This thing looks like a dog at first glance, but check the snout in that freeze frame. That is no dog, its the Chupacabra! What’s more, it looks remarkably like the thing that washed up on shore in Montauk,...

Think having an exploding swan ice sculpture that flies and shoots out bubbles makes your quinces cool? What about having a theme - like “Disney Diva Delights in Denim” or “Winter Wonderland Whores?” Well, wipe off that cara de...

Where will we blog when we go home for Christmas? The one Starbucks in Brownsville, Texas is a dead store walking! After announcing it will close 600 stores between now and FY09, the previously unstoppable Starbucks empire has published...

One thing that was strikingly obvious last weekend at ¡Pachanga! Latino Music Festival is that Latinas are out in full force in the independent music world. And nowhere was that more apparent than with the band in the above...

It’s time for part three of Guanabee Editor Cindy Casares’ coverage of the ¡Pachanga! Latino Music Festival in Austin, Texas. In this segment, Cindy sits down with Maneja Beto members Alec Padron and Bobby Garza to ask how they...

This video features Cindy’s new favorite band Maneja Beto from Austin, Texas covering “El Gusto”— a song that perfectly showcases the hauntingly beautiful Maneja Beto sound that’s been known to make grown bloggers cry. She shot it at ¡Pachanga!...

In honor of Guanabee being in Texas this weekend for the Pachanga Latino Music Festival, this week’s flatchback is none other than the king of the party weekend Joe “King” Carrasco who invented Tex Mex Nuevo Wavo and then...

First Daughter Jenna “Twinkle” Bush got married to Henry Hager this past weekend at Prairie Chapel Ranch in Crawford, Texas. She wore her dad’s face and a lace wedding gown designed by Oscar de la Renta. Vows were exchanged...

Sheyla Hershey is a deliciously-named mother of two from Texas who would like to expand her FFF breasts. Sheyla already holds the honor of having the largest implants according to Brazil’s version of the Guinness Book of World Records...

We once read that blogging is totally the new deejaying. Well, if Guanabee were set to music, it might sound something like the new, two-hour, weekly “Rock Y Roll Radio” show that launched yesterday out of Austin, Tejas. Hosts...

KGBT TV in the Rio Grande Valley of Texas (represent!) interviewed Emilio Navaira’s family recently to see how he’s faring. In addition to learning that his sons are totes not Tejano cowboys, we also learn Emilio has been watching...

Here’s some long-awaited good news about Tejano superstar Emilio Navaira who suffered massive brain injuries due to a bus accident that occurred outside Houston Easter weekend. The Houston Chronicle reports that his condition has been upgraded to fair after...

Young Texans are becoming increasingly addicted to “cheese” - snortable black-tar heroin cut with crushed sleeping pills, which is probably a little worse than consuming Kraft singles, even. Health officials in Dalls, Texas are growing increasingly worried by the...

Grammy winning Tejano superstar Emillio Navaira is in critical condition today after a bus accident in southwest Houston in the wee hours of Monday Sunday morning left him and six other band members injured. Navaira, 45, had emergency surgery...

Ah, South Texas. The stuff of east coast, liberal, Jewish filmmakers’ snuff fantasies. A place where guys like Sheriff Santiago Barrera Jr. of Duval County still roam free making the nationally syndcated news by threatening reporters with incarceration for,...

Meet the Lucios. Texas State Senator Eddie Lucio, Jr. (D- District 27) and Texas State Representative Eddie Lucio III (D- District 38), or “Little Eddie” as we used to call him when he was a kid. You see, the...

Hillary Clinton seems to have won Ohio—though maybe not officially. Texas is still in a dead heat, but we happen to know that Cindy’s parents voted for Hillary, so that’s two votes for her. Vermont went to Obama and...

Mark your calendars. Well, yesterday. Go back in your time machines and mark your calendars yesterday as the day that Eva Longoria single-handedly lost the Texas Latino vote for Hillary Clinton by publicly claiming her support for the presidential...

Matt Gonzalez’s ex-girlfriend and “current confidante,” local San Francisco political activist Catherine Rauschuber (pictured here in happier times) is in Texas this week campaigning for Barry H. Obama. Yeeouch. That’s gotta sting with the heat of a thousand old...

Hispanic groups have asked Texans to boycott a Houston rodeo “livestock show” because they’re a bunch of whiners they think it doesn’t feature enough Hispanics and are upset that a Tejano band is not taking center stage: Among complaints...

At the recent Democratic debate in Austin, Texas, journalist Jorge Ramos (swooooon!) asked audacious presidential hopefuls Barack Obama and Hillary Clinton how they felt Fidel Castro’s resignation would affect U.S. policy towards Cuba. And they were like, “Horny.” JK!...

Sr. Corporal Victor Lozada-Tirado was killed after losing control of his motorcycle. Lozado-Tirado was escorting Hillary Clinton’s motorcade to a campaign rally in Dallas, Texas: Sr. Corporal Victor Lozada-Tirado was reportedly leading Clinton’s procession when he lost control of...

Barry O. is taking no chances on the Mexicans in Texas this primary because while, clearly, his regaetton song released earlier this year was the catchier jam, Texas will have it’s own song. So without further ado, we present...

