Tonight’s art party marks the opening of the new exhibit, The Virgin, Saints, and Angels, which is probably not your regular crowd to hang out with on a Friday evening. ...

This "velvet-voiced" Latin crooner guy Raul Malo is undeniably talented. Conjuring some of the most beloved singers of our centuries, you'll hear a little Buck Owens, Ray Charles, and Frank Sinatra and lots of Roy Orbison in his finely trained pipes. Please email us if you make out with that new someone to any of these songs. We'll buy you a beer next time we see you out, 'cause that's awesome. Raul Malo Latest Release:......

Reformed hard-partying first daughter and UT Austin grad Jenna Bush has just signed to HarperCollins to publish what's being billed as a "young-adult, narrative non-fiction project." Though having spent less than half a year as an intern with UNICEF's Educational Policy department in South America, the former elementary school teacher found inspiration in the children of Central and South America. She now teaches at a shelter in Panama. "These young people have faced extreme hardships......

If you’re a filmmaker, producer or distributor of films made about Latinos or native groups indigenous to North, Central and South America or Caribbean, Cine Las Americas is putting out a call to you for submissions. The festival, now in its tenth year, showcases contemporary films made by or about Latinos and native groups. Cine grants Jury Awards in the categories of First Dramatic Feature, Documentary Feature, Narrative and Documentary Short Film, and Youth......

For VICE Guide to Travel, various correspondents from the magazine were sent off to explore some of the world's more exotic and dangerous destinations. The seven documentary shorts follow them as they hunt for radioactive wolves in Chernobyl, discover the remnants of Elisabeth Nietzsche's failed Aryan paradise in South America, and look for a fabled lake monster deep in the Congo. Some of the footage is hilarious; most of it, downright shocking. And, as......

With our wine loving in-laws in town for the month of July, there were plenty of opportunities to drink bargain wines. After all, when you're sitting on the back porch nightly with a glass or two of red each for four people, those $25 bottles just aren't a fiscally sound option. This led to the pleasant discovery that there are many great bottles at the $10 point on the shelves of Austin's wine sellers.......

The ninth annual Cine Las Americas International Film Festival kicks off next Wednesday, offering a wide assortment of programming from countries in North, Central, and South America and the Caribbean. The full film schedule, listed after the jump, includes music documentaries ("Si Sos Brujo," "Mestre Humberto"), classic Cuban Revolution films ("Soy Cuba," "I Am Cuba: The Siberian Mammoth"), first endeavors by Latin American directors ("El Norte: Entre el Infinito y la Nada," "Cama Adentro"), and......