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Peru Negro

Remezcla Team — Mon, 04 Feb 2008 21:00:00 +0000

For over 35 years, the two-time Grammy-nominated Perú Negro has been reinvigorating Peru’s rich black culture of all over the world via dance and music. Appointed as “Cultural Ambassadors of Black Peru” by the Peruvian government, they became the group to emulate by other bands in this genre. Founded by the late Ronaldo Campos, Perú

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Behind the Scenes of Fuerzabruta

Remezcla Estaff — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:00:00 +0000

Franziska and I went to see Fuerzabruta, the new production by the creators of De La Guarda, and we were left with some questions. In a nutshell, we stood in a large dark room for a little more than an hour while water was sprinkled on us, blasts of air and bits of paper were

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Luna Bella Avila

Remezcla Estaff — Thu, 29 Nov 2007 21:00:00 +0000

Name: Luna Bella Avila Occupation: Arts Programs Associate of the Lower Eastside Girls Club and La Tiendita Manager Age: 26 Barrio: Lower East Side Roots: Ecuadorian-Dominican How long have you been running La Tiendita? Since its inception, last fall. How and when did the idea of La Tiendita originate? Last fall, we were trying to

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Saying Adios to Carlitos Café

Remezcla Estaff — Mon, 19 Nov 2007 21:00:00 +0000

As many of you already know, Carlitos Café y Galeria is closing this month due to the end of its five year lease. Sadly, gentrification has made it impossible for this haven of live music, art, community activisim, film screenings, and just good old fashioned passing the time with the regulars, to stay open. Founder Eliana tells us how it all began,

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Viva Celia!

Remezcla Estaff — Mon, 15 Oct 2007 21:00:00 +0000

No matter how well-done the production, or how intriguing the plot, sometimes when actors break out into song and dance at haphazard moments in a play, I can’t help but cringe in my seat. In Celia: The Life & Music of Celia Cruz at New World Stages, however, the musical components of this production gave

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It Happens Here, Too:

Remezcla Estaff — Tue, 07 Aug 2007 21:00:00 +0000

Jackson Heights, Queens has long been known as a neighborhood where practically anything could be bought for the right price, from stolen clothes to false social security numbers. But in recent years, police say the hottest black market item has become women, as the melting-pot barrio fast becomes the city’s epicenter for human trafficking. As

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Quince Never Was

Remezcla Estaff — Sun, 08 Jul 2007 21:00:00 +0000

Felicia Luna Lemus, the author of novels, Like Son (2007) and Trace Elements of Random Tea Parties (2003) is amongst 15 other animated Latino writers featured in the new hysterical anthology Fifteen Candles: 15 Tales of Taffeta, Hairspray, Drunk Uncles, and other Quinceañera Stories (2007). If it were up to her, as she describes in

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One-Man Intríngulis

Remezcla Estaff — Wed, 04 Apr 2007 21:00:00 +0000

Walking out of the Public Theater on April 2nd, I not only learned a word in Spanish that I’d never heard before (in case you were wondering, intríngulis means complex web or ulterior motive – see below), but I also walked out dumbfounded at an outstanding one-man performance. Carlo Albán, most known for his six-year

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A Schizophrenic Self-Taught Artist Finally Recognized

Remezcla Estaff — Tue, 20 Mar 2007 21:00:00 +0000

Glancing at the art work of Martín Ramírez (1895-1963) in his 97-drawing show at the American Folk Art Museum, his largest exhibit to date, I witnessed the simple lines and colors similar to what you find in a child’s drawing, mixed with the complexity of that of a genius. There is an abundant use of

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Nuestra Ciudad in Book Form

Remezcla Estaff — Tue, 05 Dec 2006 21:00:00 +0000

I met Carolina González and Seth Kugel in the unpretentious and casera Havana Chelsea, one of the top five locales for Cuban sandwiches in NYC according to González’s and Kugel’s new book – Nueva York: The Complete Guide to Latino Life in the Five Boroughs. Munching on crispy Cubans and tres leches cake, the co-authors

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