Book, Art, & Culture
People en Español’s Stars of the Year
People en Español selected the Stars of the Year 2007. This selection includes actors/actresses (Kate del Castillo, Adamari López, and Angélica Vale), singers (Luis Miguel, Jennifer López, Juan Luis Guerra andVíctor Manuelle) and the couple of the year (Don Omar and his girlfriend Jackie Guerrido).
Jennifer Lopez – She accomplished a lot this year…between the Spanish [...]
Writer contest
The Writer Mama, Christina Katz, is giving away a writing tool a day through her blog, The Writer Mama Riffs, every day for thirty days during the month of September. In addition to over thirty prizes such as Writer’s Digest 2008 Market books, she’s giving away ten signed copies of her book, Writer Mama, How [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Cast Announced for Celia Cruz Musical
The announcement was made that Lougart would be playing the lead role of Celia Cruz in the off-Broadway production of Celia.
The role of Pedro Knight, Cruz’s husband and the narrator of the story, was grabbed by Puerto Rican Modesto Lacen. Last year, Lacen received rave reviews for his performance in Gardel the Musical, based [...]
Frida Kahlo
“Frida Kahlo spun her own life into a myth. She was so good at it that her art almost got lost along the way. Her persona, fashioned over almost three decades of self-portraits, fused physical suffering and emotional isolation. Her frank depiction of a womans psychic pain made her a feminist icon. She became a [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Latino pride art
“Hispanic Passion” (“Pasión Hispana”) by Kristin Ramos
“Celebration Gathering” (“Reunión de Celebración”) by Julie Ramírez
SOURCE: Hispanic PR Wire
Random House Mondadori To Publish Univision’s Gratas
This fall, another Univision news reporter will be hitting the bookshelves. Award-winning journalist and news anchor Enrique Gratas signed a deal with Mexico’s Random House Mondadori to publish his first book, El arte de la infidelidad (“The Art of Infidelity”).According to Random House Spanish business development director Erik Reisenberg, the book—which is scheduled to release [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )The New Yorker features Haitian and Dominican Writers
This month’s New Yorker Out Loud pod cast series, which consists of a New Yorker fiction writer discussing a story from the magazine’s voluminous archives, features the gifted Haitian writer Edwidge Danticat conversing with The New Yorker fiction editor, Deborah Treisman, about talented Dominican writer Junot Díaz’s 1995 short story [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )U.S. returns more than 400 stolen pre-Columbian artifacts to Peru
“Hammered silver masks, rare Incan counting devices and a clay vessel more than 3,000 years old, intricately carved with a feline deity.They were among stolen artifacts worth millions of dollars that U.S. officials returned to Perus government Wednesday. The more than 400 pieces represent Perus largest recovery from the U.S. since the two nations signed [...]
Read Full Post | Make a Comment ( None so far )Anniversary of 100 Years of Solitude
Gabriel García Márquez’s ‘One Hundred Years of Solitude’ celebrates its 40th birthday this year. This is also the authors 80th birthday, and the 25th anniversary of his Nobel Prize for Literature.
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