Name: Lisa Alvarado
Weblog: lisaalvarado.net
Articles: 51
First Published: Wednesday, March 7, 2007
Last Published: Monday, October 15, 2007
Currently listing articles 51-1:
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Theater Interview and Review (Chicago): Dennis Watkins, Author of The Magnificents— The Magnificents, Dennis Watkins and The House Theater — real feeling, real participation, and a real good time.
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Alexander Marshall: Renaissance Man, Sui Generis— Alexander Marshall is a multi-talented man blending creative success with charm, modesty, and a strong sense of family legacy.
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Review: Poetic Medicine - The Healing Art of Poem-Making— John Fox reminds us that words hold healing, words open hearts and change lives.
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Interview: Carlos Mock and Tales of Papi Chulo— Carlos Mock, renaissance man with a story that spans more than one identity. Papi Chulo reveals, celebrates and illuminates.
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Book Review: Santeria Garments and Altars - Speaking Without a Voice (Folk Art & Artists Series)— Altars that speak, altars that heal. 'Santeria Altars' reveals the connection to the Source made physical.
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A Slice of Spa Heaven in Chicago— Treat those tired tootsies well, darling, and indulge in the heaven that is Havana Nights Spa.
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Book Review - English Is Broken Here: Notes on Cultural Fusion in the Americas by Coco Fusco— Coco Fusco rattles your cage while performing in one.
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Book Review: Aracelis Girmay's Teeth— A brilliant, heart breaking, triumphant book of poetry. The reader gets a bite of literary heaven.
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Book Review: Johanny Vazquez Paz - Streetwise Poems— Johanny Vazquez - an irresistible force in Chicago's poetry scene, a writer of clear intent and irrepressible joy.
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Book Review: I, Carmelita Tropicana: Performance Between Cultures by Alina Tryano— Alina Troyano, aka, Carmelita Tropicana, skewers the sacred cows inside and outside Latino culture.
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Interview: Magic, Inc. and Jay Collen - A Slice of Everyday Enchantment— Keep your Hogwarts! Chicago's got Magic, Inc, a store with a show biz pedigree and the gentleman magician Jay Collen.
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Interview: Rich Villar — Getting to the Heart of the Matter— Rich Villar, Acentos — a poet of muscularity and sensitivity and an organization dedicated to feeding the community's soul.
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Book Review: Reel Knockouts by Martha McCauley and Neel King— Bad girls, mean girls — they're out there, they're up on the screen, they're and they're not going away.
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More Truth in a Plain Brown Wrapper: An Interview with Poet Tara Betts, Part Two— More conversation with Tara Betts — a poet of directness, soulfulness, and clarity. This is a woman who knows the power of words.
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An Interview with Poet Tara Betts: Truth in a Plain Brown Wrapper, Part One— Tara Betts - a poet of directness, soulfulness and clarity. This is a woman who knows the power of words.
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A Flower In Her Heart: An Interview With Writer Jane Alberdeston Coralin, Part Two— More conversation with Jane Alberdeston Coralin, writer of fiction and poetry that stirs the soul.
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A Flower In Her Heart: An Interview With Writer Jane Alberdeston Coralin, Part One
— Jane Alberdeston Coralin, writer of fiction and poetry that stirs the soul - lush, lush language that creates a thirst, then slakes it.
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Words that Flow Water: An Interview with Ann Hagman Cardinal— Ann Hagman Cardinal is a deep acquifer of writing, and The Gift of the Cuentista is a revelation...
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Evette Cardona, Amigas Latinas and Celebrating Hermanas— Evette Cardona and Amigas Latinas — a woman who's opened doors in more than one community and an organization that celebrates Latinas who love women.
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Book Review: Alias Olympia - A Woman's Search for Manet's Notorious Model & Her Own Desire by Eunice Lipton— Victorine Meurent, more than Manet's model, more than odalisque. Artist, creator, a woman trapped not by her failings, but history.
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Interview: Luis Rodriguez and Tia Chucha — Casting A Giant Shadow— Luis Rodriguez is building community one word at at time, one heart at a time, one life at a time.
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Interview with Irasema Gonzalez: Proyecto Latina and Women Who Love Words— Tianguis, Irasema Gonzalez, and Proyecto Latina — helping Latina writers and artists blossom and thrive.
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Book Review: Book of Mornings, Raúl Niño, and The Perfect Moment by Raúl Niño— Raúl Niño writes about real men, men who let themselves be rescued by love and family, in a small jewel of a chapbook.
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Book Review: My Dark Places by James Ellroy— James Ellroy dives into the darkest of places: his mother's life and his own past.
