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  PRSUN Radio chats with Coqui Mexicano

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  Date / Time: 8/21/2009 1:00 AM UTC

  Category: Culture

  
  

  Coqui Mexicano is a new restaurant in the South Bronx and more. It is also a place to find art and books. PRSUN Radio will talk to the entrepreneurs behind Coqui Mexicano.

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  Date / Time: 4/30/2009 4:32 AM UTC

  PRSUN Radio to interview NCPRR's Victor Vazquez

  Victor Vazquez, board president of the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights, will speak with PRSUN Radio at 9 p.m. May 6, a Wednesday.

  
  

  Here's some info. about the NCPRR as published on its website:

  
  

  In 1981, Puerto Rican activists from around the country founded the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights (NCPRR). For more than 20 years the NCPRR engaged in grassroots campaigns in many cities, including a march on Washington DC. Recently, a group of former activists of the National Congress for Puerto Rican Rights and newer activists from Pennsylvania, Massachusetts, New York, Florida, Connecticut and New Jersey, among others have reconstituted the NCPRR in the firm belief that there is still a need for this voice locally and nationally. Our main goal is to continue to develop a national political network that raises issues and supports causes of interest to the Puerto Rican community, specifically but also to all Latinos generally. Please join us.
   

  What does the NCPRR do?

  • ADVOCATES for the civil rights of Puerto Ricans and other Latinos.
    
  • EDUCATES its members and the community about the issues affecting the Puerto Ricans and ways to improve them.
  • PROMOTES political action through voter education and getting out the vote.
    
  • INFORMS elected representatives and public officials about our community's problems, needs and ways of addressing them.
  • SERVES as a voice for Boricuas who cannot advocate for themselves.
  • ENGAGES in activities to preserve and develop our language and culture.

  
  

  
  

  The NCPRR is planning to celebrate its national convention in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on October 9-11.

  Victor Vazquez will fill PRSUN Radio listeners in about the NCPRR and its upcoming convention.

  
  

  For more information on the NCPRR, go to www.ncprr.us.

  
  

  I am a proud member of the NCPRR.
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• Original Air Date: 4/30/2009 1:00 AM UTC

  Boricua roots music's Tato Torres talks to PRSUN Radio

  Tato Torres of YERBABUENA "Music is my Life!, or rather.., my Life is Music!!! I grew up in a very musical family, and I am, more than anything else, a musician, composer and singer. I am an experienced practitioner of Puerto Rican musical traditions and play a variety of musical instruments, but I am generally known and recognized as a singer. As both a musician and visual artist I have had the pleasure to have worked along side some of the best interpreters of expressive Puerto Rican traditional arts in New York City." Tato Torres is perhaps best known for his work with YERBABUENA.
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• Date / Time: 4/17/2009 6:50 AM UTC

  Boricua roots music's Tato Torres chats with PRSUN Radio April 29

  Tato Torres Sáez will be my guest at 9 p.m. April 29 at www.blogtalkradio.com/prsunradio.

  
  

  Tato's bio
  
  My full name is Carlos Javier Torres Sáez Rodríguez Cintrón, but most people just know me as "Tato" Torres or "TatoBrujo". I was born in the city of Ponce, Puerto Rico into an extended family of musicians, educators, artisans and community leaders from the mountain top rural barrio called El Consejo Alto in the southern town of Guayanilla. I grew up in EL Alto up until 1984, when my immediate family (parents and siblings) migrated to the U.S. and lived in New York City until November of 2008 when I finally returned home to El Consejo Alto.
  
  Music is my Life!, or rather.., my Life is Music!!! I grew up in a very musical family, and I am, more than anything else, a musician, composer and singer. I am an experienced practitioner of Puerto Rican musical traditions and play a variety of musical instruments, but I am generally known and recognized as a singer. As both a musician and visual artist I have had the pleasure to have worked along side some of the best interpreters of expressive Puerto Rican traditional arts in New York City.
  
  I once studied Applied Urban Anthropology at the City College of New York (CCNY) with a focus on Ethnomusicology and concentrating on the role of traditional music within the Puerto Rican community. After several semesters of graduate school in the Masters Program at CCNY (CUNY), I to ok off to do fieldwork, and eventually, simply decided to just stay out in the field. Despite the academic experience, I identify myself as a cultural activist, and often tend to refer to myself as a "recovering anthropologist." I have dedicated myself to learning, practicing and nurturing the musical traditions of Puerto Rico throughout the Diaspora, but with a focus on the community of New York City where I live.
  
