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

Oye mujer, if you are going to be watching Sunday’s Super Bowl with your significant other, there’s still time to remember some tips about appropriate etiquette. If you have a main squeeze, it appears you already know about the DO’s. Here are the DON’Ts: 1. Do not invite your mother over to share her story [...]

It appears the national media had a slow news day in late December (at least, The New York Times did) when a story about President-elect Barack Obama and a likely New Year’s resolution to quit smoking made the news. The article by Denise Grady and Lawrence K. Altman, which was published in The Fresno Bee, [...]

Now weve said goodbye to 2008, I want to list the best and worst movies I saw this past year. Im not a true movie critic, but I have gone to enough movies to know where you can get the best popcorn (Edwards 21), the best parking (Sierra Vista), the friendliest staff (Manchester), and the [...]

There she was. Laura Zúñiga Huizar, the former preschool teacher who was crowned Miss Hispanoamerican two months ago in Bolivia. To the beauty queen’s left were four men suspected of being gang members. To her right, three other men arrested by Jalisco (México) state police at a military checkpoint in Zapopan, Jalisco, just outside Guadalajara. [...]

Say what you want to about the Oakland Raiders (The Detroit Lions of the West Coast, Commitment to Excellence … Not!!!, Unteam of the Decade, etc.), but there is no way you can badmouth their performance on a cold and drizzling Sunday in their final home game. The 27-16 win over a fairly good Houston [...]

Oscar De La Hoya is over the hill, no doubt about it. But, before you start to hurl insults at me, Im speaking the truth. So are Mexican soccer star Cuauhtémoc Blanco, screen sirens Salma Hayek, Eva Mendes and Paz Vega, along with entertainers Mario López, Ricky Martin and Fher. Heck, even Shakira and Paulina [...]