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Will Selena’s comeback tour feature a holographic JLo?

by Verdana Bold May 1, 2012 Cultura
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(PNS reporting from HOLLYWOOD) Selena’s old band is hitting the road this summer with a holographic version of the murdered superstar and Jennifer Lopez wants the part. JLo played Selena Quintanilla-Pérez in a 1997 biopic about the singer. “We tried to tell her a hologram was not an actual person and that playing a hologram was [...]

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Is your cholo acting up? You need ‘The Cholo Whisperer’ (video)

by Verdana Bold April 27, 2012 Cultura
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Is your cholo acting up or acting out? Disobedient? Out of control? Just dial up Cholo Rescue Services and they’ll send out…Ignacio de la Cruz, The Cholo Whisperer. When good cholos go bad, you need to be the jefe. The Whisperer will show you the way.

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Meet America’s first Latino astronaut: José Jiménez

by Verdana Bold March 27, 2012 Cultura
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Just around the time actual Latino astronaut José Hernández was born, actor and comic Bill Dana (not a Latino) got famous playing José Jiménez, a sweet but dimwitted astronaut with a thick Latino accent. It was the beginning of the Space Race and astronauts were America’s new heroes, but the very idea of a Chicano [...]

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Post-Oscars Video: Mel Brooks talks back to the screen in ‘The Critic’

by Verdana Bold February 27, 2012 Cultura
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It’s the day after the Oscars, and everyone’s a critic, especially that annoying old guy in the movie theater who is talking back to the screen. Writer/actor/director/producer Mel Brooks won an Oscar for the animated short The Critic in 1963. It’s still as fresh and funny as ever – and maybe it sounds like someone [...]

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Obama aide’s ‘Chimichanga’ Tweet – racist or not?

by Verdana Bold February 15, 2012 El Now
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In what’s been termed “the tweet heard ’round the world,” Pres. Barack Obama’s campaign manager Jim Messina tweeted today that a line from a Washington Post editorial— “The chimichanga? It may be the only thing Republicans have left to offer Latinos” — was the “line of the day.” Consequently, and in short order, Republicans began [...]

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GOP primary votes drive ‘knowledge industry’ shares lower

by Verdana Bold February 1, 2012 El Now
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(PNS reporting from WALL STREET) The spectacle of enthusiastic GOP voters choosing one pinche pendejo or the other in the Florida primaries sent the widely-watched RIF index lower Tuesday, as investors acted on fears that ignorance was the new black. The Reading Is Fundamental index tracks firms like academic textbook publishers, for-profit educators and sliderule [...]

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Video: Gingrich Spanish TV ad now with English subtitles

by Verdana Bold January 27, 2012 El Now
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(PNS reporting from LA FLORIDA) As the Newt Gingrich campaign fights to win votes in the upcoming GOP primaries, his campaign has reached out to the Sunshine State’s Spanish-espeaking voters. As a public service, the former Freaker of the Spouse has prepared this version of the commercial with subtitles for voters who don’t habla Espanol. [...]

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