Acoustic guitar-shredding demons Rodrigo Y Gabriela, who charmed their way into our pants with a Pink Floyd cover, are canceling the rest of their September tour dates due to Gabriela’s exhaustion. The cross section of college kids, yuppies, and...

Pop star turned Tommy Mottola-sperm-incubator Thalía spent yesterday mauled by the press at a New York signing sesh for her book, “Thalía: Belleza! Lessons in Lipgloss and Happiness.” Since the two are clearly interdependent, we were hardly surprised when...

Banking on butterflies, fairies and purple trees to lull the crowd into a child-like state, Jennifer Lopez’s most recent line of clothing hit the runway last night at New York’s Fashion Week. Jenny from the fucking block, meinh, naturally...

Since avoiding coverage of overexposed fashionista and Elektra complex poster girl Nina Garcia seems close to impossible for us these days, we’ve decided not to spare you, either. (One can only hope this’ll all blow over after her style...

On Labor Day, we ran a story about the courthouse tussle going on between the Teamsters and the Bush administration over opening up American highways to Mexican trucking firms who’ve earned permits from the U.S. Department of Transportation. Rhetoric...

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...

Loudmouthed, Colorado Congressman and Republican candidate for president Tom Tancredo has called for the resignation of a Texas Border Patrol chief after he made some remarks that may not mesh with the patrol’s mission to hunt down those rascally...

Reminding us exactly how idiotic things can get when a pop star tries to explain the concept behind her latest music video, here’s what J. Lo had to say about the one accompanying her first English single release in...

A commercial for a Brazilian newspaper Estadão comparing bloggers to monkeys has made its rounds on the web, provoking some of us—like Brazilian blogger Pensar Enlouquece—to be downright offended: I should say that it is a case of questionable...

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...

Turns out a bunch of bull-hugging activists are ramping up their protests of the Spanish bullfighting tradition, aiming to abolish it altogether. (You ever try hugging a 1 ton mass of bovine muscle? Not advisable.) Having organized countless rallies...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chávez and über- liberal actor Sean Penn got to meet yesterday at the capital’s Miraflores presidential palace. (Why are crazy people always the ones with juicy celeb stories?) The private, two-hour audience they held segued into...

Yesterday, at the annual dork convention known as Comic-Con International, a title was unveiled that will take the symbiotic relationship between product placement and fringe media to a new level—while buffooning Latinos at the same time! “Johnny Delgado Is...

Since it seems the Cuban dictator didn’t write any crazy shit in this weekend’s installment of his weekly editorials, the people at the papers stretched the unlikelihood of Fidel Castro ever returning to the island’s helm into ‘news.’ And...

Corruption in the Mexican police force is just like Diddy’s favorite tag line: can’t stop, won’t stop, it’s bad boys for life! Which is why we were hardly encouraged when the higher-ups in Mexico booted a total 284 top...