Did you know Alex Rodriguez’s estranged, strange wife, Cynthia, isn’t Latina? Nope, she’s Greek. And, apparently, some sort of mythic monster-lady. She’s used her degree in psychology to “brainwash” A-Rod and even pushed him into Madonna’s sinewy arms by...

In case you were wondering just how real David “I’ve never been kissed except in Gay Fan Fiction” Archuleta rolls, here’s a video of him speaking Spanish to a fan. And if you’re bilingually challenged here’s a translation: In...

A new study says bilingual people alter their personalities depending on which language they’re speaking. Totally true. When we speak Spanish, we automatically shift to “nervous our abuelita is going to ask us why we don’t move back to...

Rapper Prodigy continues to live up to his name by using language conversion software to release an album in Spanish. While in prison: Rapper Prodigy, currently serving a three-year prison sentence for gun possession, has decided to release a...

Peter Paul Olszewski Jr, a judge in Philadelphia, has sentenced four men charged with robbery to… learn English! Hmm, it will likely not help them pronounce “Olszewski” correctly on the first try, sir: The unusual sentence requires that the...

SIGMA is a group of about twenty-four science fiction writers who frequent the Department of Homeland Security’s science and technology conferences to offer advice and eat some complimentary mini-muffins. One of SIGMA’s members is Larry Niven, author of, among...

Why is it that Maria Mercedes looks so dang exotic? Could it be that Latinos all look …not exactly the same? Could it be that her great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-great-grandfather was kind of trigger-happy? In that way. A new study suggests that...

Sure, we’ve perused Craigslist’s Missed Connections section as much as the next creepy, self-absorbed person, so we thought it was a cute idea on Houstonist’s part to pick a few and make fun of them so that people reading...

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has taken steps to eradicate English from businesses, asking his country’s phone company workers to use Spanish equivalents of Anglo-dominated business and technical phrases like “Crazy Language Nazi:” Through a campaign launched Monday, newly nationalized...

Hey homeskillets! Diablo Cody, whom you may know as the Oscar award-winning screenwriter of Juno or as a former stripper, takes time out of her busy schedule of being incredibly edgy and totally boss to impart a little knowledge...

Javier Bardem became the first Spanish actor to receive an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor. Bardem, who won for his role in No Country For Old Men, took the opportunity to, once again, remind everyone how awful his...

Singer we-had-always-thought-of-as-Latina-anyway, Nelly Furtado, told a Chilean paper that she feels Latina: “I definitely feel Hispanic, I feel Latina,” the Canadian-born singer of Portuguese decent explained. “I have a very very strong connection with my culture. Singing in Spanish...

We’re not sure if it’s because everyone we know and (at one point) loved is creaming their jeans over Obama, but we cannot. Escape. His. Campaign. Maybe it’s because we are Hispanic and female and they have THE FUTURE...

New York City’s Department of Health and Mental Hygiene [Ed. note: Keepin’ our minds clean?] is giving out free condoms with fun slogans in English, Spanish and Too Drunk To Remember: The English-language condom wrappers bear the slogan “Get...

Facebook’s creator, Jesus Mark Zuckerberg, thanked the 1,500 individuals who volunteered to translate the social networking site into Spanish with the best gift ever. Well. Second best gift ever after a relationship request [Ed. note: …baby.]. A Facebook gift!...

“Stuttering: For Kids By Kids” is a DVD available in Spanish to help stuttering children feel like they aren’t alone in their gross, embarrassing deformity: Many children who stutter have never met anyone else who struggles with the same...

Jessica Alba seems incredibly committed to this new image she’s throwing around, stating now that she hopes to speak to her baby only in Spanish, despite the fact that she’s still just learning the language herself: “Hopefully I can...

After flirting a little with Mexican and Spanish influenced sounds on their latest album, The White Stripes have decided to go all the way and release a Spanish-language single under the name “Las Rayas Blancas:” Las Rayas Blancas is...

One Texas mom is insisting her daughter sit out on mandatory Spanish classes in school because she feels learning Spanish sends a message that it’s ok for immigrants not to learn English: Ashleigh and her mother, Leigh Allison, say...

Sources have confirmed that Jessica Alba is Latina magazine’s March cover girl. And good for her! In a quote that didn’t make it into the final interview, Jessica takes some time to sit down and address those pesky expectations...

A glitch in Google Translate converts “I will miss Heath Ledger” to “Voy a perder Tom Cruise.” If only. Cue maniacal laughter… now: This looks like a simple bug in the system, perhaps the work of a bored Googler...

We don’t normally associate with the help. They’re meek and have small hands and smell like strange, foreign foodstuffs. But, sometimes, it’s necessary. So thank goodness we have this handy lesson guide to teach us how to tell our...

Craig Romney, the third-hottest Romney son and by far the most dentally gifted, narrates a new campaign dad in Spanish for his dad, Mitt. The ad will be shown in Miami: THE SCRIPT In Spanish, Craig Romney, one of...

Facebook, the online network that has allowed you to keep in touch with both your friends and creepy high school boys who keep sending you kisses, has let users do the work of translating the site for non-English speakers:...

