TuesdaySeptember302008

For a while there, the narrow strip of beach between Tijuana and San Diego was a pretty great place. Families from both sides of the border could meet up across the thin barrier from each other and have lunch,...

Poteet, Texas has historically been known as “The Strawberry Capital of Texas,” but for the past year the small farming town has become even more famous for having a known sex-offender as its mayor. Diminishes the quaint charm a...

23-year-old Victor Hugo Mireles-Andrade knows that, when smuggling coke, it’s important to have the good Lord on your side, hallelujah. So when he decided to hide $147,000 worth of coke in four, hollowed-out plaques of La Virgensita, he knew...

Tiny naked squirrel Vanessa Hudgens has purchased her very first big-girl house… Something we won’t be able to afford for another ten or twenty years! All for dancing, not really singing and having pretty hair. Vanessa’s Studio City home...

How much do you love your pet? Enough to leap into the ocean and fight a shark to save it? Yeah, us neither. But one Florida Keys man does, and he proved it by punching a shark in the...

Hey! What is that hot tamale Salma Hayek been up to lately? Why, continuing to make more money than you by producing shows that you will hopefully relate to, of course! Her latest project is “The New McToms,” a...

32-year-old Michelle Allen of Middleton, Ohio was just minding her business, urinating on a neighbor’s porch while dressed as a cow, when cops told her to please go home. Later that day, cops were called once again as Allen...

In an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, Lisa Guerrero, the former head cheerleader for the Patriots, slams Patriots fans for leaving Gilette Stadium stadium en masse as the Miami Dolphins handed their asses to them. With a side...

Bored with caking your face in hummingbird shit? Us, too. That’s why we were so thrilled to discover a new treatment meant to make us more beautiful and relaxed. Snakes! All over your naked flesh! Probably leaving disgusting trails...

Sarah Palin used to put plaster over her nipples during beauty pageants. Politicians: They’re just like us! [NY Daily News] Brad and Angelina might adopt a child from South America. Juan will probably be renamed “Astral Kumquat” or some...

Best writer in the whole world, Junot Diaz, was joined by fellow novelist Richard Price to wax poetic about New York for the 40th anniversary of New York Magazine. Turns out, Junot really misses that time you could walk...

Vanessa Hudgens is still atravelin’ from one county fair to another as part of her summer tour! And people are kind / boring enough to record it all on video. Which is awesome for us because the besneakered Fauxtina...

Hey, Latino! That’s right, YOU. Have you registered to vote? No? What are you waiting for? Latinos, especially Latinas (women represent 54% of the vote) could determine the outcome of this upcoming presidential election. Go log onto to Voto...

Having conquered playing a black man inTropic of Thunder, Robert Downey, Jr. is now starring in The Soloist as Los Angeles Times journalist Steve Lopez who wrote a successful column about a homeless violinist named Nathaniel Anthony Ayer in...

MondaySeptember292008

Let’s say, hypothetically, you started drinking at 4 pm on a Monday but also really needed to understand the recently proposed housing bailout? Well then, here’s the layman’s guide to the economic crisis for you! It’s probably not an...

We loooove makeup. Yes, we sometimes feel conflicted about our worrisome dependency on the stuff, but oh how we love it: The smell, the colors, the possible carcinogens! Swoon! Amiright ladies? But, in an effort to advocate using less...

Activist Dionicio Morales has died at the age of 89. Morales went from picking apricots and walnuts to creating the Mexican American Opportunity Foundation in 1963, the nation’s largest provider of human services targeted towards Latinos. A little about...

Selena Gomez (who is not, as we thought, 5-years-old, but actually a substantially older 16) went on “The View” to take some hard-hitting questions under the show’s Vaseline-smeared lens. (Seriously. Did anyone else notice how softly-lit and filtered this...

Ball-hitting-person Cristiano Ronaldo is shedding his popped collar polos for his 2009 calendar. Now you can bear witness to his impeccable manscaping every single day of the year or until you forget to use your calendar midway through February....

Just in time for our afternoon churro break (before tea but after second breakfast) comes the news that Mexicans are expanding at an alarming rate. According to studies by the Mexican government: Nearly half of Mexico’s 110 million people...

Designer Kris Van Assche’s (teehee) latest fashion influence is, apparently, the chola look. Only cholas don’t wear sheer gowns and shiny tuxedos. And aren’t generally 95-pound Eastern European teenagers stomping down a runway. Pero, whatever: No one could ever...

We do hope Sarah Palin’s got her Foreign Relations Binoculars polished, because Russia and Venezuela have joined together so that Hugo Chavez can build nuclear technology: Chavez said he accepted an offer from Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin for...

In early 2008 a panicked email made the rounds in Latin America, warning about the dangers of a new drug, “Burundanga.” The email claimed that criminal uses of the incapacitating drug against lone women and partygoers was becoming “an...

64-year-old Ronald Watkins of Maryland is suing his doctor, Manuel Casiano, because he allegedly stapled his ass shut following surgery on a rectal tumor, barring him from defecating for 17 days. Ron is so full of shit: Dr. Manuel...

Two GOP officials have resigned over some racially problematic comments. Fernando de Baca, chairman of the Republican Party in Bernalillo County, New Mexico, has resigned over several comments he made to BBC regarding what he perceived as Latino voters’...

