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Ridiculous Quinceañera Dance Moves Served Fresh [Video]

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The day quebradita mutated to quinceañera breakdancing. 

By: Nacomprende

Tags: Breakdancing, Culture, Dancing, Funny, Quinceañeras

You Can Still Buy Fancy, Tin-Tan-Worthy, Custom-Made Pachuco Shoes [Video]

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How to get custom-made pachuco -- and pachuca -- shoes in 2012.  

By: Nacomprende

Tags: Canal once, Culture, Fashion, Mexico city, Pachuco shoes, Shoes, Tepito, Tin tan, Tv

Dead Can Dance: Mr. Chivo's "Cumbia Del Muerto" [Music]

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Need something to groove to while you do your Catrina makeup? Here's "La Cumbia Del Muerto."

By: Nacomprende

Tags: Culture, Day of the dead, Dia de los muertos, Mr chivo, Music

"Hecho En Mexico" Documentary To Remind You Of Mexico's Other, Non-Nefarious Ongoings

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With a glitzy roster of rock n' roll stars, actors, writers, intellectuals, politicians, and everything thing in between, Hecho In Mexico aims to show its viewers that there's a "hidden" and very "distinct" reality in the lives of most Mexicans; one that's not so bleak and depressing as most seem to believe. 

By: Nacomprende

Tags: Culture, Documentaries, Duncan bridgeman, Hecho en mexico, Mexico, Video

Putazo, Tomato, Chongo, And Other Nahuatl Words Your Probably Didn't Know Were Nahuatl Words

According to Karla Covarrubias Molina, a writer for algarabia, Mexican Spanish speakers use more than 2000 nahuatlismos, 1000 Nahualt-named places (typonyny), and over 480 phrases, sayings, and idioms.

By: Nacomprende

Tags: Culture, Entomology, Language, Mexico, Nahuatl, Spanish, Words

Still Too Puritanical: Gigolo Service Hardly Gets Any Business From Latinas [Video]

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Primer Impacto ran this investigative piece on Cowboys 4 Angels, a "non-sexual" gigolo service for women. The service, says company owner Garren James, is popular because women are making more money. Oddly, even with James' Spanish-speaking wife by his side, the company doesn't have many Latina clients. Why?

By: Nacomprende

Tags: Culture, Gigolos, Relationships, Sex

Naco, Pocho, Or Both? Famous Brownies Discuss Identity [Video]

"Pocho is an identity that people impose mostly on others as opposed to people imposing on themselves."

By: Nacomprende

Tags: Chuntron, Culture, Daniel hernandez, Edward james olmos, Identity, Jenni rivera, Los tucanes de tijuana, Luis de alba, Mun2, Nacos, Pocho, Video

Cubans Like Weird Names

Besides being Cuban, what do Niurka, Yanixan, and Ojani have in common? Their names are weird -- well, at least outside of Cuba. It is no coincidence; strange names, says this British reporter, became trendy after the revolution.

By: Nacomprende

Tags: Baby names, Cuba, Cubans like strange names, Culture, Names, Parenhood

As Of Last July, The Majority Of US-Born Babies Were Minorities

According to the lastest estimates by the Census, the majority of children born in the US between July, 2010 and July, 2011, came from sex that was had by PEOPLE OF COLOR -- Jiminy Crickets! 