Latin superstars Jennifer Lopez and ex-husband Marc Anthony are being sued over their reality show "Q'Viva! The Chosen". John Jacobs has filed a lawsuit in New York for $25 million claiming that J.Lo and Marc stole his idea for the show.
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.
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.
Guatemalan singer-actor Oscar Isaac Hernandez, known professionally as Oscar Isaac, has earned a Golden Globe nod for his portrayal of the title character in the Coen Brother newcomer, "Inside Llewyn Davis."
Social media channels flared with concern over Sofia Vergara's possible separation from fiancé Nick Loeb. Competing reports have stated that the ring has been on ...and the ring has been off. There's as much swarming fanfare around Vergara's potential nuptials that's been given to fellow Latinas Christina Milian (engaged to Jas Prince), Alexis Bledel (engaged to Vincent Kartheiser), Nicole "Snooki" Polizzi (engaged to Jionni LaValle), Alexa Vega, (engaged to Carlos Pena Jr.), Elizabeth Gutierrez (engaged to William Levy), Eva Mendez (engaged to Ryan Gosling), and Naya Rivera (engaged to Big Sean). 2012 and 2013 have been the year of distance wedding bells for a number of Latina celebrities. However, an exchange of engagement rings does not guarantee the resounding exchange of vows.
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."
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.
Legal and illegal drug use is all around us, from Canada, the U.S. to Latin America and beyond. We've seen Toronto's Mayor Tom Ford admit to smoking crack cocaine, Colorado and Washington states give the 'green light' to recreational marijuana use, and Uruguay become the first country in the world to legalize the trade of marijuana (in an effort to decriminalize the drug industry) -- and recently, Disney and "X Factor" fans have learned that singer/songwriter Demi Lovato was smuggling cocaine on airplanes at age 19.
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.
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.
The Billboard Latin Music Conference is nearing a quarter of a century since it first assembled in 1989, and will be celebrating its 25th anniversary during the Spring of 2014 in a three-day event that will include special awards, showcases, panels, and exclusive Q&A sessions, and its annual culmination event, the Billboard Latin Music Awards.
Mexican Icon Jenni Rivera left us unexpectedly last December 9th of 2012. It's been a year since the chilling news touched the hearts of not only her family but also her dedicated fans. Today we remember "La Diva de La Banda" and celebrate her legacy.
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."
Sofia Vergara is in the spotlight again, and is the target of body-conscious fans across the globe. However, in what some might call a refreshing twist to what is so often the norm, the star is getting flack for losing weight, not gaining it.
Christmas and the holiday season are important to Latinos, traditionally and culturally, and that being so, it's amazing to see Latinos on screen, portraying interesting and intelligent characters in films about the season. While there needs to be more seasonal films where Latinos are the lead, there are a number of films that Latinos can refer to when they want to see themselves represented on screen.
