Goodbye 2011, Hello 2012 from the Tex[t]-Mex Galleryblog!

A big tip of the sombrero to all our regular visitors! To celebrate, the lauded opening minutes from Orson Welles's remarkable TOUCH OF EVIL:

Arizona Versus Mexicanicity! via GAWKER.COM...

Cool Sweet Groovy Mexican Jazz: Xicanosmosis, Tino Contreras-style | via boingboing.net

A select Walmart demographic, true to form, bringin' some good ol' holiday cheer and bigotry against Mexicans...

A story on a few 12th-hour Walmart Christmas Eve shoppers venting their frustrations and anger at an impatient store management...and then going on to blame (surprise, surprise) Mexicans for their last-minute lot in life. I suppose the year 2011 will close as it began, with more zany and sad racial bigotry, antipathy, misunderstanding, frustration, and blame, etc., in store for 2012! Check it out with this link below:

“Did you not have enough Mexicans working for you, you gotta pay white people more money or something?”

Shakespeare and Mexicans: Washington DC Theatre Edition...

HUFFINGTON POST STORY

WASHINGTON POST STORY

New Rita Hayworth Glossy Auction

@ Heritage Auctions...