Latin America

This Week's Restaurant Review, The Condensed Version: Corazon y Miel

Corazon y Miel is the subject of this week's restaurant review. You can read the full review over in the food section, or turn the page for the condensed version.

Top 3 Food Events: West Coast BBQ Classic, Springfest CUR-ATE

2nd Annual West Coast BBQ Classic Barbecue aficionados and grillmasters take note: The West Coast BBQ Classic returns to Long Beach. As contestants compete for a $9,000 cash prize and serious bragging rights, general-admission ticket holders can sample their wares for $2 each. Live bands are schedul ... More >>

Hurrah for the James Beard Book, Broadcast and Journalism Awards Winners!

The James Beard Book Broadcast and Journalism awards were held this past Saturday night, and a whole new crop of book authors, TV and radio folks and food journalists were honored with what is still considered the food world's greatest honor -- a James Beard medal. You can see the full list of win ... More >>

Asian-Chasing Creeps Make L.A. The International-Dating Epicenter Of America

Seeing that we're the jumping-off point for the Asian Pacific, Latin America and, for whatever reason, Ethiopia and Bangladesh, it should be no surprise that Los Angeles is the "international dating" capital of America. That, at least, is the word from a rep for the website AnastasiaDate, which tol ... More >>

Sugary Drinks Linked to 180,000 Deaths Annually

Now we know you were all really mad at NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg for trying to ban large-sized sodas. But the man may have had a point. Sugary beverages are linked to more than 180,000 deaths worldwide annually, according to new research presented this week at an American Heart Assn. conference. ... More >>

Jorge Mario Bergoglio: Is The New Pope Latino?

Updated at the bottom: A UCLA professor weighs in on the question and says yes. First posted at 12:18 p.m. Perhaps in a nod to its Spanish speaking majority, the Catholic Church today announced that Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina is its new pope. He will apparently go by the name of Pope Franc ... More >>

Texas Dude Moves To Argentina and Launches a Latin Alternative Revolution

Texas native Grant Dull is not the guy one would expect to see at the forefront of a revolution in Latin American music. A former resident of San Antonio with no connection to Latin America (other than his hometown's proximity to the Mexican border), he is one of the co-founders of Buenos Aires, Arg ... More >>

Food Tank Launches: A New Think Tank on Food Systems

The brand-new Food Tank is not an irritating aquarium-themed seafood restaurant concept or a shoot-em-up flick set in a cafeteria. It's a think tank about food, though the matters the organization hopes to tackle won't be so mundane as the search for palatable application for the world's glut of tr ... More >>

Cookbook of the Year: Gran Cocina Latina A Spicy Bolivian Peanut Sauce Recipe

What happens you combine a culinary pedigree that includes a Latin American/Spanish market and pastry shop (Ultramarinos) and two restaurants (Zafra & Cucharamama in New Jersey) with a doctorate in medieval history? Gran Cocina Latina: The Food of Latin America, a 900-page homage to Latin American c ... More >>

Test Kitchen's Latino Series, Part 1: Mexican Chefs to Take Over Bestia This Weekend

If Angelenos are becoming intoxicated by Mexico's culinary renaissance, Northern Baja has been our gateway drug. Several events have popped up in recent years (most recently, at Playa) in which chefs from Tijuana and Ensenada have come up over the border to showcase their talents to eager SoCal fans ... More >>

Tamale Trivia: 10 Fascinating Facts

Last week, we told you about 10 spots for terrific Mexican tamales in L.A., from King Taco to Rivera. What we didn't say is that the tamale is so versatile that hundreds of varieties exist within Mexico alone, not counting nouveau creations with ingredients like foie gras and truffles. Turn the page ... More >>

'See Change' at LAX's Tom Bradley International Terminal, a Massive New Video Installation

Hispanics Are Not Hispanic

There was a time when uttering the word Mexican was impolite. Cops in Southern California would call anyone with brown skin a Mexican. And those of us who were born here preferred other terms such as Mexican American, Chicano and Latino. How could you tell if someone was born here by looking at th ... More >>

Emanuela Bellezza: Hand-Picked by Juanes, She's About to Pop

Emanuela Bellezza isn't from L.A., but she decided a long time ago this was where she wanted to be. Born and raised in Italy, she'd dreamed of making music here since her teenage years in Rome, when she first started writing original songs. Now, four years into her L.A. life -- with two albums under ... More >>

Top 20 Musicians of All Time, in Any Genre: #15-11

See also: *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, In Any Genre: #20-16 *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, In Any Genre: #10-6 *Top 20 Musicians of All Time, In Any Genre: #5-1 15. Madonna When asked by Dick Clark on American Bandstand in 1983 what her dreams were, a young Madonna replied, "To rule the world." ... More >>

Rivera: 99 Essential Restaurants 2011

CDC Reports: Food Service Workers Smoke. A Lot.