Are you a New York-based Latino? Do you speak words? Well, chances are, you say them in a funny way which makes people laugh and feel also perhaps a little bit afraid of you. A linguistic study conducted by...

A new book “Spanish Word Histories and Mysteries: English Words that Come from Spanish,” warns teaches that Spanish has been infiltrating the English language for centuries. It’s like an armada English word for “armada” in your mouth, really. Shit,...

Canada’s “Naked News” show, which features female anchors stripping until they’re nude while giving the news, will soon be available in Korean, Italian and… Spanish!: Created by Fernando Pereira and Kirby Stasyna, Naked News first aired online in 1999...

A new Wikipedia-style site, called Wikilengua, hopes to teach Spanish speakers how to use their language properly and effectively. Preferably without the risk of being ridiculed on a sign outside a tacky an elegant dining establishment: Spoken in more...

Casa D’Ice restaurant, located in beautiful North Versailles, PA, is, as you could probably garner from its name, one of the finer eating establishments one could hope to visit. Not content to merely serve its patrons the finest Italian...

Two masked gunmen who held up a Latino market in South Carolina were kind enough to translate their instructions so that no one would feel left out or ostracized: At about 9 p.m., two men wearing camouflage shirts and...

The Baltimore Sun features a piece today advising us U.S. Americans to resist the “linguistic terrorism” of English-only laws. Mmm linguistic terrorism: Linguistic terrorism has plagued children of immigrants and Native Americans for generations. Alberto Alvaro Ríos wrote in...

Republican Presidential hopeful and affair-haver Rudy Giuliani has been pretty vocal about his thoughts concerning English, i.e. you should speak it. But, hey, even if you don’t, you should still votar por his ass. A Spanish-language campaign endorsed by...

Twenty-three bilingual police officers in Houston, Texas are suing for unpaid overtime and other compensation due to the amount of work they have to do because, they say, the department has not hired enough Spanish-speaking officers: The officers are...

A Spanish man who assaulted a young Ecuadorian girl on a Barcelona subway train remains free until his trial. Apparently, punching her, grabbing her breasts and kicking her in the face while shouting things like “immigrant bitch” and “slut”...

An article in Newsweek touched upon an issue we’ve been thinking a lot about since having to read through word after word of Senator and presidential candidate Tom Tancredo’s anti-Latinos, anti-immigrant, anti-Spanish rhetoric. What place does Spanish have in...

Notably (or not, really) missing from Univision’s Spanish-language Republican debate this past weekend was Senator Tom Tancredo. Tancredo has criticized his fellow candidates for “pandering” to Spanish-speakers who, he says, can’t even vote anyway:...

Republican Senator Tom Tancredo is refusing to participate in this weekend’s Spanish-language Republican debate, to be held in Miami, because he believes it encourages illegal immigration: “What all my colleagues — what the other candidates are doing — it’s...

Kelly is a typical teen girl who loves shoes and hates text message break-ups. Her Aunt Susan is in town with her Latina life partner, Maria, who kindly takes the time to teach us about the intricacies, the ins...

A new study shows that second generation Latinos in the U.S. tend to speak more and better English than their first generation parents. Like, duh! Beesh, we know we speak English so good: The classic pattern, reported by the...

The LAPD is searching for a couple involved in a lottery scam targeting Spanish-speaking people in predominantly Latino neighborhoods. The man and woman approach their intended victim, all who have been Spanish-speaking women, and ask them to cash in...

A group of Spanish-speaking workers have filed a discrimination suit against their workplace, G&C industries, after their employer implemented an “English only” policy at work. Andres Moran, one of the workers, gives us a lesson in geography: According to...

A suit filed against The Salvation Army has sparked a Senate debate over language in the workplace. The discussion prompted Senate Republicans to seek legislation that prevents the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) from enforcing rules against English-only workplaces:...

Bilingual speakers are, apparently, at a loss for when to speak English or Spanish. Life is so complicated: Cuban-born Maria Carreira, the coauthor of two college Spanish textbooks, can glide easily between her native tongue and English. But in...

Police in Mesa, Arizona are being hampered by their inability to speak to and understand callers in a city were 99% of all 911 calls are in Espanich. The language barrier threatens public safety by allowing criminals to escape...

Latinoids are all over prime time TV nowadays: conducting crime scene investigations, working at magazines, dating white people. Sometimes they even speak Spanish and, on occasion, much to the delight of the LA Times, they can even manage to...

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...

In support of Hispanic Heritage Month, last night CNN’s “Out In The Open” decided to get real and expose the insidious xenophobia that makes this country the greatest nation in the world. The topic was the English-only debate and...

When the headline “Student punished for ‘white power’ call” popped up in our reader from the Denver Post yesterday, we didn’t pay it much mind. When the same story popped up today under the headline “Student disciplined for ‘white...

Univisión is scheduling the first, Spanish -language, U.S. Presidential debates to air on their network on September 9 and 16 covering the Democratic and Republican parties respectively. But only one Republican candidate, Senator John McCain of Arizona, agreed to...