Soul at Home
A chat with Jose Alicea, the man behind Souletri, which has been streaming live performances across its social media channels throughout the pandemic
No One Knows What’s Coming Next
But here’s what we do know
Explaining the Electoral College to My Mexican Father-in-Law
Few things are more embarrassing than explaining America’s electoral system to a foreigner
The Trump Phenomenon
Hector chats with an old friend from middle school who started the year as a liberal but is now a Trump supporter
Colonialism and Disobedience
On Puerto Rico’s right to defy U.S. law
La Quinta Raza and The Infinite Race
Many of the artists I have met who are of la quinta raza live invested in an infinite race towards redemption
The Death of a Vile Philosophy
Like a has-been rock band reduced to playing county fairs, our sad spectacle of a president is cranking out his greatest hits in a bizarre, cringy effort to please his hardcore fans
Color Prohibido
Remember when Selena was a brown girl?
Así Es Nuevo México
A chat with Lillian Gorman, assistant professor of Spanish sociolinguistics and director of the Spanish as a Heritage Language Program at the University of Arizona, and a proud Nuevomexicana from Albuquerque
For Todas las Compas
A new Netflix documentary on femicide in Mexico begs the question: What are men good for?
Azúcar Negra
Some thoughts on Spanish music, Spanish names, and Latino discrimination against Afro-Latinos
Songs by an Immigrant
A chat with Jaime Lozano, a musical theatre composer, director, arranger, orchestrator, and vocal coach