This year has been huge for Uruguayan-born performer/songwriter Jorge Drexler. He has worked with some of the world's best singers, as well as completing his latest album, Eco. However, we all took notice of him when he recently won an Academy Award for the song "Al Otro Lado" which was featured in the movie The Motorcycle Diaries. This is the...
Salma Hayek is so petite she can easily curl up in a chair--which she does, sniffling and reaching for a tissue. “I have a fever,” she explains, looking improbably radiant in an ash-gray sweater and a pair of jeans. When she’s complimented on her stylish Oscar appearance, the actress says, “I did that with a fever too.” Sickness aside,...
Emily Rios is a promising up and coming actress who has already made critics take notice of her amazing performance as Magdalena in the indie film, Quinceañera. The film not only takes a careful look at quinceañeras in Latin-American culture, but it’s also a story about teenage sexuality, gentrification, old fashion values, and what happens when...
Touted as the most diverse Oscars yet, the Academy Awards ceremony on February 25th showcased the long overdue acceptance and recognition of the Latino influence in Hollywood.
Even though I was proud of the several Latinos that were nominated, I was even more excited about the sheer sophistication of the gowns trailing across the red carpet at...
Although “Six Feet Under” made him a household name, Freddy Rodriguez is no newcomer to Hollywood. He has been gracing us with his presence since the days of Dead Presidents (1995) and Can't Hardly Wait (1995). Currently, Rodriguez is taking his career in another direction and showing that he is way more than a mortician in M. Night Shyamalan's...
In the much anticipated film El Cantante, real-life super couple Jennifer Lopez and Marc Anthony portray salsa legend Hector Lavoe and his wife Puchi. A large part of that hype is because there’s a certain stigma that has followed Lopez since Gigli, in which she starred in with her then love-interest Ben Affleck. There is no doubt Lopez is an...
Ethan Hawke finally brings his first novel, titled The Hottest State, to the big screen, ten years since it was published, explaining the simplistic way two people fall in and out of love through the heart of a passionate man and the words of a practical woman.
Twenty-year-old William (Mark Webber), also the narrator, says right off the bat that...
It would be fair to say that Andres Levin is one of the most powerful record producers working in the music business, certainly one of the most powerful Latino producers in music today. He’s worked with the biggest legends in soul, R&B, hip-hop, and rock, and is a founding member of the Afro-Latin fusion band, Yerba Buena.
Even if you...
Feel The Noise, produced by Jennifer Lopez, shows R&B singer Omarion Grandberry as a Harlem aspiring rapper who gets in touch with his Latino side and gets exposed to the world of reggaeton in Puerto Rico.
That storyline might sound a little off key, but it’s not so extreme that it can’t be pulled off by a well crafted cast. Regrettably with...
YO! During the past year, three former Latina hotties all got impregnated-Jennifer Lopez, Salma Hayek, and self-hating coconut Jessica Alba. Their confusing choices in their respective baby’s daddy are a whole other article. Out with the bloated and old and in with the new, I guess. If you have been paying attention like we have...
