When it comes to her hair, Anissa E. Salazar is a minimalist. She prefers natural, efficient products that won’t damage her scalp over flashy multi-ingredient ones. When we meet over Zoom on a February morning, Salazar admits proudly that she brushed her hair before our interview. She’s been busy–styling the [...]
Gloria Martínez, the Afro-Colombian singer and rapper known as Goyo, strode into the downtown Miami theater for the premiere of her HBO Latino documentary surrounded by a posse of women. To her side was her young daughter and mini-me, Saba. Behind her were two longtime friends, now her stylist and [...]
If the phrase “as above, so below” could conjure up an image, it would be the Magician tarot card — one hand raised to the sky, wielding a double-sided wand, the other pointing to the earth below him. He is a conduit between the spiritual and the physical realms — [...]
Tropical synth-pop duo Buscabulla moved back to their native Puerto Rico in 2018, amid an economic crisis, the grueling aftermath of Hurricane Maria, and ongoing political turmoil. But those were not deterrents for Raquel Berrios and Luis Alfredo Del Valle, the serendipitously connected couple that make Buscabulla’s hypnotic melodies and [...]
On a serendipitous June afternoon in 2020, amidst a global race reckoning, Nicaraguan-born and Naples-based photographer Lisette Morales and Immokalee activist Lupita Vazquez-Reyes attended a local Black Lives Matter protest in Immokalee, Florida. In a town where locals try not to make waves, the two women knew this would be [...]
When Mexican-Canadian filmmaker Gigi Saul Guerrero was just seven years old, she visited a Blockbuster in Mexico City and discretely plucked a “Child’s Play 2” VHS off the shelf, careful not to let her mom see. Chucky, the demonic doll, glared menacingly on the cover. It was enough to cause [...]
The story of how Mexican artists Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera met is well known in Fridalandia lore. It was 1928 and Kahlo was a young artist. She asked the established Rivera, 20 years her senior, for advice on her work—showing him her art and asking if she should pursue [...]
As the rain trickled outside the Watsco Center in Coral Gables, Florida, the biggest names in Latin music arrived in glamorous fashion for the 2021 Latin Billboard Music Awards. Considered the longest-running awards show in Latin music, the Billboard Latin Music Awards, aired on Telemundo, is the only awards show [...]