13 Jun 2011
Posted by thehispanic 
Summer in Nueva York brings a bundle of arts events, but the myriad choices sometimes may feel like too much of a good thing. Fear not the summer bounty! Viva has once again combed the listings and offers you a month-by-month guide to the Latin performances that have us most excited. JUNE 8 BALLET...
Read more → 05 May 2011
Posted by thehispanic 
Politically charged rapper Emilio Rojas is on the verge of breaking into mainstream hip hop - but he's not coming quietly. Desperate to make it in the music business, Rojas left the University of Rochester and hitched a ride to Brooklyn in 2006. He wound up in an illegally subdivided apartment...
Read more → 05 May 2011
Posted by thehispanic 
La rumba, the quintessential Cuban party, is back in New York as if it never stopped. Lovers of Afro-Cuban rumba are sure to turn out to see one of the genre's consummate practitioners, Los Muñequitos de Matanzas, playing here for the first time in nearly a decade. The pioneering rumba ensemble...
Read more → 05 May 2011
Posted by thehispanic 
Playwright and director Marco Antonio Rodríguez admits he drew from his own experience as the New York-born son of Dominican immigrants when, five years ago, he wrote "La Luz de Un Cigarrillo: Una Historia Dominican-York." The Off-Broadway play, which opens tonight at Teatro Latea, 107 Suffolk St.,...
Read more → 06 Apr 2011
Posted by thehispanic 
It is springtime in New York, the time of the year in which, along with the trees and the flowers, many film festivals bloom all over the city. Without a doubt one of the most interesting of these is the Havana Film Festival New York, which during its 12 years of existence has carved a place in the city's...
Read more → 06 Apr 2011
Posted by thehispanic 
For the hugely popular Mexican comedian Eugenio Derbez, making people laugh comes naturally; making them cry - or at least making himself shed a tear - is a different story. Which is exactly what he had to do as the star of "No eres tú, soy yo" ("It's Not You, It's Me"), a box-office hit in Mexico...
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