By Julie Cortez, El Hispanic News If comedy is hard, try hustling for laughs while belting out arias. Oh, and you’re going to have to pass muster as a Shakespearean actor at the same time. And wear a fat suit. “You have a body over your body that you don’t feel,” says bass baritone [...]
Review by Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Bookworm “They Call Me a Hero: A Memoir of My Youth,” by Daniel Hernandez with Susan Goldman Rubin; c.2013, Simon & Schuster; $17.99 / $19.99 Canada; 224 pages For a very large hunk of your life, your heroes came in a comic book. Spiderman, Superman, Wonder Woman, and [...]
By Erin Rook, PQ Monthly Monika London grew up surrounded by music. The Portland-based DJ and producer, who goes by Monika MHz, started laying down beats at a young age on her toy drum and Sesame Street record player. Her mother’s vast record collection offered London an education in the best of Motown and disco, [...]
By Marcia Facundo, Latino Print Network “It is impossible not to recognize that the vestiges of discrimination take a long time to erase,” Sonia Sotomayor, the first Hispanic justice to sit on the United States Supreme Court, writes in “My Beloved World” (“Mi mundo adorado,” Vintage, $27.95). In her memoirs, she reveals details of her [...]
Portland, OR — Mimi González and Sandra Valls are bringing their comedy show, “Lezberados” to Portland for one night at the Historic Bob White Theatre (6423 SE Foster). Also featuring local comedian Belinda Carroll, the show will take place March 1, with doors opening at 7 p.m. and the laughs starting at 8 p.m. [...]
By Julie Cortez, El Hispanic News For her third resurrection of Frida Kahlo on the page and on the stage, playwright and actress Dañel Malán wants to offer her audience more than the passive experience of watching her play and her performance unfold on stage. Show up an hour before the curtain rises [...]
By Olga Sanchez, El Hispanic News Sitting in the cozy La Bonita restaurant on a rainy evening listening to live music and watching a video performance of visual art, one could not help but feel a sense of gratitude for the great wealth of creative talent in our region. Several excellent performers are now [...]
By Marcia Facundo, Latino Print Media In just about 90 pages — illustrated like in a children’s book — Sandra Cisneros, author of “The House on Mango Street,” reflects on the loss of a beloved one, the perseverance of love and our relationship with nature in her latest book “Have you seen Marie?” (Knopf [...]
By Julie Cortez, El Hispanic News Being a Latino foodie doesn’t guarantee expertise on all Latin food. “When I first learned about tamales,” Mike González recalls, “I swear to God I bit into the corn husk.” Born to Puerto Rican parents and raised in Miami, González’s childhood was dominated by the flavors of the [...]
By Ivonne Rivero, El Hispanic News Portland, OR — One the most celebrated mariachi ensembles in the world is joining musical forces with the Oregon Symphony this holiday season for a “Fiesta Navidad.” Conducted by Metropolitan Youth Symphony Music Director Andrés Lopera, El Mariachi Los Camperos de Nati Cano will perform with the symphony [...]
