On Food & Culture
Celia Cruz was buried today, after a service at St. Patrick’s Cathedral in New York City. Cruz died from a brain tumor Wednesday in her home at Fort Lee, N.J., at age 77. In the 1950s, Cruz became famous with the Afro-Cuban group La Sonora …
This manifesto, from 1999, provides an interesting step into exploring the free market and copyright issues. Titled cluetrain manifesto, it is referred to by Mary Hess in a wonderful address she made to the Association of Theological Librarians. There is a market all over Latin …
UC Berkeley has a resource list that is a useful reference for looking up Chicano films, videos and publications. This is an example not only of resourcing Chicana materials, but also of a library that is making headway into integrating digital material with books. The …
The Center for Lesbian and Gay Studies at the Pacific School of Religion makes note of the film, “In The Name of Allah,” described as “the world’s first documentary to explore the complex intersections of Islam with Gender and Sexuality. It is by Parvez SharmaThe …
I’m on the road, first to Rome for a meeting of the International Study Commission on Media, Religion and Culture. It is hosted by the Salesian Pontifical University and I will see my friend again, Fabio Pasqualetti who teaches there. With him and Mary Hess …
If you are intersted in media issues and the life of the soul, I invite you to sign up for a weekend seminar that I am leading about latino film/video and contemporary ministry. We’ll attend screenings at the San Antonio Cinefestival the first latino festival …
Catholics are commenting about The US Supreme Court ruling of last Thursday that struck down Texas’s “Homosexual Conduct� law, which criminalized oral and anal sex by consenting gay couples and was used widely to justify discrimination against lesbians and gay men. Bishop Gregory of the …
Ernesto Cabellos and Stepanie Boyd completed this riveting documentary, “Choropampa” about a community in the Peruvian Andes who was contaminated when a truck carrying a mercury-filled tank capsized. Do try to see this inside view of current life outside Lima. The video has a rough …
I’ve been trying to find a way to obtain copies of a wonderful 1995 Brazilian short film, 5 minutes, by Cao Hamburger, “O Menino, A Favela E As Tampas de Panela” Let me know if you have any info. about possible distributors. I hope we …
Last Thursday, 6/19, I presented a workshop to students at MACC in San Antonio, Texas and they were greatly surprised to learn that US Hispanics, as well as the general population, watch over 50 hours of TV every week. I see two general reactions among …