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Celebrate the start of 2013 by joining us for a Buchanan’s “A Lo Grande” Twitter Party!

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The holidays are over but that doesn’t mean the party has to end. We believe the only way to successfully keep your resolutions is to have fun while you’re striving to meet your goals. That’s why Buchanan’s is helping us celebrate the start of great things to come in 2013, and they are celebrating A Read More

Celebrating New Years Eve A Lo Grande

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It’s time to parrrrrrrrrtay! Every year, New Years Eve brings a time for reflecting on the previous year’s accomplishments while challenging and allowing us to start afresh with new resolutions and goals – What’s not to celebrate? To me, a celebration means enjoying your time, creating new memories and most importantly, actually remembering them. Celebration Read More

Christmas: Parrandeando A Lo Grande

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I’m Boricua.  Not from the island and not even from New York.  I’m a Puerto Rican from Cleveland, Ohio. I imagine what many of you must be thinking–“What the heck is a Puerto Rican doing in Ohio?”… That’s a story for another article so, let me get to your question on how someone, who is Read More

Latinos: Evolution Beyond Low-Riders and Hoopties (Part 2)

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By Lance Rios In my 1st part to this series, I discussed a more realistic vehicle for modern-day Latinos, a vehicle that was NOT a tricked-out low-rider. The automobile that I’ve had the luxury of doing a great deal of research on was the Nissan Pathfinder, an automobile that holds elegance, class and functionality for Read More

Latinos: Evolution Beyond Low-Riders and Hoopties (Part 1)

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Latinos are by far the most diverse single ethnic group in the United States. Despite our rapid growth and HEAVY influence on culture in the United States, when it comes to automobiles, we are often portrayed in main-stream media as a group of people who drive around in low-riders suped up with hydraulics and Virgin Read More

5 Gift Ideas for Music-Lovers Under $100

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Who doesn’t love music? No matter what your personality type, music is the one thing all humans have in common. This holiday season, our friends at RadioShack were kind enough to let us try out some of their latest music-lover technology and we’ve come today to tell you all about it. Listed below is our Read More

Dear CNN, Latinos speak English

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Many Latinos may be feeling wooed the wrong way these days. “Looking to tap the wealth of U.S. Latinos, CNN is planning to introduce a Spanish-language programming service tailored for broadcast TV stations next year. The service, CNN Latino, is being designed as an eight-hour programming block featuring news, documentaries, talk shows and lifestyle programming. Read More

Old News: Few Latinos in mainstream news

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Last week The Huffington Post’s Roque Planas reminded us yet again of the lack of diversity at major newspapers — a topic regular readers are well aware of. Planas related that “White, non-Hispanic journalists wrote a whopping 98.2 percent [of] front page articles this year in major U.S. newspapers.” Planas zeroed in on immigration coverage, Read More

What should Latinos look for in their bank?

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A recent survey from TD Bank, America’s Most Convenient Bank®, found that Latinos are more than 10% as likely to have opened a checking account in the past five years as non-Latinos. If you’re one of the millions who will be opening a checking account this year, it’s a good idea to take the time Read More

#Sprintlicious Video Recap of #Blogalicious12

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