POYO? That’s not how you spell POLLO! What is that brown stuff? Are these corn or flour tortillas?
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Mas…It took us a while to figure out exactly what was in these tacos (video)
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I NEED: This girl is always looking for something else (video)
Magali Garcia’s I Need tells the story of a girl who is always looking for something else. Will she ever get what she wants?
Mas…I NEED: This girl is always looking for something else (video)
Chicana punk icon Alice Bag: ‘I Believe Her, Do You?’ (new music, lyrics)
East Los pocha Alice Bag aka Alicia “Alice” Armendariz (formerly of the The Bags) just released this track in support of Professor Christine Blasey Ford, Ph.D.’s testimony about rapey Judge Brett Kavanaugh.
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Mas…Chicana punk icon Alice Bag: ‘I Believe Her, Do You?’ (new music, lyrics)
Best/worst karaoke ever? Guy sings ‘Tequila’ by The Champs (video)
We don’t know where or when this was recorded, but this guy performing a karaoke version of Tequila by The Champs totally nails it. He didn’t even have to look at the lyrics!
Tacos de migas? Watch Tacos of Texas’ Episode #1 desde Austin (video)
Austin already claims the breakfast taco as a signature dish. But can a taco filled with TORTILLA CHIPS uphold the city’s honor? “Taco journalists” Mando Rayo and Jarod Neece — reporting for IndieLens Storycast — find out that refried beans are “the Mexican mayonnaise.”
[EDITOR’S NOTE: Keep an ear out for POCHO amigas Mariachi Las Coronelas in the video.]
In San Pablito, Puebla, they still make paper the old-fashioned way – from bark (video)
In San Pablito, a small village in Puebla, in southeast Mexico, the centuries-old tradition of amate paper — paper made from bark — is an important part of the local economy. It also used to part of the resistance to Spanish colonial rule.
Mas…In San Pablito, Puebla, they still make paper the old-fashioned way – from bark (video)
Reiki-method ‘Trump Detox’ meditation will chill you out (video)
Breathe in. Breathe out. Reiki Master Sondra welcomes you to this week’s TRUMP DETOX MEDITATION:
[Video by Shea Depmore.]Do you need to detox from Donald Trump? From the stress of the Kavanaugh hearings and Trump’s inability to pronounce “anonymous?” This Reiki healing meditation video is for you. This week’s mantra: Kamala.
Iconic Chicana Dolores Huerta has been fighting sexism since forever (video)
Famed labor organizer and activist Dolores Huerta has been fighting sexual harassment and discrimination since forever — when she was working in an office, when she was building the United Farm Workers, and when men tried to take credit for her work. In this video, by Hannah McNally, Huerta tells her story.
What is killing the great classical composers of Europe? (video)
In the lucha libre of Classical Europe, famous composers are dropping dead at an alarming rate. What is killing these guys? Brenda Ortiz of Vancouver and CDMX, who loves animating stories, made Músicos y Medicina para el Colegiio Nacional de México conmemorando su 75 aniversario.
Muscle Taco in Chula Vista looks totally legit because RAJAS! (video)
This is a YouTube promo video for Muscle Taco — caterers in Chula Vista, near San Diego — and they look totally legit.
Posts from happy taco eaters on their Facebook page and website indicate that the family-owned business must be doing something right. Everything in the video looks k rico, too. If we were throwing a taquiza, we would call them. Also RAJAS CON CREMA!
Ex-con Creeper is back, drops CholoFit for CholoSpin (NSFW video)
Our favorite ex-con Creeper had some early success with his CholoFit classes, but a quick rise to fame led to some very public meltdowns. Now Creeper returns with CholoSpin and your loud-mouthed Tia and your neighbor’s chihuahua will finally meet their match. [Frankie Quiñones is Creeper. Some NSFW language.]
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Mas…Ex-con Creeper is back, drops CholoFit for CholoSpin (NSFW video)
UFOs and ancient Andes ruins: Frank Zappa’s “Inca Roads” (video)
The supremely weird (what else is new?) Inca Roads was the opening track on Frank Zappa’s 1975 LP One Size Fits All. Zappa and friends explore the racist cable TV theory that ancient illegal space aliens built the civilization of the Incas, because ancient Incas were not smart enough to do it themselves because brown. [George Duke, vocals and keyboards; Ruth Underwood, marimba.]
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Mas…UFOs and ancient Andes ruins: Frank Zappa’s “Inca Roads” (video)
Blow that funky shofar, bot boy (Happy Rosh HaShanah 2018 video)
A musical shoutout (and Hebrew/Spanish pun) to all our friends at Temple Beth Pocho who, at sundown Sunday, are celebrating Rosh HaShanah, which marks 5779 years since the creation of the world. Happy New Year y Le Shanah Tovah tambien.
What is that date on the Mayan Calendar?
(Tekiah? One of the traditional four ritual blasts on the ram’s horn, or shofar, on the Jewish High Holy Days of Rosh HaShanah and Yom Kippur. Think of TEKIAH as an Old Testament GRITO and you’ll be on the right track.)
Pete Seeger Plays Pasadena: Oh you can’t scare me, I’m sticking to the union (video, lyrics)
America’s folk singer, Pete Seeger, tells a dressed-up crowd at Pasadena’s Rose Parade he’s “sticking to the union.” Words and music to Union Maid by Woody Guthrie.
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Mas…Pete Seeger Plays Pasadena: Oh you can’t scare me, I’m sticking to the union (video, lyrics)
Always Look for the Union Label: Music vids for Labor Day Weekend 2018
It’s Labor Day Weekend!
¡Orale!
Happy Labor Day Weekend!
