Atelier de Laredo

14/07/2024

Parson's Nose presents Amapola Players: Ten Minute One Acts and Dan Guerrero! 🇲🇽 - https://mailchi.mp/parsonsnose.com/amapolajuly20242 🇲🇽 July 16 and 17 https://www.parsonsnose.com/live-events-1/newplaysforjuly or call 626-345-5116

08/07/2024

Help if you can! https://mailchi.mp/razomforukraine.org/help-razom-respond-to-the-okhmatdyt-hospital-attack?e=0e2d8baf6c

08/07/2024

Extraordinary Italian lobby cards for Orson Welles's TOUCH OF EVIL, 1958. Don't outbid me! 😆 https://movieposters.ha.com/itm/movie-posters/film-noir/touch-of-evil-universal-international-1958-folded-fine-very-fine-janet-leigh-signed-italian-photobustas-2-19-x-2625-and-italian/a/162429-52298.s?type=wantlistid-821122!creatorid-cewl!linkclicked-image!emailid-07082024-012803.870PM-1129860-821122!itemid-162429_23026!wlem

Curious about my obsession with this movie, check out my chapter on Welles and crew here: https://amzn.to/3Wertl2

08/07/2024

More swag! Limited edition … after the first 25 items sell the image will apparate!

https://www.teepublic.com/t-shirt/62576359-luchador-mextasy-7

07/07/2024

https://www.tumblr.com/confessionsofatextmexhoarder/755389155630039040/posted-withregram-tejanahistorias-fea-in

“Posted • FEA In true Riot Grrrl fashion, FEA rides the fast-paced momentum of the punk sub-genre to — quite clearly — express their stance on social justice issues an…

21/06/2024

https://substack.com//note/c-59670578

Perry Vasquez ...

18/06/2024

I don't only publish articles on Chicano/an art, I also collect it -- the best in my personal collection? Stuff by Izel Vargas! Check it out here:

Greetings and welcome to my store! If you have any inquiries about purchasing, please let me know. Occasionally, there are art sales that happen around the holidays. Zelle preferred, PayPal is also accepted.

06/06/2024

Latino Theater Company’s Jose Luis Valenzuela directs this big-hearted, feel-good comedy with live music about familia, amor and tradición. It’s the 1970s and women can’t be mariachis…or can they? Lucha spends her days caring for her mother and yearning for more. Defying expectations, Lucha...

06/06/2024

118 degrees Fahrenheit at Mall del Norte, Laredo, Texas yesterday, June 4, 2024. Epic heat index and it is not even August yet.

31/05/2024

Since I led 9 groups of SDSU undergrads and grad students to London from 2001 to 2018, I developed a taste for their wretched tabloids. This is one for the “annals of journalism“ hall of fame…

Curious? Here’s what we did in 2012 ➡️ https://malas.sdsu.edu/londonROCKS/

27/05/2024

Ethan Van Thillo‼️ Does San Diego Latino Film Festival have a museum or archive⁉️ Look what I just unearthed … was that #1?

15/05/2024

Cryptozoology … https://boingboing.net/2024/05/14/freaky-goblin-caught-on-video-scurrying-across-road.html

Mystery critters your thing? Don’t skip my chupacabra review piece here https://www.academia.edu/33264250/Review_Tracking_the_Chupacabra_The_Vampire_Beast_in_Fact_Fiction_and_Folklore_Aztl%C3%A1n_37_2_2012_ or here https://medium.com//benjamin-radfords-tracking-the-chupacabra-the-vampire-beast-in-fact-fiction-and-folklore-d7350760e8b0

Why did the goblin cross the road? Because it was running away from the trolls.A security camera at a farm in Monterrey, Mexico captured this creepy creature running across the road.

15/05/2024

https://www.autoweek.com/car-life/a60770904/lowriders-at-petersen-museum/

New exhibit at the Petersen Automotive Museum dazzles

13/05/2024

Oliver Mayer's new play (and our new book: atelierdelaredo.sdsu.edu) are a hit!

