Email Author Celeste Fraser Delgado

2004 Stories by Celeste Fraser Delgado

• Never Mind the Ballots

  published July 22, 2004

  At the America Coming Together office on Biscayne Boulevard and NE 27th Street, a sign asks in stark red marker: Have you registered 537 new... More >>

• Stars are Born

  published June 17, 2004

  Three pretty little Latin girls growing up in the United States watch all the variety shows on Spanish-language television and dream of appearing... More >>

• Livin' in a Video

  published May 27, 2004

  Urban Beach Week ... is the ultimate Beach Party ... You arrive on Thursday ... You check into your hotel ... and you begin to see people... More >>

• Los Amigos Invisibles

  published May 27, 2004

  Arrive at the party after midnight, and the dancers look dull and bored. Same old music. Slip hostess The Venezuelan Zinga Son, Vol. 1.... More >>

• Still Haitian

  published May 13, 2004

  No birthday could be bitterer than the bicentennial of Haiti's independence last January 1. Soon after then-president Jean-Bertrand Aristide flew... More >>

• Not Enough Fizz

  published May 6, 2004

  Now six years old, Miami's annual Argentine Festival has established a few traditions: the tango tent, the mini-soccer field, frenzied chanting... More >>

• The Greenpeace Effect

  published April 29, 2004

  Gadflies don't make a lot of friends. Paulo Adario knows. A bustling man with a wiry build, intense emerald eyes, and flecks of gray in his beard,... More >>

• Healing Harmonies

  published April 22, 2004

  SAT 4/24 Alejandro Sanz was selling out stadiums in Mexico when 10 terrorist bombs exploded this past March in Madrid. While... More >>

• Kid-Proof Culture

  published April 8, 2004

  There's no school today. Still 70 or so teachers from various public schools in Miami-Dade County show up at the Miami Children's Museum... More >>

• King Fire Ant

  published March 25, 2004

  A handful of fans peers into the backstage area of the Pepsi-sponsored main stage at the Calle Ocho 2004 street festival. A light-skinned Puerto... More >>

• Cuts You Up

  published March 18, 2004

  A ceramic ape bares his teeth from his perch on a bookshelf in the Kendall townhouse where Cher Durham is preparing to deliver her first child. A... More >>

• Video Revived the DJ Superstar

  published March 18, 2004

  They're changing the DJs at the annual Ultra Music Festival, held on Saturday, March 6. Sweat soaking through the seat of his khaki pants, Sander... More >>

• Sofrito con Guacamole

  published February 26, 2004

  Kidd Cumbia, a.k.a. David Elizondo, is distracted. He's trying to focus on the surprise success of A Toda Maquina (Full Force), the... More >>

• Superlitio

  published February 26, 2004

  If you hear something you don't like on Tripping Tropicana, the first U.S. release from Colombian rockers Superlitio, just wait a second.... More >>

• Who Cares!

  published February 19, 2004

  If you think that the Janet Jackson/Justin Timberlake nipple shield flash and Michael Jackson's child molestation trials are the biggest scandals... More >>

• Blue Lines, Steel, and the Hour of Myth

  published February 12, 2004

  When the dancers walk to class on Sunday afternoons, they are careful to follow the bright blue lines painted on the ground. In prison, walking... More >>

• Heavy in Hialeah

  published January 29, 2004

  This week Universal Music Latino releases a compilation called Heavy Hitters: The Best of Spanish Hip-Hop. Who are these heavy hitters?... More >>

• Feast of Film

  published January 29, 2004

  Bon Voyage Watching Jean-Paul Rappeneau's big World War II drama Bon Voyage is like... More >>

• Tego Calderón

  published January 15, 2004

  With his supersized Afro, just-woke-up-after-a-late-night voice, and I-can't-believe-I'm-a-star humility, Tego Calderón might be the most... More >>

• Super Juanes!

  published January 1, 2004

  However you want to measure success, 2003 belongs to Juan Esteban Aristizabal. Juanes's album Un Día Normal moved more copies than... More >>