Sandra Guzman
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Tony-winner David Alvarez can sing, play classical piano, speak three languages and he doesn’t just dance ballet, he is often referred to at the next Mikhail Baryshnikov. And despite the...
'Burning' love
By his own admission, love — from the romantic to the obsessive, from the platonic to the forbidden — is a topic that intrigues internationally acclaimed writer Guillermo Arriaga. He...
A GREAT DAY IN SALSA
THERE'S a popular song by salsa orchestra El Gran Combo about a man who asks that the love and praise he's earned in life be given to him while he...
THE 10 MOST INFLUENTIAL NUYORICANS
From a brilliant legal scholar on the brink of serving in the highest court of the nation, to a celebrated arts curator who led the renovation efforts of the renowned...
'PRIME' TOME
She's been robbed by an assistant, betrayed by her husband, almost kidnapped in Mexico and escaped trampling by elephants in Africa but don't think that Maria Celeste Arraras, host of...
THE GREAT GAEL
Gael Garcia Bernal plays a corny soccer player with musical aspirations in his latest film, "Rudo y Cursi," and the beautiful Mexican actor says he enjoyed every single minute of...
LET THEM EAT CAKE
THE BIGGEST spectacle at Celines Toribio's nuptials last week to celeb manager Giancarlo Chersich wasn't actress Michelle Rodriguez' bad-girl antics (the star pushed fully-clothed guests into the pool, broke up...
DR. SEAL GOOD
Want to know what "America's Next Top Model" photographer and judge Nigel Barker dreams about? It's not the gorgeous hotties he shoots for the popular show. These days, the British...
CRUNCH TIME
The Santa Barbara Bodega on 12th Street and Avenue B was jammed, as it usually is on early mornings, with locals ordering the store's specialty - the bacon, egg and...
STRINGS ATTACHED
In the liner notes to "Moving Forward," Bernie Williams' latest record, rock legend James Taylor writes that "Bernie is a champion athlete and a gifted musician." Then he asks --...
THE BEST IN NEW LATIN MUSIC
From a salsa legend Willie Colón to rock en espanol icons Los Fabulosos Cadillacs, this spring, there is a plethora of good 'ol music being released by the greats. But...
A GIRL NAMED CHITA
TONY-WINNER Chita Rivera, the living legend walking among us, sat back at the Palace Theater taking in previews of the eagerly awaited revival of the equally legendary play, "West Side...
WHAT'S IN THE CARDS
Psychic: Argentina Year of Reflection and Meditation This 58-year old Dominican says that she has read the cards for princes and paupers, sinners and saints, rich and poor and every...
BENICIO IS CHE
IT'S almost too fitting, to the point of being farcical, that "Che," the two-part film about the infamous Argentine revolutionary Ernesto "Che" Guevara, was inspired by the ubiquitous T-shirt. "I...
SPLIT DECISION
THE late Robert Louis Stevenson - not just a poet, but also a travel writer - once wrote, "To travel hopefully is a better thing than to arrive." On my...
ON THE ISSUES
Both candidates have detailed plans for a litany of issues facing the nation. For more, check out their sites, barackobama.com and johnmccain.com. Senator Barack Obama: Economy: Cut income taxes by...
FEELING THE CRUNCH
If you think that the most important issue to Latino voters in this presidential election is immigration -think again. It's the economy, estúpido! Like non-Hispanic Americans, the nation's current financial...
SUGAR & SPIKE
PERHAPS WE'VE CAUGHT Spike Lee on a good day. But the allegedly caustic, combative, defensive director is nowhere in sight as he discusses his World War II epic "Miracle at...
NARCISO RODRIGUEZ
Narciso Rodriguez's Spring Summer 2009 collection brings to mind the kind of person who speaks softly, inviting you to get closer. And when you do get closer, you understand why...
LET'S GO MEX!
If you didn't bring your sombrero last night to Shea, you missed your chance to join Mets ace "liver Pérez in celebrating his homeland. The 29-year-old lefty, who took the...