Mazacote is the hard-swinging, old-school salsa group led by percussion legend Louie Romero, the the longtime timbales player for Hector Lavoe. Mazacote plays a high-energy mixture of classic salsa faves and original Latin jazz tunes. Latin Beat magazine called them one of the premier salsa ensembles in Northern California. Where: Casa Sanchez Mexican Restaurant, 2778 […]
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Briefs 2/28/2013: Venzuela, Haiti, Cuba, Peru, Bolivia
VENEZUELA: THE GOVERNMENT ADMITS THAT CHAVEZ CONTINUES HAVING RESPIRATORY FAILURE On Thursday, Feb. 21, the Venezuelan government announced that Hugo Chavez continues to suffer from respiratory problems. Information about Chavez’s state of health had not been released since Monday Feb. 18, when he returned to Venezuela after a 70-day stay in a hospital in […]
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Community organizes against BART’s disregard for Mission identity
The Mission District is currently undergoing profound demographic changes largely due to the economic boom that occurred in the late ‘90s and is still visible today.
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Pilot program provides free Muni for youth
Nearly 20,000 San Franciscans under the age of 18 have applied for free Muni passes to be issued beginning March 1. Free Muni for Youth Pilot Program will allow low and moderate income students, who live in San Francisco, free access to Muni for a 16-month period when using a Clipper card—the Bay Area’s all-in-one transit payment card.
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San Francisco lanza servicio gratuito del Muni para jóvenes
Cerca de 20,000 residentes de San Francisco menores de 18 años han aplicado solicitud para recibir pases gratuitos para el MUNI que serán distribuidos a partir del primero de marzo.
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CCSF students demand counsel with Chancellor
Tensions between students and administrators at City College of San Francisco ran high after a Feb. 25 meeting, designed to give students a voice in the future of their school, ended without consensus.
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Memorial honors Ernesto “Xe” Acosta
Ernesto “Xe” Acosta’s drum stood amidst a sea of strewn flowers, dictating a powerful rhythm to which a group of Aztec dancers began to chant. Slowly, people trickled into a circular formation on a hilltop in the northernmost corner of Alamo Square Park, where the aroma of burning copal filled the air as the sun shed its last warming rays on a day that changed the hearts of many.
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“Bless Me, Ultima”: A journey into tradition and the spiritual world
The excellent film, “Bless Me, Ultima,” directed by Carl Franklin (“Devil in a Blue Dress,” 1995), is an adaptation of Rudolfo Anaya’s acclaimed homonymous novel published by Quinto Sol in 1972, which won the Prize for Best Chicano Novel. The production masterfully exposes the reality of the cultural and political idiosyncrasies faced by a Latino […]
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El Salvador: “Mourning and Scars: 20 Years After the War”
Latin America is a region that has suffered natural disaster and man-made disaster—by enduring hurricanes, earthquakes, floods, massacres, lootings and civil wars. El Salvador suffered a civil war from 1980-1992 that left around 80,000 dead. The war was between the Armed Forces of Salvador (FAES) and the Farabundo Martí National Liberation Front (FMLN). The multimedia […]
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Briefs 2/14/2013: Cuba, French Guiana
CUBA: FIDEL CASTRO TURNS OUT TO VOTE FOR THE FIRST TIME SINCE 2006 The ex-president of Cuba, Fidel Castro voted on Feb. 3 at a Habana polling station, participating in the national parliamentary and provincial assembly elections for the first time since 2006.The Cuban state television broadcasted Castro’s hour-long meeting with the local news […]