A story recently published in The Oregonian featured a picture of a poor, Hispanic woman pulling a cart with bags that will hold the groceries she will pay for with food stamps. Missing from the story was the woman’s,...

Forget having a black man in the White House. We never thought we’d live to see a Latino Christmas movie. Seriously, brown folks and sleigh bells don’t exactly coincide in the collective American imagination. But, as you know, most...

Upon first viewing Alejandra Guzman’s live medley performance of “Hasta El Final / Soy Solo Un Secreto” last night on the Latin Grammys, we were a little aghast at her Meatloaf meets Siempre En Domingo moment. But in the...

From the folks who brought you the world’s first reggaeton jingle, comes a new television spot with singing Latino puppets. And a chihuahua! It’s not hard to see that Optimum cable’s prime target audience is Latinos, (Puerto Ricans in...

We just witnessed Regis Philbin and Kelly Ripa giving a very awkward apology to the Dominican community on their show Live With Regis & Kelly for something they said last week—and we were all, who? Ha? Wha? We looked...

We just got in touch with Tor Myhren the guy who designed the race switching election poster that makes John McCain look like he rolled around in chocolate Quick! and Barack Obama like he fell head first into a...

News dropped late yesterday that Grey’s Anatomy—the show that commits more medical malpractices an hour than a Mexican hospital—will be wrapping up the lesbian storyline between Dr. Callie Torres, played by Sarah Ramirez and Dr. Erica Hahn, played by...

The last segment of the Mario Lopez-Barack Obama interview aired on Extra Friday and, after pulling ourselves out of a sugar/pumpkin/alcohol haze, we finally got around to loading it up to the internet. As promised, in this final episode,...

digg_skin = 'compact'; digg_bgcolor = '#f1f8fa'; digg_url = 'http://digg.com/political_opinion/Role_Reversal_Let_The_Issues_Be_The_Issues_Image'; Election day is less than 24 hours away and this Halloween weekend, we ran into two different election posters that seek to get your vote by dressing the candidates up...

Last night Extra finally aired the first half of Mario Lopez’s very serious, journalistic interview with Presidential candidate Barack Obama. Mario gets down to brass tacks to ask the Senator what he—Mario Lopez—can do (besides auction off his bod)...

The interblogs got a press release this week announcing that La Coacha, a Perez Hilton discovery who launched her Latin gossip blog Chismetime in April, is a big star now. In addition to helping her appear on various MTV...

We all know that Halloween is the time of year when many women let their hidden whore out of the closet by dressing like a sexy police officer or sexy librarian or sexy butcher. But now it seems that...

Boy, when Extra gets an interview with the future president they don’t waste any time milking it, or rather, they waste all our time milking it into a week long presidential cocktease called, “Mario’s Amazing Race To Obama.” We...

If you can’t get enough of America’s two cutest brown people, Mario Lopez and Barack Obama, today is your lucky day. The two will tête-à-tête on celeb gossip show extra this very eve. In a preview of the episode...

30 Rock, the only show that’s funny right now, made a Selena Quintanilla reference on its third season premiere. The episode premiered on the internet yesterday, a full week before it will air on television, because NBC knows the...

What liberal isn’t voting this election? We don’t know any, but just in case your friends are stupid, you can now put their name in a faux news clip that imagines their apathy lost the election for Obama. This...

CNN has a story today about how women in Arab countries are overwhelmingly portrayed as submissive and weak in the media. In soap opera storylines, they are often placed in violent situations where they are being beaten by a...

We’re a little late to the party with this observation because who the hell watches Lipstick Jungle, the show based on yet another Candace Bushnell novel that will probably be cancelled at the end of this season? Okay, we...

The funniest thing about the new Chevy Traverse television commercials that feature a hot, shirtless guy ironing and making dinner reservations to illustrate the tagline “Everything you’ve ever wished for” is the overwhelming bewilderment from people across the internet...

For all the anti-Mexican sentiment we’ve had to endure these past few years, it’s nice to see some Americans really embracing our neighbors to the south like this crazy gringo Robert Alexander who has his own Televisa produced culture...

Just a reminder that a brand new episode of Mad Men—the show cool enough to choose this guy as a finalist for their “You Could Be On Mad Men Video Contest”—airs tonight. We mean, seriously, how many emmy winning...

Latina.com has compiled a list of Latino faces they say could replace the original cast of Gossip Girl were it to go that way. Much to our chagrin, most of their picks are look-a-like, pale skin Latinos, (like Selena...

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...

Last season, fans of the sci-fi show Heroes complained that Dania Ramirez’ character Maya, whose special power is to kill people by crying (post-feminist!), spent way too much time shedding tears and not enough time sexing it up like...

The second phase of Microsoft’s new “I’m A PC” campaign has launched with a 60-second television spot that ran ad nauseum this weekend and features several celebrity endorsers including Eva Longoria and her houseboy husband Tony Parker. In an...

Hey did you watch the 2008 ALMA Awards Friday—the television show that aims to “show how diversity strengthens our country” but usually only makes us sad? Well never fear. Through magic we don’t yet understand, we can bring you...

