Villaraigosa’s proposal to new L.A. mayor Garcetti: ‘Be my wingman’

by María Purísima May 22, 2013 El Now
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(PNS reporting from LOS ANGELES)  Outgoing Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villariagosa has a proposal for incoming mayor Eric Garcetti: Be my wingman. Villariagosa has been contemplating life after being LA’s mayor — and it’s not looking good. Reviewing his taste for power and dating attractive women who would be out of his shorty league if [...]

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La Cucaracha: When the Dizney Corp. came calling (toon)

by Lalo Alcaraz May 22, 2013 Cartoons
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Immigration Bill clears Senate committee on way to becoming law

by Comic Saenz May 22, 2013 El Now
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(PNS reporting from WASHINGTON) A bruised, battered and patched-up Immigration Bill cleared a major hurdle Tuesday as a bipartisan 13-5 vote kicked Bill out of the Judiciary Committee and onto the Senate floor. POCHO caught up with Bill in his dressing room after the committee vote and got him to agree to a short, on-the-record [...]

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Negrito: Sometimes you feel like an Afro, sometimes you don’t (video)

by MOL A. DROID May 22, 2013 Cultura
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In Mexico, Grupo Bimbo’s Negrito brand chocolate candy bars are delicious AND good for your hair! All sales final. Hoodie not included. RELATED: Hamburguesas never looked so good! Salma Hayek for BurgerBoy (video)

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Piñata Protest: ‘La Cucaracha (marijuana que fumar)’ [music video]

by EARVIN LEGEND May 22, 2013 Cultura
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Check it out: One frantic minute of punk-cumbia La Cucaracha (marijuana que fumar) by Piñata Protest. They are from San Antonio, TX, not that there’s anything wrong with that.

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In LaLa Land, in 2005, we were ‘Livin’ Villagairosa’ (audio)

by Lalo Alcaraz May 22, 2013 Audio
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Antonio Villaraigosa came into the Los Angeles’ Mayor’s office with so much promise in 2005. My radio show on KPFK, The Pocho Hour of Power (heard Fridays at 4PM PST on 90.7 FM) produced and played this also hopeful and playful tune, Livin’ Villaraigosa, to document the excitement and also skewer the anti-Mexican conspiracy theorists [...]

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Ask Google: Why do Mexicans stare and eat beans? Also: Moz?

by Comic Saenz May 21, 2013 Cultura
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What did we ever do before the Google? Where did a poor pre-Googlite go to find out the big answers and the meaning of Life, the Universe and Everything? Actually, we could Google that. But why even hypothesize? Google has the answers we want today and knows the questions we want to ask even before [...]

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POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz reveals what’s in his bag (video)

by MOON GUAC May 21, 2013 Cultura
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POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz not only draws and writes stuff but he has admitted to occasional episodes of skanking, and, yes, even moshing. In this video for the Amoeba Music chain, openly-Latino Alcaraz talks about his love for classic ska, vintage mambo and soul music.

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Pocho Ocho best ways to market to ‘Hispanics’

by Especial Correspondents May 21, 2013 Cultura
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They’re confused, the poor marketeers. They try so hard to sell fish esticks and bleach and PETA to “Hispanics,” but they are low and slow on the learning curve. Nearly Half of Second-Gen Hispanics Feel Like Ads Don’t Target Them, laments the tradezine Adweek. You mean pochos with limited/zero Spanish aren’t picking up trendy brand [...]

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George W. Bush gets a library but Corky Gonzalez doesn’t? (toon)

by ERIC J. GARCIA May 21, 2013 Cartoons
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RELATED: An Open Letter to the Denver Public Library Commission

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