Film showing Friday, Sept. 3 • 6:30 – 8:45 p.m. Reception: 6:30 – 7:00 Film Sscreening 7:00-8:45 Koret Auditorium • de Young Museum • Golden Gate Park FREE Mission Media Archives in association with Conscious Youth Media Crew and Burning Wagon productions, proudly presents “Why I Ride: Low and Slow,” our recently finished film documenting […]
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Latin American Briefs: Guatemala, Mexico, Nicaragua, Peru, Venezuela
MEXICO: MEXICAN JOURNALISTS, THE TARGET OF VIOLENCE Representatives of different news media demonstrated on Saturday, Aug. 7 to call for an end to the attacks, intimidation and harassment committed against them in Mexico City and other localities. The Mexican journalists put to one side their cameras, microphones and tape recorders to ask for an end […]
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Goddess of death finds life in the Mission
Those unfamiliar might mistake her for the Grim Reaper but to Orosco and a growing number of devotees she is an angel from God. They call her La Santa Muerte — Saint Death or Holy Death.
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Commuity Congress envisions a new city
What does it take to build a city where everyone can work, live and prosper together?
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El Tecolote: Forty years and counting…
Editor and founded of El Tecolote, Juan Gonzáles speaks of El Tecolote’s 40 year legacy.
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An artist’s view of the Honduran coup
Honduran singer-songwriter Karla Lara performed at the Mission Cultural Center on July 10 as part of a U.S. tour. Lara sang to a crowd of people from Honduras and other Latin American countries as well as Americans who praised her performance. Through song, she told the stories of pain that are the results of Honduras’ […]
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Cine: Colombia, el futbol de los años locos
A partir del viernes 27 y hasta el 2 de septiembre, se exhibirá en San Francisco “Los dos Escobar”, documental sobre la mejor selección de futbol que ha tenido Colombia y el narco de mayor renombre de aquel paÃs.
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Katia Cardenal records music video in the Mission
El pasado 20 de agosto, la oficina de El Tecolote sirvió de campo de operaciones para la cantautora nicaragüense Katia Cardenal y su equipo de rodaje. Michael J. Hoffman de Mango Mundo es el productor del video, una versión en español de la afamada canción de los años 60 “San Francisco (asegúrate de llevar flores […]