By Julie Cortez, El Hispanic News Portland, OR — Bands are often like families — some are dysfunctional and toxic, others are healthy and supportive. But even happy, loving relatives are known to bicker and make jokes at each other’s expense every now and then. No Passengers is no exception. The love and respect [...]
By Julie Cortez, El Hispanic News Portland, OR — It sounds like a contest, but Alfredo Muro and Víctor Villadangos do not intend to declare a winner after they perform the final song of “Tango vs. Samba,” their Nov. 3 classical guitar concert exploring the musical traditions of Argentina and Brazil. “This is a [...]
By Julie Cortez, El Hispanic News Portland, OR — Some things are old, some are new, and sometimes the old merges with new at Miracle Theatre Group’s fourth annual celebration of Hispanic Heritage Month, more commonly — an poetically — known as La Luna Nueva. El Centro Milagro will be alive with sounds, sights, [...]
By Nick Mattos, El Hispanic News Portland, OR — The Regional Arts and Culture Council (RACC), the Portland metro area’s premiere arts funding organization, has appointed Lina García Seabold as their new board chair and increased their outreach to support diverse artists and organizations, including such fresh talents as local painter Mónica G. MacKenzie. A [...]
By Julie Cortez, El Hispanic News Portland, OR — María Osterroth Sussman describes the Portland Latin American Film Festival (PDXLAFF) as a way to “travel to see other countries, other realities” for those short on vacation time and cash. In addition to displaying the depth, complexities, and beauty of Latin American culture, the festival’s [...]
By Julie Cortez, El Hispanic News Ashland, OR — They may be living under the heel of their newly-arrived U.S. occupiers in the aftermath of the Mexican-American War, but the wealthy Montagues and Capulets are still clinging to their “ancient grudge” and carrying on a war of their own in the Oregon Shakespeare Festival’s [...]
Beaverton, OR — Los Lobos have recorded 17 albums and won multiple Grammy Awards in their nearly 40 years of making music together, but one thing you can be pretty sure they’ve never done is perform a free outdoor concert in Beaverton. The Tualatin Hills Park & Recreation District (THPRD) will help remedy that missing [...]
Reviewed by Terri Schlichenmeyer, The Book Worm Written by Gaby Rodríguez with Jenna Glatzer, c.2012, Simon & Schuster; $17.99/ $19.99 Canada; 218 pages You weren’t really sick at all. You felt fine, in fact, but you said you had a headache, your stomach hurt, and you weren’t up to going to school. The truth [...]
By Olga Sanchez, El Hispanic News Latino artists from as far away as Eugene joined artists from Woodburn, Portland, Beaverton, Hillsboro, and Vancouver at the Latino Artists eXchange 2012, held at El Centro Milagro on June 16th. Writers, painters, sculptures, actors, dancers, photographers, musicians, and more spent the day in creative camaraderie, learning [...]
By Julie Cortez, El Hispanic News Portland, OR — Long before he was a percussionist for Pink Martini, Portland’s globe-trotting musical ambassadors, Martín Zarzar was quite the world citizen. Born in his mother’s native Peru but also strongly connected to his father’s Palistinian culture, as a small child he learned chess from a [...]
