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Classic Mexican rock: Los Teen Tops ‘Popotitos’ (videos)

by MISR LU May 11, 2012 Cultura
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If it sounds like a Spanish cover of Boney Maroney, it is. From a 1961 alternate universe that looks like Mexican Bandstand, Los Teen Tops keep those Popotitos rockin’. And speaking of Bandstand, do you know the startling story of how the late Dick Clark learned about ska? We’ve got video!

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Pan-Latino underground club in Queens: Welcome to Metal Kingdom

by Comic Saenz May 5, 2012 Cultura
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Hey! It’s a Cinco de Mayo Sabado Pochonte video shoutout to the heavy metal head banger pochos in New York City — no banda for you! Welcome to Metal Kingdom is a short documentary on an underground Pan-Latino heavy metal club in Queens, NY. Filmed, directed and produced by Denise R. Gaberman. (NSFW language, etc.)

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4/20 Videos: Lawrence Welk (PG?) and Cheech and Chong (NSFW)

by Comic Saenz April 20, 2012 Cultura
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America’s most famous stoners, young and pink-cheeked homies Cheech and Chong, light up in the car in a scene that may have the highest LOL/minute stats of any clip on YouTube (at least when you watch it on April 20.) (Totally NSFW.) And in one of the most bizarre episodes ever run on the super [...]

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Video: Strange noises terrify TX and OK, Popocatepetl rumbling

by NALGA HYDE April 17, 2012 Cultura
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Every day brings us closer to Mayan Doomsday – Mother Earth will not rest. Terrified reports of strange, unearthly noises have moved from the Upper Midwest and Canada to the Southwest, scaring the crap out of people in Amarillo, TX and rural Rogers County, OK. South of the border, Mexican authorities just raised the alert level at [...]

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Ñewsweek: Curse like a Mexican, think like a vato, build an arcade

by PEEVEE GUIDE April 15, 2012 El Now
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Attention pinche pendejos! Yes, you, culero! What? You don’t know what we’re talking about? Then you need to watch the one-minute video refresher course on How to curse like a Mexican, the biggest story on POCHO this week. For the link and our other big stories, keep reading  below.

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Kids, lowrider bikes, culture and history in Tucson 1996: ‘Low y Cool’

by M.A.S. BURRITO April 14, 2012 Cultura
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When a French filmmaker shoots Chicano Tucson, the result is fascinating and maybe a little bit foreign — in a good way. Low y Cool documents the lives of the Camaradas Lowrider Bike Club in South Tucson, AZ in 1996. The 52-minute video was directed by Tucson resident and transplanted Frenchie Marianne Dissard with funding [...]

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Chinga tu madre, cabron! How to curse like a Mexican (NSFW video)

by PINKY PENDEJO April 13, 2012 Cultura
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Take the time to watch this one-minute video refresher course, you pinche culeros! It’s also recommended for gabachos who wonder WTF those Mexicans are saying about them. (NSFW language if your workmates espeak Spanish.) We have a pinche question, though — WTF is up with this vato’s shirt?

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‘Hey Vato!’ In the hood, a moment of self-reflection (NSFW video)

by Cloche Cargoa April 11, 2012 Cultura
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Hey Vato! stars “two puppet cholos who have discussions about everyday “hood” issues and question their ghetto instincts,” director Juan Rodriguez emails. In the first episode, the “struggle within” captures the boys’ attention. Chuy (on the left) is in the jersey and Smiley is wearing the Pendleton. Ralph Waldo Emerson is also involved. (NSFW language.)

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POCHO remembers ñewsman Mike Wallace of CBS-TV’s ’60 Minutes’

by EDUARDO BURRO April 9, 2012 El Now
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Mike Wallace, iconic hard-hitting interviewer and 60 Minutes OG, died Sunday at 93. For one classic story, Wallace went to China to track down the manufacturer of counterfeit American toys and ended up confronting a smarmy, chain-smoking attorney, Nathan Thurm, Esq. Thurm was not pleased.

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Disinformation Company: Doomsday 2012 Science or Superstition?

by SERIOUS DOGSTAR April 7, 2012 Cultura
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Yo what is up with all this Mayan Doomsday 2012 stuff? We need some disinformation and we need it now, and that’s why we turned to the Disinformation Company for this video. Like check it: Disinformation Company producer Gary Baddeley, director Nimrod Erez and the Disinformation team contacted and arranged interviews with multiple experts, often [...]

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