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This is our planet and we are as alike as we are different: YouTube’s "Life in a Day" (video)

Imagine that we all recorded moments in our live during one day, then we edited those various moments into one film. Would it show us just how alike we are or just how different?

LMFAO’s "Party Rock Anthem" Halloween-House Style (video)

Check out the coolest house on the block!

Salma Hayek tells David Letterman: "You’ve never been a short Mexican Woman" (Video)

Salma Hayek chats with David Letterman about her ankle nightmare.

Is Major League Baseball too Hispanic? I don’t think so…

Is Major League Baseball too Hispanic? This was the headline to an article written by Tim Keown for ESPN.com. The question itself made me feel uncomfortable and after reading the entire article I was dumbfounded, are you really asking this question?

All Roads Film Festival

On a mild day in September, I stepped off the bus from NYC and arrived in our nation’s capital to attend the All Roads Film Festival, hosted by the National Geographic Society. Previously having pre-screened and reviewed several of the films for Being Latino, I had the chance to meet many great film-makers, and the Read More

If the shoe fits…

The year 2011 has been a great for women in film and television. Bridesmaids dispelled the myth that women can’t be funny. The highest rated new shows on television are CBS’ 2 Broke Girls and FOX’s New Girl. Like the former’s title, the mainstream audience has been blessed with new, more authentic portrayals of what it’s Read More

Moreno, Leguizamo talk Latin life in ‘Hollywouldn’t’

- via NPR Rita Moreno — the only Latino performer to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony — is reprising some of her most memorable characters in a solo show at the Berkeley Repertory Theater. Up the coast in Los Angeles, John Leguizamo, who co-starred opposite Al Pacino in Carlito’s Way Read More

Forget desperate housewives. Here come their Latina maids?

Finally, a show about Latinas. YES! And…they’re maids. Oh. Desperate Housewive‘s creator, Marc Cherry is bringing four Latina maids to ABC in an hour-long series titled, Devious Maids. It’s an adaptation of the Televisa novela, The Disorderly Maids Of The Neighborhood.

Who is on the Texas Rangers bandwagon now?

- via Latino Fox News Amid all the celebration when Nelson Cruz hoisted his ALCS MVP trophy, perhaps few in the Texas Rangers‘ extended family were more elated than general manager Jon Daniels. Before the Dominican outfielder’s hard work culminated with the virtuoso performance against the Detroit Tigers in this year’s playoffs, he was an Read More

"The Last of the Meheecans" – South Park on immigration [video]

The lovable, well-meaning Butters aka Mantequilla inspires Mexicans to return to Mexico in a mass exodus. True to its political message-in-a-gag format, South Park makes the point about the role immigrants play in the U.S. workforce and economy with humor.