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SKOKIE – “Bravo!” “Brava!” “Ole!” Enthusiastic cheers filled the North Shore Center for the Performing Arts Friday night. The energetic applause from the audience’s...
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“There is beauty everywhere, even beyond that border wall,” says artist Patricia Perez, 43, a second-generation Latina of Guatemalan and Puerto Rican heritage.
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Lucha Teotl, the groundbreaking show integrating the vibrant tradition of lucha libre’s freestyle-masked wrestling deeply embedded in the cultural fabric of Mexico City, has...
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Diversity, equity, and inclusion allow broader perspectives to be integrated when developing new ideas, particularly in the performing arts. They shape public ideas about...
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The annual Puerto Rican Fest returned richer than ever to Chicago’s Humboldt Park neighborhood with celebratory piña coladas, bomba dancing, alcapurrias and everything red,...
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Beloved Mexican singer Vicente Fernández, the king of ranchera music has died. He was 81. “Rest in Peace Mr. Vicente Fernández. We regret to...
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Off the bustling streets of Chicago, the freshly painted, bright yellow brick walls of Roni and Mac Grocery catch your attention. As you step...
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The last time I heard Sandra Cisneros, she spoke, even she recognizes, from a place of anger. In her defense of American Dirt–a book she blurbed as...
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“She was a lonely woman,” said William Mendoza, producer/director of the Latin Heartbeat Orchestra, remembering his mother. “I would ask her how are you...
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I’ve always viewed Rita Moreno as an iconic Puerto Rican actress who paved the way for so many Latinx artists that I admire. After...
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Outside a Chicago police station in the Belmont-Cragin neighborhood on the City’s west side, 43-year-old Colombian migrant Kanes Barros stood in 33-degree weather, listening...
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According to recent reports, the Latino economy is valued at 3.2 trillion dollars, up from $2.8 trillion in 2020. If Latinos were an independent...