Newt Gingrich courts Latino voters while calling for English-only government

– via The Huffington Post

Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich criticized his party for failing to reach out to Latino voters in an article published Sunday, part of a somewhat contradictory approach to courting Latino voters while he also calls for English to be the official language of the United States and opposes comprehensive immigration reform bills.

Gingrich told the Las Vegas Sun that “Republican incompetence” is to blame for the party losing the Latino vote, the paper reported on Sunday.

Can we ever reclaim insulting words?

by Daniel Cubias

Apparently, a bunch of sluts were running around my city recently.

I’m talking, of course, about the SlutWalk movement, which began earlier this year when a Toronto cop implied that women who dressed like “sluts” deserved to get raped. Outraged at the cop’s statement, women all over North America hit the streets both to protest the Neanderthal mindset that afflicts so many males, and to repurpose the word “slut.”

Eye candy and breast cancer

– via NPR

There are several reasons to be ambivalent about the Your Man Reminder app, and only one of them is sexy.

Released just a few days ago, the app comes from ReThink Breast Cancer, a Canadian nonprofit whose website promises it will raise “bold, relevant awareness” about breast cancer by infusing “sass and style into the cause.”

When is it losing our Latino?

by Maitri Pamo

Photo Paul Martin Eldridge

It was a peculiar feeling of bipolarity. During the day I had been consumed with worry about the fact that despite my best intentions, my children are not growing up to be seamlessly fluent in two languages. I figured it was going to be challenging, since their father is monolingual, but that day I was feeling particularly discouraged by my linguistic failure. Since my children are half Latino, their ability to speak Spanish is important to me, not only because of the benefits of having a bilingual mind, but also because I want the language to be a strong tie that binds them to their Latino heritage. I was fretting about the “degree of Latinoness” in my family. 

Three cups of coffee a day to help keep skin cancer away?

via MSNBC

Drinking copious amounts of coffee may reduce the risk of the most common type of skin cancer, a new study finds.

Moreno, Leguizamo talk Latin life in ‘Hollywouldn’t’

– via NPR

Rita Moreno — the only Latino performer to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony — is reprising some of her most memorable characters in a solo show at the Berkeley Repertory Theater. Up the coast in Los Angeles, John Leguizamo, who co-starred opposite Al Pacino in Carlito’s Way and voiced Sid the sloth in the animated Ice Age films, is performing another of his acclaimed solo shows. And while their Hollywood success came 40 years apart, the two say they encountered many of the same hurdles.