Latin America

7th Annual Latin Wave: New Films from Latin America

Texas MC Snow Tha Product Signs With Atlantic Records

"You mean to tell me that you think I don't know that I ain't black? Or that I don't know that usually Latin girls ain't really been all up in rap? I didn't know that my color or gender could be the preventer of getting on tracks See the last time that I checked they play hip-hop in the hood And ... More >>

Chef Chat, Part 1: Aquilas Chavez of La Fisheria

The first time you meet Mexican Chef and Latin American TV personality Aquilas Chavez of the new restaurant, La Fisheria, you immediately get a sense of his larger-than-life personality. He's gregarious, funny, confident, outgoing, and wholly unselfconscious. But most importantly, he grew up in the ... More >>

La Fisheria Opens Tomorrow as Houston Welcomes a Mexican Celebrity Chef to the City

Most Americans wouldn't know chef Aquiles Chávez if they saw him on the street, even with his trademark handlebar mustache and Jack Sparrow-style dreadlocks tucked under a straw hat. But ask anyone in Latin America about Chávez and they'll immediately grin and say, "El hombre con el bigote!" as t ... More >>

Robert L. Hedrick: Pan Am's Big Comeback Likely Stalled With Its President's Child-Porn Indictment

A child-porn indictment qualifies as a wrench in the plans​Robert L. Hedrick made a big splash last October, inviting former Pan Am employees back to Brownsville's original pan Am building to announce the creation of an airline with a similar name that had plans to fly routes from that city to ... More >>

Houston Led Nation in Population Growth in Last Decade, Rice Finds

Rice U video No city in America grew more in population in the last decade than Houston, a Rice study said today. And if you don't believe it, they put out the slick video above to erase any doubt. Houston added 1,231,393 residents between 2000 and 2012, the study of census figures said; the next ... More >>

Skype Testimony From Iraq Helps Convict Conroe Murderer

Skype: Putting murderers behind bars​A man was convicted or murder in Conroe based partly on testimony delivered via Skype from an Army base in Iraq. A Conroe police officer who had been involved in the investigation into the December 2008 murder is serving now in the Texas National Guard in ... More >>

Professor Punk: Hates Singer To Be Guest Lecturer At U Of H

Brittanie SheyThe Hates at Cactus Music, December 2009​Quick. What do Ice-T and Houston's own punk-rock elder statesman Christian Arnheiter of The Hates have in common? Well, both are respected lectures at institutes of higher learning. Arnheiter will be guest lecturing from 11:30 a.m. to 12: ... More >>

Exactly How Safe Is Juarez?

Brittanie SheyThe Hates at Cactus Music, December 2009​Quick. What do Ice-T and Houston's own punk-rock elder statesman Christian Arnheiter of The Hates have in common? Well, both are respected lectures at institutes of higher learning. Arnheiter will be guest lecturing from 11:30 a.m. to 12: ... More >>

Los Van Van

Brittanie SheyThe Hates at Cactus Music, December 2009​Quick. What do Ice-T and Houston's own punk-rock elder statesman Christian Arnheiter of The Hates have in common? Well, both are respected lectures at institutes of higher learning. Arnheiter will be guest lecturing from 11:30 a.m. to 12: ... More >>

Os Mutantes: The Best Band You've Probably Never Heard Of

Pink Floit via Flickr​Os Mutantes were one of the most influential rock groups to emerge during the late '60s in Brazil. The band - initially a trio with Rita Lee, Arnaldo Baptista and his brother Sergio Dias) fell under the graces of the founders of the Tropicalismo movement, Brazil's respons ... More >>

Let's Get Spooky

Here's our guide to what's happening this Halloween.

