Zigmat, a Brooklyn-based band that made us wait forever and then laughed at our interview questions at this year’s Latin Alternative Music Conference, will be playing tonight at Nublu in NYC. We forgive you, Zigmat. Because we love “Machine”...

Remember photographer and Wild Fresita Dulce Pinzon’s collection of immigrants-as-superheroes? ‘Course you do. Well, the talented artist (who, we must say, has a rather lovely collection of tattoos) is showing her work as part of “Turning Red” at PINTA’s...

El Museo del Barrio is hosting its annual Young International Circle (YIC) Benefit by inviting you to dress up, drink up and partaking in Lotería. There promises to be dancing, cocktails, a silent auction and a DJ set by...

A while back, we wrote up a little snippet about Sleep Dealer, a sci-fi movie dealing with border security, immigration, xenophobia and tHe fUtUrE!!! Well, now you can have a chance to see it on the big screen. This...

Take a look at America’s perception of Mexican immigrants in “Caras vemos, corazones no sabemos/Faces Seen, Hearts Unknown: The Human Landscape of Mexican Migration,” a new exhibition at the UCLA Fowler Museum consisting about 80 works of art by...

Our old friend, author Stephanie Elizondo Griest, is back with a new book called Mexican Enough: My Life Between The Border Lines and she’s reading from it tonight in Manhattan. The half Tejana, half gringa travel memoirist grew up...

Two iconic artists from Mexico are playing at Madison Square Garden this Saturday and there are still tickets available. Vicente Fernandez sings songs that go straight to your heart, while Paquita sings feminist songs that feed your mind. What...

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...

Everyone’s favorite band that sounds like a computer falling through a spaceship, The Mars Volta, is playing the Hammerstein Ballroom tomorrow. We heart them! And that little heart is made of sprockets. And, hey, if you go, you might...

You might remember Andres Serrano for his work Piss Christ, in which he submerged a large crucifix in urine. Well, if you’re in the New York area, you might have a chance to see some more of his Shit:...

My Mexican Shivah is playing through next week at the Quad Cinema, in case you’ve been completely saturated with movies about Mexican Jews. [Ed. note: That was a joke, by the way, for those of you a little new...

If you’re in or around the L.E.S. this weekend and want to do something that doesn’t necessarily place you in the company of at least 7,000 NYU students with expensive asymmetrical haircuts, then we suggest you attend the “Losaida...

Brazilian band Azymuth is playing a concert in Los Angeles for the first time in two decades. The group, which has produced twenty albums since 1973, describes their sound as “‘Samba Doido,” or Crazy Samba. And boy are they...

This afternoon’s “An Unexpected Mexico,” show at SummerStage in New York’s Central Park has a last minute line-up change. According to the site, Alejandro Escovedo won’t be appearing due to “serious illness.” We hope he gets well soon, but...

Camilo Lara of Mexican Institute of Sound just wrote to say that he is deejaying in San Antonio tonight as part of the Museo Alameda del Smithsonian’s Escultura Social: A New Generation Of Art From Mexico City. If you’re...

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...

Like bullfights? And little people? Of course. Photographer Livia Corona explores, through a series of photographs and interviews, the world in which the two are combined in her book Enanitos Toreros: Over the course of almost a decade, Corona...

We’re making the happypainful move from Brooklyn to Queens, which means we’ll be leaving behind a lot of hot, emaciated trust fund baby boys in skinny jeans and questionable facial hair (sad), but also a lot of girls who...

We love burlesque. It’s sexy, it’s funny, it’s provocative, it features those most elegant of nipple wear - pasties. So we were pretty gosh darn excited about hear about a troupe called Brown Girls Burlesque. Because we’re brownesque! And...

If you are in the Austin area tomorrow we highly recommend checking out the first annual Pachanga Latino Music Festival. Guanabee is! It promises to be quite the bootie-shaking, good time with musical guests such as our friends Girl...

Oh sweet Baby Jesus on a tortilla! We’re getting married this weekend, guys. Yes, aw, thank you. And then we’re going to drunkenly throw up in some stranger’s mouth and immediately get divorced. And then we’re going to do...

Like arts? And/or crafts? And/or spending money? Then, perhaps, you might want to check out The Uptown Emerging Designers Market this weekend in Manhattan. You’ll laugh! You’ll cry! You’ll buy candles by Qassa! There will also be music provided...

Mexican artist Daniel Guzmán is having an exhibit at the New Museum in New York City. Who the what, you say? DANIEL GUZMAN, YOU TARDS! The piece on the left is entitled “Kiss My Ass.” Cheesy metal + Sexicans...

We never thought we’d see the c/s sign hanging in a museum, but then we never thought we’d get paid to post pictures of Oscar De La Hoya in fishnets, either. It’s a new world, Latinos. And Chicagoans should...

