by Yenesis Alvarez | Nov 12, 2026 | Entertainment
Joel Alfonso Vargas’s debut feature, Mad Bills to Pay (or Destiny, dile que no soy malo), is now easy to find at home. The Dominican American Bronx story follows 19-year-old Rico, who spends the summer selling homemade “nutty” cocktails on Orchard Beach until his...
by Yenesis Alvarez | Nov 12, 2026 | Entertainment
Snoopy is not Mexican, but the man who made him move, and growl, laugh, and mutter, was. José Cuauhtémoc “Bill” Meléndez, born in Hermosillo, Sonora, was the only animator Charles Schulz trusted to adapt Peanuts for television. As Kiko Martinez and Andrew S. Vargas...
by Yenesis Alvarez | Nov 12, 2026 | Arte Palabra
Cuban American poet Kyle Carrero Lopez first learned what sanctions were as a child, not as a political measure, but as a gendered one. In his poem “Sanctions,” he writes of a father, a Cuban refugee and DJ, laying down the terms of acceptable masculinity: “No dance...
by Yenesis Alvarez | Nov 12, 2026 | 45 RPM, Entertainment
The Latin American sound known as neoperreo turns 10 this year. As Ana González Vilá reports for De Los, in a story produced with the Trans Journalists Association, artists like DJ Lizz and Tomasa del Real built it as a reimagining of reggaeton, by and for cis and...
by Yenesis Alvarez | Nov 12, 2026 | Entertainment
Comedian and TV host Dariany Santana has launched Cha Cha Cha, a mockumentary series whose first episode is titled “We’re Addicted to Leche Condensada.” She shared the premiere on her Instagram, tagging it #chachachatheshow. Santana, a New Jersey-born Cuban American,...
