New Music Picks: Cardi B & Offset, Immasoul, Alaina Castillo, and More
New Music Picks: Cardi B & Offset, Immasoul, Alaina Castillo, and More
Welcome to LATINA’s weekly roundup of the best new music. This week’s list includes Cardi B’s knockout collaboration with Offset, Immasoul’s breakthrough EP, and Alaina Castillo’s confessions on the dance floor. Also on the list: Sofía Reyes and Danna Paola’s surprise remix with Kim Petras, Blue Rojo’s feel-good song with [...]
For This Famed Peruvian Restaurant, L.A. Is Just The Beginning
For This Famed Peruvian Restaurant, L.A. Is Just The Beginning
Peruvian food might be one of the most talked about cuisines right now – especially after the Lima-based Central won the coveted title of Best Restaurant in the World 2023 – but that wasn’t always the case. For Peruvian expats moving overseas in the 80s, finding traditional ingredients and restaurants [...]
New Music Picks: Bad Bunny & Travis Scott, Ice Spice, Young Miko, and More
New Music Picks: Bad Bunny & Travis Scott, Ice Spice, Young Miko, and More
Welcome to LATINA’s weekly roundup of the best new music. This week’s list includes Chiquis’ fierce anthem with Snow Tha Product, the deluxe edition of Ice Spice’s EP, and Young Miko’s new spin on a classic by Las Ketchup. Also on the list: Ángela Aguilar’s breathtaking bolero, the debut album [...]
Inside the Fashion Show Made For — and by — L.A.’s Freaks
Inside the Fashion Show Made For — and by — L.A.’s Freaks
Last Friday, Freak City L.A. brought us into the world of the “freaks” with the debut of their Spring/Summer ‘24 collection, “THE NEW LA”, at L.A.' s Stomping Ground. The essence of their brand mixes referential pop-nostalgia with the identity of L.A.— that is, their L.A. — the city of [...]
A Guide to the Bay Area’s Summer Art Scene
A Guide to the Bay Area’s Summer Art Scene
This summer, the Bay Area art scene is replete with many “firsts.” With great joy, Chicana pioneering artists Yolanda López, Amelia Mesa-Bains and Juana Alicia get long-overdue solo exhibitions. Friends and artists, Mario Ayala, rafa esparza, and Guadalupe Rosales will unveil collaborative new works. Patrick Martinez paints his first [...]
NYFF Overview: Drama, Absurdity, and Indigenous Stories Take Center Stage
NYFF Overview: Drama, Absurdity, and Indigenous Stories Take Center Stage
The New York Film Festival has long celebrated cutting-edge filmmaking from Latin America. The first film ever presented at NYFF back 1963 was Luis Buñuel’s biting social critique “The Exterminating Angel.” Although it was made by a Spanish expat living in Mexico, the film has since become a canonical [...]
A Look Back on New York’s Bushwig Drag Festival
A Look Back on New York’s Bushwig Drag Festival
There was a bittersweet undertone to this year’s Bushwig festival back in early September. The yearly celebration of the local drag community was started in Brooklyn more than a decade ago by queens Horrorchata and Babes La Beija. The organizers were inspired by another, now-defunct drag festival called Wigstock. Eventually, [...]