If you’re daring to show your face in downtown Austin this week, you must be a) from out of town and b) dying to shake your nether regions to the hip Argentinean DJ show on everyone’s lips this spring:...

Hey bloggers and froggers! The Museum of Modern Art in Midtown Manhattan is featuring a new exhibit called “Design and the Elastic Mind.” That’s near rhyme! Right in the title! And, as if that weren’t reason enough to go,...

We’ll admit it. We’re pretty nerdy when it comes to films and have felt a lingering shame at never having seen Chilean director Alejandro Jodorowsky’s weirdly wonderful (Dwarves! Cowboys! Eastern philosophy!) El Topo. We seek to remedy that right...

Head on over to Fontana’s this Saturday to party with our favorite New York City Nacos Marcelo Cunning and Amylulita. Apparently portraits have been commissioned for all those who must pose at an angle. Telemundo will also be there...

Guess what we’ll be doing this Thursday? Other than choreographing a highly involved dance routine to “Willow Don’t Cry,” we mean. We’ll be stopping by NaCo Nights: NYC! Because we love nacos, the night and NYC, all very much....

José González, a folk-rock-playing Swede via Argentina, is performing at Webster Hall in New York City this Sunday. But even if he were Antarctic via the moon, we’d still want to write about him because we totally have a...

Tired of another Wednesday night spent singing into your hairbrush in front of the bathroom mirror? Us either. But we suggest you left coasters check out NaCo Nights in Hollywood anyway. Because people will gossip less if you drink...

You haven’t even chowed down on guajalote yet, and it’s already time for the 33rd Annual East Los Angels Christmas Parade! If you’re in town, hop in your ranfla and bounce on over there, (the parade route is here),...

Travel writer Stephanie Elizondo Griest, author of 100 Places Every Woman Should Go, will be reading tonight from her first book, Around the Bloc, which chronicles her time living and working in communist countries Russia, China and Cuba, and...

El Museo del Barrio is conjuring a freakishly good time this Friday with a Dia de los Muertos-themed fundraiser. Proceeds from the event go towards funding educational programs at the museum. In addition to Mexican-inspired food and cocktails, a...

We just got an insider tip from a source close to the band that Girl In A Coma is cancelling their regularly scheduled NYC shows this weekend because Morrissey himself has summoned them to open for him at his...

Girl In A Coma are on their way to NYC this week to play shows on Friday and Sunday. The obvs. Morrissey inspired band (they don’t really sound like Morrissey, although lead singer Nina Diaz does sorta croon like...

We had the pleasure of witnessing Uli & The Gringos (a very apt name as Uli is from Mexico and her band mates, including boyfriend Eugene Toale of The Glacierz, are not) at a Nacotheque party a while back...

We are so stoked that the world’s first major Dominican-American writer who published the world’s first Dominican-American sci-fi novel is reading from it tonight in New York City at Instituto Cervantes. In like ONE HOUR! So excited that we...

If watching the trailer above and thinking about the last time you interviewed for a grueling office job doesn’t constrict your sphincter, check and make sure you have one. The guy who wrote “Vanilla Sky” and “The Sea Inside”...

This year’s installment of the annual “Latinbeat” cinema series, organized by the Film Society at Lincoln Center, features a slew of goodies from reel-importing heavyweights like Colombia, Argentina, Brazil and Mexico. But hardcore cine-snobs will want to catch rare...

Sneaker pimps remember him from a couple years ago as one of many artists to design a special pair of Adidas shelltoes for their 35th anniversary. Contemporary art snobs know him as the Puerto Rican dude who used to...

If you’re in the Santa Fe area this weekend, hop in your ranfla and check out the Center for Contemporary Arts’ panel discussion and exhibition on lowrider art and culture: “Chopped, Chromed, Customized” considers the communal power, esthetic, and...

This Sunday, a four-act set of political hip-hop is bringing its soapbox and hot air to ethnically-minded Manhattan dinner club, S.O.B.’s. (Did we mention they’are all Latino?) So if you’re into waving banners and everything else that this emcee...

The people behind MORTIFIED—“a Comic Excavation of Adolescent Writing, Art & Media” that turns everyday people’s teenage diary entries, embarrassing Polaroids, and dreadful home movies into performance art—are screening submissions and their potential performers from the Austin area now...

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...

In keeping with the indie theme of this weekend’s Latin American Music Festival in New York (helping to “solidify the scene”), Brooklyn’s Prospect Park Bandshell is hosting three Latino acts that we have never heard of. They include a...

Remember a couple weeks back when we revealed young Latinos’ crush on Irish-English crooner Morrissey and their penchant for his music out in California? Boy, do they ever have a reason to go bi-coastal: select tickets for Morrissey’s June...

The woman who dared not to pluck gets quite the 100th birthday bash in two days, when the centennial of Frida Kahlo’s life is honored with the opening of her largest and most comprehensive exhibition to date. The Palacio...