Latin America

WLRN Hires Veteran TIME Magazine Reporter Tim Padgett

National magazine journalism may be coughing and gagging its last breaths, but public radio is giving print reporters hope. In an email to supporters late last night, WLRN-Miami Herald News Director Dan Grech announced the station is reopening its Americas Desk. Even better: The desk will be helmed ... More >>

Miami's Best Eats and Drinks this Weekend

We can bitch and complain all we want about our laborious weekdays at work, but when it comes to the weekend, the bitching needs to stop. Ain't nobody got time fo' anything besides chocolate festivals, beer festivals, and Calle Ocho. So quit your complaining and start planning your sure-to-be-awes ... More >>

How To Make Ceviche Like My Ceviche's Sam Gorenstein (Video)

At it's best, ceviche is just fresh, raw, fish, citric juice, and vegetables, herbs, and spices mixed together and topped with something crunchy.It's served throughout Latin America and right here in Miami too.But this city is just as likely to serve you frozen Vietnamese swai fish in your ceviche a ... More >>

Tomorrow's Latin Spice Festival at Pinecrest Gardens: Chino Nuñez and Hot Stuff

Latin Spice Festival​Still got Basel fever and need some sort of festival to go to this weekend? Fever no more because Pinecrest Gardens is hosting the Latin Spice Festival tomorrow, December 10, from 6 until 10 p.m.Entry is just $5 before 8 p.m., $25 after that to watch the evening concert with G ... More >>

Night Train to Bolina at the Ring Theatre through September 24

Five Dumbest Dance Styles of the 21st Century

Tecktonik: Helping Eurotrash not get laid since 2002.​Humanity has come a long way since the Stone Age when we were dancing around fires like deranged sex-crazed monkeys. Or has it?It seems like every new decade's dance styles become more and more bizarre and less and less inhibited. In fact, thes ... More >>

Let the Basel Begin

Thalia Releasing Deluxe Edition of Primera Fila, Shot at BankUnited Center

​Thalia has engineered a rather successful comeback post hiatus from the limelight to instead bask in the glow of motherhood and enjoy family life with husband and music mogul Tommy Mottola, followed by her commercially disappointing 2008 release Lunada (her last on EMI). We couldn't be happi ... More >>

International Thursdays at Jazid Brings You Hip-Hop Latino, with Ephniko

​So you love International Thursdays at Jazid, brought to you by MiamiAlterlatino.com. You know it, we know it, what's the point in hiding our feelings? The series has been kicking some ass since day one with their weekly jaunts around Latin America, from Brazil to Colombia to Argentina and showca ... More >>

Video and Photos: Tr3s' Camila Unplugged Special, Filmed in Miami Last Week

​A week ago today, Tr3s -- formerly known as MTV Tr3s -- celebrated its upcoming relaunch by reviving that great MTV franchise, the Unplugged series. While its parent channel long ago gave up on such strictly, uh, music-oriented programming, its foreign spin-offs, notably MTV Latin America, have t ... More >>

Art capsules

Art capsules

Art capsules

Latin America Now Officially More Progressive on Gay Marriage than Florida

Latin America celebrated it's first official gay marriage yesterday, as two gay rights activists tied the knot in Argentina thanks to a legal loophole. Argentina's constitution doesn't specifically define marriage between a man and a woman, effectively leaving the interpretation up to local official ... More >>

Q&A: Mexican Institute of Sound

​Not inappropriately, Mexican Institute of Sound makes its home nestled in the quaint little town of Mexico City, otherwise known as the DF, a sprawling capital ranking amongst the 10 most populated cities in the world. And it's not so much an institute as one man with incredible vision. Though th ... More >>

Los de Adentro

Freedom Tower Art Show Tells the Immigrant's Tale

Miami's Ellis Island is an ideal place for this provocative exhibit.

Apocalypse Now: Miami Company Introduces Bulletproof Clothing Line

In this week's sign that our world is doomed, witness the launch of Anxo, a Miami-based line of bulletproof clothing for civilians. Its slogan, and we can't make this shit up: "Our promise: You won't be a victim of fashion."Bulletproof clothing is not an original phenomenon, of course. In narco-rule ... More >>

Madonna Meets with Former FARC Hostage in Argentina

Only a week after wrapping up the U.S. version of her Sweet and Sticky tour here in Miami, Madonna is now making headlines in Latin America. But this time, it's not just about her closeted romance with slugger Alex Rodriguez.Yesterday afternoon, Madonna, who is currently in Argentina on tour, met w ... More >>

Somewhere Beyond the Sea

ArteAmericas brings visions from our neighboring continent.

See the World

The Global Lens film series will open your eyes.

Get Ritmo!

Magic City Mondays make today as sweet as sugar

Los Tigres del Norte

Detalles y Emociones (Fonovisa)

Latin Food with Flair

La Ley

Bulls, Bears, and Oils

Artists Without Borders

An immense and provocative exhibit at MAM demonstrates that ideas ignore borders

Sóniko

Latin or American?

La Ley rocked, Julieta charmed, and the Beastie Boys reminded us who really runs the VMAs LA

BEST CEVICHE

OLA

Horse Race

When it comes to the Grammys, Mexico leads the pack

An Idea Whose Time Has Gone

A grand plan to fight Latin poverty flunks out at UM

Calendar of FTAA Events

Quién tu eres, Mun2?

Mun2 wants to be the new home for Latin culture -- without the Spanish

BEST ECONOMIC DISASTER

Argentina

Shameless Copy

Chilean classics Los Prisioneros come back, this time imitating themselves

Yo Quiero Mi MTV

To reach Latin American kids, MTV first has to invent Latin America

How to Read MTV

The cultural-imperialism argument gets complicated

What's in a Name?

Not what's in the good shows at MAM and The House

BEST BOTANICA

Botanica Oricha

BEST MISSED OPPORTUNITY

Miami Fusion

Best Barbecue

The Pit Bar-B-Q

Alt- America

A report from the Latin Alternative Music Conference

Widespread Hispanic

Mana a Mano

Latin American Studies

An Overly Broad Brush

The Next Wave

A dedicated group of Latin Americans breaks the sound barrier with rock en espanol

Collective Experience

Rosa and Carlos de la Cruz's assemblage of cutting-edge contemporary works boldly questions the traditional definition of Latin American art