At only 29, the prolific Mexican director Nicolas Pereda has produced five films already. As it happens with two of his contemporary Latin American directors– Carlos Reygadas and the Argentinian director Lucrecia Martel – Pereda will be having a retrospective of his films in the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, which he will show throughout the month of October in San Francisco.
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El universo de Nicolás Pereda: cine de autor mexicano
Con apenas 29 años de edad, el prolífico director mexicano Nicolás Pereda ya tiene en su haber cinco películas. Como sucediera con otros dos exponentes latinoamericanos del cine narrativo de autor —su paisano Carlos Reygadas y la directora argentina Lucrecia Martel— el Yerbabuena Center for the Arts presentará una retrospectiva de su filmografía durante […]
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Day of the Dead lights up SOMArts
The Illuminations: Día de los Muertos 2011 exhibit opened Oct. 7 at SOMArts Gallery. This marks the 12th consecutive year of the Day of the Dead celebration at the museum. The event, a night of performance and music, showcases the work of over 80 Bay Area artists, and is meant to both commemorate an important […]
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Artista visual retrata a Pablo Picasso en la demostración de un hombre
Cuando el artista visual y actor Herbert Siguenza sube al escenario como el legendario homónimo de su espectáculo individual “A Weekend With Pablo Picasso, Un Fin de Semana con Pablo Picasso, el esta cumpliendo el sueño de toda su vida. “Es el papel que he querido desempeñar desde niño,” el dijo “pero tenia que tener […]
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Visual artist portrays Pablo Picasso in one man show
When visual artist and actor Herbert Siguenza takes the stage as the legendary namesake of his one-man show, “A Weekend With Pablo Picasso,” he is fulfilling a lifelong dream. “It’s a role I’ve wanted to play since I was a kid,” he said. “I had to get old enough to do it first.” Siguenza will […]
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Reseña del libro: “morir en México: Informe directo desde el interior de la Guerra Contra las Drogas”, de John Gibbler
“La guerra contra las drogas” comunmente se utiliza como un eufemismo de las políticas militaristas estadounidenses.
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Book Review: “To Die In Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War” by John Gibbler
“The War On Drugs” is often used as a euphemism for enforcement of United States drug law,but in the book “To Die in Mexico: Dispatches from Inside the Drug War,” California journalist, John Gibbler, provides a fearless and unflinching look at the bloody reality of the ‘real’ drug war happening south of the U.S./Mexico border.
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Fallo judicial contra Chevron por contaminación en Ecuador
Los grupos del Amazonas ecuatoriano están un paso más cerca de recibir reparaciones por la contaminación masiva del bosque tropical Amazónico con una reciente decisión de las cortes estadounidenses.
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Chevron receives unfavorable ruling in Ecuador pollution case
A recent ruling by U.S. courts brings the indigenous groups of the Ecuadorian Amazon one step closer to receiving reparations for the massive pollution of the Amazon rain forest. In February, an Ecuadorian court ruled against the oil giant Chevron, and awarded damages of up to $18 billion to various indigenous groups and residents of […]
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Honran labor de estudiantes y líderes comunitarios
El 27 de septiembre, el músico y activista cultural John Santos fue conmemorado en la Premiación a la comunidad organizada por la Fundación San Francisco en el teatro Herbst.