  Artistically, I've had the pleasure and honor of performing with and been part of numerous Puerto Rican musical ensembles like Los Pleneros de la 21na, Los Instantaneos de la Plena, William Cepeda's Afro Boricua and Afro-Rican Jazz, etc., and my own personal project, YERBABUENA. I've had the honor to share the stage with such greats as Andrés Jiménez, Antonio Cabán Vale "El Topo", Nito Méndez, Felix Olmo, El Gran Combo, La Sonora Ponceña, Raphy Levitt & La Selecta, Los Guyayacanes de San Antón, Yomo Toro, Papo Vázquez, and many more.
  
  I am an active member of the "musical family" from the Rincón Criollo Cultural Center in The Bronx, better known as "La Casita de Chema". And from my experience there, I founded a musical ensamble dedicated to moving our music forward without losing our roots. Firmly rooted on the ground at Rincón Criollo, the band, called "YERBABUENA" (one word), has just released their first CD, titled "BORICUA ROOTS MUSIC".
  
  www.myspace.com/tatoyerbabuena
  
  YERBABUENA is composed of young individuals who come together t o play the music that they love under my musical direction. It includes musicians, singers and dancers from the New York City area, who share an intense passion for the musical traditions of Puerto Rico and the Caribbean. While well-recognized Boricuas like Willie Colón, Marc Anthony and Ricky Martin are known worldwide for their "Latin" flavor, groups like Los Pleneros de la 21na, Viento de Agua, and now YERBABUENA, have been changing the way people listen to traditional Puerto Rican music in New York City and beyond. (www.yerbabuena.biz)
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• Date / Time: 4/16/2009 9:21 PM UTC

  Latino Flavored Linda Nieves-Powell to speak to PRSUN Radio

  Linda Nieves-Powell will be my guest on PRSUN Radio at 9 p.m. May 13 at www.blogtalkradio.com/prsunradio.

  
  

  Here's her bio:
  
  Linda Nieves-Powell was named "Mas Que Belleza" by People en Espanol and selected as one of the 100 Most Influential Hispanics by Hispanic Business magazine. This writer, director, producer, author and successful entrepreneur was awarded the 2005 Imagen Award, the 2005 Comite Noviembre award and the 2004 HOLA Tespis Award by the Hispanic Organization of Latino Actors. In 2002, Linda was named one of El Diario/La Prensa’s 50 Most Outstanding Women and received the Harvard University’s Fuerza Latina Award in 2003, and The Texas A&M University SCOLA Award in 2003 for her presentation of positive Latina images.
  
  She has written and directed many successful productions such as Jose Can Speak, YO SOY LATINA!, The New Soul Latina Show, Tina Does Perez, Amigos and Dreams, Rice and Beans & Other Rican Things, and A Day with my Dead Husband Hector. She has also written and directed short films such as, Vinnie the Puerto Rican from Bensonhurst and Mimi’s Portrait which was an official selection of the Miami Short Film Festival, San Francisco Women’s Festival and The Lolita Theater Festival.
  
  Her plays have been produced at Manhattan Theatre Source, HERE, Dixon Place, Crossroads Theatre, Queens Theatre in the Park and the Nuyorican Poet's Cafe.
  
  Linda is the founder and president of Latino Flavored Productions, Inc., a multimedia entertainment production company she founded in 1995. With Linda at the helm, Latino Flavored Productions, Inc. has successfully grossed over one million dollars in sales producing theatrical shows at over 200 top-ranked colleges and universities around the country including Harvard, MIT, Brown and Duke Universities. Linda is a member of the National Association of Latina Leaders. She has appeared on NBC Today, PBS City Arts, Good Day New York, Univision Noticias, NY1, Latin TV, The Roof, La Conexion, Urban Latino TV, Images/Imagenes, Telemundo Noticias, Primer Impacto and Naked in NY with Bob Berkowitz.
  
  Linda's debut novel Free Style is published by Atria/Simon and Schuster and is available in bookstores nationwide. Linda is represented by The Bliss Literary Agency.
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• Original Air Date: 4/9/2009 1:00 AM UTC

  PRSUN Radio interviews La Mamarazzi

  Elena Marrero is commonly known as Mamarazzi because she is usually armed with a camera and documenting images of players in the Puerto Rican/Latino community in New York City and more. You can get a sense of boricua New York, viewing Marrero's photos. Marrero is also a longtime educator.
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• Date / Time: 4/6/2009 4:18 AM UTC

  Elena Marrero aka Mamarazzi

  Elena Marrero will speak to PRSUN Radio this Wednesday (April 8) at 9 p.m.
  
