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Links
- Velveteria.com: After reading Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream, you know the history of velvet painting. Now visit this swinging museum, run by two Portland, Oregon velour aficionados who've mined the thrift stores for every velvet painting they can find.
- Elcompachalino.com: A great site dedicated to slain narcocorrido legend, Chalino Sanchez, whose story is the first chapter in True Tales From Another Mexico. Try also elpelavacas.com and chalino.com.
- La Michoacana Popsicles: If reading about the Popsicle Kings has you hankering for some ice cream, this Michoacana popsicle company recently opened for business in California.
- Kansas: Interested in visiting Kansas? Don't miss the state's many small-town historical museums. Before you go, get info on Liberal, Kansas's Oz-Fest at the Land of Oz here or here. Also, consult the Environmental Working Group terrific farm-subsidy data base, so you'll know the extent of U.S. taxpayer support for those farms you'll pass as you tour the state.
- Jerez.com.mx is among the best of the dozens of Mexican-immigrant village sites that have sprouted on the web -- direct from Jerez, Zacatecas, land of the Tomato King -- and run by town dentist Ricardo Santoyo. Another good one is sanmartinjalisco.com, for the village of San Martin de Bolanos, Jalisco, by Seattle’s Mario Tejeda.
- Click here for a list of all the Mexican-immigrant village websites I can find. (To add your village site, email me at samquinones7@yahoo.com. I only ask that you add a link to my site.)
- Los Tigres del Norte: The greatest Mexican pop band – known for its relentless touring, terrific corridos and songs capturing the essence of Mexican immigration -- is working up its own website. Until it's ready, this one will have to do. Click here for an article I wrote about them. Or here for another. Go here for lyrics to many of their songs. For machismo and melodrama, nothing compares to El Gringo y El Mexicano or El Tahur. Contrabando y Traicion, the first narcocorrido hit, changed Mexican pop music.
- Paquita La del Barrio is another jewel of Mexican song. A heavy lady, as much sociologist as chanteuse, Paquita is a cross between Tammy Wynette and Katie Webster, who rails against perfidious men -- me estas oyendo, inutil? -- on behalf of Mexico's working-class women. Tres Veces Te Engane (I Cheated On You Three Times) is her classic that brings crowds of hyperventilating 50-year-old women to their feet, each raising three fingers in the air, as they sing the chorus. Arrastrate (Crawl) is one of her best. See the epilogue of True Tales for more.
- In The Hat: A terrific blog on the Los Angeles gang world, with wild commentary and barbed repartee by cops and criminals, most of whom, including the site's author, prefer to remain anonymous.
- Vicente Fox, the man who finally bumped the PRI from Los Pinos, is now out of office. In retirement, he has followed the lead of U.S. ex-presidents and opened a library/museum/research center to help polish his image.
- Tijuana Opera: After reading Antonio's Gun and Delfino's Dream, you'll want to know more about opera in Tijuana. Here’s where.
- Oaxacalifornia.com: Run by the newspaper El Oaxaqueno, one of the best immigrant papers, about the Oaxacan diaspora in Mexico and the United States. Essential reading for those whose interest in Oaxaca, globalization, immigration, and Oaxacan basketball is whetted after the chapters in True Tales. Simultaneous weather reports from Oaxaca, Puerto Escondido, Los Angeles and Fresno.
- Telenovelas: If you need to know more about telenovelas after reading True Tales, you'll find that the world has too many telenovela websites, but this one takes the right tone. All about former CHIPs star Erik Estrada learning Spanish for Dos Mujeres, Un Camino, and Nada Personal (1996), the first overtly political Mexican telenovela. Univision has its site as well.
- Readerscircle.com: A site dedicated to authors and books. Book groups can arrange phone-in sessions with authors of the books they are reading.
- Cmmayo.com is the website of the remarkable Catherine Mansell-Carstens - C.M. Mayo her nom de plume -- who not only has written a travel memoir about Mexico, and publishes Tameme, a bi-lingual literary journal, and is an historian of Mexico's imported Emperor Maximilian, but is also a University of Chicago-trained economist and author of a classic book on working-class informal banking in Mexico.
- My dad's website has informationa bout his books and career teaching literatue at CMC.
- A Little Leeway offers a view of life from Bloomington, Indiana, written by Sam’s college chum, Lee Heffernan, who will instruct you on how hard it is to finish a dissertation.
- Adam Kennedy: The work of this 15-year-old budding filmmaker can be viewed on this YouTube site
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