LOLitas! Apparently, the Lolita style is a burgeoning trend among New York City girls who are opting out of wearing those same fucking little bubble-hem dresses and gladiator sandals all over SoHo while working in media jobs and drinking...

Best writer in the whole world, Junot Diaz, was joined by fellow novelist Richard Price to wax poetic about New York for the 40th anniversary of New York Magazine. Turns out, Junot really misses that time you could walk...

Calling all Nuyoricans! “MTV: True Life” wants to know if you think you’ve got what it takes to make for great, cringe-worthy, laughter-inducing moments of schadenfreude for a brand new episode. They’ve posted a Craigslist ad looking for shameless...

This week Guanabee has been skulking around looking for long haired freaky people at the 9th annual Latin Alternative Music Conference in New York City otherwise known as LAMC. This young man, Alex*Cuba (who for some reason puts an...

Check out these cool photos by Dulce Pinzon, co-proprietor of Fresa Salvaje, portraying Latino immigrants in New York City as super heroes. From her website: The principal objective of this series is to pay homage to these brave and...

Puerto Ricans of all walks of life descended upon Fifth Avenue in New York this past Saturday to celebrate the 51st annual Puerto Rican Day Parade, also known as Upper East Side Terror Observance Day. We at Guanabee take...

First, please note the title of our source: “Lawmakers Target Psychedelic Herb, Public Urination.” Translation? Lawmakers Target Guanabee Parties. The Senate is proposing a ban on salvia, an herb with psychedelic properties, and charging anyone in possession of it...

Natalie Portman and her Venezuelan boyfriend, Devendra Banhart, were walking around Manhattan when she got pissed on by a dog. Which she couldn’t immediately kill and eat because she’s a vegan: Portman, who has been spotted in the West...

Fortunately we never have to ponder that question since someone did Gawker Stalk Pope Benedict XVI this morning. HA! We are so excited to have the Papa in town thanks to intense media coverage that is brainwashing us into...

A raid in Queens, New York finds officials in charge of carting away at least five tractor trailers’ worth of counterfeit merchandise, including handbags, footwear and apparel. There goes your Cucci purse, Yesleysis: Thousands of handbags bearing the Burberry,...

In a historic and bold move, newly sworn-in New York Governor David Paterson got his sex scandal out of the way last night, in an interview during his inaugural celebration. Efficiency in Albany! Paterson, who rose from Lieutenant Governor...

It turns out the baby girl that was left in a livery cab Thursday morning in New York was actually left by her dad in cahoots with the livery cab driver. The father’s sister—who helped him hatch the plan—confessed...

A baby that was abandoned in a Queens, New York livery cab yesterday morning still has no one claiming her. (We know it’s a “her” cuz of the headband.) We figured we should post her face here since it...

Cameron Diaz and “Grey’s Anatomy” cadaver Ellen Pompeo have both placed bids on the same apartment in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. This is just like news, except the opposite: Two Hollywood stars [Ed note: Generous!] might have to duke it...

Australian actor, Heath Ledger, 28, was found dead in his Manhattan apartment at 421 Broome Street in Soho. At 3:31 p.m., a masseuse arrived at Apartment 5A in the building for an appointment with Mr. Ledger, the police said....

Fear of bridges kept woman a prisoner on Staten Island. Fear of Staten Island is our bridge to sanity. [The New York Times] Puerto Rican girls discuss bargains. Boring? Fine. LiV3 nUd3 pU3rTo RiC@n giRLz!!1!! discuss bargains.[Overheard In New...

Rafael Cruz, a twenty-seven year old New Yorker who should know better than to make eye contact on the subway, was slapped silly by a group of teen girls on the A train. Video footage of the incident was...

Latino and Black doormen like working in Brooklyn because they are expected to do less, says one kind of passively racist doorman: Todd Chambers, 38, an African-American concierge and security guard at the Gretsch building who claims to have...

Legendary conga player Carlos ‘Patato’ Valdes died of complications due to emphysema yesterday. Patato became short of breath while flying home to New York from a gig in San Francisco with legendary drummers Cándido Camero and Giovanni Hidalgo on...

We’re not the only ones obsessed with whether or not Latinos celebrate Thanksgiving. El Diario in New York took to the streets to find out the various reasons people don’t dig on turkey. Turns out some folks think it’s...

“Molly Crabapple Is Half Puerto Rican,” is the subject line of the email that arrived in our inboxes this week about New York-based, burlesquey sketch artist Molly Crabapple. We don’t meet Puerto Ricans named Crabapple everyday, (even halfies), so...

