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Music Video: Shake it don’t break it! Matorralman’s ‘GoGo Girl’ (NSFW?)

by BUSTA PIÑATA February 22, 2012 Cultura
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Vintage footage of strip clubs and exotic GoGo dancers heats up this 2009 release from Mexican retro-rockers Matorralman. Beauties, cuties and nudies! ¡Que rocko! (Semi-nude breasts with pasties and/or kinky tassels. No nipples. May be NSFW or unavailable in your area; ask your doctor before beginning any GoGo dancing regimen.)

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Pocho Ocho stereotypes of the Latino professional

by Sara Inés Calderón February 22, 2012 Cultura
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8. You’re always late. 7. You laugh or talk too loudly. 6. You have a short temper. 5. You’re spicy/overly sexual.

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Video: What is it like to be both black and Latino?

by Comic Saenz February 21, 2012 Cultura
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What does it mean to be black and Latino in the U.S.? Black History Month is a good time to ask. This video features interviews with Latino actors Laz Alonso (“Avatar”, “Jumping the Broom”), Tatyana Ali (“Fresh Prince of Bel Air”), Gina Torres (“Suits, Hercules: The Legendary Journeys”) and Judy Reyes (“Scrubs”), musicians Christina Milian [...]

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Happy Birthday, Chespirito!

by Lalo Alcaraz February 21, 2012 Cultura
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POCHO wishes Roberto Gomez Bolaños — AKA “Chespirito” — a happy 83rd birthday. Chespirito (Little Shakespeare) is Mexico’s most-beloved children’s comic, humorist and performer, creator of the iconic television shows El Chavo and El Chapulin Colorado. El Chapulin is famously the inspiration for the Simpson’s “Bumblebee Man.” I was fortunate to have met Bolaños and his [...]

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Dear Gorton’s: Thanks for the apology but …

by Bernadette Rivero February 21, 2012 Cultura
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Dear Gorton’s Seafood and Rinck Advertising: I am thrilled to the gills that you took the time to respond. I am a fan of your products, and hope that they reach many more households than mine. However, your response reveals exactly why you floundered in the first place. You mention that you “used a Spanish [...]

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Sabado Pochonte Video: Welcome to 2040 on ‘The Other Side’

by Obeah Juan Xenobi February 18, 2012 Cultura
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Exterior, day: Destitute desert town in the year 2040. Audio: Spanish newsradio tells the story — unemployment is 86%, gangs are everywhere and food and water are getting scarce. There’s only one thing a father can do — smuggle his family across the border to the prosperous country on The Other Side.

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Mayan Doomsday experts can’t agree on how long is left

by Barney Asada February 18, 2012 Cultura
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(PNS reporting from the YUCATAN) The emergency Leap Year meeting of the Eschatological Chronology Society ended in disarray here Thursday as doomsday gurus couldn’t agree on whether the Mayan Apocalypse should be calculated in Colored People’s Time, Chicano Time or Jewish Standard Time. Scientists at the conference were hoping to resolve the question before Leap [...]

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Great pochos in music history: The Three O’Clock ‘I Go Wild’

by Victor Payan February 17, 2012 Cultura
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TGIF Music Video: The Three O’Clock I Go Wild (1983). The Three O’Clock were progenitors of L.A.’s Paisley Underground scene that would spawn Mazzy Star, Concrete Blonde, The Plimsouls, cult faves Opal and Rain Parade and most notably The Bangles. One look at this video and you can see that Susanna Hoffs copped her moves [...]

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Watchate! The invisible roller coasters of Buenos Aires

by Comic Saenz February 17, 2012 Cultura
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Video by Fernando Livschitz

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Pocho Ocho reasons I hate ‘Hispanic’ magazines

by Al Carlos Hernandez February 17, 2012 Cultura
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8. They are published by carpetbaggers, coconuts, and Tio Tacos. 7.  They pander to corporate interests, while pimping community issues. 6.  They are written for the sole reason of selling institutional ads. 5.  Print is dead. The only people who don’t know that are the people who fund magazines.

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