September 6, 2008 Los Angeles Times By AGUSTIN GURZA, CULTURE MIX
IN THE film “Paraíso Travel,” a young immigrant named Marlon finds himself lost and broke shortly after arriving in New York and being separated from his girlfriend, the cunning and sexy Reina, played by Angélica Blandón. He meets an older man, a fixer for new arrivals, who helps him find shelter and asks the naive illegal what else he might need.

“How do I get rid of this fear?” asks Marlon, somewhat overplayed by Aldemar Correa.

Of course, the old man can’t help him with the dread that haunts strangers in a strange land, except to say that in time it goes away. That small, intimate moment in this occasionally overwrought drama offers a glimpse into the emotional and mental toll of the immigrant experience, which is often seen through ideological eyes.Read More

Wednesday, September 3, 2008 Mercopress
A second Madonna show with her “Sticky and Sweet” tour has been confirmed in Santiago de Chile for December 11. Her first presentation is scheduled for Wednesday December 10 and for both shows there will no special ticket pre-sale, with a maximum of six per person. Sales begin next September 10.Read More

25/08/2008-El Pais
A pesar de la pujanza del cine latino en los festivales internacionales y en Hollywood, la Mostra de Venecia ha reservado pocas invitaciones para él en su 65 cumpleaños y lo ha relegado, con la excepción de la opera prima de Guillermo Arriaga en concurso, a las secciones no competitivas.Read More

Terra
Shakira, Selena Gomez y hasta Zac Efron se sumarán este domingo a la fiesta de los Alma Awards, un evento que produce Eva Longoria junto al Consejo Nacional de La Raza, para galardonar lo mejor del talento latino en Hollywood. Read More

Terra
Los Premios ALMA del 2008 serán grabados el 17 de agosto en el Pasadena Civic Auditorium. Los premios, cargados de estrellas, serán emitidos el viernes, 12 de septiembre (8:00-10:00 p.m., ES T) en ABC.Read More

By Wesley Morris Globe Staff / August 15, 2008
For his last four movies, Woody Allen has been working in Europe - three in London and a new one, “Vicky Cristina Barcelona,” in Barcelona. It was initially neat to think of the filmmaker on vacation away from Manhattan (or given his preference for casting Scarlett Johansson, on his honeymoon). It might be time to see what his native New York has to offer again. His next film is set there, but we have to admit that Allen may never come entirely home, if not geographically then artistically.Read More

Dominican Art Gallery coming to Boston!
Merengue! Visual Rythms / Ritmos Visuales
August 14 - November 23, 2008
Merengue! Visual Rhythms/Ritmos Visuales is the first exhibition to explore the significant historical impact merengue music has had on the visual arts in the Dominican Republic. This collection, organized by the Centro Cultural Eduardo Leon Jiménez and travelled by the International Arts and Artists agency, consists of approximately 47 works by 27 classical and contemporary artists - paintings, works on paper, photographs, sculpture and video, as well as popular graphics, video documentaries, and an illustrated timeline panel that reveals the evolving artistic styles practiced by Dominican artists who interpret the island’s most important musical and dance form.Read More

August 1, 2008. Los Angeles Times. Conceptually sophisticated and visually smashing, the installation design that artist Jorge Pardo conceived and executed for the impressive Pre-Columbian collection at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art was unveiled to the public Sunday. Unlike anything you’ve seen in an art museum before, it’s built on a deep understanding of the potential power of smart decoration.Read More

The upcoming Job Fairs will be held in:

· Washington, DC - August 21, 2008 - The Trinity Center

· New York, NY - September 4, 2008 - Metropolitan Pavilion

· Dallas, TX - October 23, 2008 - Dallas Convention Center

· San Jose, CA - November 6, 2008 - Doubletree Hotel San Jose

For more info go to http://www.NSHP.org

La jaula abierta. El blog de Roger Bartra
en Letras Libres

Elena Climent, una estupenda pintora mexicana, acaba de terminar en Nueva York un impresionante mural de unos 10 metros de largo por tres de alto. El mural se titula At Home With Their Books (En casa con sus libros) y puede verse en el Greenwich Village, en el este de la calle octava con University Place.Read More

The Massachusetts Cultural Council and Education
GRANT PROGRAMS
“The tradition in this state… of public support for the arts goes all the way back to the original Constitution — written by John Adams — which says it will be the public duty of the government to support the arts, support the sciences, to support education, for all levels of society. We’ve got to raise children to appreciate the arts.”

— Historian David McCullough, two-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize
and winner of the 1999 Commonwealth Awards

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