Sing along with the music that celebrates the ordinary working people who keep this country — and the world — in business: 9 to 5 from Dolly Parton, Look for the Union Label, Workin’ in a Coal Mine, This Land Is Your Land, and Solidarity Forever.
Mas…Always Look for the Union Label: Music vids for Labor Day Weekend 2018
Danish taqueria teaches Danes how to properly eat a burrito (video)
Mohira Tacoshop — here they are on Facebook — wants you to know there is a right and a wrong way to eat a burrito. Are they right or wrong? Also, have they never encountered a burrito mojado?
La lucha is real! ‘El Santo’ is ‘a real New-Mexican story’ for ‘real lovers’ (video)
El Santo, the Vimeo description says, is a “Real New-Mexican Story for Real Lovers.” We’ve watched it a buncha times and were not sure what it means or if we are one of those “real lovers” in the intended audience, but we like what we see. [Video by K48 PRODUCTIONS … in Milano of all places.] Also, be careful of strangely glowing cocktails with with bugs inside.
‘Get out of the White House,’ angry citizen yells at Trump (video)
POCHO.COM Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz was across the street from the White House — Lafayette Park — on the evening of August 26, 2018, and recorded some FREEDOM OF SPEECH in action.
“Get out of the White House,” this one citizen yelled, echoing the screams of millions of American minds. Also something about Diet Coke, murder and Putin. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯
Paco Estrada, Brandon Callies as The Heart of the City: ‘The River’ (video)
The River is new video from Brandon Callies (Black Tie Vendetta, Brandon Callies and The American Revival) of Austin and Paco Estrada (SouthFM, Paco Estrada and One Love) of Dallas.
But The Heart of the City — as these Texans call themselves — won’t let life get them down.
Traditional chile lime cricket tacos are good for Mother Earth (video)
Crickets are very efficient in turning dirt and air and water and other critters into big fat delicious grillos, much more efficient than cattle who drink water like it falls from the sky and fart like they’re not breathing the same damn air as ustedes and me. And grillos are traditional, indigenous, and delicious! Bay Area bug maven Monica Martinez of DON BUGITO explains.
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Mas…Traditional chile lime cricket tacos are good for Mother Earth (video)
In the Great White North, fish tacos are good FUUD (video)
Canadian meal kit delivery company FUUD wants you to cook up six Chilli Lime Fish Tacos with spicy kimchi and cabbage and cilantro and (flour) tortillas and even the soda water to make the tempura batter.
The Vancouver FUUD thang looks way better than this “authentic” Canadian taco kit:
Mas…In the Great White North, fish tacos are good FUUD (video)
Samantha Bee: Undocumented immigrants make your food (video)
Samantha Bee stops by the City of Brotherly Love’s South Philly Barbacoa and learns about the vital roles immigrants (undocumented and documented) play in making the food we eat.
The Legend of The Wolf Woman/La Loba, The Bone Woman/La Huesera (video)
La Loba, from film student Margarete Laue re-imagines the traditional Mexican folk tale popularized by Clarissa Pinkola Estés in Women Who Run With the Wolves:
She creeps and crawls and sifts through the mountains and dry riverbeds, looking for wolf bones.
‘I Don’t Like the Comics You Drew’ and ‘The Critic’ (videos)
In the brand new music video I Don’t Like the Comics You Drew, Dave draws the first page of his comic book and excitedly shows it to his friend Lei Lei. Lei Lei, however, is not impressed.
Hollywood comic hero Mel Brooks was not impressed either. Here’s Oscar-winning The Critic from 1963:
Mas…‘I Don’t Like the Comics You Drew’ and ‘The Critic’ (videos)
The U.S. was once known as ‘a nation of immigrants’ — now, not so much (video)
A Mexican cleaning lady in New York Ctiy learns that the “nation of immigrants” is not so friendly these days. Based on a true story, Let My People Stay is by Olivia G. Jimenez.
‘Carmelita’ by Warren Zevon: Life, death, mariachis, and heroin in Echo Park (live video, lyrics)
The late musical genius Warren Zevon was in Ensendada, no maybe he was in Echo Park. And maybe he OD’d on heroin, or not. He did hear “mariachi static on his radio,” however. The live video is from 1977.
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We used to have a man in the White House we could be proud of; Joan Baez explains in ‘The President Sang Amazing Grace’ (video)
At the memorial service in Charleston, S.C. for the victims of a white wing racist terrorist, Barack Obama, the last real President of the United States, joined the congregation of mourners. What he did on that day became a song by Zoe Mulford, performed here by Xicana OG activist Joan Baez and animated in pastel watercolors by Jeff Scher. [EDITOR’S NOTE: It’s OK to cry.]
Video via The Atlantic.
In 1963, the Fantastic Four fought THE HATE-MONGER (toons)
In 1963, Marvel Comics’ Fantastic Four confronted a sinister politician who sought to divide the people. They called him THE HATE-MONGER. He seemed familiar somehow.
Mas…In 1963, the Fantastic Four fought THE HATE-MONGER (toons)
In ‘Welcome to America’, undocumented Yeni González crosses the country to be reunited with her kids stolen by La Migra (video)
Yeni González is one of the mothers who suddenly found herself thousands of miles away from her children this spring, after the alt-white regime’s “zero-tolerance” immigration policy went into effect. This TIME Red Border Film documentary shows how grassroots activists banded together to transport González from a detention center in Eloy, AZ, to New York City, where her children were placed at a social service agency after the undocumented family crossed the U.S.-Mexico border and was apprehended by the Border Patrol in May.
Prehistoric hunger? We’ve got your Nachosaurus right here! (video)
Serve your snacks in style before we all get wiped out by climate change (like the dinosaurs) with this plastic, dishwasher safe Nachosaurus chips and dip ensemble by BARBUZZO.