Milkshake Wisdom
Also gorgeous ñ crush Tina Fey hosted SNL and this milkshake sketch rocked it. Check it out at TV crunch. Better than thinking about the Raul C. farce that's goin' on in the papers. Here's the milkshake/There Will Be Blood dirt from you USA Today. Novela was ahead of...
It’s Friday, dale jamon
Machito, Graciela – en Japon. 60s.
It's Friday. And that means music. So, lets honor the great, perfect Machito & His AfroCubans with Graciela. Stick around for the interview with the Japanese host after the jam. Worth waiting for just to hear how super smooth Machito is in an int. Did a cooler person...
Un Beso
We know Valentine's Day is over. It's from Seasame Street.
Expressway to yr Skull
Jacob M. Ruefer is the bomb. A musician who has great kinda Johnathan Richmond-like originals, like 'Trophy Wife", but also, importantly, a buncha amazingly cool and original covers of obscure songs from the likes of M.I.A, Fleetwood Mac, Blondie, Sonic Youth, Pixies,...
President’s Day
Russia. James Brown. Apollo Creed. Carl Weathers. Directed by Sly. It's presidents day.
It’s even Friday in Japan
Orquesta de la Luz (with Tito Puente & Oscar de Leon)
It’s Friday
If it's Friday, it must be Mambo. Damaso Perez Prado.
Love, Soft as an Easy Chair.
Paul Williams wrote that baby. Litte Enis, in Smokey and the Bandit. He didn't know the half of it. J.lo knows the rest. A valentine to 'even when it seems perfect, there's always round two'. Everybody moved on. Everybody was fine.
Violet Crush
Violeta had sauce. You gotta give it up for her, she had/has sauce. The underage minx who snuck into Casanovas, the 13-going on 30 gal you met at Forrest, Violet was the original "The Girl can't help it" grrl. A big ol gen ñ Valentine to Violetica, Carmen, and Sharon...
Turnin’ Heads Cholita
It's La Cholita gents. Leading her own Burlesque Reviva l a big ñ valentine goes out to the bombshell beauty. Influenced by her upbringing in the calles of L.A., her unparalleled unique style of old Hollywood glamour meets Chola gangster is shaking things up in the...
To All The Girls We’ve Loved Before
Santo and Blue Demon have always been buds. So it's weird to see them fighting. I think Blue Demon was hypnotized. That sucks. I think it all worked out though. Santo is romantic and thus, here he is on Valentine's Day. Nothing says 'I love you' like a luchador mask....
Ladies & Gentlemen – Dolores de Muela
A big generation ñ valentine goes out to our crush Dolores de Muela, the hottest mami to ever be born from a shrimp and a fisherman, (go to http://www.myspace.com/doloresdemuela for the story) Happy Valentine's day you burlesque doll. Photo taken at Lucha Va Voom by...
Sarah Silverman is F@#$%ing Matt Damon
Did you guys know this? How does that make Jimmy Feel?
A King in Queens
TAN over at aol FanHouse has an interesting take on what he calls "the dulce de leche icing on the latin cake GM Omar Minaya has cooked up in Queens", namely the arrival of Venezuelan Johann Santana as the Mets go to guy in Minaya's ballclub.
A movie theatre in the hood
Movie Producer Monty Esparza (Selena, The Milagro Beanfield War) announces he's going to build movie theaters in the Latin hoods across the US. Good for him. From the sound of this article by Roger Vincent, it sounds like they've done their homework regarding the...
David Woodley is Dead
Forgive the Dolphin posts, but with the perfect season saved, thoughts turned to fins, and we are Made In Miami here. David Woodley. QB tween Greise and Marino died in 2003. How did I not know he had passed on? My buddy Dan told me. My first fins memories are of the...
Besos Frios
Ed Morales writes about Willie Rosario's band turning 50. lluvia, that's the classic right there.
Generation ñ Network preview —- www.generation-n.com
Speaking of Iris Chacon
Amalie Coolant - you knew what you were doin'.
Cahiers du Cinema: Carlito’s Way is best film of the 90s
on Carlito’s WayI first saw Carlito's Way with my wife during it's theatrical run in 1993 and excited by the wonderful preview and the promise of the re-teaming of De Palma & Pacino that had yielded the blast pulp theater thrills of Scarface, we settled in for a...
Kara Walker
I Learned about Kara Walker years ago through my boy George Sanchez, who was a classmate of hers at RISD. He had a couple of pieces by her and sang her praises at every opp. For our $ the best American artist around. Here's what the NYtimes had to say bout her one...
Juan, meet Matthias
Matthias Heuermann, based in Berlin, cuts the most gorgeous montages of images from films. He puts stuff together in a way that is beautiful, unique and makes you view the original work pretty differently than you may have before. Here he takes the Space Age Bachelor...
momento de zen
We do not know who you are 'zefmh' from youtube. As we searched for an interesting post on Cuban Coffee to get things started here, among the folks from Asia and Europe posting their experiences with exotic cafecitos on Calle Ocho, and the folks offering instructions...
Tally Ho!
It's quite possible that you do not know Pep Torres yet. But if you stick to this blog, you'll get to know him real well. All you need to know about Pep is he's a true Rock n Roll wildman. Here's his myspace. Like he'd tell ya, it ain't rocket science, it's...
te quiero comer Ma’duro
lloraras
Bill n Vince make Cuban Coffee and riff on Carlito’s Way
Generation ñ spot: Favorite Movies – Gus
welcome back
Welcome peeps. ¿Que Vola? Once upon a time we did generation ñ as a magazine. Things are different now. It's impossible to do a "Latino/Hispanic" blog, it's just to big and too vast and too varied a group of folks. But we'll be a 'lil aggregator site full of cool...