There's nothing like toiling over a smoking stove to get you hankering for a cigarette. According to a brand-new CDC study that surveyed nearly 115,000 working adults between 2004 and 2010, food service workers -- along with miners and construction workers -- are more likely to smoke than most. Th ... More >>

Limp Wrist Manhandles Hardcore Punk

Obama en EspaƱol: U.S. President Tours Latin America, Talks Chilean Miners, His Own Stellar Immigration Policy (Really?)

The Daily BeastBarack and Michelle, lookin' the part​Updated after the jump: The president makes his last stop in El Salvador. If there's one thing our POTUS can do, it's talk. Barack Obama could talk himself out of Guantanamo Bay through a thick swatch of duct tape. In perfect form, he tur ... More >>

(Video) 'Toy Story 3' Anti-Oscar Campaign Waged By Disney Resort Workers

DisneyCowboys are an invention of Latin America. Irony?​Update: Our friends over at OC Weekly have photos of Monday night's protest here. First posted at 7:05 a.m.. Disney's Toy Story 3 ended up on some critics' year-end Top 10 lists, but now a labor union wants to put it back in the toy ches ... More >>

In Search Of: Bardo Martinez on Colombia, Cumbia, Champeta And More

courtesy chicano batmanBardo Martinez (R) with Chicano Batman​ Bardo Martinez is the singer, guitar player, keyboardist, and occasional accordionist for Chicano Batman, as well as a former member of Buyepongo. He speaks now about the cultural context of Colombian cumbia, Cuban and Colombian c ... More >>

Family Entertainment

The Passion of el Cristo

Osvaldo Golijov's thoroughly panamerican tribute to Bach comes to L.A.

When White Writers Do “Latino” Issues

Viva Brasil!

EVERYTHING'S BETTER IN SANTA MONICA!

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Evita Peron Notebook & Angry/Happy Salt Shakers

Man, oh man. The day is finally here when the nation elects a new president. In honor of the occasion, here are two great items from a fantastic online store called LAMA, which stands for Latin America in the Modern Age. Like Obama, Argentina's First Lady Eva Peron was/is beloved by a nation and had ... More >>

AIDS Conference Take 1: Rejecting Bill Clinton

The AIDS Conference opened with a bang on Monday: An activist take-over of a symposium hosted by a pharmaceutical company (which decided to stop distributing HIV drugs to kids) and a speech by Bill Clinton where I suppose he said some quotable things. On Sunday night the gala opening happened at ... More >>

All Mixed Up Over La Raza

The "cosmic race" celebrates miscegenation, not segregation

Our Favorite Shows and Artifacts

Art to live for

Finish Fetish

Crucifixions and Californians

Call It LACKMA?

German / Mexican Films at Echo Park Film Center

Wednesday at 8, if you can make it. Sounds intriguing. Straight from Austin, Texas, A German and A Mexican Tour showcases work from filmmakers Katja Straub and Miguel Alvarez. Both love, tell, and collect stories - narrative or documentary - always with an emphasis on visual exploration. Their rathe ... More >>

Swoosh!

Comets (and reactions to them) through the ages

Between the Lost and the Found

Daniel Alarcón and his novel of the disappeared

What Does Santa Monica Taste Like?

Ask Mr. Gold

Love, From Los Angeles

Life on the Edge

Argentina’s disappearing middle class

South of Your Border

New films from Mexico

Cuba Now

Notes on the 22nd International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana

Cuba Now

Notes on the 22nd International Festival of New Latin American Cinema in Havana

I'm Just a Three-Striking Old Softie

Life Is Sweet

On caramel, the new chocolate

Targeting the Assassins

School of the Americas faces its toughest test

¡Echale Salsita!

Latin music in Los Angeles

Third Ear

Patriarch Games

Sex, AIDS and Machismo in Latin America

Art Before Memory

Latin American artists offer "Amnesia"