Move Over Salma Hayek, the Next Latino Bombshell is from Cuba! William Levy, aka the "Mexican" Brad Pitt

Hit the image below for the latest on William Levy; of course the Textmex Galleryblog was already on this last September!

Casting Call! Light-Skinned Hispanics in New Mexico! You've Got a Gig!

Cate Rangel, Xicanosmosis, Frida Kahlo

In Tex[t]-Mex, I write about Gilbert Hernandez's knowing illustrated biography of Frida Kahlo as a form of "xicanosmosis"--a process where the cultural forces from both sides of the border fuse and evolve/evoke (that essay is here: http://eyegiene.sdsu.edu/kahlosemiotic/index.html)

Cate Rangel's painting, though in a different key than Hernandez, moves with a similar semiotic cadence. A pretty remarkable portrait.

Classic Semiotic Xicanosmosis: Bond, James "Chola" Bond Edition

SoCal SKA with a Latino Beat | Daniel Hernandez's INTERSECTIONS

Cafe Tacuba | Avientame...

Thanks to Josh Kun for posting this video (by Alejandro Gonzalez Iñárritu, director, with Cafe Tacuba) on Mark Zuckerberg's mad contraption, Facebook, where I saw it and now, here, recast it...

First Anti-Mexican Swag on Cafe Press, Now Racist Bumper Stickers: The Tricky History of Race and Ethnicity in the Americas, Chapter 20,256 and counting....

Thanks to Sara Ines Calderon (aka, la diva de newstaco for the linkazo...)

Selana Quintanilla: Legacies!

Cool Rita Hayworth Stencil on DeviantART.com

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Wow! LADY FROM SHANGHAI Original Movie Poster Auction! Rita Hayworth, Orson Welles

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Wow! Top Ten Moments in Latina/o Popular Culture: Number 1 | Selena, LIVE, Disco-Medley: I Will Survive/Talk about it/Funkytown/Last Dance/The Hustle/On The Radio

Thanks to Sara Inés Calderón of NEWSTACO for sharing this classic xicanosmotic video of Chicana superstar/martyr SELENA doing an all-out Discogasmic medley, live, in concert in "Houston, Texas, Mexico" (as she shouts out during the video, shot in the Astrodome in 1995)...   A top ten moment in Chicana/o popular culture, to be sure!

Mexico as Synecdoche for the Sexual! "Mexican" KEN DOLL EDITION!

Scandalous! Scandalous!   Here's the source....

and, of course, the original "Mexican" Ken Doll and Barbie...

Rick Santorum! In the Running for April PENDEJO OF THE MONTH! Readers!? What do you think!?

Click the image for the freshly-listed tale of mammoth PENDEJADAS.... please go to our facebook page and comment on whether or not SANTORUM should be our APRIL, "PENDEJO OF THE MONTH"...

Viva los LibroTRAFICANTES!

Speedy Gonzales Figurine on Etsy!

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