Bobby Heugel's Weekly Cocktail: The Pisco Sour

​Peruvians and Chileans drink pisco sours like Texans drink margaritas. For decades, Peru and Chile have viciously fought over the origins of pisco, a grape-based spirit similar to grappa, and the equally famous cocktail the pisco sour. Arguing so fiercely over spirits and cocktails may sound ... More >>

Annise Parker Says Fear Not Tthe Continental/United Merger

Continental -- just a memory now​Houston's Continental Airlines is seemingly about to be taken over by the Yankee corporation of United Airlines in a $3 billion merger than will create the world's largest airline.That airline will not be named Continental.Bad news for Houston? Not necessarily so, ... More >>

A Playlist For Our Wetbacks in Arizona And For All Who Pray For Them

"It may well be that the greatest tragedy of this period of social transition is not the glaring noisiness of the so-called bad people, but the appalling silence of the so-called good people."- Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.​There's something so powerful about music. It gets us through life's bu ... More >>

Cashville Latino Anthem Makes a Cultural Statement; Dat Boi T Has A "Cracc Flow"

Whether they know it or not, the recently released "Cashville Latino Anthem" music video by the Seis Uno Cinco, ten Latino hip-hop artists out of Nashville (yeah, we said Nashville), could make a bigger statement outside the 615 area code, than the self-proclaimed impact of a "movement that is boun ... More >>

Tough Little Pumpkin Jam

​I had chilacayote jam on toast for my first breakfast this morning. (Yes, I had two breakfasts.) Chilacayote is a tough little pumpkin that is cooked in syrup in Latin America. It has an odd crunchy texture that makes an audible sound when you bite it -- the fibrous flesh absorbs lots of the ... More >>

Readers Respond, and the Mexican Middle Class

​I had chilacayote jam on toast for my first breakfast this morning. (Yes, I had two breakfasts.) Chilacayote is a tough little pumpkin that is cooked in syrup in Latin America. It has an odd crunchy texture that makes an audible sound when you bite it -- the fibrous flesh absorbs lots of the ... More >>

Answer an Urgent Appeal to Heal Haiti by Getting Some "Swagger"

[Ed. Note: Please email any news of further music-related relief efforts to chris.gray@houstonpress.com.] Bobby Moon & Lil Flip - Swagger from AK Kurji on Vimeo. If you're looking for a way to contribute to the Haitian relief efforts, Houston-based international pop artist Bobby Moon is going to ... More >>

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Oscar Romero’s Legacy

Sister Dianna Ortiz and Bishop Medardo E. Gomez Soto discuss the effect winning the Rothko Chapel’s human rights award had on their lives

The Return of the Kashmere Stage band

Sister Dianna Ortiz and Bishop Medardo E. Gomez Soto discuss the effect winning the Rothko Chapel’s human rights award had on their lives

Sugar Skulls and "Sana, Sana"

Special Día de los Muertos Edition

The Halle "Universe"

The MFAH's Latin American Art Department has yet another hit show

Mail Call

Trash Talk

Jesus, That Guy Is Everywhere...

Trash Talk

Getting the V from E.O.D.

Talking truth with rappers Indecent and Arch

The Taco Truck Gourmet's Art Gallery

Talking truth with rappers Indecent and Arch

Hitting the Highway

Talking truth with rappers Indecent and Arch

Why do Mexicans Worship Che Guevara More Than Argentines Do?

The Mexican replies

Fine Lines

Discover the work and words of a remarkable avant-garde artist

Fantastic Form

Sicardi Gallery shows the optically kinetic art of Luis Tomasello

This Week's Day-by-Day Picks

Sicardi Gallery shows the optically kinetic art of Luis Tomasello

Low-Tech Industry

Jesús-Rafael Soto's works come alive -- on your retinas

Artsy Ambling

Stomp Around to five gallery openings in one night

Attention, Please

Two Latin American artists get an enthusiastic, if belated, reception

Sino-Tex

Two little restaurants serve up “Houstonized” Chinese food

Friends FLY Free

FLY and Sandra Organ Dance Company wing it at Miller

Paying the Price

Hospital district officials wanted a simple one-sentence policy on immigrant health care. What they got instead was a criminal probe and plenty of politics.

August Meals

Siestas fit in perfectly with Houston's climate

Best Community Newspaper

El Día

On the Spot

El Día

Deporting Disparities

Immigration law divides Central Americans

Night & Day

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Press Picks

March 26-April 1, 1998

The Insider

March 26-April 1, 1998

Losing Focus?

Once groundbreaking, this year's FotoFest just tilled old soil

It's All Great

A finished documentary about an incomplete Orson Welles masterwork

The Voices of Los Rockets

At home and (sort of) away, Radio 1320's Gonzalez and Rojas bring the basketball action to Houston's international audience