Hey VIP travelers, not getting enough VIP treatment on your vacations? Like the valet won’t give you a blowjob? Well Viking’s Exotic Resort, located in the Dominican Republic, features not only air-conditioned villas on white sand beaches, but “a...

The Dominican Republic’s unfortunately named “MercaSID” food company, which owns Aceite Cristal, is sponsoring a photo exhibit of the lives and experiences of Dominican women in New York. Don’t tell Cynthia Rodriguez: The highly acclaimed exposition is the work...

The ladies (and one gent) over at Fashionista have been trying to figure out whence Arlenis Peña, a model they’ve got their eyes on, came from. Turns out, she’s Dominican (One of us! One of us!) and is set...

All this Dominicanness is about a week and a half late, but we just had to pass along this video we found today on Sound Taste. It features Cuco Valoy who, according to the site, is one of the...

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...

This video has everything we love about the Dominican Republic: platanos, salami, and half naked thugs. There’s even some female booty shots in there for you people who are really patient. ¡Que viva!...

by Cindy Casares A few months ago, unanimously adored writer Junot Diaz released his first book in 11 years and his first novel ever, entitled The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, to critical acclaim and, let’s face it, ball...

Blabbeando tipped us off about this family-owned salon in the Dominican Republic called Belky’s. The low-budget commercial above captures the owner explaining that he opened the business because his hot daughter kept catching the flu when she got her...

Over a month ago we mentioned the buzz surrounding the upcoming release of Dominican novelist Junot “Drown” Díaz’s sophomore effort—a science fiction-tinged portrayal of the island’s diaspora in the U.S. called Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao. Reserving judgment...

Our pal at Blabbeando has uncovered the peculiar story of a famous Gayspanic pulling the old “now you see it, now you don’t” with his homosexuality. A mere three months after coming out to the world, the host of...

Prompted by last week’s news that the Dominican Republic is censuring a nightclub in its capital for discriminating against Black patrons and employees, a New York Post writer shares his own personal experience of being rejected at the door...

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...

The New York Post, our ambassador of Latino seediness, breaks the salacious story today of Saeed Ahmed, a “pimp travel agent” who was busted for brokering trips for Americans to the Dominican Republic that included airfare, hotel and, oh...

An intriguing story comes our way from Santo Domingo, where scores of women pursue the Dominican dream of straight-looking hair by any means necessary. (Extensions, chemical processes, Elmer’s glue: you name it!) The article argues that by taming the...