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Arts & Culture: SALSA
Salsa 1970What is Salsa? Where and How Did it Start?
by Izzy "Mr. Salsa" Sanabria
Publisher of Latin NY Magazine 1973-85
Compliments of www.salsamagazine.com

These are the very same questions journalists from around the world repeatedly asked me during the 1970s and they are still being asked today. Other questions also being asked are:
“How did Salsa get its name?’
‘What were the events and people that started the Salsa Explosion?”

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Biz Block: Hispanic Magazines Revenue
Hispanic MagazineHispanic Magazines’ Advertising Revenue Tops that of General Market Publications
Miami Herald

Hispanic magazines posted an average 24 percent increase in advertising revenue in 2003, far outpacing ad growth in general market publications, according to Fort Lauderdale’s Media Economics Group.

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Celia Cruz
Celia Cruz

Her voice resounds in the farthest recesses of my childhood memories. A voice that spans a lifetime, She was....is, and will always be: The Queen of Salsa.
"La dicha mia..."   Full Story>

Hispanic Heritage

To those of you that recognize the name of this fine Puerto Rican hero and athlete, it comes as no surprise that on the heels of the 32 nd anniversary of his death, LVM has chosen to honor his memory, by dedicating this issue's Recuerdo Road to him. More>

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Benicio Del Toro: "21 Grams"
Benicio Del Toro
NEW YORK,
Jan 15, 2004

(United Press International via COMTEX)

Actor Benicio Del Toro admits he,too, was initially confused by the fractured storytelling technique of the film "21 Grams."

"The script was very much ... Chopped up like that," Del Toro told UPI's Karen Butler recently.

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Sports: Trinidad May Return To Ring

With few exceptions it is rare for an elite boxer to retire and never return.

Which is why it should come as little surprise that there is a strong indication former three-division champion Felix Trinidad, 30, one of the sport's biggest stars of the 1990s, is planning an imminent ring return.

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LVM Goes Full SIZE

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In Film & Television
Latinos in Film & TelevisionEsai MoralesLieutenant Rodriguez in NYPD Blue has been a familiar face on both the large and small screens for years...
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