Happy Bithday Ms. ñ !
A Very Happy Birthday to Melissa Hernandez our very own ñ Grrrl!
Three’s still not a crowd on Planet R
Amigos for Kids Charity Auction Winner Lily sticks around for another another week on Planet Rosemary - This time it's funnier than ever! Shots all around!
The Sotomayor Issue
Sotomayor has been in the news a lot as of late, and it's time for generation ñ to weigh in on it. For us at ñ and without any editorializing, the answer is simple. Given a choice between Ivania and Ivette Sotomayor, we choose... BOTH. Ivania and Ivette both appear in...
iz n ish
iz n ishOriginally uploaded by generation ñThe night Ish and Iz met.Iz and Ish met at Starfish, on Miami Beach on one of their Strictly Salsa Saturday nights. She was there on her Fake I.D. 10 years ago. They danced all night.Had breakfast at the 11th st. Diner on...
A little tease
Preview our new show/site/thingy - we think we've invented a new way to tell stories. We're pretty excited about it. It's not totally ready to go yet, page still needs a few last minute things. But it'll be 'All Systems Go' by Wed. It's a narrative series of mini...
Brutal Brute Force
Nothing less than the new show from the creators of De La Guarda, this is ... about as cool as it gets. This is the thing to do in NYC - and now it's in the MIA - till Aug 9th. Official Preview below
We’re a Winner!
Part of the great Amigos For Kids party/Fundraiser is a charity auction where you can bid on different things for a great cause. We are proud and honored that at last month's auction, someone great bid on us! We auctioned off an appearance on Planet Rosemary, and the...
SWIFTcc Living the Low Life
As Seen On Rosy TV: How To Marry The Wrong Guy
This week on Planet Rosemary, Rosy talks about the hit book How to Marry The Wrong Guy: A Guide for Avoiding the Biggest Mistake of Your Life by Anne Milford and Jennifer Gauvain it's a relationship book that examines why so many women marry the wrong guy for all the...
Our Favorite Song These Days
If you're as hip as we think you are - you already jam to Girl I Wanna Lay You Down by ALO with Jack Johnson in your iPod. But in case you don't or just want a Jam in your ear this Monday Morning, jump on it below. Enjoy. 🙂
A Boogie Rican from da Bronx: Hello Mrs. de la Luz
Larry Rohter has the story and Damon Winter has the pic above, both for the NY Times, as they give props and light spread the ache about La Bruja, Mrs. Caridad de la Luz's Striking one woman show about wherein she plays seven different characters from three...
Livin the Low Life – Stylistics Car Club
Tha Bomb Ya’ll.
WECOME to LATINO DOT – ALT. ALT BABY.
From Argentina's Juana Molina to Colombia's Bomba Esterio. Maluca, Calle 13, Natalia Lafourcade from Mexico and a gang of other acts - including gen n faves Los Amigos Invisibles and indie stalwarts Aterciopelados - In fact, more worthy Latin acts that you can imagine...
Meet Juana Molina everybody. Below is all about J.
Thanks to all who entered our Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince Contest!
The winners for Warner Bros. and gen n's - Miami, NYC and L.A. Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince premiere contest have been chosen at random. If you won, you've been notified by email - and we'll see you at the premiere! Thanks so much to everyone who entered!...
The Dictator & The Disco King
The Bold new Chilean film “Tony Manero” uses “Saturday Night Fever” as a device to dissect the abusive dictatorship of Gen. Augusto Pinochet. Larry Rohter has the story at the NY Times.
Mariachi El Bronx – PR Rules
They may not be alt. Latino - but we love us some Mariachi El Bronx - here's PR Rules.
Sixto Rodriguez, Alive & Well: The Sugarman
This is the singer songwriter alive and well baby. The Independent in the U.K. gives him his due. Right Here. by Simmy Richman
Iz the Wiz
In the 1970s and ’80s, chances were good that anyone traveling the New York subways rode at least once in a car emblazoned with “Iz the Wiz.” Cryptic but euphonious, often abbreviated to the ultraminimal Iz, the signature could be seen all over the subway system: fat...
gen ñ & Warner Bros. team up to give away FREE TICKETS to the advance screening of Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince in MIA, NYC & L.A.!
(This here is a RE-PPOST from last week, but we want this at the top of the page! We're getting great responses for this contest, and you've got roughly one more day to enter!)As you know dear readers, if you recall our March 2000 magazine issue extolling the virtures...
New YLSE on the main gen n page!
Dale!
Happy Birthday U.S.A.!
Proud to be here ...- generation ñphoto via
Artists George Sanchez-Calderon & Shelter Serra were at Art Basel in Switzerland and made a pilgrimage to Ronchamp. Below is Sanchez-Calderon's video of the trip (set to Charlie Winston's In Your Hands) and his writing.We anticipated making Kunsthalle our...
We Love You Cafe Bustelo.
We are big enough to admit when we miss a link to a story that would be of interest to our readers. Which is basically all the time. Cause who can keep track of all this? But we loved this Bustelo thing so much we had to share even if we're a month late posting it, as...
Venezuelan Gozadera
If you want to know all about Latin Sex Culutre, Funk, Fonkette and Los Amigos Invisibles - then you have to pull out your gen ñ magazines from Dec 1997 and/or watch the gen ñ WAMI tv show of 1998's crazy summer. Or do your own exploring. Start here, with their new...
R.I.P.
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Quiero Mas!
Why would we use our Blogger-Powered gen ñ blog here to plug another blogging service/software/thingy? Cause we're in Love with Tumblr our 2nd foray into the blogo-cosa. It's gorgeous, easy as heck to use, uber customizable and it's sorta like twitter and facebook...
Final Frontier My Friends
I got a wonderful email from Ruth Livier (Star/Creator/Co-Writer of Ylse) telling me about a great and grand story that I've never heard on the news anywhere. Which is a shame since these are the kinds of stories we need to be telling. This August there will be Two...
