Veracruz

Azul Café, Valle de Guadalupe: Southern Mexico's Coffee Without Leaving Baja

In the center of the wine and olive oil laboratory known as La Escuelita (but officially as la Estación de Oficios de El Porvenir) stands a wooden building with mattress springs for walls. Inside is a brown clutter of detritus: a Christmas tree made of upturned wine bottles stands anachronistically ... More >>

Local Record Review: 'Son del Centro' by Son del Centro

Son del CentroSon del Centrowww.facebook.com/sondelcentroSee Also:*Local Record Review: 'Visions of the Sun' by Cham Kerem*Local Record Review: 'However Strange' by Détective*Local Records Review: 'Four Steps in Corsets' by Yellow Red SparksTen years ago in the city of Santa Ana, a musical project ... More >>

Los Dioses de la Cafeína: Das Cortez

After a night spent out late on Sixth Street or in the pulsating, mind-altering nightclub known as Clássico, the body needs two things: restorative caffeine, and something chile-spiked and offal-y. The latter is easily found anywhere in downtown Tijuana, with menudo and birria practically bursting ... More >>

Puerto Rican and Mexican Cultural Traditions Come Together for this Weekend's Bombazo Fandango!

See Also: *All Day Santa Ana Summer Festival Puts the Movement in Music*Son del Centro Benefit Show This Friday*Calle 13 Bring Their Latin Grammy Nominated Music to the House of Blues AnaheimThe worlds of Puerto Rican bomba and Mexican son jarocho will come together in mutual admiration this Saturda ... More >>

Why Do Mexicans Put Stickers Honoring the Dead on Car Windows?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And why do Chicano Studies professors always wear guayaberas?

Friends Can Also Betray You

Mexicans pay in blood for America's War on Drugs

A Long, Withering Takedown of Rick Bayless on Occasion of Him Receiving an Award from Mexico, or: Rick Bayless, the Michael Bolton of Mexican Food

On June 6, Chef Rick Bayless received from the Mexican government the Order of the Aztec Eagle, Insignia class (lower ranking reserved for non-royals and non-politicians) for his work in promoting Mexican cuisine in general, and Mexican haute cuisine, specifically, in his PBS television series Mexic ... More >>

Students at La Purisima Catholic School Dance to the Tune of Mexican Folklore

It might only be in the United States, or possibly Southern California, where one finds Caucasian, Vietnamese and Latino students dancing together to traditional, folkloric Mexican songs. The Eighth Annual "La Purisima Ballet Folklorico" at La Purisima Catholic School in Orange featured just that. I ... More >>

Metalachi Love Boobs

The Espinoza brothers blend metal, hair metal and mariachi

Son del Centro Benefit Show This Friday!

​ Son del Centro's roots date back almost ten years now when high school-aged youth began exploring the rich Mexican musical tradition of son jarocho. Five years ago, the group's efforts came to fruition in the form of their first album Mi Jarana es mi Fusil. Son del Centro owes its accomplis ... More >>

Where Can a Gabacho Live in Mexico?

[¡Ask a Mexican!] And is there any beef between Mexicans and Ecuadorians?

¡Ask a Comida Critic! Favorite Food-Themed Song?

​Sorry, folks: I answer what people ask. And while I have in the queue preguntas about sausage, chocolate, Aliso Viejo restaurants (or, rather, the lack of) and other more pressing issues, I couldn't help but like the query sent by Ramón:So, what's your favorite food-themed song?Hmm. I'm not sure ... More >>

El Modena Residents Claim Sheriff's Deputies Conducting Random Pull-Overs to Crack Down on Unlicensed Drivers

​"We can't even drive at night anymore," says Omar, who declined to give his last name. He's a resident of El Modena, the historic barrio in unincorporated Orange that has seen an influx of immigrants from the Mexican state of Veracruz (most undocumented) over the past 20 years to supplement ElMo' ... More >>

UNESCO Names Traditional Mexican Food a World Cultural Treasure, Or: Michoacán Cuisine Finally Gets its Due

