Precisely a month after 14-year-old Rashawn Williams was fatally stabbed outside a Mission District convenience store by a former middle school classmate, his family painfully, yet prominently, displayed his picture on the lawn outside the Hall of Justice on Oct. 2.
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BolĂvar biopic is well-produced but lacking
With âCesar Chavezâ and âCantinflas,â movies about famous Latino figures have taken flight this year. The latest of these is about SimĂłn BolĂvar, who liberated Latin America from the grip of its Spanish colonizers in the early nineteenth century. “They massacred and enslaved this continent for 300 years,” shouts BolĂvar in one of the many […]
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Ballot measure would help stem tide of evictions
If you live in the San Francisco Bay Area, chances are very high that you have heard just how much you could be making right now by buying and flipping property. What youâre not hearing is the way in which property flipping and massive speculation are at the root of the eviction and gentrification crisis here.
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NYC fast food workers unionize for fair treatment in new documentary
As the campaign to raise wages and the nationwide movement of fast food workers unionizing gains ground, one inspiring story has emerged out of New York City.
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New beverage tax will hurt Latino community
The San Francisco Board of Supervisors is pushing a new tax on sweetened beverages like soda, teas, fruit drinks and sports drinks.
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Plaza 16: Examining SFâs housing crisis
Paula Tejadaâs tiny empanada shop is one of the few surviving Latino-owned small businesses left in the Mission District, sitting just a block away from the BART plaza at 16th and Mission streets, an intersection that has become the newest ground zero for the fight over affordable housing in the city.
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Latin Rocker tells it like it was
Jaime âDogpawâ Carrillo nostalgically recalls the âage of Latin rock.â âA vibrant era,â said Dogpaw, who wears his long hair and is dressed impeccably in black, while wearing a pendant with a Native American symbol. âFor a moment we were together, we had a dream and we were living this dream.â Music is Dogpawâs passion. […]
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Program helps simplify healthcare paperwork
Health is serious, just ask Teresa Barrita, whose 62-year-old husband Rufino was on the verge of going blind and even risked death, due to a series of complications that stemmed from diabetes.
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Latin Rock professor to perform at Brava Theater
Rudy Ramirez did his best to hide his Costa Rican roots, but the thick and curly mane of black hair made that hard to do.