Luz Rodriguez was born to Puerto Rican parents who migrated to NYC in the 1950âs. When she was a young girl growing up in the Lower East Side of New York…
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Danny Trejo busier than ever, but why helping others is most important
When you think of Danny Trejo, probably his legendary âtough guyâ image immediately comes to mind â with a fiery explosion taking place behind him â like in the âMachete…
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It was a chilly October night when âMamacitaâ had its New York premiere at the Margaret Mead Film Festival at the American Museum of Natural History. However, Mexico-born and raised…
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Jonathan BogarĂn, 40, and his sister Elan BogarĂn, 36, loved their grandmother so much, they immortalized her on film. The Jewish-American matriarch, Annette Ontell, passed away on April 4, 2011…
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Francisco Storkâs youth was so compelling that it makes for a great novel. He was born in Monterrey, Mexico in 1953 to a single mother from a middle class family in Tampico (a city on…
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