There are two novel openings that every literate knows by heart. One is the beginning of One Hundred Years of Solitude, by García Márquez, and the other, the phrase that opens Pedro Páramo (1955), the ...

The White House just announced that it has appointed Google executive Megan Smith to the position of U.S. chief technology officer (CTO). Smith has been working for the tech giant for more than a ...

Panama is an action thriller filmed in Puerto Rico and based on true events in 1989. The film tells the story of James Becker (Cole Hauser), a former Marine who is covertly sent to by his former ...

As a self-identified “mixed girl” growing up in Northeast Ohio, Janis Bowdler wished for a long, blonde ponytail. Bowdler, appointed in April as the president of JPMorgan Chase Foundation, remembers ...

"Damaris" of the lush black hair and inquisitive dark eyes is a single mom and for the past four years has been a sex worker in Mexico City, fighting day by day against discrimination and police ...

There is no Latino civil rights activist and labor leader more beloved than Cesar Chavez. So beloved, in fact, that in 2014 a Republican candidate running for a U.S. congressional seat in Arizona ...

1. Sofía Reyes (feat. Rita Ora, Anitta) – R.I.P. The Mexican singer-songwriter and actress has joined Rita Ora ('Hot Right Now') and Brazilian singer Anitta ('Show Das Poderosas') to open 2019 with a ...

Between smoke, stones and debris, groups of rescuers and volunteers working against the clock to save as many lives as possible, have managed to communicate to systematize their work, transforming the ...

A ‘manifesto’ supposedly penned by Dylann Storm Roof, the white man accused of gunning down nine African American people in a South Carolina church on Wednesday, has sent shockwaves across the ...

I once read that smoking weed is perfectly admissible but having a cigarette is a nasty habit. I don’t remember exactly who said it, only that it was a somewhat eccentric fashion designer trying to ...

The Estadio Azteca is home to many memorable moments in soccer history, like Pele’s Brazil and Diego Maradona’s Argentina winning the World Cup on that field in 1970 and 1986, respectively. Cruz ...

One of the most memorable acts of this year at the San Sebastian International Film Festival - held between September 22 and 30 in this coastal city of northern Spain - was the awarding of the ...