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Milagro, the Pacific Northwest's premier Latino arts and culture organization, is delighted to announce thatDaniel Jaquez, Artistic Associate and longtime collaborator, will join the team to serve as Milagro's Interim Artistic Director.

Italia 1963. E' l'anno del matrimonio Ponti - Loren, della visita in Italia di Kennedy, della scandalosa love story tra Teddy Reno e Rita Pavone, e l'anno della tragedia del Vajont. Alto- basso, rosa-nero, le vicende si alternano cosi nel paese ed anche nella vita del sarto Lucio.

Italia 1963. E' l'anno del matrimonio Ponti - Loren, della visita in Italia di Kennedy, della scandalosa love story tra Teddy Reno e Rita Pavone, e l'anno della tragedia del Vajont. Alto- basso, rosa-nero, le vicende si alternano cosi nel paese ed anche nella vita del sarto Lucio.

The Library of Congress National Book Festival will take place today, Aug. 30, 2014 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., with new and exciting offerings – including evening events – in addition to the familiar author talks, book-signings and family and children's activities. The Festival has been a well-loved ritual for book-lovers since 2001, with attendance by as many as 200,000 visitors in recent years.

The Library of Congress National Book Festival will take place Saturday, Aug. 30, 2014 at the Walter E. Washington Convention Center in Washington, D.C., with new and exciting offerings – including evening events – in addition to the familiar author talks, book-signings and family and children's activities. The Festival has been a well-loved ritual for book-lovers since 2001, with attendance by as many as 200,000 visitors in recent years.

Pan American Musical Art Research (PAMAR), founded and directed by Polly Ferman (and this year celebrating its 30th Anniversary!) has announced the 8th annual Latin American Cultural Week, a sumptuous list of events showing the rich culture of Latin America, with music, dance and theater performances, films, visual arts, and auctions, today, November 15-24 all around town, including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and the Apollo Theater in NYC, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Queens Theater, with a couple of trips to the Ritz Theater in Elizabeth NJ and Symphony Hall in Newark NJ.

The Rolex Mentor and Protege Arts Initiative today announced the seven celebrated artists, working around the globe, who will mentor seven young artists in 2014-2015.

MIAMI, Oct. 18, 2013 /PRNewswire/ Since being founded in 1964, Alfaguara has supported Spanish literature and Latin America, building a two-way street for published works on either side of the Atlantic, and it was with this vision that the Alfaguara Novel Prize was born. The prize has subsequently established itself as a benchmark for quality literary awards given to an unpublished work written in Spanish. Its prestige throughout the Spanish-speaking world means that winning works enjoy international distribution, reaching over 400 million Spanish-speakers. The winner is published simultaneously in Spain, Latin America and the U.S., as well as being concurrently distributed in 19 Spanish-speaking countries.

Pan American Musical Art Research (PAMAR), founded and directed by Polly Ferman (and this year celebrating its 30th Anniversary!) has announced the 8th annual Latin American Cultural Week, a sumptuous list of events showing the rich culture of Latin America, with music, dance and theater performances, films, visual arts, and auctions, November 15-24 all around town, including Weill Recital Hall at Carnegie Hall and the Apollo Theater in NYC, the Brooklyn Museum, and the Queens Theater, with a couple of trips to the Ritz Theater in Elizabeth NJ and Symphony Hall in Newark NJ.

Amazon today launched the Mexico Kindle Store (www.amazon.com.mx), offering Mexican customers the largest selection of the most popular eBooks, the most Spanish-language best sellers, over 1,500 free books in Spanish and a broad selection of titles from leading Mexican authors and publishers. In total, the Kindle Store offers over 2 million titles, hundreds of thousands of which are exclusive, and more than 70,000 in Spanish, including titles from authors such as Carlos Fuentes, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Mario Vargas Llosa, Isabel Allende and Paulo Coelho, among other Mexican and internationally known authors. In addition, Amazon announced that Kindle and Kindle Paperwhite are now on sale locally in Mexico at Gandhi stores. For more details, visit www.amazon.com.mx.

Er ist einer der ganz großen Opernstars. Erwin Schrott gehort zu den faszinierendsten Sangern unserer Zeit und begeistert ein weltweites Publikum ebenso wie Kritiker in großen Rollen zum Beispiel von Mozart, Verdi, Gounod und Berlioz. Die Prasenz seines eindrucksvollen Bassbaritons, seine maskuline Ausstrahlung, der glutvolle Blick, das Temperament Sudamerikas - all dies macht ihn zum Helden der Oper. Mit „Rojotango' kehrt Erwin Schrott zuruck zu seinen Wurzeln, dorthin, wo Tangos und Milongas ihr Zuhause haben. Von den Ufern des Rio de la Plata aus, eroberte der Tango mit seinen Gegensatzen von Weichheit und Schwermut, Melancholie und Erotik die Welt und ist geradezu ideal fur das Repertoire eines Bassbaritons.

Er ist einer der ganz großen Opernstars. Erwin Schrott gehort zu den faszinierendsten Sangern unserer Zeit und begeistert ein weltweites Publikum ebenso wie Kritiker in großen Rollen zum Beispiel von Mozart, Verdi, Gounod und Berlioz. Die Prasenz seines eindrucksvollen Bassbaritons, seine maskuline Ausstrahlung, der glutvolle Blick, das Temperament Sudamerikas - all dies macht ihn zum Helden der Oper. Mit „Rojotango" kehrt Erwin Schrott zuruck zu seinen Wurzeln, dorthin, wo Tangos und Milongas ihr Zuhause haben. Von den Ufern des Rio de la Plata aus, eroberte der Tango mit seinen Gegensatzen von Weichheit und Schwermut, Melancholie und Erotik die Welt und ist geradezu ideal fur das Repertoire eines Bassbaritons.

Second Skin Theatre commences the year with a powerful play that invokes a modern twist on a once forgetten legend. Sappho... in 9 fragments, written by Australian/British playwright Jane Montgomery Griffiths, is a politically-charged and inspirational work about Ancient Greece's first love poet intertwined with a fearlessly romantic modern-day affair.

Second Skin Theatre commences the year with a powerful play that invokes a modern twist on a once forgetten legend. Sappho... in 9 fragments, written by Australian/British playwright Jane Montgomery Griffiths, is a politically-charged and inspirational work about Ancient Greece's first love poet intertwined with a fearlessly romantic modern-day affair.

T. S. Poetry Press, publisher of the Oprah Summer Read The Whipping Club, has released a fiction debut that could help Dana Gioia's dream come true. Gioia has made a strong call to get poetry into the public eye.

National Jewish Theater, Producing Artistic Director Arnold Mittelman, will present a limited Off-Broadway run of The Soap Myth, by Jeff Cohen, from March 23 - April 22 at theBlack Box Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street, between 6th Avenue and Broadway). Directed by Arnold Mittelman, this production will starGreg Mullavey (television's "Marty Hartman") and features Andi Potamkin, Donald Corren, and Dee Pelletier.

National Jewish Theater, Producing Artistic Director Arnold Mittelman, will present a limited Off-Broadway run of The Soap Myth, by Jeff Cohen, from March 23 - April 22 at theBlack Box Theatre at the Harold and Miriam Steinberg Center for Theatre (111 West 46th Street, between 6th Avenue and Broadway). Directed by Arnold Mittelman, this production will starGreg Mullavey (television's "Marty Hartman") and features Andi Potamkin, Donald Corren, and Dee Pelletier.

eSe Teatro: Seattle Latinos Take Stage, Seattle's only Latino theatre collective, will hold their first annual fundraising gala on Valentine's Day February 14, 2012.