I remember when I was a child, my parents had almost every appliance needed in a normal middle class home. I never saw them replacing the blender, the home stereo or even the refrigerator. I left my house when I was 18 years old and those same appliances stayed with them for many years. Today,… [Continue Reading]
Testing positive for pleasure
10/21/2010 By 3 Comments
As you may have heard, Wicked Pictures and Vivid Entertainment, two major porn studios, have postponed filming this past week because one actor tested positive for HIV. This is not the first time. Since the major outbreak in 2004 involving Darren James, a reported nine actors are being treated for HIV. One of the… [Continue Reading]
Are you speaking Spanglish?
10/21/2010 By 8 Comments
So you’re heading out to meet friends at the club and there’s no where to park. You’re in the predominately Latino neighborhood where pretty much no one speaks English. You’re now fed up and want to ask where to park; you see someone and ask, “Nunca hay donde parquear.” The stranger gives you a… [Continue Reading]
A Drug Lord’s Tool…?
10/21/2010 By 5 Comments
I was just reading an article about the newly selected police chief in the northern section of Mexico’s Chihuahua; Marisol Valles Garcia. The criminology student, who happens to be a 20 year old from another small town in Mexico and the only individual to accept the job, was sworn in the crime-stricken town fully… [Continue Reading]
Artist Spotlight: Janid
10/21/2010 By 2 Comments
Why Latinos live longer
10/21/2010 By 5 Comments
Last week, the CDC reported that Hispanics in the United States outlive non-Hispanic whites by more than two years and Blacks by more than seven. Some offered the “healthy migrant effect” as an explanation: healthy people are more likely to emigrate. But David Hayes-Bautista, the Director of the Center for the Study of Latino Health… [Continue Reading]