Vida En El Valle Blogs: The Latin voice of the central valley.

I love a good commercial. 
Today I saw the Geico commercial featuring Andres Cantor! Cantor is commentating on a chess game.
“Can futbol announcer Andres Cantor make any sport exciting?”
“Un partido intenso hoy!”
“Que tension! Viene! Viene! Viene!”
“Goooooooooooooooooooool!”
Check it out on YouTube. Here’s the link: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2fXsfAeqimY
It’s garnered 215,918 hits.
The Honest Abe is hilarious too! It has 86,933 hits.
The Drill Sergeant (242,212 hits), played by [...]

YO. Sorry I haven’t posted anything for a while, but I’m back in it.  
I just heard yesterday the popular annual event running with the bulls in Spain is getting gored.
This worldwide recession is hitting close to home now in several small Spanish communities. Pamplona is hosting the event this week, but amid controversy over whether to shut down [...]

When I was told I would be blogging as part of my duties as the newest reporter for Vida en el Valle, a million topic ideas twirled around my mind. What topics would I discuss in these blogs and how would they engage readers? I guess I’ll start with this…
Recently, I attended a funeral reception [...]

For this week’s edition of Vida en el Valle, I wrote a story about the García family of Pixley. (The story was produced with the support of The California Endowment Health Journalism Fellowships, a program of USC’s Annenberg School for Communications & Journalism.)
When I first embarked on the story, I planned on writing about obesity [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I had the opportunity to interview author Tim Z. Hernández about his new pseudo-autobiographical novel, “Breathing, In Dust.”
The book chronicles the experiences of a boy growing up in the fictional Central Valley town of Catela. It details the poverty, drugs and violence that impact the daily lives of residents of [...]

Last Friday afternoon, I attended the first Fair Harvest Meal at Fresno State. The event is part of a United Farm Workers campaign that is aimed at engaging college students and other young people in the farmworker advocacy movement.
During the event, as students munched on Subway sandwiches, UFW national vice president Merlyn Calderón said something [...]