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Look y LOL: Lin-sanity caption chingazos for white athletes

by Amber Guesa February 21, 2012 El Now
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Chinese-American NBA rookie superstar Jeremy Lin has famously inspired some silly and fun “Lin-sane” punnery. ESPN editor Anthony Federico penned a controversial Lin-spired headline (screencapture, right) that used the word “chink,” as in “Chink In The Armor” and got fired for writing a dopey racist headline and/or for being lazy and publishing the first crappy [...]

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The astounding ‘installation art’ of Ramiro Gomez, Jr.

by Comic Saenz February 3, 2012 Cultura
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Artist Ramiro Gomez, Jr. makes the invisible visible as he inserts paper images of hardworking Latinos into the landscape of Los Angeles — a gardener with a leaf blower, a housekeeper with a mop. There are many more images on his Happy Hills blog where he describes himself this way: I live and work as [...]

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Badges? Badges? Steenkin’ badges you don’t need IRL!

by Comic Saenz January 23, 2012 Cultura
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“We don’t need no steenkin’ badges,” actor Alfonso Bedoya told Humphrey Bogart in The Treasure of the Sierra Madre. Well, sorta. Although his line is one of the most-often quoted and parodied lines of cinema dialog, almost everyone has it wrong. Click to peep some badges you definitely don’t need to see In Real Life.

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Lowriders from another mother (photos)

by Comic Saenz January 9, 2012 Cultura
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Pochophotographic Exclusive: Occupy Rose Parade 2012

by Lalo Alcaraz January 3, 2012 Cultura
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After the regular Pasadena Rose Parade, the Occupy Rose Parade people were kind enough to march right in front of my phonecam, leaving me little choice but to take their pictures. After all, we are the 99%! Music by Alice Texas Marching Band.

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Traditional GOP caucus ritual marks Iowanian New Year

by Barney Asada January 3, 2012 Cultura
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(PNS reporting from THE HEARTLAND, USA) Thousands of Iowanians are fighting their way across the wind-blown plains today to perform the traditional Republican caucus ritual.  Sioux City City College PoliSci Professor Rico Alvarado explains the Ceremony of the Caucus this way: First, the gabachos make a 4WD posada to the high school gym for the ritual [...]

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Got tamales?

by Comic Saenz December 26, 2011 Cultura
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The words of the pocho are written on the barrio wall

by Comic Saenz December 10, 2011 El Now
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