The THREE SONORANS Blog is All Over the BANNED Ana Castillo Story from Tucson!

hit the image for the linkazo!

Psycho, Released in Mexico as PSICOSIS! Lobby Cards

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and, as an added treat, a US schlockfest, Mexicanized!

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Cool Touch of Evil Lobby Card Auction

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Heritage Auction: MANUEL ALVAREZ BRAVO PRINT: MANUEL ÁLVAREZ BRAVO (Mexican, 1902-2002). Espejo Negro (Black Mirror), 1947. Gelatin silver on watercolor paper

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more Alvarez Bravo

Abel Morado and Tucson USD to Ana Castillo: OUT!

Gustavo Arellano and William Nericcio On the Air, KPFK, Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Ask a Mexican famed commentator, Gustavo Arellano, author of Taco USA (Scribners) and yours truly, were on the air on Tuesday speaking out against Arizona's SB 1070, among other things. The show is now available as a podcast here, and as an mp3, here.

Illegal Immigrants and the Carbon Footprint! Colbert via Pocho.com

Mexican Mitt? Now Romney, CHOLAFIED via Cholafied.com

Cooool! La Santa Cecilia, Elvis Costello, and More via POCHO.COM

Rita Hayworth, aka Margarita Carmen Cansino, in BLOOD AND SAND (1941)

... just some images lifted off of tumblr and dr. macro of Rita Hayworth from BLOOD AND SAND--the evocative/predictable semiotic terrain of the Latina bombshell, where sexuality is always already a foregrounded element of the Subject, is clearly in play here... much of this is covered in the Rita chapter in Tex[t]-Mex. Michael Barrett's review in PopMatters is worth a studied peek.

Scalia Compares Undocumented Immigrants to Bank Robbers or FLOGGING the Victim, Chapter 1,098,999,222,098

Hispandering Obama!? Eva Longoria as Lucky Charm in Esther J. Cepeda's NBC LATINO Piece

Remarkable Animated Story: Little Dragon | TWICE | animator: Johannes Nyholm

The animator is Johannes Nyholm; more on the artist here. Thanks to SDSU Philosophy Graduate Student Shelley Dedman for the link!

Anastasio Hernández-Rojas: Murder? Hate Crime? or Business as Usual for the Border Patrol? via Sally Mercedes/Latina.com

Thanks to SDSU Philosophy Graduate Student Shelley Dedman for the link!

Salma Hayek, Surfing the Latina Bombshell Trope (Among Others), Shills Fast Food for Burger King

here's the story from the Daily Mail (UK)... hit the image for the link...

here's the Spanish-version off Vimeo:


and the version in English....