Flickr user rvacapintoAn uchepo​Much is being made of the recent report that UNESCO has deemed "traditional Mexican cuisine"--whatever the hell that means--as an intangible cultural heritage worthy of saving. But a close reading of the documents prepared for its nomination shows that most of the a ... More >>

Five Authentic Mexican Dishes That Would Make Rick Bayless Scream, Or: For an Aztlanista Approach to the Question of "Authenticity" in Mexican Cuisine

Chico's Tacos in El Paso: The Most Mexican Restaurant in America​Rick Bayless came to and left Orange County last week, and none of Weeklings were able to attend, busy as we are with our normal lives (Dave, Edwin, and Shuji, their 9-to-5s; me, skinheads and pedo-priests). Sucks, because the battle ... More >>

Cri-Cri Festival

MOLAA

Innovate, Not Alienate

[Locals Only] ¡Aparato! mix traditional Mexican music with post-punk rock

Jonathan Gold Lectures at Marche Moderne About Mexican Food "Authenticity," Laughs at Rick Bayless

Frontera Grill is sabroso, though...​Updated after the jump: Rick Bayless responds! And isn't happy...and one of the kings of LA food blogging has even funnier things to say about Bayless... Last Thursday, the CCNMA: Latino Journalists of California (formerly the California Chicano News Media Asso ... More >>

Sweaty Mexicans Everywhere!

[¡Ask a Mexican!] How much money does Mexican sudor save American diners-and why don't Mexicans shower it off until later?

Can the Colectivo Tonantzin and the ACLU Beat Orange's Anti-Day-Laborer Ordinance?

With Their Shoestring Budget and Strong Ties to Santa Ana, Los Cojolites Battle to Save Son Jarocho

Five Great Salsas in Orange County

Corporate wants us to write arbitrary Top 5 lists--traditionally left for year-end reviews or Best ofs--for SAFII. Instead, we'll do lists of five: no particular order, but all fine representative of their genus. Let's start--surprise, surprise!--with my favorite salsas:*Habanero salsa at Conde Cake ... More >>

The Mariachi Divas Continue the Genre's Evolution

[¡Ask a Mexican!] From Puebla to Palestine

Citizen of the Week!

Coto de Caza residential weed picker Raul Salvador Marin wanted to tell the petite 20-year-old at a June 2004 Trabuco Canyon patio party that she was "a really pretty girl, white, young," but he didn't speak English and she didn't speak Spanish. The woman wasn't interested in Marin anyway. She spur ... More >>

Back to Black

Journey to Black Mexico

Songs Without End

Los Cojolites’ Son Jarocho Stylings to Liven Up Dia de los Muertos Benefit

!Ask a Mexican!

'Are we Mexicans racist toward black people?'

This Hole-in-the-Wall Life

The Adobe Way: Taco Adobe #2

Letters

'Kate Carraway... You obviously wouldn't know good music if it slapped you in the face. Idiot.'

Zach de la Rocha-Endorsed Music

Los Cojolites

!Ask a Mexican!

So how on earth (literally) did Mexicans end up making arroz a staple of their diet?

!Ask a Mexican!

'Do certain clothes determine your Mexicanness?'

Zack Is Back

And he's playing Mexican music?!

Sali Heraldez

The owner of the SolArt Gallery Cafe shares some of her favorite things

The Great Mexican Unifier

Gabbis Mexican Kitchen and its spicy salsa

Art On the Street

Sali Heraldez of SolArt Gallery Cafe

Live Review

Los Lobos and the Hacienda Brothers

Blistering Exchange

El Portal de Veracruz

Things We Love About Summer

Cinco de Yummo

Five Mexican Mexican restaurants to fiesta at during Cinco de Mayo

You Cant Pull the Plug on Revolution!

Lick My Colin Powell!

How Jesse Became Jessica

One mans story of becoming a woman

Holy Mole!

Kicking back among the Aztec heroes of El Matador