Ahoy all! Your faithful correspondent is still whooping it up on his United States family tour/vacation. So this week, I want to encourage you to try out some different blogs.
First: Ask a Mexican. This newspaper column is syndicated by the alternative Orange County Weekly. It’s a Q and A format, but that’s about where the similarities […]

Relax. It’s just bread.
EAST LOS ANGELES — This was the plan that could not fail. My sister lives in East LA, which, despite being in the United States, is one of the world’s biggest Mexican cities.
So what better “hey I haven’t seen you in a while” present could there be than a jersey from the […]

Grupo Estrella: One day, they may wake you from a peaceful slumber. 
JACONA, Michoacan — Normally at 12:30 a.m. this sleepy residential street on a hill overlooking Zamora, is, well, asleep. But one recent early morning, about a dozen conspirators gathered to carry on a tradition that, while started by Europeans, has been honed to a fine art by Mexicans.
The plot […]

Covering Dylan: The Spanish Rocker Eva Amaral
 
So a few weeks after concluding that Bob Dylan was a lost cause for Spanish speaking audiences, I woke up to Radio Zamora playing a Spanish version of Hard Rain that features the same top-shelf passion as the original, all while actually sounding better.
Turns out the song is a very new creation […]