Gay, Latino boys, your day has come in the form of Perez Hilton spokesmodeling for Levi’s. (We know, we feel the same way about Ugly Betty.) Queerly called, “Unbuttoned” (cuz you guys can’t keep your pants on), the campaign...

As was expected, Tina Fey did a fantastic job impersonating Sarah Palin last night on Saturday Night Live. With great writing on behalf of women everywhere, writers! This video sums it up for poor Hillary Clinton: she scratched and...

In a review of the CW’s new show Privileged which premiered last night, USA Today’s entertainment critic Robert Bianco says the network is turning whiter and richer with every premiere. Sounds like Manhattan real estate. But sears, we were...

Hey check out this hand-dandy, abortion classifieds page in New York’s El Diario. You can get 10% off a procedure for pregnancies up to 12-weeks. Maybe you can apply that savings to the plastic surgery also advertised at the...

Hey check out this video interview T, The New York Times style magazine, recently did with Javier Bardem for their “Screen Test” series. Couldn’t you just eat M&M’s from those dimples? Sorry! Serious journalist hats are on now. In...

What do churros have to do with computers? Not much! Except maybe they’ll somehow get the fastest growing minority in the United States to stop buying iBooks and start buying Microsoft. Is anyone else slightly put off by how...

Hey remember the character of Puppet from American Me? What about Chuco from Boulevard Nights? Yeah, us either, but apparently some people in that part of the world do. Fifty one-year old actor Danny De La Paz, who played...

We suppose in the town that makes “The Hills,” people have a hard time distinguishing the difference (and relative importance) between real life and reality television. Which may explain why the Los Angeles Times got television critic Robert Lloyd...

Hey look, we found Brazilian Victoria’s Secret model Alessandra Ambrósio’s Facebook profile pic amongst all the scary psychofan ones. And we have to say she looks prettier as an all-natural, pregnant whale than she does in any of those...

Randy Jackson’s reign of terror, for this season anyway, is finally over as the winner of “America’s Best Dance Crew” was named last night in the final episode on MTV that kind of reminded us of those ESPN cheerleading...

Mothers, do you long for those bygone days when all parenting required of you was to change some diapers and put some food in your baby? Did your kid grow up to be a back-talking American? Perhaps it’s your...

Oh, poo. No one wants to go halfsies with Hugo Chavez on Danny Glover’s new film about Haitian patriot Toussaint L’Ouverture. Remember the sweetheart deal that’s been in the making since last summer? But Danny doesn’t think it’s because...

At last night’s taping of the 2008 National Council of La Raza ALMA Awards set to air on ABC September 12, “Ugly Betty” swept the show. Which brings up two points: 1) The show was taped. Like the technical...

Last night on Comedy Central, Bob Saget got roasted. And while most comedians relied heavily on Olsen Twins jokes, Cloris Leachman took the opportunity to tell John Stamos what every woman in the 80’s wanted to say: that she’s...

Listen, sports suck. So the closest we got to the Olympics last night was reviewing the ups and downs of Lauren Conrad’s relationship with Brody Jenner whose dad happens to be a 1976 Olympic gold medalist. (Sidebar: Last summer...

Hey remember Inés Gómez Mont the zany, Mexican, TV “journalist” who proposed to Tom Brady during a Super Bowl press conference? Well, she’s covering the Olympics in Beijing now and has cooked up an even more endearing bit than...

Are you one of those people who is always asking successful people you don’t know to hook you up just because you’re both raza? Well now there’s a show for you on Mun2. It’s called “The Hook Up” and...

Photographer Erin Patrice O’Brien said she got the idea for her “Mamás Adoloscentes” project after giving birth to her own daughter and wondering how the hell teenagers cope with such a traumatic change. She photographed five Mexican girls in...

The desire to telegraph a great deal about a character in a short amount of time can leave a writer open to using cultural stereotypes. It’s human and we all do it. But so is shitting our pants when...

These wild postings for Brazilian rum Cabana Cachaça appeared suddenly yesterday in Midtown Manhattan and already ad blogger Copyranter is on the case. There’s nothing so expedient as a horny copywriter! The ads feature a naked, headless model. (Well,...

Riblet! Your first single. We! Are! Proud of you! Say, we are proud of you! David Archuleta’s first single, “Crush,” premiered this morning on New York Radio Station Z100 and the video cameras were there to capture every excruciating...

As if getting a sneak preview of Che wasn’t an exciting enough way to end the week, someone caught the extended trailer for Benicio Del Toro’s other much-awaited vehicle The Wolfman on video last weekend at Comic-Con in San...

Conner Oberst recorded his latest, self-titled album in Tepoztlán, Mexico. (What is it with the hipsters and Mexico these days?) It’s the first time he’s not recorded under the name Bright Eyes since high school and he decided to...

The leaked trailer for Che El Argentino just landed in our inbox. You’ve never known how badly you want to hump Benicio Del Toro until you hear him speak Argentinean. (Provided you’re not actually Argentinean.) Could the leak have...