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Where have all the brown folks gone? I’m In love with ‘Coco’ that is
Where have all the brown folks gone?
I sit at a bar and I count how many are like me, I count two in a room of 30, one is a bar back Latinx and one is an African American bartender, I’ve done this since I realized that I am the other, and I need to find allies quick, in case shit goes down, in case there’s a race war
I order thai food from a food truck and the señor making the food could be my primo, while the Asian owner takes my order
Mas…Where have all the brown folks gone? I’m In love with ‘Coco’ that is
‘Remember Me’ from ‘Coco’ by Miguel y Natalia Lafourcade (video)
R&B singer Miguel and beloved Mexican icon Natalia Lafourcade join forces on Coco’s signature song Remember Me.
POCHO’s Lalo Alcaraz: From Disney critic to COCO consultant (NPR audio)
This is how they begin the story about POCHO Jefe-in-Chief Lalo Alcaraz and the Disney/Pixar film COCO over at NPR’s LatinoUSA:
Mas…POCHO’s Lalo Alcaraz: From Disney critic to COCO consultant (NPR audio)
Artist Carlos Barberena: Nicaragua to Chicago in Calacavison (toons)
Nicaraguan-born Chicago artist and printmaker Carlos Barberena mixes up traditional calacas and current events. Wall Street, Mickey Mouse, McDonalds, Halliburton, British Petroleum and other icons look better as muertos, don’t you think?
Mas…Artist Carlos Barberena: Nicaragua to Chicago in Calacavison (toons)
Disneyland preps new WE ❤️ MEASLES marketing push
(PNS reporting from ANAHEIM) Disneyland’s new WE ❤️ MEASLES marketing campaign intends to “pro-actively go where the customers are” by turning “lemons into lemonade,” PNS has learned.
New Mattel-Disney dolls for ‘Crucifiction’ movie cause furor
(PNS reporting from ANAHEIM) Movie executives here are scrambling to respond to the fury over just-announced Christian religious figures re-imagined as Barbie dolls.
The Kens and Barbies are slated to promote the Mattel-Disney movie Crucifiction that “rebrands” the Passion of Jesus. The film is set for Xmas release.
The Disney reps — now on the defensive — have a heavy cross to bear.
Mas…New Mattel-Disney dolls for ‘Crucifiction’ movie cause furor
Shocking photos expose backstage at the Wonderful World of Disney
Pop surrealist José Rodolfo Loaiza Ontiveros goes behind the screens at the Magic Kingdom to reveal the real Disney, the Disney the Hollywood PR machine won’t let you see. His paintings are on display L.A.’s La Luz de Jesus Gallery until the end of the month. [Photos courtesy Hint Magazine.]
Mas…Shocking photos expose backstage at the Wonderful World of Disney
Disney’s quinceañera gowns intro new Latina Rites of Passage line
The Disney Corp’s new princess-inspired quinceañera gowns are but the first in a new line of Latina Rites of Passage gowns, PNS has learned.
The new dresses for tweens and teens are “designed to honor the milestones in young Latinas’ lives in the passionate, spicy way Disney defines Hispanic identities,” a Disney spokesperson said. Aside from the quinceañera gowns (photo) Disney has eight other dresses ready to mark these Rites of Passage:
8. First minimum wage job
7. First walk of shame
6. First boy gets to second base
Mas…Disney’s quinceañera gowns intro new Latina Rites of Passage line
Los Lobos do it Disney style: ‘Heigh Ho Heigh Ho’ (music video)
Los Lobos, Los Angeles’ best band ever, dipped some pixie dust for this Disney music video from 2009. The group is portrayed by the seven dwarves who add new Spanglish lyrics to Heigh ho heigh ho, it’s off to work we go. Snow White, as white as ever, is the center of attention, dancing to the Lobos beat. In the final exciting scene, a somewhat less-white Prince Charming appears and it looks like he got his hair done by Ritchie Valens. YMMV.
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Walt Disney, Inc. wants to trademark ‘Dia de los Muertos’ (toon)
The Walt Disney Company filed several trademark applications last week with the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO.GOV) to secure the name “Dia de Los Muertos” as a service mark.
Mas…Walt Disney, Inc. wants to trademark ‘Dia de los Muertos’ (toon)
Annette Funicello sings to Don Diego in old ‘Zorro’ TV show (video)
Don Diego de la Vega (AKA Zorro) listens from the balcony of the hacienda as teenage Annette Funicello sings Lonely Guitar. This clip comes from the 1959 TV episode called The Missing Father later distributed by Disney on VHS as The Mystery of Don Cabrillo. RIP.
Ñewsweek: Meet Princess Malinche, beat the Gap, Fidel’s not dead
Sofia the First, Disney’s new animated princess is a Latina, hooray! Wait, she’s not a Latina? Well, then who is Disney’s Latina princess? Princess Malinche, you say? Orale!
Another ñewsweek at POCHO meant princesses, the Gap’s taste in t-shirts, Mitt’s taste in short shorts, Fidel Castro is still not dead, Donald Trump is still a jerk and more.
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Mas…Ñewsweek: Meet Princess Malinche, beat the Gap, Fidel’s not dead
Sofia not Latina? Disney preps real Latina princess: Meet Malinche
(PNS reporting from BURBANK) Now that an embarrassed Disney has explained that the animated character Princess Sofia the First is NOT a Latina princess, the studio was quick to announce that a real Latina princess is in the works, this time for a feature-length film.
Princess Malinche will be the heroine of Disney’s next animated film, due for release in the summer of 2014, according to a statement issued today.
The tentative cast already includes Catherine Zeta Jones as the voice of Malinche, Justin Bieber as Cortés and Paul Rodriguez as Fray Xicken.
The story of Malinche follows her idyllic upbringing in the then-Aztec empire in what is now Mexico during the early 1500s to her whirlwind romance with Spaniard Hernán Cortés, and finally to the epic drowning of her own children in the river.
Mas…Sofia not Latina? Disney preps real Latina princess: Meet Malinche
Anaheim: The Tragic Kingdom (toon)
I drew this cartoon to accompany an article by Gustavo Arellano, Jefe-in-Chief of OC Weekly, about recent events in Anaheim