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Dora the Explorer: Hispanic Doll is Billion Dollar Industry

Dora the Explorer: Hispanic Doll is Billion Dollar Industry

As Dora the Explorer turned 10 years-old last week, Hank Stuever, staff writer for The Washington Post described his experience with one of the first ever bi-lingual Hispanic doll to become an animated television series and in turn created a multi-billion dollar business.

August 30 2010 | Posted in Culture, Hispanic Heritage | Read More »

Snite Museum to Exhibit Ricardo Pau Llosa’s Collection

Snite Museum to Exhibit Ricardo Pau Llosa’s Collection

Ricardo Pau-Llosa, Cuban-American poet, critic, curator, professor and collector is unique. It is not often that one man can be all of the above and achieve worldwide notoriety in all.

August 23 2010 | Posted in Culture | Read More »

The Spanish History of Florida

The Spanish History of Florida

It’s not hard to discover that Florida is another state of this great country that has a name with a Spanish origin. It comes from the Spanish name for Easter, the “feast of flowers” or in Spanish Pascua Florida.

August 16 2010 | Posted in Culture, Featured | Read More »

Allende Says the “right” Can Govern Well in Chile

Allende Says the “right” Can Govern Well in Chile

Back in January of 1964, when Bob Dylan first recorded his classic hit “Times They Are a Changin” it was a revolutionary song. One that talked about how the country in a relatively calm 1950s was changing and becoming more revolutionary as it opposed the war in Vietnam.

August 9 2010 | Posted in Culture, Hispanic Heritage | Read More »

The Origins of Talavera Poblana

The Origins of Talavera Poblana

Mention the words Talavera tile, or ceramics, and immediately the conversation turns to Puebla in Mexico, home of the oldest tin-glazed ceramic in the Western Hemisphere that is still being manufactured with the same techniques as in the 16th Century.

How it came to pass that Talavera tile became synonymous with Puebla, Mexico and not with the same type of ceramic works created by Spanish craftsmen in the town of Talavera de la Reina, Spain, is part of the fascinating history of how the art and culture of three continents became the beautiful ceramic art that we know today.

August 2 2010 | Posted in Culture | Read More »

The Sistine Chapel as it was Seen Originally

The Sistine Chapel as it was Seen Originally

The Sistine Chapel has not been seen in its full splendor in centuries.

Yes, a few years ago the paintings of Michelangelo, Perugino and Botticelli were renovated and the Sistine Chapel regained much of the color that centuries had dulled. When that was done it regained some of its majesty.

July 26 2010 | Posted in Culture, Featured | Read More »

The Search for Nuestra Señora de Atocha and Its Treasure

The Search for Nuestra Señora de Atocha and Its Treasure

For nearly two centuries, beginning in 1561 and continuing until 1748, two fleets a year were sent from Spain to the New World. The ships brought supplies to the colonists and were then filled with silver, gold, and agricultural products for the return voyage back to Spain.

July 19 2010 | Posted in Featured, Hispanic Heritage | Read More »

Babalú: New Musical Brings Back Life of Desi Arnaz

Babalú: New Musical Brings Back Life of Desi Arnaz

Even before hundreds of thousands of Cubans fled Fidel Castro’s communist regime, there were Cubans in the United Sates.

Some of them even became part of American pop culture, such as Desiderio Alberto Arnaz ye de Acha the Third. Few knew him by that name. But if you mention, Desi Arnaz, his American name, or Ricky Ricardo, or say he was the husband and partner of Lucille Ball of the television series I Love Lucy, then everybody knows who he was.

July 12 2010 | Posted in Culture, Featured | Read More »

On the Death of Two Writers

On the Death of Two Writers

The death of two prominent writers from two continents came within days of each other.

José Saramago, the Portuguese writer who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1998 died a week ago Friday. He was known almost as much for his unfaltering Communism as for his fiction. Saramago was 87.

Renowned Mexican journalist, critic and political activist Carlos Monsivais died the following day at 72. Monsivais chronicled Mexico’s historic upheavals, social trends, and literature for over 50 years. He was also known as a tireless and ubiquitous activist for leftist causes.

July 6 2010 | Posted in Culture, Featured | Read More »

Remembering the Times and Music of Carlos Gardel

Remembering the Times and Music of Carlos Gardel

For those who only value the legacy of his music, the debate of where Carlos Gardel was born should be left to academics, historians, and researchers.

For those who celebrate his life and his music it is irrelevant if the man whose marvelous voice made the tango a worldwide sensation, was born in Montevideo, Uruguay, in the town of Tacuarembó, also in Uruguay, or in Toulouse, France, as his official biography says.

June 28 2010 | Posted in Culture, Featured | Read More »