Spanish Language

Spanglish and Self-Esteem

Grammar, Television and Geography

Man Reaches For a Can of Beer, Shot Dead by Officer Who Thought He Had a Gun:Bayou Body Count No. 96

An unidentified man was shot to death by a Houston police officer when he reached into his waistband -- contrary to the orders of the officer -- and she shot him. There was no weapon on the man; he was reaching for a can of beer, investigators reported. Officer J. McGowan and her partner were c ... More >>

Rosa de Dos Aromas

HISD Deals With The STAAR Results

If there's anything that can fix public education, it's yet another standardized test with a bizarre acronym. Forget TAAS and TAKS -- get used to hearing about STAAR. (The State of Texas Assessments of Academic Readiness, of course.) The Houston school district says STAAR is "much more rigorous" t ... More >>

Bilingualism and Taco Ockerse

Meet HISD Board Candidates -- Even the Ones Who Aren't TV Stars

Paula Harris is the Law & Order of HISD TV.​If you watch Houston ISD TV, then you know school board President Paula Harris and the First Vice President Manuel Rodriguez. They are everywhere. For just some of the examples: Besides the televised monthly board meetings, Harris was on The Stude ... More >>

Valley Divided

Both sides weigh in on Glenbrook Valley vote

Why Shouldn't Mexicans Speak Proper Spanish?

And is Spanglish something to Celebrate?

Up From the Underground

Alex "Pr!mo" Luster got himself a documentary from the street art life.

Mark Steven Bauman: Texas's Latest Most Wanted Sex Offender Is One Snappy Dresser

DPSMark Bauman: Fashion plate. Also, alleged child-raper.​A new name has been added to the Department of Public Safety's 10 Most Wanted Sex Offenders list and, more importantly, a new mugshot. Instead of the usual bunch of unshaven, T-shirt-wearing fat guys staring blankly into the camera, DP ... More >>

Il Postino (The Postman)

Saying "Hola"?

Special Refried Edicion

Terry Grier's AP Tests Could Also Stand for Auto Power

Photo by Margaret DowningTerry Grier has a chart for success​In Greensboro, North Carolina, Terry Grier was known as that (crazy) guy who gave a car away every year.Grier, now slightly more than one year into his superintendency in Houston, used that dramatic, crowd-pleasing technique to up the nu ... More >>

Going Gabacha at Taqueria Lo Mejor de Mexico

These are not the tacos you're looking for.​Here's a question that seems pertinent in Houston, of all multiethnic, multilingual cities: When you're dining in a Hispanic restaurant where the staff speaks little to no English and you, as a product of being raised in a multilingual city, speak Sp ... More >>

ESPN Deportes Radio Arrives In Houston And Doesn't Use English

We're talkin beisbol....​ESPN Deportes Radio, the Spanish-language arm of the sports giant, has arrived in Houston.It began broadcasting this week on KGOL 1180 AM....and just as the name and above description implies, they didn't use English, which if it isn't the official language of North Americ ... More >>

ILLEGAL from Terry Greene Sterling

Read a penetrating chapter from former Phoenix New Times investigative reporter Terry Greene Sterling's book: ILLEGAL: Life and Death in Arizona's Immigration War Zone.

Siempre Te Amaré (I Will Always Love You)

You'll need a diagram to keep up with who's in love with whom in this 1971 film

Tish Hinojosa

The San Antonio-born performer has made a career out of not fitting into musical pigeonholes

Kyle Beltran Drops Shakespeare For Rap In The Infectious In The Heights

Photo copyright (C) Joan Marcus 2009Daniel Bolero, Natalie Toro and Kyle Beltran ​Kyle Beltran, who plays the lead role of Usnavi in the Broadway Across America version of the Tony Award and Grammy Award winning In the Heights, now showing at the Hobby Center, credits the musical for bringing "hip ... More >>

The Uninsured and Language History

Graffiti, English vs Spanish, Butter Pecan and Quinceañeras

AG Declares Revolutionary Gas-Saving Device Not So Revolutionary

Texas Attorney General Greg Abbott has bravely defended Texans from being....incredibly, incredibly stupid?Abbott announced today that his office has obtained a temporary restraining order shutting down a business called Media Dime Marketing. MDM sold something called the "MPG Device," which promise ... More >>

El Desvarío

Web exclusive!

Houston Ain't Ready For Digital TV, Mayhem to Ensue

Spring Branch Mom Can't Register Her Kids For School -- Because They Speak English

Was Cesar Chavez Really Against Illegal Immigration?

Astros-Nationals: Berkman Still on a Roll, But Is It Lima Time?

Goodbye, Chango Jackson. Hello, Chango Man and Yoko Mono

Out of the ashes of Chango Jackson come two new denizens of the primate house

Political Padre: Raymundo Chávez Vázquez and Illegal Immigration

An activist Roman Catholic priest with little English is sent to conservative Aggieland

Sisters Morales

Las hermanas come home

Re: The BBC's Spanish Proposition

Time Warner Giveth, Time Warner Taketh Away

EVERGREEN Wildflower Hotline

Why do Mexicans love dancing so much?

Pitbull

El Mariel

Split Personality

Japaneiro's Sushi Bistro and Latin Grill

Ready for a Rumbo?

News wars return as two Spanish papers go mano a mano

Pasta Perfect

At Fabio's, the atmosphere and the Alfredo sauce are old clichés. But so is "Mom's apple pie," and it's still good.

Racket

The Nuge keeps on offending all sorts of people

Jailhouse Crock

Spanish-language media cries foul over Railcar Killer interviews

Tongue-tied

HISD's bilingual policy can leave Spanish-speaking kids in a language lurch

Carlos Chaves, Mall Surgeon

Sure, an unlicensed doctor was performing liposuction at a hair salon. Stranger still: Clients kept showing up.

Shermann Bilks's Top 10 Signs of Blight Slippage

Term Limits: The Next Generation

A fractious bunch fills the city ballot, but the blood flies in District H

Meet the Aztec Love God

Novelist Tony Diaz stirs up a Latino writers movement in Houston and, in some respects, becomes his own main character

Static

!Quermos Rock!

The chords are the same, but the lyrics are en espanol. The rockeros like it, yes they do.

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