Many U.S. immigration laws are Band-Aid solutions to calming hysterical people, akin to giving a screaming child a toy rather than smack him in front of everyone at the Wal-Mart. Which is why New York firefighters in the small...

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...

Latino New York lawmakers met with New York Governor Elliot Spitzer over breakfast recently to propose he sign a “don’t ask, don’t tell” order guaranteeing that undocumented residents there are able to access state services without having to report...

We ran into these folks outside the Venezuelan consulate in midtown Manhattan Sunday and couldn’t help but notice the articulate sign held by that nice woman in front which basically translates to, “Venenzuelans, quit being dumbasses and say no...

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...

Details are still hazy, but it seems a homemade explosive device went off sometime this morning at the Mexican Consulate in New York City. Windows were shattered and many Mexicans who lined up awaiting visas are left to crowd...

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...

The frequent, random, Migra raids have gotten so bad lately that even the cops are complaining —and they’re the kings of questionable practices: LONG ISLAND officials protested when federal agents searching for immigrant gang members raided local homes two...

New York city officials have confirmed that they’re done searching for a new site for Astroland, effectively killing Brooklyn’s legendary amusement park at Coney Island upon which all amusement parks after it were modeled. (Can’t you tell we’re all...

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...

It’s not often we get to be sincere. Mainly because it makes us itch down there. But we have got to give a shout out where a shout out is due. And that’s to one Ms. Mayra Mejia, an...

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...

An Ecuadorian linguist in New York is marketing a boardgame called “The Illegal Game,” where you play the role of an undocumented immigrant winding his way through all the city’s boroughs towards the end goal of a retirement pension....

Mexican teen idols RBD are beloved throughout Latin America as the model of lip-synching, tip-frosted youth. Which is why we were so distraught when we heard that young “band” member Christian Chavez was busted in May for buying a...

After an incredibly long run, one of New York City’s most beloved Spanish-language bookstores is closing its doors. Librería Lectorum, owned by book publisher Scholastic, is closing down after 47 years and moving to the more profitable(?) world of...

An intern insider says that one of last night’s tents at New York’s fashion week had the privilege of walking our favorite brown skeleton, America’s Next Top Model winner Jaslene Gonzalez. We’re told she did something most of the...

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...

Saying fuck it to the conventions of celebrity endorsement, the owner of a taco restaurant in the hipster-infested Williamsburg neighborhood of Brooklyn has taken it upon himself to paint a mural of Angelina Jolie three stories above his business....

The above is a stylized version of the opinion expressed by Fresno Bee political columnist María Elena Salinas, and we tend to see some truth in it. This, kiddies, is how you piggyback onto expertise: It now seems to...

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...

A poll of over 1,000 British tourists has revealed that New York’s Times Square and Statue of Liberty are the 3rd and 5th-most overrated sights of interest in the entire world, respectively. (Clearly, they can’t relate to the joy...

• The director of the upcoming New York Salsa Congress got into salsa to attract women. Wonder if it’ll work on attendees. [Village Voice] • Ryan Seacrest will be emcee of next year’s Super Bowl. And we thought this...

Under the megawatt heat lamp of the dreaded immigration issue, presidential candidates sweat, squirm and say things they feel voters want to hear. (Mainly to the tune of, ‘I promise to eradicate them.’) Case in point, Republican Mitt Romney...

A herd of eggheads has gathered in New York over the weekend for the American Sociological Association’s Annual Meeting 2007, whose most intriguing presentation so far is a study showing that Latinos who’ve “replaced their traditional cultural beliefs with...

We tend to keep our distance from modern professional dance—especially the kind that borders on interpretive—because the artform’s pretentious and, frankly, over our heads. But when we read a gushing review of Brazilian dance company Mimulus’ Friday night performance...

New Yorkers brave enough (or high enough) to catch the 2000-something extended run of “De La Guarda”—where performers suspended by cables soared over audience members and dropped water and confetti on them as a prelude to vigorous groping, all...

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...

After indulging us last week with a double- whammy of Latino dialogue, Overheard In New York seems to have taken that whole ‘spicy’ thing seriously. (Overcompensating much?) This round’s submissions are all about cleansing; the first one concerns itself...

Lately Virgin Mobile has been getting on New Yorkers’ nerves with an outdoor campaign that attempts to flatter each local neighborhood with customized copy that works its way to a lame connection between the character of the neighborhood and...