New Music Picks: Cardi B & Offset, Immasoul, Alaina Castillo, and More
New Music Picks: Cardi B & Offset, Immasoul, Alaina Castillo, and More
Welcome to LATINA’s weekly roundup of the best new music. This week’s list includes Cardi B’s knockout collaboration with Offset, Immasoul’s breakthrough EP, and Alaina Castillo’s confessions on the dance floor. Also on the list: Sofía Reyes and Danna Paola’s surprise remix with Kim Petras, Blue Rojo’s feel-good song with [...]
Marco Castro Wants to Transport You to the Peruvian Rainforest
Marco Castro Wants to Transport You to the Peruvian Rainforest
On a warm Saturday in Brooklyn, sounds of cumbia, R&B, and the crush of a strobe light alternated rhythms in a small photography studio. A cast of queer and POC models periodically filed in, each posing for the camera to their chosen soundtracks — music they were asked to select [...]
Brazilian Fashion Model Juliana Nalú on the Meaning of Home and Global Representation
Brazilian Fashion Model Juliana Nalú on the Meaning of Home and Global Representation
Rio de Janeiro’s born-and-bred, 24-year old model Juliana Nalú has always been a dreamer. At the early age of 6, Nalú announced to her mom that she wanted to be a globally known model. At the time, she lived with her mom and brother, Douglas, in the favela Complexo do [...]
Baroline is a Self-Made Woman
Baroline is a Self-Made Woman
Caroline Diaz, better known as Baroline, will tell you that she may not know how to drive, ride a bike or a scooter, but she knows a hit record when she hears it. At only 27 years old, the music executive Diaz has cemented herself as a force to be [...]
Morbius Fails to Be More Than a Product of Corporate Synergy
Morbius Fails to Be More Than a Product of Corporate Synergy
Sony Entertainment is eager to get into the extended universe game. The company behind Sam Raimi’s hugely successful trilogy and Marc Webb’s less successful duology of “Spider-Man” films is in the midst of developing what they’ve dubbed the Sony Spider-Man Universe, or the SSSU. It doesn’t roll off the tongue [...]
Irma Rangel: Public Servant, Feminist Veterana, and Persistent Crusader
Irma Rangel: Public Servant, Feminist Veterana, and Persistent Crusader
Irma Rangel’s name is well known in many towns and cities across Texas. In Dallas, there’s the Irma Lerma Rangel Young Women’s Leadership School; in College Station and Kingsville there’s the Irma Rangel Pharmacy School; and in Austin, the University of Texas houses the Irma Rangel Public Policy Institute. Though [...]
This Anglo-Argentine Writer-Turned-Tour Guide Shares the Magic of Buenos Aires with the World
This Anglo-Argentine Writer-Turned-Tour Guide Shares the Magic of Buenos Aires with the World
When we speak, Vanessa Bell is at her house in Buenos Aires as the first heatwaves of summer are starting to roll in. I learned of Bell several years ago when I came across her Twitter feed, where she frequently posted photos of midcentury and post-modern lobbies in buildings throughout [...]