Cahiers du Cinema: Carlito’s Way is best film of the 90s

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...

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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...

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Juan, meet Matthias

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...

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momento de zen

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...

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Tally Ho!

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...

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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...

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Bootlegs hurt mi gente

Bootlegs hurt mi gente

Watching your movies get Bootlegged is no fun and affects the bottom line of future projects bigtime as well as whatever backend profits folks hope to get. It only hurts those that made the film, as El Cantante director Leon Ichaso says in David Gonzalez's Times...

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Leon, a Tiger in New York

The NY Times' Mirta Ojito had this nice appreciation of Leon Ichaso, Cuban boy made good, with the premiere of his newest directorial effort, El Cantante, J.Lo & Marc Anthony's pet project about Hector Lavoe & his wife Puchi. It made me proud when the Times...

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Dance a little salsa in Nueba Yol

Seth Kugel of the New York Times offers a guide to where to get your grove on in the big NY, including the haps at La Fonda Boriqua and the Parkside Lounge. Basila here. And if you want a lil bit mas clave? Here's the times on the revival of 70s salsa throughout...

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