ‘uns...

A book review in today’s Boston Globe caught our eye this morning, not only for introducing us to a Latino author we had never heard of before but for revealing that Gilbert Hernández was one of the first cartoonists...

It also does not say, “Española Mayor Seeks A Softer Blow Job.” Sometimes when you’re frantically scanning the reader for Latino news, your speedreading fails you. And then you can be sorely disappointed. Española mayor seeks to soften blow...

Members of Peru’s Nationalist party are distributing canned food with pro Hugo Chavez propaganda on it to victims of the recent magnitude-8 earthquake that devastated the Region of Ica on August 15. The labels on the cans are red...

It’s tough to decide which is less surprising about the first mainstream, Spanish-language film Hollywood has geared towards U.S.-residing Latinos in recent memory—the fact that we and many other entertainment media had no idea it existed until today, just...

Observers of TV chef Ingrid Hoffman’s cross-over from Galavisión to the Food Network might call “Simply Delicioso” a way for an English-language network to pander to Hispanic viewers. New York Times writer Ginia Bellafante, on the other hand, considers...