Developed in Latino Theater Company’s Circle of Imaginistas playwriting group, this new play is a boldly original recovery of Juventino Rosas, one of Mexico’s most significant composers — an Indigenous musician whose life story has gone untold and whose works have been attributed to Europeans....

10/05/2024

GHOST WALTZ reviews are coming in! Snap up a full color copy of the GHOST WALTZ book, edited by yours truly and Oliver Mayer here ➡️ atelierdelaredo.sdsu.edu

https://www.facebook.com/permalink.php?story_fbid=pfbid02sjoShNo7FD7LG3WG6F2Rny7q4MYUXtjzE75L3FtgVXxmS2YDQ7b9h12Xb4pJ9JGTl&id=100088925432498

‘Ghost Waltz,’ Oliver Mayer’s new play at Latino Theater Company, excavates the life of Juventino Rosas, an obscure musician who wrote one of the most popular earworms of all time.

05/05/2024

A quick snapshot of me and teatro profe legend Jorge Huerta at the premiere of Oliver Mayer’s GHOST WALTZ … also a launch party of sorts for Atelier de Laredo’s GHOST WALTZ book. Check it out and snap up a copy here atelierdelaredo.sdsu.edu

04/05/2024

Chicano teatro explosion with Culture Clash‘s 40th anniversary gala tonight and Oliver Mayer’s GHOST WALTZ premiering at Latino Theater Co. at The LATC

World premiere tonight in LA — here’s an advance review https://thenerdsofcolor.org/2024/05/04/a-los-angeles-theatre-review-ghost-waltz/ Pick up the book here: https://amzn.to/4dECov5 Amazon.com You...

24/04/2024

Hollywood

https://www.latimes.com/delos/story/2024-04-23/melissa-barrera-abigail-scream-fired-palestine-gaza?sfmc_id=652825db24b2ea18e6b03861&skey_id=b7278ee8293768130b88ff7c978ae9b240553c958a7f7fb8d759fc342855b407&utm_id=35144424&utm_source=Sailthru&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=NLTR-Email-List-Entertainment%20Digest&utm_term=Newsletter%20-%20Entertainment

23/04/2024

My dear friend and former colleague Katie Farris is visiting our SDSU Department of English & Comparative Literature and The Living Writers Series Wednesday, April 24th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430

Miss it at your own risk! She's f***ing amazing!

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The Hugh C. Hyde Living Writers Series, Spring 2024 --- April Events

All in-person events will be recorded and posted on the Living Writers YouTube channel!

In-Person Event— Wednesday, April 24th at 7 p.m. in Love Library, Room 430: Award-winning Poet and Translator, Katie Farris

Details: Katie Farris will read from her most recent publications including the poetry collection, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive, which “rings with love and language” and has been lauded as a “truly wise, unforgettable, delight-full book.”

Katie Farris is the author of the memoir-in-poems, Standing in the Forest of Being Alive from Alice James Books (US) and Liverpool University Press (UK), which was shortlisted for the 2023 T.S. Eliot Prize and listed as a Publisher’s Weekly’s Top 10 Poetry Books for 2023. She is also the author of the hybrid-form text boysgirls, and the chapbooks A Net to Catch My Body in its Weaving, winner of the 2021 Chad Walsh Poetry Award, Thirteen Intimacies, and Mother Superior in Hell (Dancing Girl, 2019). Most recently she is winner of the Pushcart Prize. Her work has appeared in The New York Times, Granta, The Atlantic Monthly, The Nation, and Poetry, and has been commissioned by MoMA. She is the co-translator of several books of poetry from the Ukrainian, French, Chinese, and Russian, most recently, The Country Where Everyone's Name is Fear, Translations of Lydmila and Boris Khersonsky. She graduated with an MFA from Brown University and is currently Visiting Associate Professor of Poetry at Princeton University.

23/04/2024

We are excited to be publishing the book version of Oliver Mayer's new play GHOST WALTZ -- check out the premiere in the City of Angels below!

Latino Theater Company opens its spring 2024 season with the world premiere of an innovative and daring new play with music.