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For My Mother, Rita Alvarado— My mother is gone, but always with me, beautiful forever in my mind's eye.
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Book Review: Goddess of the Americas by Ana Castillo— The Virgin of Guadalupe is celebrated in this series of essays that reveals She is much more than the Mother of Us All.
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Book Review: The Feeling of What Happens - Body and Emotion in the Making of Consciousness by Antonio Damasio— What does it mean to be alive? To be aware? Antonio Damasio searches for the answer deep in our dura mater.
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Book Review: Where Is Ana Mendieta? - Identity, Performativity, and Exile by Jane Blocker— Ana Mendieta seizes the body and ritual, putting flesh on the bones of performance art.
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Book Review: Naked Wanting and Raven Eye by Margo Tamez— Two masterful volumes of poetry disturb, illuminate and leave the reader breathless.
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Interview: Margo Tamez, Poet and Author of Raven Eye and Naked Wanting
— She opens your eyes with poetry that disturbs in the best possible way.
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Interview: Conspiring with Poet Margo Tamez— Poet Margo Tamez goes deep, touches a nerve, and disrupts the stereotype of the noble stoic on the rez.
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Book Review: Poetry for the People - A Revolutionary Blueprint by June Jordan— Psssst.. Forget the cheerleader! Poetry for the People and June Jordan will help you save the world!
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Book Review: Poetry Everywhere - Teaching Poetry Writing in School and in the Community by Jack Collom and Sheryl Noethe— Poetry! It's not just for beret-wearing hipsters anymore! Collum and Noethe show you how.
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Trying out Natalie Goldberg's Wild Mind— Let it rip! Get unstuck! Writing exercises for the seasoned soul or the newbie that really work.
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Book Review: Boston Boys Club by Johnny Diaz— Sex y la Ciudad. Johnny Diaz and his own tale of the city. Things are heating up with this debut novel.
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Writer's Block and the Brick Wall— What would the Buddha say when you hit the wall at 90 miles an hour?
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Interview: Chica Lit, Meet Johnny Diaz and The Boston Boys Club
— Johnny Diaz is breaking ground with chico lit. Move over Candace, Carrie, Samantha, Charlotte and Miranda.
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Book Review: Storming Heaven's Gate - An Anthology of Spiritual Writings by Women by Patricia Vecchione, Amber Coverdale Sumrall— She-Who-Is is everywhere, especially in this shimmering gem of an anthology.
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Book Review: Creativity - The Magic Synthesis by Silvano Arieti— Where do all the good ideas come from? Madmen and artists, according to Silvio Areti. What else is new?
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Book Review: Murder One: A Writer's Guide To Homicide by Mauro V. Corvasce and Joseph R. Paglino— Murder One is wickedly helpful for the budding crime novelist.
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Book Review: Conspiracy Culture: From Kennedy to The X-Files by Peter Knight— Is there a cabal of evil men working in the shadows to subvert the lives of every American citizen? Not according to Peter Knight's script.
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Book Review: Textual Poachers: Television Fans & Participatory Culture by Henry Jenkins— Scully, the Truth is out there - fans aren't passive consumers anymore.
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Book Review: Jambalaya - The Natural Woman's Book of Personal Charms and Practical Rituals by Luisah Teish— Luisah Teish, spring cleaning, and returning to the source.
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Book Review: Chocolate: A Bittersweet Saga of Dark and Light— C'mon over to the dark side, baby. Milt Rosenblum gives you one sweet ride.
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Book Review: Being Bodies— The bearable lightness of being. Being Bodies illuminates women's lives and the human search for self-knowledge.
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The Body of Knowledge: Deena Metzger and Revamping the World— Deena Metzger posed some questions 20 years ago that rocked post-feminist sensibilities. This woman asks some dangerous questions.
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Words That Raise The Dead: An Interview with Poet Martín Espada
— Martín Espada offers objects lessons on the power of poetry, on rewriting history, and the all-pork diet.
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Border Violations: An Outsider Finally Comes Home— Chicanisma, finding yourself, and forging identity: taking you the long way home.
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Book Review: The Republic of Poetry - Poems by Martín Espada
— A wake-up call for the body politic, and Martín Espada will hit you where you live.
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Book Review: Confessions of A Berlitz-tape Chicana by Demetria Martinez— Demetria Martinez speaks truth to power and capitivates in this collection of trenchant, on-the-money essays.
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Book Review: Lost Girls by Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie— Sex, death, graphic novel genius... Alan Moore and Melinda Gebbie create a mind-blowing masterpiece.
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