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Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Chicano film legend Luis Valdez was honored to be in El Paso, which he said sits in the corazon of America, on Friday, July 18, at ...

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Bless Me, Última, a Mexican-American opera by composer/librettist Héctor Armienta, premiered in Albuquerque, but will have its West Coast premiere in San Jose. The opera, co-produced by Opera ...

The moment the band kicked it off in the studio, singer Johnny Hernandez felt as if time stood still. Back in the early 1960s, he recorded a cover of the Radiants' soulful classic “Ain’t No Big Thing” ...

Rudolpho Anaya's 1972 novel Bless Me, Ultima is a classic of Chicano literature. The story begins for Antonio, 6, when Ultima comes to live with his New Mexico family in 1944. Ultima is called a witch ...

In Mexican-American literature, "Bless Me, Ultima" by Rudolfo Anaya is a classic. Anaya's novel, which came out in 1972, has just been turned into a movie. Film critic Kenneth Turan has this review.