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Letter to the Editor: How Cooter and son welcomed me to Alabama

by TOMAS SALAS May 16, 2012 Audio
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I knew that I was in a heap of trouble when the mechanics showed up in a big old beat-up four-wheel-drive mud-covered truck with a hand-painted sign on the doors that read Cooter’s Roadside Auto Repair. These fellas sat in their truck a little too long — staring at me — before they got out [...]

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PochoCast #4: Alcaraz/Madrigal ‘Cinco de Mayo fever jumps the shark’

by HERMAN CAIN'S ARCADE May 7, 2012 Audio
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POCHO’s Lalo Alcaraz, Jefe-in-Chief, and Al Madrigal, Migrant Editor, Skype truth to power in PochoCast Number Four. The long-distance interlocutors are all about Cinco de Mayo fever, Mexican Mitt Romney, Gustavo Arellano,  Taco John’s,  SB1070, Obama, the Dream Act, Los Lobos, Latino USA, Taco USA, La Cucaracha, Ann Romney, Twitter, hate mail, the Politico blog, [...]

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NPR Cinco de Mayo show taps Gustavo Arellano, La Santa Cecilia

by MYRA GLASS May 3, 2012 Audio
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Coming from the East Coast and all, the National Public Radio Alt.Latino peeps needed to come here to get the real California deal on Cinco de Mayo. They called on two local treasures:  Gustavo Arellano, editor of OCWeekly.com, and East Los rockers La Santa Cecilia: This week we bring ourselves to that most bicultural of [...]

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Straight-ahead jazz: The Iguanas are all about the ‘Pocho’

by SYMPHONY SID April 25, 2012 Audio
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We had to share this. Straight-ahead Latin electro-bop, a jazz tune with title you have to love: From New Orleans, The Iguanas come out swinging with Pocho.

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Letter to the Editor: All the arragement is done about your ATM CARD

by MR. UDEAGHA OLUCHUKWU April 23, 2012 Audio
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GOOD DAY MY FRIEND. How are you, and with your family, All the arragement is done about your ATM CARD,there is no problem again but i let you know that . Our ATM DEPARTMENT OFFICE Benin republic here are delivery your ATM MASTER CARD with very little amount If you are ready to receive it [...]

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Letter to the Editor: The Ghetto Manifesto by Lady D (NSFW audio)

by Especial Correspondents April 18, 2012 Audio
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It came in exactly this way via our handy SUBMIT form. (On the go? There’s a NSFW two-minute audio podcast version we created at the bottom of this article): This is to every person who wants to get out and break free to be human and not be a fucking stereotype. I call it the [...]

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PochoCast #3: Alcaraz and Madrigal on tacos and art and identity

by SOLO MIO April 12, 2012 Audio
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POCHO Jefe-in-Chief  Lalo Alcaraz gets Migrant Editor Al Madrigal on Skype to talk about the art and death of Thomas Kinkade and the Pew Hispanic identity survey (Latino? Hispanic? Mexican?) ¡Ask A Mexican! Gustavo Arellano phones in to discuss his delicious new book Taco USA and producer Marcelo Ziperovich wonders if he’s a “white Hispanic” like [...]

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Ñewsweek: @Astro_Jose is A-OK, Zimmerman’s ‘Latinidad’ revoked

by Comic Saenz April 1, 2012 Audio
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This week’s ñews ran from A to Z as California Democratic Congressional candidate Jose Hernandez (@Astro_Jose on Twitter) didn’t need to show his papers to “prove” he is an astronaut, a national organization stripped alleged Trayvon Martin killer George Zimmerman of his official Latino credentials and our new columnist Dear Abuelita dispensed unexpected advice on love [...]

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PochoCast #2: Human WiFi hotspots, asteroids, satire and SXSW

by poCHO ESTAFF March 17, 2012 Audio
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Saturday Night Funnies! In our exciting and biting second podcast, POCHO’s Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz, Migrant Editor Al Madrigal and Subcommandanta del News Sara Inés Calderón talk about homeless human WiFi hotspots, an asteroid heading towards Earth, disaster preparedness (Al grows veggies) and the Austin GeekFiesta also known as SXSW (South By Southwest.) LOLs aplenty! (NSFW language.) [...]

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POCHO Podcast #1: Lalo Alcaraz and Al Madrigal have words for you

by POCHO ESTAFF March 6, 2012 Audio
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POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz (in Southern California) and Migrant Editor Al Madrigal (in New York) Skyped away last week for POCHO’s first coast-to-coast podcast.

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