  BIO
  
  Born in El Barrio, raised in Brooklyn, Elena “Mamarazzi” Marrero is a Bronx–based photojournalist.
   
  As single parent raising 2 children, Elena attended Queens College and earned her Bachelor’s Degree in 1986 majoring in Early Childhood Education with a Bilingual Education minor. In 1990 she earned her Master’s Degree. She spent her entire teaching career in P.S. 145, Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY. Throughout her career, she taught grades Pre K to 7 and tutored foster children after school.  She also taught English as a Second Language to Adults at Queens College. During her last 5 years at P.S. 145, Elena taught Visual Arts to children from Pre-K to Grade 5.
  
  After retiring from the NYC Board of Education in 2005, she became an avid photographer, a passion passed on to her from her mother, Helen, from the time she was a young girl.
  
  Elena’s photos have been published in:
  
  Brooklyn Arts Council‘s Folk Feet Cultural Dance Festival, advertisements and archives, El Boletín, Newsletter of the Centro de Estudios Puertorriqueños, Hunter College, Spotlight, the Annual Newsletter of Stages of Learning, Latin Beat Magazine, Voices, the Journal of New York Folklore Society, Puerto Rican Heritage Month 2007 and 2008 Calendar Journal, Comité Noviembre, El Diario, Latin Week New York, The Latino Alternative Newspaper, Co-op City Times, El Maestro. Centro Cultural y Educativo, Ave. C Café, Encuentro advertisement, Puerto Rico Sun (a cultural news and photoblog), The Town Hall Encore, Performing Arts Magazine and Nuyorican School Poetry Jazz Ensemble, Inc.
  
  
  Her photographs have been exhibited at several art galleries in the area known as D.U.M.B.O, including BAC Gallery, 5+5 Gallery, Safe-T-Gallery, Gloria Kennedy Gallery, Goloborotko’s Studio, Brooklyn, NY, CARIB World Culture Gallery, Chelsea, NYC, Boricua College, NYC, Cemí Underground, El Barrio, NYC, Mayor Bloomberg’s Immigrant Heritiage Week Exhibition, Bronx Council on the Arts, Longwood Gallery, Hostos Community College and the East Harlem Arts Festival. In March 2009, she was a featured photographer in the Latinas enFoco/Celebrating Women in Photography group exhibit at the ClementeSoto Velez center in NYC (curated by artist Mia Roman Hernandez).
  
  She self-published four books: 50th Anniversary of the National Puerto Rican Day Parade, 2007, “La Familia Claudio,”  from Puerto Rico to El Barrio, A Photo Documentary, Volume 1 and Buscando Nuestras Raices en Puerto Rico Con Comité Noviembre, A Photo Documentary, 2007 and Volume 2 in 2008.
     
  Ms. Marrero’s photos can also be found in VirtualBoricua.org, flickr.com/Boricuation., Salsamerengue.com, Myspace.com, PuertoRicanPower.net, and several other websites promoting Latino Art/Culture as well as a variety of other themes.
  
  Elena is a member of the National Conference of Puerto Rican Woman, Spanish-American Community Club of Co-op City Board of Director, En Foco, El Museo Del Barrio and the N.Y. Botanical Zoological Photographic Society.
  
  She is the resident photographer for Cemi Underground, a Puerto Rican Bookstore/ Cultural/Latino establishment in El Barrio. She supports visual artists, musicians, actors, filmmakers, activists, politicians, writers and poets by documenting their historical/cultural and artistic events. She contributes her photographs to them in order to promote their cause. 
  
  She traveled to Los Angeles to document the 2nd Annual California Boricuafest 2007 and has traveled to Puerto Rico numerous times to photograph the Island.
  
  Elena is a Mother and an “Abuela” to 20 month old Elijah Jackson and 4 1/2 year old Emma(Razzi), a budding photographer.
   
  With her camera as her sidekick, Elena is known as “Mamarazzi.”
  
  You can see her work on 
  Flickr.com/mamarazzi1
  
  
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• Original Air Date: 4/2/2009 1:00 AM UTC

  RESCHEDULED: A PRdream with Judith Escalona

  PRSUN talks to Judith Escalona of PRdream, is the award-winning Web site on the history, culture and politics of Puerto Rico and the Puerto Rican diaspora. This multimedia site continues to bring unique, original content online in Spanish and English. A film section, an online gallery, discussion boards, historical timelines and oral histories are featured along with announcements and current events postings. Escalona also runs MediaNoche, a new media gallery, which serves as a place where art, technology and community converge.
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