West Side Story: The Classic Made Present
By Kejana Ayala | Whether or not we’ve seen it, we all know about Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins’ film adaptation of West Side Story (1961). A classic retelling of Romeo and Juliet based on Arthur Laurents’ musical, the film has echoed in our American culture for over fifty years through its tunes and romantic storyline and the […]
A Review of Nueba Yol
By Elaine Vasquez | “Nueba Yol de mi fantasia, porque New York es otra cosa.” – Balbuena When I was a little girl in the Dominican Republic, my dreams about America were distant from the reality. White people with green or blue eyes was all I pictured. Big streets, snow, tall buildings, tons of food and […]
¿Qué Pasa, USA? Desde los 70 Hasta Hoy en Día
By Franklin Rodriguez | We’ve all had moments in our teenage years where we wanted something really bad but our parents could not necessarily afford it, or where we were worried about being accepted by a group of kids who we thought were popular and cool. These moments can be glorious or bittersweet, and often […]
Review of Entre Nos
By Luis Machuca | The aspirations, ambitions and ultimate disenchantments resulting from this country’s make-or-break reality are things that transcend national backgrounds and intimately resonate through many a dispersed migrant group. The Latinization of New York and other metropolises in the United States has unfolded with rather consistent uniformity in the various Hispanic subgroups. According to […]
