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Weekend News for your Monday Blues Horse racing fans were disappointed to learn that Triple Crown hopeful I’ll Have Another wouldn’t be racing in the Belmont Stakes over the weekend. Now the horse is retired, Mexican-born jockey Mario Gutierrez says that the owners should find a nice, quiet neighborhood to ditch the horse in. California Read More
It’s our pleasure to introduce to you Being Latino’s first Fan of The Week, Maria Cristina Restrepo! Maria, 37, is a native of Bogotá, Colombia now living in North Bergen, New Jersey. After learning English, she enrolled at Kean University where she studied Film & Media. Afterwards she began working with a well known media Read More
Two weeks ago, pizza chain Pizza Patron caused a stir when they announced “Pizza por favor”: a one-day promotion across all their locations where customers would get a free large pepperoni pizza if they ordered it in Spanish. Despite controversy from both non-Latino and Latino groups (the latter came from Marcela Gomez and the Hispanic Marketing Read More
Weekend news for the Monday Blues Authorities in Brazil are looking for a man who stole a gold-plated vibrator worth $4,000 from a luxury sex shop. Women around the world are now planning trips to this luxury sex shop. Recent unemployment numbers show that the jobless rate among Latinos has jumped back up to 11 Read More
Want to have your pic and bio featured as our Fan of the week?! Well now is your chance! Beginning Monday, June 4, and continuing until Thursday we’ll be putting out five questions a day. At the end of the week. Highest score becomes Being Latino’s fan of the week. Here’s how it works: The Read More
What does your morning routine involve? Getting up, having a cup of coffee, and then going to work. When you get to work, you might decide to have another cup. But, don’t you just hate having to wait for the coffee to brew if the pot is empty or someone else is using the instant Read More
Weekend News Now that pools and beaches are open for the summer, U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission is urging the Latino community to teach children to swim, since the USA Swimming Foundation estimates that nearly three out of four Latino kids can’t swim. I personally don’t know what to believe, though. One the one hand, Read More
Marketers across a variety of industries are trying to figure out the magic formula for capturing the Latino audience. One of the latest experiments is a joint effort by ABC and Univision for an English language cable channel aimed at Latinos. But there are some tired pitfalls the new channel should avoid, including: Cartoonish or Read More
Sonrisa del Día You’re probably aware that today is Memorial Day, a holiday in which we honor and thank members of the military who gave their lives to serve and protect this country. Here at Being Latino, we plan to do just that by bringing a sonrisa to your face with this video compilation of Read More
Pizza Patrón, a pizza chain headquartered in Dallas, will be giving away a free large pepperoni pizza on Tuesday, June 5 from 5pm to 8pm. What is the catch? People will have to order the pizza in Spanish. It can be broken Spanish. It can be first-time Spanish. You can say “Quiero Pizza”, “Pizza por Read More