The nominations for the 9th annual Latin Grammys are out and, wow, are they ever predictable. All the usual names are firmly in place — Juanes, Julieta Venegas, Cafe Tacvba, Liberace — as well as people we knew were...

The Imagen Foundation Awards were held last night in Beverly Hills and oh aren’t you kicking yourself that you weren’t there? You might have gotten to stalk Selena Gomez, or at least try to step on her dress. Imaginate!...

The Los Angeles Times Book Prize nominees were announced yesterday in Manhattan—where the culture is. (Wink!) Amongst the other finalists in the fiction category was our very favorite book The Brief Wonderous Life of Oscar Wao. The winner will...

Javier Bardem became the first Spanish actor to receive an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Bardem, who won for his role in No Country For Old Men, took the opportunity to, once again, remind everyone how awful his...

We didn’t manage to watch the entire SAG Awards last night, but we did turn it on in time to see Daniel Day Lewis, who won Best Male Actor, go into a ten minute diatribe (really! they don’t cut...

The nominees for this year’s GLAAD Media Awards were announced at the Sundance Film Festival and included Spanish-language periodicals and programming that helped educate, entertain and escandalize our old-fashioned abuelita. Among the categories were “Outstanding Novela” and “Outstanding Individual...

Spanish actor Javier Bardem has taken home the New York Film Critics Circle Award for best actor for his work as Anton Chigurh in No Country For Old Men. Did you know such an award existed? Do you care?...

The 21st Premios Nuestros have announced their list of nominees and we couldn’t be more excited if we’d been punched in the face by Benny Moré: AB Quintanilla III & the Kumbia All Starz [Ed. note: Pet. Peeve.] received...

Furless leader Eva Mendes has been named one of 2007’s Most Stylish Women by Latina magazine. Which is nice and all, but we’re fairly certain Eva does not dress herself when she gets ready for red carpet events. As...

The Golden Globe Awards nominations are out and it looks like some of our favorite artistes are up for awards: BEST PERFORMANCE BY AN ACTOR IN A SUPPORTING ROLE IN A MOTION PICTURE JAVIER BARDEM –NO COUNTRY FOR OLD...

MTV Tr3s’ “Mi TRL Awards” will makes its debut this Saturday. Too bad we’ll be too drunk on egg nog and too busy picking tinsel out of our ass cracks at a Christmas party to notice: MTV Tr3s today...

5 rounds. 14 competitions. Players from such wide-ranging categories as politics, sports, media, music, entertainment. Thousands of your votes. All culminating in one Most Embarrassing Latino for 2007 And the award goes to… Jessica Alba! Alba’s meteoric rise to...

The Grammy Awards have introduced a new category this year, Best Urban Album, which has resulted in many more Latino hip-hop artists garnering nominations: “Last year’s category was a little strange,” said René (Residente) Pérez, Calle 13’s lead singer,...

“Ugly Betty” star America Ferrera won the Best Actress award at the ninth Family Television Awards, with “Ugly Betty” taking the prize for Best Comedy. America has previously won Emmy, Golden Globe and SAG awards for playing a pretty...

Penelope Cruz received an award at last night’s Spanish Institute’s Gold Medal Gala, held in New York City. Our invitation probs got lost in the mail. While she swathed herself in yards of electric blue fabric and a big,...

So you know who isn’t nominated and who’s performing at this year’s Latin Grammys. Since there are approximately 11,272.3 categories, we decided to just arbitrarily pick the ones that seemed sexiest. Check out the the nominees for yet another...

Jennifer Lopez and her allegedly twin-infested womb have been left out of the nominations for this year’s Latin Grammys. Probably because her music sucks harder than Noelia in front of a camera. (Hey-o!) Her Spanish-language album, Como Ama una...

Cuban dissident Oscar Biscet is one of eight individuals set to receive a Medal of Freedom today from President George Bush. Because Cuba’s version of a Presidential Medal of Freedom is an all-expenses paid stay in a luxury suite...

Exciting news! Guanabee is a nominee in The 2007 Weblog Awards! We bet your tacos are positively puffing with delight. We’re in the “Best Brown Blog / We Don’t Really Know What To Call This Category” Category and we...

French radio station Cherie FM honored Mexican pop band RBD with a “Best International Song” award for their single “Tu Amor.” RBD can thank its success to “Rebelde,” the television show that unleashed them onto the world, and to...