Latinos have a lot to say - and the numbers show that their voices impact social media with increasing popularity on Twitter.Eighty percent of Latino adults in the U.S. use social media, beating out Caucasians at 70 percent and African Americans at 75 percent, according to a Pew Report.
Terminals 2 and 3 at Los Angeles International Airport have reportedly been evacuated after a shooting took place at the airport Friday morning, the Los Angeles Times reported
Costa Rica has a complicated past with the critically endangered Leatherback sea turtles, whose eggs are fiercely sought after and sold within the country and on the black market. This has led to poaching of epidemic proportions, illegal trade and drug-related violence.
"Latino" and "Hispanic" are interchangeable terms throughout most of America, used to predominately describe individuals who are descended from or who are from Spanish-speaking or Portuguese-language countries. But, if you live in certain states, like Texas, for instance, then the two terms very well might mean different things to you; and you undoubtedly have preference for one label over the other.
Trick-or-treaters love ringing doorbells and screaming in adults' faces for candy. Occasionally, adults avoid the mischief and mayhem by leaving a big bowl of candy outside their door with directions that say "Please Take One." According to a study, however, only one in four trick-or-treaters follow these candy restrictions.
Wine lovers are drinking more wine than the vineyards are producing, due to a spike in popularity in the U.S. and China, which has quadrupled its wine consumption in the past five years, according to a recent report by Morgan Stanley Research.
What do you get when you mix a pork belly and beef patty, funnel cake-battered Twinkies, bacon and cheese? You get a savory, fattening treat, courtesy of PYT Burger and Bar's new Deep-Friend Twinkie Burger.
According to the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) 12 percent of the United States' imported spices are contaminated with things like rodent hair, insects parts, whole insects and salmonella.
One North Dakota resident called into the Y94 radio station in Fargo offering some children tricks rather than treats this Halloween. Instead of simply giving candy to every child, children who she considers to be “moderately obese” will get a critical letter in their goodie bag as well.
Gourmet Gringos, known exclusively for their touring food trucks that distribute Latin cuisine, is opening a new 25-seat restaurant at Bathurst and St. Clair in Toronto, Canada.
Daylight saving time (DST) ends Sunday. We have all been told this means that we save energy and get an extra hour of sleep, but how does this work? Why exactly do we "spring forward" and "fall back?"
Jack Kerouac, the famed American novelist, wrote the postwar Beat Generation novel, "On the Road," which documented his travels as he journeyed across America. One chapter in the book focuses on Kerurac’s sexual relationship with a Latina farm worker, who Kerouac called “Terry, the Mexican girl,” a woman who was fleeing from an abusive husband and left her two children behind to do so. Novelist, performance artist and poet Tim Z. Hernandez uncovered “the Mexican girl’s” true identity, Bea Franco, and created his own work, "Mañana Means Heaven," about Franco’s life.
Día de los Muertos artworks, crafts and exhibitions are being brought to many Los Angeles residents by a non-profit art center in East Los Angeles, having done so for the last 40 years. These services are being made available to the public until Nov. 2.
BuzzFeed, a website that claims to have "the hottest, most social content on the web" has certainly caught on like viral wildfire - and they are planning to ignite more buzz by tapping into the multilingual media as well.