And speaking of our favoritest lil’ porkchop…. The much-anticipated video for David Archuleta’s single “Crush” is out. And it’s three minutes and thirty-two scintillating seconds of David Archuleta’s seductively flaring nostrils and him refusing to take his shirt off...

Eddie Munsteresque singing fetus, David Archuleta, has been commemorated in a cornfield in his home state of Utah. The Lehi, Utah maze features David singing into some sort of gigantic phallus with the words “Archuleta 4 President” writ above....

Heather Locklear has been arrested for allegedly driving under the influence of controlled substances, like AquaNet and Wet ‘n Wild frosted eyeshadow. [LA Times] Scarlett Johansson married Ryan Reynolds in Vancouver over the weekend. But will she go down...

Selena Gomez lost her computer charger (!!!!!) so she couldn’t post this immediately (trauma-rama-obama-voma!) but, we’ve managed to relay her message to all of you. We’ll totally summarize the video above: HEY YOU GUYS! This is Selena Gomez! Don’t...

Sometimes life is so ridiculous that only a comedy paper can do the story justice as was the case this morning with the news that the House Financial Services Committe has posted online their bill for a $700 billion...

SaturdaySeptember272008

Paul Newman has died at the age of 83 following a long bout with cancer. Newman is known for his roles in such iconic films as Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid and Cool Hand Luke, as well as...

FridaySeptember262008

First Jessica Alba, and now Christina Aguilera have loaned their foxy good looks to the Declare Yourself campaign because they just luuuurve America SO MUCH. They also love violent bondage, according to these PSAs. Shot by famed trendy photog...

This particular Nom Nom is dedicated to our Mom, as this is her very favorite dessert. Personally, we find this typically Spanish treat altogether too eggy and way too rich (this coming, mind you, from a girl who regularly...

God bless Paqui Peña for reminding us that there are more important things than the exploding economy and the fact that there is a presidential debate tonight. The perky, pigtailed reporter was recently caught during a taping of Spanish...

NYU’s Latino Studies Department is joining with The Center for The Study of Gender and Sexuality to present a conference on Latinos, sexuality and religion. And, yes, that is a picture of Hugo Chavez and Che making out. You’re...

Britney Spears new single ‘Womanizer” is out. And, surprise!, it sounds like a robot having diarrhea. Clay Aiken was paid 500,000 to be gay and babied on the cover of People. It was such a “low” figure because of...

As part of filming for the upcoming cinematic art piece Bruno: Delicious Journeys Through America for the Purpose of Making Heterosexual Male, Sacha Baron Cohen took to the runway in the middle of Spanish designer Agatha Ruiz de la...

Hi Guanababies! We’re taking part in a special project that we need your help to carry out. Current TV’s “US: The Immigrant Nation: Collective Journalism Special” wants to know if and how your personal backstory plays into who you’re...

So it seems that someone at Esquire leaked a quote from an upcoming interview with Anne Hathaway and the topic was, naturally, ass pounding. We mean come on, look at the girl. If we ever saw a face that...

digg_url = 'http://digg.com/2008_us_elections/The_Pres_Debate_Is_Back_On_McCain_Agrees_to_Participate'; This story will be updated throughout the day. Last update: 2:45 PM The foreign policy debate will air tonight as originally scheduled, seeing as John McCain is no longer attempting to singlehandedly fix the financial state...

In honor of Diesel’s “Dirty 30” Anniversary, the company has organized “Dirty 30” parties in 17 different cities. In order to promote those parties, they saw it fit to bestow a work of beauty onto an ugly world. The...

Remember that dog in Alabama that found a little baby foot? Sure you do. Well it turns out the foot in question might have once been firmly attached to a baby bear. Easy mistake: But Police Chief Chris Hargett...

Ersi Arvizu not only has an awesome name that sounds like it could belong to a convertible of some sort, she also happens to be a celebrated female mariachi performer and songwriter. And she could also pretty much box...

A crew member of reality show Survivor who hailed from Loubiere, Dominica drowned this month while attempting to repair something underwater in Brazil where the show is shooting. Details are sketchy and mostly written in pidgin English, but it...

ThursdaySeptember252008

Nationally-renowned comedienne Ann Coulter slipped into her special blogging catsuit to share her thoughts on the current mortgage crisis. Knowing her “faggot” schtick was getting a little old, she turned her rapier wit over to the topic of STOOPID...

Remember when Matt Damon got all flummoxed and adorable over Sarah Palin’s appointment and withering lack of experience? And he described the whole thing as being a like “a Disney movie” where the hockey mom faces off against Putin?...

We received a letter from one of our readers about some inconsistencies over at that bastion of journalistic integrity, TMZ. Apparently, they practice a double standard when it comes to dealing with hateful comments on their site. Writes Lorena,...

The October issue of Reason features a comic by Mike Flynn, Shikha Dalmia, and Terry Colon that demonstrates the complicated process it takes to become a legal immigrant in these here United States. (Check out the full version after...

Police are looking into whether perhaps Tasing a naked man holding an 8-foot-long flourescent bulb so that he plummets of a high precipice to his death is a little…. hmmm…. excessive. 35-year old Iman Morales stood on a 10-foot...

YES! The 2009 Naked Clown Calendar is finally here! The graduates of San Francisco’s Clown Conservatory, Class of 2008, are stripping down to their big, round red noses and humongous clown feet to partake in a calendar that will...

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