And now a word from POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz! Entendiendo la ‘Pocho’ life en los USA it says on the Univision site:
LOS ÁNGELES, California – Laughing about life’s problems is an approach many Latinos can vow to embracing as a method of dealing with difficulties.
That is why Mexican-American award-winning cartoonist Lalo Alcaraz uses this methodology in his work. As author of the first politically themed Latino daily comic strip, La Cucaracha, he has created one of the most controversial strips for his satirical content on Latinos in the United States. [Mas…]
East L.A. pochos Ollin channel Irish band the Pogues in Ollin’s Annual St. Patrick’s Day Pogues tribute at the Satellite in Silverlake tonight. And look! A green font!
Can you donate $5 or $10 so we can make more ñews y satire? MR. POCHO SAYS ¡GRACIAS!
As we start our second year online, we need your small change.
Please make a small donation now so we can continue breaking the ñews.
POCHO needs money to upgrade webservers, money to fix our broken computers and, more than anything, money to pay our editors and writers and videographers and cartoonists who have contributed a year’s worth of chingon content for free.
Every $10, $20 or $50 helps. Click on the donate button now. Thank you, pochos!
Can you donate $5 or $10 so we can make more ñews y satire? MR. POCHO SAYS ¡GRACIAS!
With only a few hours left in the Year of the Chancla, please make a small holiday donation now so we can continue breaking the ñews! POCHO needs money to upgrade our webservers, money to fix our broken computers and, more than anything, money to pay our editors and writers and videographers and cartoonists who have contributed a year’s worth of amazingly chingon content for free.
Every $10, $20 or $50 helps. Click on the donate button now. Thank you, pochos!
POCHO’s web server crashed — along with the Mayan Calendar — at midnight Friday when our Mayan Apocalypse Doomsday Countdown Clock (since disabled) shut down at 00:00:00. If you stopped by after midnight — we rebooted at 7:30 AM — here’s what you saw and heard.
Can you help POCHO upgrade our infrastructure? [Mas…]
We love you so much we built this joint and wrote these articles and created these toons and videos and stuff. For you. POCHO has no “pay walls” or user registration to stop you from playing along and our pinche funny original content is turning traditional thinking about Latino media upside down.
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And what do you give us back? You give us love and LULz, and that’s cool. But we want to take this relationship to the next level with more and better stuff for you, but, you see, there is this problem.
We don’t get paid. Huh? That’s right. No money for the “staff.” No money for our contributors. [Mas…]
(PNS reporting from SAN ANTONIO) Can you speak eSpanish like Mexican Mitt? Can you dance around a sombrero at a moment’s notice? Do you crease your Dickies until they can cut through glass? If you answered “no” to any of these questions then you might be a fake Mexican, just like San Antonio Mayor Julián Castro.
Say hello to Angry Abuelas, pochos. The new iPhone 5 — code-named La Raza — is especially designed for Latinos.
Two videos broke the news: GOP presidential wannabe Mitt Romney wished he were a puro Latino and his campaign released a new Spanish-language ad aimed at “white Hispanics.”
In science ñews, cilantro haters breathed a sigh of relief as genetics proved it was not their fault and the new African monkey species looks familiar somehow.
Johnny Perez, the original drummer for Tex-Mex superstar band Sir Douglas Quintet, died Tuesday in Los Angeles. He was 69. This 1965 video shows Perez and his bandmates performing their hit She’s About A Mover on NBC’s Hullaballoo. Here’s the band with Mendocino:
Mainstream media has finally awakened to the profit potential of pochismo, according to the prestigious Columbia Journalism Review: Lalo Alcaraz [photo, right] has always embraced the word pocho. It refers to Mexican-Americans who have lost their Mexican culture and speak English, and it’s what relatives occasionally called Alcaraz when he was growing up in San [...]
