When our little brother Machochip isn’t all busy being concerned that stuff like balls and video games and boobs and video games of balls with boobs, he likes to kick back and envision a world where Alex Rodriguez and...

This Sunday is the Puerto Rican Day Parade in New York City, so in honor of that most prestigious event, today on Friday Flatchback we’re featuring Puerto Rico’s own super boy band Menudo. Because what Latina didn’t have their...

In Latin America homosexuals are still considered the unfortunate other. Even progressive homochummy Latinos are sometimes clueless as to how to deal with their gay friends. An issue that sometimes reflects this country’s prevailing attitudes towards Latinos in general....

The new Menudo’s were announced Tuesday at a special time that we didn’t watch because it was at 3:00 in the afternoon—when we’re going into our post-lunch coma/nap. But we did catch the fact that they’d be appearing on...

We don’t know who or what the song “Cantare, Cantaras” benefited, but if it had anything to do with hair, those less-fortunates are, no doubt, sitting pretty today. Thanks to this Latin American, all-star “We Are The World” rip-off...

William Contreras Ramos, a twenty-year-old native of Puerto Rico, caused a commotion at New York’s John F. Kennedy airport when he took a quick break from boarding his plane to smoke a cigarette and discovered he lost his boarding...

Last Thursday was the premiere of “Making Menudo” and we missed it because, frankly, there’s only so much barely pubescent boy love we can take in one evening. But we’ve since checked it out and have a few thoughts...

This week marked the season Premiere of “Making Menudo,” the most important reality show of our time. And, yet, none of us managed to watch it. What we did do was scour the internet for what the stars are...

Sorry, for the double shot of Menudo-itis, but “Making Menudo,” the most important reality show of our time, premieres tomorrow on Mtv and we are more than a little obsessed. After all, Menudo practically invented Latinos coming to America....

Oh my God, “Making Menudo” premeires TO-morrow on Mtv and the tales of bitchiness between the fifteen contestants are already making their way to the surface like the steam off a turd. It seems the boys are already making...

Gossip site TMZ wrote a post yesterday in one-semester Spanish about Making Menudo, the reality show about the boy-band that launched a million pimples. The post said that the reality show has finished recording and that the new group...

Our sister’s boyfriend’s cousin Pito who delivers sushi at Viacom totally hooked us up with this super secret, advance clip of the new Menudo single, “Más Que Amor (A E I O U).” Yes! It’s got the vowels in...

Making Menudo, a reality show about the teeny bopper Boyricua band Menudo, will premiere on October 25th on MTV. Real Television writes: The series begins with the 15 finalists flown to Miami where they are immersed in a “Menudo...

This indeed is a bittersweet day at Guanabee. Bitter because this is our associate editor Carlos Nobleza Posas’ last day. Sweet because our little baby is all grown up and going off to Spain to teach English and try...

We’re not going to pretend there’s any real reason to post this most awesome piece of Latin pop nostalgia other than the fact that it’s the last day of summer and we’re stuck here on Labor Day blogging to...

After months and months of publicity regarding Jessica Alba’s identity crisis, annoyingly self-referential Entertainment Weekly writer Vanessa Juarez tries to relate to the actress so they can cry ‘woe is us for being ethnically ambiguous.’ The banter is enough...

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...