New Music Picks: Anitta, Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice, Niko Rubio, and More
New Music Picks: Anitta, Nicki Minaj & Ice Spice, Niko Rubio, and More
Welcome to LATINA’s weekly roundup of the best new music. This week’s list includes the return of Brazilian superstar Anitta, Nicki Minaj’s “Barbie Girl” remake with Ice Spice, and the new album from Mexican singer Peso Pluma. Also on the list: The emergence of rising bilingual artist Niko Rubio and [...]
Friday Film Roundup: No Hard Feelings, Asteroid City, Nimona, and More
Friday Film Roundup: No Hard Feelings, Asteroid City, Nimona, and More
This weekend, we get to take a break from the big blockbusters to make room for what seems like the first 2000s-style R-rated comedy in quite a while. Not only that, writer-director Wes Anderson’s movie, “Asteroid City,” hits theaters nationwide after a limited release last weekend. Elsewhere, a new documentary [...]
America Ferrera’s Evolution
America Ferrera’s Evolution
On Twenty Years in Hollywood and Creating Stories by Latinos for Latinos America Ferrera has catapulted herself to mainstream success by making the most ordinary characters seem all but ordinary. She has played the roles of teenage girl on the cusp of college-age adulthood, big-box store employee, and overworked assistant, [...]
PATRON Gallery Founders Are Forging an Atypical Path in the Rigid Art Market Terrain
PATRON Gallery Founders Are Forging an Atypical Path in the Rigid Art Market Terrain
It’s not an easy thing to sell art — something so ineffable, so personal, so often useless in the pragmatic sense of the word — while truly supporting those who make it as they pursue their craft. But that’s exactly what Julia Fischbach and Emanuel Aguilar set out to do [...]
A Brief History of Lingerie
A Brief History of Lingerie
From corsets to Calvin Klein. In the realm of sartorial expression, lingerie can feel a bit oxymoronic. For one, it’s typically designed to live under your clothes...which feels contradictory to the whole project of fashion (fashions without exhibitionism??!). Moreover, in practice, we often put it on expressly to...take off. Sure, technically you also take [...]
NYC’s Afro-Latino Festival Founder Mai-Elka Prado Is Making Space for Herself
NYC’s Afro-Latino Festival Founder Mai-Elka Prado Is Making Space for Herself
After almost 10 years of working behind the scenes, Mai-Elka Prado is taking the stage for the first time. Prado is the founder and creative director of the Afro-Latino Festival, an annual celebration that pays tribute to the African roots of Latin American and Caribbean people. Through a series of [...]
How Astronauts Masturbate in Space
How Astronauts Masturbate in Space
If the landing module’s a-rockin’, don’t come a-knockin.’ Officially, nobody has ever had sex in space. What about solo sex, though? It’s not something NASA has ever been particularly keen to talk about, but certain things can be figured out based on how the rest of the body is treated [...]