The adorable singing duo and real-life couple, Alex & Sierra were crowned the winners of "X Factor" season three of the Fox competition, but Latino contestant Carlito Olivero, artist Pitbull and "X-Factor judges Demi Lovato and Paulina Rubio brought the Latin flair to the show.
One must-see this movie this season is the "American Hustle" that is loosely based on the "Abscam" scandal, "a sting operation by the FBI, in which various political office holders were offered bribes on behalf of a (fake) Arab sheikh, it led to multiple convictions, as well as to charges that the FBI unfairly entrapped people." This clever film leads us to ask, who are the modern-day 'hustlers' in America and abroad?
Daniel Esobar was a trained Shakespearean actor, and a star best known as Lizzie McGuire's teacher Mr. Escobar, a role he played from 2001 to 2002, died last Friday at the age of 49. Today, his life will be honored at a memorial service that will be held at 6:45 p.m. at the Hollywood United Methodist Church.
In the wake of Britney Spears' recent comments about Latino men -re-enforcing the Latin-lover stereotype and bad-boy image- her reaction wasn't that far off (but her attempt to mock Spanish was). The pop star's attraction towards Latinos parallels the excitement women are having around the country as ABC's "The Bachelor" gears up for its 18th season, featuring the first Latino Bachelor in the popular reality TV show's history.
Traditionally when a bird poops on you that's a sign of good luck. While it might sound strange to some, Catalonia, an autonomous community of Spain, has taken this tradition to a whole other level, involving 18th Century customs that involve poo. Like the bird poop theory, Catalonians see poo "as a sign of good luck as it fertilizes the earth and ensures a good harvest for the coming year."
With a little help of champagne and tacky fashion sense, vocal powerhouses Christina Aguilera and Lady Gaga joined forces for a flashy duet of the latter's hit, "Do What U Want" to commemorate the star-studded season finale of "The Voice."
Oscar-nominated filmmaker Spike Jonze is at it again - with his latest film, "Her" that takes an unconventional, modern yet tender love story that explores "the evolving nature-and the risks-of intimacy in the modern world."
He is a two-time Academy Award winner who's known for his dramatic roles in "Mystic River," "Dead Man Walking;" he's tugged at our heartstrings through his roles as a father with a developmental disability in "I Am Sam" and as a gay rights activist and politician, Harvey Milk, in "Milk."
Now, he's taken on another dramatic role, but this time it's a real-life drama.
Most Americans are well aware that smoking kills, but in developing countries, consumers continue to puff away, bringing to light the fact that "tobacco consumption more than doubled in the developing world from 1970 to 2000," according to the United Nations.
Former "Charlie's Angels" star Jaclyn Smith will never forget her dear friend and co-star, Farrah Fawcett - in life and in death, Fawcett continues to make an impact.
On Monday, the 68-year-old actress, broke down in tears while supporting Fawcett's widower Ryan O'Neal in court. O'Neal is currently defending himself in a lawsuit filed by the University of Texas over a Warhol painting of the late actress, according to Page Six.
Despite Venezuelan facing a tough economic crisis, with shortages and price hikes putting a damper on the holiday season, there is a fun tradition that might bring back some Christmas cheer during difficult times - and it involves roller skates.
"This is how you're stripping the nation. Where is the benefit? I'm not ashamed, what you're doing is a shame!" said Mexican MP Antonio Garcia Conejo, from the PRD (Party of the Democratic Revolution) as he dropped his trousers and removed his socks during a Senate debate last week.
Google is getting artsy. The virtual trailblazing company recently launched Google Open Gallery, a new online tool to allow museums, galleries and individuals to create online art exhibitions. It's part of the Google Cultural Institute, which has partnered with major art organizations around the world to put content online.
On Sunday, the San Francisco Immigrant Film Festival came to an end, marking the fourth year of a powerful platform that captures the immigrant experience. SIFF, which runs from Dec. 1-15, "shows a human face on the issues of immigration, and immigrant workers' rights through the exhibition of films/videos that document the lives of immigrants, and exiles, the facts that motivate people to migrate, and the problems most people face in the process to migrate to other country."
Jessica González-Rojas, the executive director at the National Institute of Latina Institute of Reproductive Health, highlighted "Nuestro Texas, a human rights campaign calling for reproductive health access for all women, without distinction as to geographic location, ethnicity, race, economic class, or citizen status."
Alelo, "a modest L.A. company that works primarily with the U.S. military, is quietly using interactive video games to fundamentally transform the way we learn about foreign language and cultures," LA Weekly reports.
Spanish actor Antonio Banderas, who will star in the movie "Los 33" about the miners who were trapped more than two months down a mine-shaft 622 meters (2,039 feet) deep in Chile, has a lot of emotion and suspense to capture -- and he's going to the depths of the earth in a Colombian salt mine to pull it off.
This morning, the highly anticipated Golden Globe Award nominations were announced in Beverly Hills, Calif., by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The list revealed that American film aficionados either want to be 'hustled' or get a grim yet truthful lesson in American history - and they also want to take an innovative 3-D journey and get caught between Earth and the void of the universe.
Gisele Bündchen, the world's highest paid supermodel, 33, posted a photo of herself breast-feeding her daughter Vivian, 1, on Instagram, along with the caption, "What would I do without this beauty squad after the 15 hours flying and only three hours of sleep #multitasking #gettingready."
"Resa por mi" (Pray for me), compassionate words spoken in Spanish by Pope Francis, otherwise known as El Papa Francisco, who was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina to Italian parents.
Los Angeles-based Colombian and Irish-American filmmaker Kimberly Bautista is a crusader against the violent killing of women, or what she calls "femicide" in Juarez, Mexico, Guatemala and throughout Central America.
That's why it's incomprehensible to learn that Bautista, a voice for those who have been silenced or abused, was held hostage and raped during the culmination of her four-year-journey making the award-winning documentary, Justice For My Sister.
Americans love their "gauc." Whether you're Latino American or not, the delicious appetizer has become a Super Bowl staple -- and a culinary trend that can be associated with the growing Latino population in the U.S.
Yet what many Americans don't realize, is that on a daily basis, avocado farmers in Mexico are essentially risking their lives to bring guacamole to your table.
Ever wonder what it might be like to be a fire-breathing dragon? Well if you take a shot of Colombian aguardiente, otherwise known as "fire water," you'll be sure to find out.
It's holiday season and chances are if you're Colombian, or if you know someone who is, you may have had the fiery 'pleasure' of taking a shot of Colombia's distinctive liquor, aguardiente, a clear, anise-flavored liquid made of processed sugarcane that practically burns a hole right through you.
On Friday, Dec. 6, the Bronx Museum of the Arts in collaboration the National Institute of Latina Institute of Reproductive Health and Planned Parenthood of New York City Training Institute, featured a screening of "Harvest Empire: A History of Latinos in America," a film based on New York Daily News journalist,Juan González' book of the same name.
Dubbed "a pioneer of Latin rock 'n' roll," Mexican-American Carlos Santana and renown Puerto Rican opera singer and Harlem native, Martina Arroyo, were among the five Kennedy Center Honorees, which is considered "the nation's highest honor for influencing American culture through the arts."
