FOUND 72 BODIES OF UNDOCUMENTED IMMIGRANTS ON A RANCH IN MEXICO At midnight, last Tuesday, Aug. 24, on a ranch in San Fernando, about 90 miles south of the United States border, in the state of Tamaulipas, dead bodies were found in a terrain: 58 men and 14 women unburied. The only survivor of the killings, […]
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Group captures soccer’s passion, provides pipeline to pro sports
For three years, the soccer tournament Verizon Copa Alianza has reunited hundreds of players of different ages in the San Francisco Bay Area.
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El Tecolote says no to Arizona SB 1070
The passage of some provisions of Arizona’s controversial immigration bill —SB 1070—in late July has sparked many people to actively demonstrate their feelings. Those opposed to the bill argue that under this law people will be detained owing simply to their ethnicity and skin color. It affects all Latin Americans in general but Mexicans and […]
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Felix Elizalde: A fighter for education and Latinos in media passes away
Felix Elizalde was born to Florentino and Maria Elizalde on May 30, 1931, in Stockton, California. He is survived by his wife of 49 years, Margaret Elizalde; daughter Lynn and son Michael, son-in-law Soctt Leahy and four grandchildren: Melissa, Daniel, Alex and Catie.
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Bilingual book highlights work of Colombian poet
In a small book of poems, Maria Mercedes Carranza proposes a sad route through 24 cities that have suffered extreme violence in her martyred country: Colombia.
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Tijuana band blends border music with technology
Nortec Collective recycles sounds, for social commentary
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HIV Testing & Counseling
HIV TESTING & COUNSELING City Clinic, 356–7th St, SF @ Harrison St. Mon, Wed., Fri. • 8 am • Tues. 1 pm–6 pm Oral HIV testing & blood draw available; other STD services too (open to people diagnosed with gonorrhea & syphilis, gay & bi, transsexual, & injection drug users) Westside Community Services 245–11th St., […]
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Port of SF attempts to shut down nightclub
The beat goes on for Jelly’s, a dance cafe at 295 Terry A. Francois Blvd. near AT&T Park, where Sunday’s “Club Havana” continued on Aug. 29 despite attempts by the Port of San Francisco to close it down. Jelly’s has long provided a venue for many local Mission District DJs and bands to showcase their […]
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María Mercedes Carranza Book Release Party
Friday, September, 17, 2010 • Wine and hors d’oeuvres beginning at 6pm, reading at 6:30pm Modern Times Bookstore • 888 Valencia Street Book Release Party Come celebrate the release of the late María Mercedes Carranza’s Song of the Flies [An Account of the Events], a bilingual edition of her most moving poems, translated by Margarita […]
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SF Zine Fest
September 4-5, 2010 • 11am-6pm SF County Fair Building (formerly Hall of Flowers) • 9th Ave. at Lincoln Way (in Golden Gate Park) SF Zine Fest It’s a FREE annual two-day conference for independent and underground publishing. Exhibitors come from all over the West Coast, and while the focus is on zines, all walks of […]