Resident DJ Bobbi and guest DJ Rosa la Rumorosa spinning: cumbia, merengue, salsa, norteñas and banda • Queer Qumbia is a political project that brings us together through música! Where: La Estrellita, 446 E. 12th St., Oakland Admission: $3 – $7 Contact: (510) 465-7188
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News Briefs: El Salvador, Colombia, Brazil
EL SALVADOR: El Salvador elects new president The ascension of Salvador Sanchez Ceren, who on June 1 became the president of El Salvador, marked the beginning of a new period for the Farabundo Marti National Liberation Front in the Central American country. In his first public speech, the president said he will lead the fight […]
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Breves Noticias : El Salvador, Colombia, Brasil
EL SALVADOR: Nuevo presidente en El Salvador La asunción de Salvador Sánchez Cerén, el pasado 1 de junio, como presidente de El Salvador marcó el inicio de un nuevo período del Frente Farabundo Martí por la Liberación Nacional en el país centroamericano. En sus primeras apariciones públicas, aseguró que estará al frente de la lucha […]
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Veterans Voices: U.S. prisoner returns from Afghanistan after 5 years
Shouting distance was all that separated more than a dozen Taliban fighters and U.S. Special Forces on May 31, 2014. Rifles were drawn. Drones and helicopters circled overhead, all striking symbols of war–a war so painful to both American and Afghani people. No bullets or missiles were fired that tense day, and no lives lost. The moment marked a […]
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Frameline kicks off 11-day LGBTQ film festival
If three daily soccer matches aren’t enough to pack your days, try to include in your agenda some of the exquisite presentations from the Frameline Film Festival, which begins on June 19. Since 1977, Frameline has shown films that portray different realities to the masculine-feminine and heterosexual binary, which are often overlooked in conventional […]
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City College offered path to restored accreditation
In a move that appears more delay than deliverance, the accreditation agency that for the last two years has hounded City College of San Francisco with threats of a July 31 closure seems to have backed off—at least for the moment.
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Mexican Museum founder turns 88
Peter Rodriguez was never one to let the impossible stand in his way. When there were no classes to nurture the young Chicano’s budding artistic talents, he taught himself. And when he found no museum that understood, valued and displayed the aesthetic expression of Latinos, Rodriguez again took that upon himself and created one.
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The Mexican Museum, One of a kind
Little by little: that’s how Peter Rodríguez, in his repeated trips to Mexico in the 1950s and 60s, collected art and met the artists that would make his Mexican Museum in San Francisco a means to continue his journey.
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Poets of color shine at bookreading
On a recent Friday evening, magnificent poetry filled every corner of Modern Times Bookstore as poets read sections of “Dismantle,” published by Voices of Our Nation Arts Foundation (VONA), a multi-gerne workshop that helps give a voice to writers of color.