Category: In the News & Around the Web
Mexico City And Houston Enter Partnership For Tourism Promotion
In an effort to attract more international leisure and business travelers, the Mexico City Tourism Trust (Fondo Mixto de Promoción Turística del Distrito Federal) has partnered with The Greater Houston Convention and Visitors Bureau to cross-promote the arts, sports, culinary, medical and life sciences offerings to potential visitors in their respective cities…
Kickstarter campaign for “The Lost Poems of Pablo Neruda”
Poetry fans rejoice! We may soon have access to previously-unpublished works from Pablo Neruda. All that’s needed (as of today) is approximately $20,000 of additional funding. Neruda was a Nobel-Prize […]
Community leader Yolanda Black Navarro passed away
Yolanda Black Navarro passed away on Monday, November 9, 2015, losing her battle with Leukemia. She was a Houston native and a life-long advocate and supporter of Houston’s Hispanic community through […]
Audio Pick: Will Smith and Bomba Estéreo remix of “Fiesta”
Will Smith has returned to a recording studio for the first time in nearly a decade. As if that weren’t enough of a surprise, he has chosen to do it […]
Author Junot Díaz stripped of award for speaking out
Junot Díaz is a MacArthur Fellow, a Pulitzer Prize-winning author, and a creative writing professor at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). His most notable work is the book “The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao.” He is also a Dominican American who has used his public status to speak out against the persecution of Haitian refugees in the Dominican Republic …