The Dialogue of Poets

Conjunto Aztlan's Movimiento Music

"...movement led by Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta, this Mexican-American movement of empowerment reached from urban barrios to college..."

April 17, 1998 Music Feature by Belinda Acosta

Postmarks

Chronicle Kills Poster Art

"...as a Frenchman, a Spaniard, a Romanian, or a Mexican-American. So why is the pot calling the kettle black,..."

Sept. 26, 1997 Column

On Fifth Street, Mexic-Arte Pushes for Cultural District Designation, Funding

Designation would bring in a $250,000 per year

"...“It will be able to highlight Mexican-American history, Native American History, and African-American history,” said Saldaña...."

July 26, 2024 News Feature by Neha Kondaveeti

A Long Activist Legacy Survives on the Eastside

Holding on to El Barrio

Nov. 20, 2020 News Feature by Brant Bingamon

'Confessions of a Mexpatriate'

With this new solo show, playwright Raul Garza takes a journey deep into Mexico

"...Interior. Confessions of a Mexpatriate follows a modern-day, media-minded Mexican-American who wants to unplug from his American side and..."

Aug. 9, 2013 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

Cine Joven Sin Fronteras

Teaching technology, telenovela, and how to straddle two countries and two cultures with a camera

"...sons and daughters of both newly arrived immigrants and Mexican-American professional parents from every level of Austin's Latino community...."

Aug. 8, 2008 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

L.A. Story

The Texas Documentary Tour presents Joseph Tovares' doc about the infamous Zoot Suit Riots in racially divided 1940s Los Angeles.

"...restlessly awaiting their marching orders and neighborhoods of rebellious Mexican-American youth walking the streets dressed in in-your-face zoot suits...."

Jan. 11, 2002 Screens Feature by Anne S. Lewis

Sin Fronteras

Most observers would agree that Austin has a Latino visual arts community, but within that community are many voices, many points of view, many styles -- and no borders.

"...Dulce (Sweet Bread) benefit from the duality of the Mexican-American. In Pancho Villa and the Cisco Kid, Coronado represents..."

Feb. 16, 2001 Arts Feature by Rob Curran

Tracking the MACC

A Brief History of Austin's Latino Cultural Center

"...had provided a sense of identity and pride in Mexican-Americans, had crested. In East Austin, things were stirring and..."

June 12, 1998 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Is the Net Neutrality Repeal Another Blow to Tex-Mex Musicians and Broadcasters?

Bidi bidi bom bom

"...commonly grouped as Tex-Mex due to their origin among Mexican-American communities. Founded in the Seventies, Tejano – complete with..."

July 6, 2018 Music Feature by César E. López Linares

Pride of the Eastside

The movers and shakers behind El Gallo want you to rethink how movies get made

"...often anarchically beautiful realities of both the Mexican and Mexican-American experiences, "Pepe Kid" is a strikingly accomplished opening salvo..."

Aug. 19, 2011 Screens Feature by Marc Savlov

Mapping Calle Ancha

The Avenue That Existed Before That Big Parking Lot in the Sky, I-35, Was Built

"...of color were welcome. In an interview for the Mexican-American Oral History Project, housed at the Austin History Center,..."

Jan. 26, 2001 Features Feature by Belinda Acosta

"Nobody's Women" See the Light

Mexican Women Film Directors Series

"...Naturally, most Mexican-Americans of my parents' generation knew Mexican cinema intimately and..."

Oct. 6, 1995 Arts Feature

Opinion: Where Is the Support for Minority Faculty to Succeed at UT?

A retired professor reflects on how little has changed at Texas' flagship university since he first started teaching nearly 50 years ago

Feb. 10, 2023 Column by Dan Acosta

The Past, Present, and FuturX of Latinx Performance in Austin

The current surge of Latinx theatre and dance in Austin speaks to both tradition and pioneering new directions

"...centuries, many of whom identify as Native American, Mexican, Mexican-American, Hispanic, Latino, and Latinx. We can't be sure of..."

Aug. 24, 2018 Arts Feature by Roxanne Schroeder-Arce

Cartel Land

Vigilante groups on both sides of the border fight the Mexican cartels in this harrowing doc

July 10, 2015 Movie Review by Marjorie Baumgarten

Pachanga!

Cinco de Mayo month Part III – the hombres: from Jovita's Mayo Pardo to Ruben Ramos' Mexican Revolution, Del Castillo, Joel Guzman, y más

"...award from 1993 reads, "Best New Approach to a Mexican-American Cultural Center." Indeed, Pardo's vision for "a world in..."

May 29, 2009 Music Feature by Margaret Moser

Austin's Cultural Makeover: The Next Stage

How much closer we are to getting the cultural wonderland we imagined 10 years ago

"...Calls for a local center dedicated to Mexican-American culture and history go back to the 1970s, but..."

Sept. 7, 2007 Arts Feature by Robert Faires

La Onda Chicano

Tejano music, as a genre, might be on the ropes, but Sunny Ozuna – one of the genre's architects – is anything but

"...celebrate the 35th anniversary of the university's Center for Mexican-American Studies. Backed by an orquesta drawn from Hernández's La..."

July 21, 2006 Music Feature by Greg Beets

Beautiful Songs and Good, Heavy Sounds

"...1949, the 21-year-old Donley formed Los Heartbreakers, the first Mexican-American band to play rock & roll and rhythm &..."

Nov. 27, 1998 Music Feature by Belinda Acosta

Framing the Border

Photography of the Region Between Mexico and the U.S.

"...Well, it's very intimate because it's in us. We're Mexican-Americans. We're the epitome of it because we're the mixture...."

May 1, 1998 Arts Feature by Rebecca S. Cohen

TV Eye

Do you dream in color? Network execs sure don't.

"...hovers over her large brood, to me, is undeniably Mexican-American...."

Dec. 18, 2009 Screens Column by Belinda Acosta

Man of the People

"...to be very much involved with the Mexican and Mexican-American community," says Orozco. "Roux-López is bringing a lot of..."

Sept. 25, 1998 News Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Shut Out Again

"...historic Mexican community of Austin in this document. While Mexican-Americans are in the section "Ethnic Groups in Austin," we..."

Feb. 11, 2015 Postmarks

Res publica

Citizens' calendar, Jan. 7-13

"...and other professionals discusses the importance of preserving the Mexican-American history of Central Texas. 1-3pm. Austin History Center, 810..."

Jan. 7, 2011 News Column

Talking Art at the Top

The executive directors of the city's museums shed light on the local visual arts scene

July 2, 2004 Arts Feature by Sam Martin

Rock en Tijuana

The border city of Tijuana gives birth to the bastard genre of Norteño and Electronica, Nortec.

Nov. 3, 2000 Music Feature by Melissa Sattley

A Museum Comes of Age

"...Gráfica Popular in Mexico City, and photographs of early Mexican-American families who settled in Central Texas...."

July 23, 1999 Arts Feature by Mary Jane Garza

Texas in Bold, Dark Strokes

Artist/Historian Jack Jackson

"...the last chief of the Comanches (Comanche Moon), a Mexican-American hero of the Texas revolution named Juan N. Seguin..."

Nov. 15, 1996 Books Feature by Jesse Sublett

The Staccato Purr of CineFestival

Latino Filmmakers Explore the Middle Class

"...fat, dirty, foul-mouthed-Mexican partner in crime. As a Laredo-born Mexican-American, Gonzalez said that he felt entitled to use the..."

Feb. 16, 1996 Screens Feature

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