I am from Peru, OK, so I absolutely get to be mad at this cultural caucaciousness and deafness of tone. This week, Fox aired the latest episode of BH90210, its limited meta-heightened reboot of Beverly Hills, 90210, an ep that was so preposterous. On this Aug. 21 installment, meta Tori Spelling travels to “Peru,” as the […]
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The Thing About J. Lo
The thing about Jennifer Lopez that I love – that makes going to see her perform the fourth show of her “It’s My Party Tour” down in San Jose tonight so fuckin’ special – is that she’s been around, at least musically, for 20 years, which is about the same amount o’ time that I’ve called […]
1996
When I was kid (what you would call a tween now), 1996 was It. It was the year I started frequently going to the movies, really consuming Hollywood. I was still growing up in Lima, Peru, and it was around that time that nice, new, modern como-en-Estados Unidos-like multiplexes-as-commercial anchors entertainment hubs began to pop […]
Postcard from PAMM
“It’s everyone’s museum.” So said Darlene Pérez, one half of the Miami power couple behind the leading Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM), earlier today, when I ran into my fellow Florida International University Panther in the vestibule of the downtown museum. I had spent a bit o’ the morning checking out the comprehensive documentary exhibition of “Surrounded Islands,” […]
Makes the People Come Together
Last week, I answered one of Madonna’s tweets, and her Music has been playing at home ever since. No music, no fun. No fun, no life. Repeat it like a mantra.
San Francisco Chinatown 8.23.18
Pasear por el #BarrioChino de #SanFrancisco hace unas semanas luego me hizo pensar en los amigos venezolanos que han dejado #Venezuela por esta u otra razón. Bastantes han arrivado en #Peru, mi país de nacimiento; conocí a algunos la última vez que estuve en #Lima, en enero. Todos – jóvenes, con familias – ejercían el trabajo que […]
King of Cups 