Francisco Loaiza is the proprietor and sole employee of Dallas, Texas’ “Karaoke Yellow Cab,” which allows its driver to become easily distracted by a backseat full of drunken secretaries bellowing Elton John and Billy Joel:...

Perusing the news feed today, we couldn’t help but notice a string of headlines from Texas Rio Grande Valley ABC affiliate KRGV with strikingly violent (no pun) themes. We can only imagine the tales of drug trafficking and satanism...

Barack Obama’s campaign has a new series of Spanish-language ads that will debut on Texas radio stations and highlight how Obama is poor! And hardworking! Just like Latinos: The theme of the ad is that Obama is speaking to...

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...

A small newspaper based in South Texas has discovered that the Department of Homeland Security has been lying to area residents and government officials alike regarding the level to which they have involved and informed local communities in the...

An Texas attorney offended some Hispanic voters in his area by saying that guessing their number would be like guessing “beans in a jar.” A jar of tequila! And late child support payments! Some Hispanics, noting that “beaner” is...

Maria Isabela-Cruz of Dallas got busted with a large amount of metamphetamines with intent to sell last April, then made up a story about having breast cancer to get a shortened sentence. Now it turns out, she never had...

As hinted at earlier, the U.S.-Mexico Border Wall looms dangerously close to reality as the federal government continues to, you know, completely ignore the wishes of people who actually live on the U.S.-Mexico Border. Reports USA Today: U.S. District...

The Bara family of Benbrook, Texas were forced to temporarily leave their home after a wave of xenophobic crimes aimed at them and their home left them frightened: Sofía Bara said that someone tried to break into the home...

By now we’ve all heard about the prominent Latino actor who is making quite an impression on folks with his performance in the Oscar-bound Cohen Brothers hit, “No Country For Old Men.” We’re speaking, of course, of former Texas...

Schools in southern Texas California have taken to hiring photographers to photograph children as they cross the border on their commute to school. Smile! You’ve been expelled: The policy began when Calexico, Calif., school officials hired a photographer to...

Um…we totally wish we had written and produced this spot for Delicious Tamales in San Antonio. Instead we will honor it by posting it here. Mamá, save a plate for us....

Mauro Morales is a “peyotero” from Rio Grande City, Texas and our new very best friend in the entire world: Mauro Morales has chickens in his yard, deer antlers hanging from the fence and a shed full of peyote...

While some transvestites are on a crime spree, those in the Latino community of Dallas are bringing families together. Awwww. Where else can you find a baby girl tipping performers with dollar bills like a seasoned strip club goer?...

Dallas sure has come a long way from Strange Peaches according to this mini-doc “Fuera Del Closet: Gay Hispanic Immigrants In Dallas.” (Clever title!) Turns out gay Hispanics are changing shiz all up in the Dallas nightlife scene. Forget...

Austin, Texas based Zen restaurant purveyors of, in their own words, “Japanese food fast” has gotten kind of ingenious with new uses for their Spanish-speaking kitchen help. “For years Zen has been a bastion of multicultural interaction,” a modest...

Tests conducted by biologists at Texas State University show the gruesome dog/pig/Marc Anthony head belonging to a 40 pound, hairless creature found dead in a Texas woman’s backyard is not a Chupacabra, but a regular ol’ Texas coyote: “The...

Conrado Espinoza’s 1926 novel El Sol de Texas has just been translated to English as Under The Texas Sun and The Texas Observer reporter Michele Wucker saves us time reading it by describing it thusly: A Tex-Mex precursor to...

We’ve been sadly outbid. The lock of hair that used to adorn Che Guevara’s noggin, that we told you about earlier, has sold for $119,000 at auction. Bill Butler, a Houston-area book store owner, bought the tuft of hair...

We were shocked to find, in this morning’s “Food And Wine” section of the New York Times, reporter Joe Drape spewing seditious statements in defense of Tex-Mex cuisine. “Neither the government of Mexico nor the high priests of that...

U.S. Border Patrol officials finally released plans recently for the 700-mile stretch of “fence” the government hopes to build along the Texas-Mexico border. Though the majority of Texans have expressed their vehement opposition to the plan, citing reasons like...

It’s not often we get to feel proud of politicians. In fact some Latino Mayors can be downright embarrassing. But last week, some Texas mayors put the “can” back in Mexican when they organized to block the United States...

A new channel catering to Latino shoppers has sprung up on Dish Networks satellite services in Texas. The channel Shop Latino is designed to funnel products that bring variety to Latino shoppers like this handy-dandy item: The fajita-making kit...

• CNN runs a story about a Latino college kid who does Post-It art, proving they have way more time on their hands than the kid himself. [CNN] • From 2004 to 2006, a quarter of Texans didn’t have...

A Texas native with the same name and birthdate as an illegal immigrant was arrested Sunday, then threatened with deportation. Alicia Rodríguez spent the night in jail, and was told the following morning that la migra was coming to...

A news item about a Los Angeles based casting company for the ABC TV NBC show, “Friday Night Lights” not being able to fill 400 Mexican extras roles in Brownsville, Texas made us chuckle. Mainly because Brownsville, located spitting...

• We wonder which is more of an anomaly in the above clip of a goal in the under-17 World Cup match between Peru and South Korea: the way the ball bounces twice off the scorer’s head before hitting...