Articles Tagged with: april aguirre

Happy Cinco de Cuatro!
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Happy Cinco de Cuatro!

It’s pretty hard to mess up today’s date, but in a throwback to the Bushisms we haven’t heard in a while, Obama did.
Yesterday’s date,…

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Margarita Jimeno Non-Stop
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Margarita Jimeno Non-Stop

Up-and-coming Colombian filmmaker Margarita Jimeno met us for a cup of mint tea and conversation minutes from her apartment and not too far from our…

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Unincorporated East LA Creeps Towards Cityhood
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Unincorporated East LA Creeps Towards Cityhood

East L.A., an unincorporated section of LA County, wants to become its own city because of the lack of representation in city politics.

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Our Next Prez on Latin America
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Our Next Prez on Latin America

As we go crazy anticipating who our next president will be, questioning if we’ll make history with Obama or have to move out of the…

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Go, Dodgers, Go!
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Go, Dodgers, Go!

The Dodgers beat the Phillies tonight 7-2 in game three of the National League Championship Series, as the biggest crowd in Dodger Stadium history waved…

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What the %$&#% is Hispanic Heritage Month?
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What the %$&#% is Hispanic Heritage Month?

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…

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The Other (Latino) Candidates
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The Other (Latino) Candidates

While Daddy Yankee is busy going through a political identity crisis, other (thinking) Latinos have gone almost completely ignored – and these people are running…

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LALIFF Kicks Off Next Week
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LALIFF Kicks Off Next Week

If Guillermo del Toro’s well-reviewed, summer spectacular Hellboy II wasn’t the type of Latino film direction you’d normally seek out, then look to this fall’s…

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