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Ridiculous Quinceañera Dance Moves Served Fresh [Video]

Ridiculous Quinceañera Dance Moves Served Fresh [Video] Video
The day quebradita mutated to quinceañera breakdancing. 

Tags: Breakdancing, Culture, Dancing, Funny, Quinceañeras

You Can Still Buy Fancy, Tin-Tan-Worthy, Custom-Made Pachuco Shoes [Video]

You Can Still Buy Fancy, Tin-Tan-Worthy, Custom-Made Pachuco Shoes [Video] Video
How to get custom-made pachuco -- and pachuca -- shoes in 2012.  

Tags: Canal once, Culture, Fashion, Mexico city, Pachuco shoes, Shoes, Tepito, Tin tan, Tv

Dead Can Dance: Mr. Chivo's "Cumbia Del Muerto" [Music]

Dead Can Dance: Mr. Chivo's "Cumbia Del Muerto" [Music] Video
Need something to groove to while you do your Catrina makeup? Here's "La Cumbia Del Muerto."

Tags: Culture, Day of the dead, Dia de los muertos, Mr chivo, Music

"Hecho En Mexico" Documentary To Remind You Of Mexico's Other, Non-Nefarious Ongoings

"Hecho En Mexico" Documentary To Remind You Of Mexico's Other, Non-Nefarious Ongoings Video
With a glitzy roster of rock n' roll stars, actors, writers, intellectuals, politicians, and everything thing in between, Hecho In Mexico aims to show its viewers that there's a "hidden" and very "distinct" reality in the lives of most Mexicans; one that's not so bleak and depressing as most seem to believe. 

Tags: Culture, Documentaries, Duncan bridgeman, Hecho en mexico, Mexico, Video

Putazo, Tomato, Chongo, And Other Nahuatl Words Your Probably Didn't Know Were Nahuatl Words

Putazo, Tomato, Chongo, And Other Nahuatl Words Your Probably Didn't Know Were Nahuatl Words
According to Karla Covarrubias Molina, a writer for algarabia, Mexican Spanish speakers use more than 2000 nahuatlismos, 1000 Nahualt-named places (typonyny), and over 480 phrases, sayings, and idioms.

Tags: Culture, Entomology, Language, Mexico, Nahuatl, Spanish, Words

Still Too Puritanical: Gigolo Service Hardly Gets Any Business From Latinas [Video]

Still Too Puritanical: Gigolo Service Hardly Gets Any Business From Latinas [Video] Video
Primer Impacto ran this investigative piece on Cowboys 4 Angels, a "non-sexual" gigolo service for women. The service, says company owner Garren James, is popular because women are making more money. Oddly, even with James' Spanish-speaking wife by his side, the company doesn't have many Latina clients. Why?

Tags: Culture, Gigolos, Relationships, Sex

Naco, Pocho, Or Both? Famous Brownies Discuss Identity [Video]

Naco, Pocho, Or Both? Famous Brownies Discuss Identity [Video]
"Pocho is an identity that people impose mostly on others as opposed to people imposing on themselves."

Tags: Chuntron, Culture, Daniel hernandez, Edward james olmos, Identity, Jenni rivera, Los tucanes de tijuana, Luis de alba, Mun2, Nacos, Pocho, Video

Cubans Like Weird Names

Cubans Like Weird Names
Besides being Cuban, what do Niurka, Yanixan, and Ojani have in common? Their names are weird -- well, at least outside of Cuba. It is no coincidence; strange names, says this British reporter, became trendy after the revolution.

Tags: Baby names, Cuba, Cubans like strange names, Culture, Names, Parenhood

As Of Last July, The Majority Of US-Born Babies Were Minorities

As Of Last July, The Majority Of US-Born Babies Were Minorities
According to the lastest estimates by the Census, the majority of children born in the US between July, 2010 and July, 2011, came from sex that was had by PEOPLE OF COLOR -- Jiminy Crickets! 

Tags: Census, Culture, Immigration

Pinche Mexicans Overtaking Spanish Harlem, Nuyoricans All Like "Que Jodienda"

Pinche Mexicans Overtaking Spanish Harlem, Nuyoricans All Like "Que Jodienda" Video
Puerto Rican immigration to NYC hasn't grown much in the last decade while Mexican immigration blew up by 50%.

Tags: Census, Culture, Immigration, Manhattan, Mexico, Nuyoricans, Nyc, Puerto rico, Spanish harlem