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Let "Roma" start a conversation about the household workers we employ
By: Ruben Martinez, Los Angeles Times – Dec. 23, 2018 Alfonso Cuarón’s “Roma” is being touted as a masterpiece for the way it tells an epic story through a granular examination of the everyday life of a middle-class family in early 1970s Mexico City. By focusing on the lives of ... -
How a film screening becomes a homecoming for local undocumented Harvard grad who garnered national ...
By EMILY RASMUSSEN, Press-Telegram – Dec. 18, 2018 Harvard University student Dario Guerrero Meneses was at a film festival in Maine when he got the call from his father. Doctors found his mother, who the family thought had an unusually lengthy cold, had terminal kidney cancer. It was early in the fall 2013 ... -
Virgin of Guadalupe Is ‘No. 1 Mother’ in Mexico, a Binding Force Across Divides
By: Kirk Semple, New York Times – Dec. 15, 2018 Leer en español MEXICO CITY — His mother was grievously ill, nearing death. So Jesús Vicuña, 17, made a deal with the heavens. In his prayers for her recovery, he vowed to make a certain painful sacrifice in exchange. Which is ... -
After ‘Gravity,’ Alfonso Cuarón Had His Pick of Directing Blockbusters. Instead, He Went Home to ...
By: Marcela Valdes, New York Times – Dec. 13, 2018 In Pietrasanta, Italy — a small town where Michelangelo used to shop for marble — a tall brick bell tower tolls throughout the day from a church on one side of the historic central square. Several enormous sculptures punctuate the plaza: faceless ... -
Rezo a Tonantzin
Tonantzin madre de todo lo que de ti vive, es, habita, mora, está; Madre de todos los dioses las diosas madre de todos nosotros, la nube y el mar la arena y el monte el musgo y el árbol el ácaro y la ballena. Derramando flores haz de mi manto ... -
What Netflix’s release of ‘Roma’ says about its movie business strategy
By Ryan Faughnder and Josh Rottenberg ~ LA Times ~ December 3, 2018 Alfonso Cuarón's critically acclaimed film "Roma" — an intimate, black-and-white, Spanish-language feature about a middle-class Mexican family and their live-in nanny — seems an unlikely candidate for the role of Hollywood disrupter. Nonetheless, the $15-million awards contender, ... -
More than 30 years ago, Father Luis Olivares brought the sanctuary movement to Los Angeles
By Patt Morrison ~ L.A. Times ~ November 14,2018 Sanctuary, political asylum, Central American refugees – Los Angeles has heard this before, and probably heard it first, long ago, from a man of the cloth. The Catholic priest who defied the law and bucked the church hierarchy to turn Los ... -
One of Stan Lee’s Last Projects Was Going to Be the Creation of a Latino ...
By Adriana Cataño ~ Remezcla ~ November 12, 2018 Stan Lee, the cultural icon who founded Marvel Comics and served as its editor, publisher and writer, has died at 95 years old. Over the course of his 70+ year career, Lee created or co-created numerous unforgettable superhero characters, including Spider-Man, ... -
Artistas pintan barda por los migrantes en la Colonia Roma
Por Merry MacMasters ~ La Jornada ~ Noviembre 11, 2018 Ciudad de México. El artista visual Gabriel Macotela convocó nuevamente a la comunidad artística para pintar en la barda localizada sobre las calles de Medellín, Yucatán y Zacatecas, colonia Roma, que rodea un estacionamiento. Esta vez el tema fue los ... -
Murió Olga Harmony, "memoria del teatro mexicano"
Por: Carlos Paul y Angel Vargas ~ La Jornada ~Noviembre 12, 2018 Ciudad de México. Olga Harmony, dramaturga, docente y decana de la crítica teatral en México, falleció ayer a los 90 años en su casa, rodeada de su familia. Estuvo lúcida hasta el último momento, informó su hija Lucila Rousset ...
