by Orlando Rodriguez Twenty-three million U.S. residents watched the royal wedding of Prince William and Kate Middleton, but 24 million U.S. residents (one million more) watched the 2010 men’s soccer World Cup competition. As the U.S. becomes more culturally diverse, expect World Cup competitions to have more and more viewers while royal weddings should have fewer. Read More

by C. Adán Cabrera Book Review: Butterfly Boy: Memories of a Chicano Mariposa (University of Wisconsin Press, 2006) by Rigoberto González Butterflies, my lover calls it, the art he places on my back. He locks his lips on each shoulder blade and sucks the skin, leaving deep red, almost purple hickeys that he says resemble Read More

by Eileen Rivera Boy meets girl, boy and girl fall in love, boy loses girl, boy finds girl again, and again. Typical love story? Maybe, but the animated movie, “Chico and Rita” takes it to a whole new level. Against a backdrop of 1948 Cuba, Paris and NYC, this film seduces the viewer with its Read More

by Ulises Silva A red traffic light doesn’t magically deploy a force field that stops incoming vehicles. We proceed through our green light because we assume the other driver understands an abstract concept (the law) and will not plow their 4,000 pound vehicle into us. But assumptions can be disastrous; otherwise, we’d have no traffic Read More

by Carlos Solorio “I want to be a math teacher.” Marcos said. That took me aback. I met Marcos Valdez in college and we had a similar trajectory. He was an intern on Wall Street. I’m pretty sure he was a quant. He graduated Summa Cum Laude in math and had been a three-sport valedictorian Read More

by Nick Baez With the populations I’ve worked with over the past seven years, trauma has been a reoccurring and significant theme. It is important to realize that trauma is a multifaceted and complex phenomenon. It can result from a single event or repeated events over time. It can happen in childhood or adulthood. It Read More