Kali Uchis Knows How to Throw a Party
Kali Uchis Knows How to Throw a Party
Kali Uchis released another bilingual hit earlier this month with “No Hay Ley,” which translates to “There Are No Laws” – an anthem for a love without limits, and an ode to Latin House music inspired by her Childhood in Colombia. During a live on Instagram, she shared the [...]
Mo Amer and Teresa Ruiz Find Parallels In the Immigrant Experience
Mo Amer and Teresa Ruiz Find Parallels In the Immigrant Experience
Mo Amer and Teresa Ruiz, the romantic duo at the center of Netflix’s newest original series “Mo,” have known for a long time that there are cultural parallels between them. Mo, who immigrated from Palestine, and Teresa, who immigrated from Mexico, are no strangers to the fact that, when [...]
An Odyssey Through Isabella Lovestory’s Sonic Universe
An Odyssey Through Isabella Lovestory’s Sonic Universe
Singing a song to her cat, the legend of Isabella Lovestory was born. The now rising Honduran pop icon had recently dropped out of art school in Montreal, dissatisfied with both the creatively restrictive and exclusive nature of academia and the art world, and turned to music. Born from [...]
Emilia Puts a Spanish Twist on Destiny’s Child in “La Chain” Video
Emilia Puts a Spanish Twist on Destiny’s Child in “La Chain” Video
It's quite the rarity that an artist gets the opportunity to interpolate a Destiny's Child song, let alone in Spanish. However, Emilia does just that with her new single "La Chain," in which the rising Argentine pop star puts a new twist on the Destiny’s Child classic "Independent Women [...]
Love In Gravity Provides an Auditory View into Queer Latino Identity
Love In Gravity Provides an Auditory View into Queer Latino Identity
“That’s why we’re here: to unlearn all the fucked up shit we were taught growing up.” This quote is only one example of the many cathartic snippets from Love in Gravity – a new six-episode narrative podcast that sheds light on queer Latinx communities. The original stories from all [...]
Citrus and Tequila are Key to a Rejuvenating Summer Cocktail
Citrus and Tequila are Key to a Rejuvenating Summer Cocktail
As the oppressive summer heat becomes evermore inescapable, lurking in every shadow and supposed refuge, the only true escape we could find was through cocktails. These four summer cocktails transform “having drinks” into “having refreshments,” each packed with the power of reinvigoration and recovery. In the perpetual fight against the [...]
Eating Mexican Food at This Brooklyn Fan Favorite Spot is a Religious Experience
Eating Mexican Food at This Brooklyn Fan Favorite Spot is a Religious Experience
“I wanted corn to be the main player in every dish,” said Matthew Diaz, the culinary director behind For All Things Good — the restaurant that he runs alongside chef Carlos Macias. Before ballooning into a restaurant with two locations, a neighborhood staple in Bed-Stuy and a newer cafe [...]