Puerto Rico is a unique, beautiful island. It’s a halfway nation, err… o.k., make that a halfway U.S. colony. As such, it has characteristics of…

Mexico In The Midwest
Home to 100,000 Chicago residents (83% Mexican and Mexican-American) Little Village is one of Chicago’s largest and most densely populated neighborhoods.…

Interview with Residente Calle 13 about their new album Los de atras vienen conmigo.

Whether Barack Obama or John McCain is inaugurated next year, the future leader will take over a dire situation. Specifically, a country where 6.1 percent…

Over two decades strong, Cypress Hill continues to be the #1 Latino rap act in this country.  As hip hop culture took shape in the…

My favorite ex-Menudo is back with his first album completely en español, after 12 years of doing the bilingual thing. After hunting all over for…

Electronic music has always had strong ties with the city of Chicago. Going not too far in the past when house music was born in…

Contrary to stereotypes still lingering in the 2008 election- Latinos speak English, we are Republicans, Democrats, Independents and we do vote. Maria Teresa Petersen, Executive…

In 1968, Lyndon B. Johnson declared September 15 the beginning of Hispanic Heritage Week. Decades later, Ronald Reagan eventually extended the festivities to a month-long…

Writer and human-rights crusader Ariel Dorfman has multiple homes, multiple identities, three languages, at least three countries. Since the military coup in Chile – on…

By now, we’ve probably all seen Barack Obama’s mariachi video or noticed John McCain’s photo ops with Mexican president Felipe Calderón.
But, of course, we…

In the era of the home studio, software and laptops, you can record music anywhere around the world. But just a few places on earth…

An untapped sense of aching emptiness permeates the central characters in writer-director Woody Allen’s 39th feature film Vicky Cristina Barcelona. As American tourists Vicky (Rebecca…

The conventions are over–the race is officially on, and in just under two months, America goes to the polls to vote for the 44th President…

As an incoming high school freshman at Senn High School in Roger’s Park, fifteen-year old Eduardo Ochoa is more worried about the Latin Kings recruiting…