Los Dios de la Cine
It may come as a surprise to Mission-hoppers but it’s muy dificil to sustain a Spanish-language film festival in this town. Three groups (by our count) have accepted the challenge over the past 20 years, each hamstrung by a community that lacks the financial big-hitters of its compadres in, say, L.A. or Miami. So kudos to Cine+Mas, the current standard-bearer of the San Francisco Latino Film Festival, for assembling an intriguingly wide-ranging program — geographically and thematically — on a shoestring budget. Today’s offerings at Opera Plaza Cinema begin on a high note with Being: Café Tacvba (1 p.m.), a slice of life on tour with Mexico’s most revered and durable rock ’n’ roll band. The beat goes on with F*** My Life (3 p.m.), a Chilean romantic comedy about a yuppie ... Go to event
Francisca Valenzuela will bring her talent to the Joe’s Pub Summer Salon series on September 20. The Chilean singer-songwriter is known for her powerful vocals, strong piano skills, and diverse lyrics. Let her win you over too, check her out that the Cooper Hotel Penthouse.
WHEN: Tuesday, September 20th at 7:00pm
WHERE: Cooper Square Hotel Penthouse
25 Cooper Square, Manhattan, NY
COST: $15
Now in its 22nd year, the AFI Latin American Film Festival showcases the best filmmaking from Latin America and, with the inclusion of films from Spain and Portugal, celebrates Ibero-American cultural connections.
Highlights of the festival include the Opening Night selection, The Mexican Suitcase, Chevolution director Trisha Ziff’s latest documentary about a treasure trove of photographs from the Spanish Civil War recently discovered in Mexico City; Medianeras, Gustavo Taretto’s quirky crowd-pleaser about two lonely people finding each other in Buenos Aires; Chilean auteur Raul Ruiz’s lush, labyrinthine epicMysteries of Lisbon, presented in a weeklong run within the festival;Bonsai, the latest film from Chilean director Cristian Jimenez (Optical Illusions), which recentl ... 
Voces Amarillas began last year in Chile, organizing a concert in Santiago to raise money and awareness for their cause: to get 4% of the Dominican Republic’s national budget redirected towards education, in order to provide “una Educacion Digna” to not only the youth of the country, but to increase/improve adult education programs as well in order to attempt rectify the damage done by the system in place.
Now Voces Amarillas por una Educacion Digna is throwing a concert at Lehman College’s Lovinger Theater in the Bronx, where 16 local artist of Dominican and otherwise-Latino descent will appear along with New York’s top Dominican television and radio personalities, like Dulces Pesadillas, Gabbano, Luis Miguel de la Bachata, La Vaina, Mar Sala, La Fiera, Hache St, Brook Ave, Nery Olivares, ... 
The ninth edition of the MoMA’s International Film Preservation Festival, To Save and Project, will feature rediscoveries and all-time classics of world cinema. Over 35 films will be screened during the festival – virtually all New York premieres – representing 14 countries. On the program, films by French directors Louis Malle, Georges Méliès, Jean Rouch, André Sauvage, Marcel Carné and French-Chilean filmmaker Raúl Ruiz.
One of the many highlights of this year’s festival is a stunning, hand-colored version of Georges Méliès 1902 Trip to the Moon that will be presented by the restoration artist, Serge Bromberg, on November 11.
To Save the Project runs from October 14th through November 19th, 2011.
When: October 14 – November 19, 2011.
Where: The Roy and Niuta T ... 
We are thrilled to announce that this year’s Wines of Chile (WoC) USA Grand Tasting will again take place in New York City,the global epicenter of food and wine and the premier market for Chilean and Imported wines. The Tasting, to be held onTuesday, June 12th, will afford you the opportunity to showcase your wines to the Tri-State region of New York, New Jersey and Connecticut!
The Grand Tasting will be held at the contemporary and renowned Metropolitan Pavilion, located in Manhattan’s Chelsea neighborhood. Chelsea, the cultural heart of NYC, is known city-wide for its energetic nightlife and countless restaurants, an ideal location for our event. Being centrally located in Manhattan and easily accessible by public transportation, we are expecting this to be our largest and most successfu ... 
SOULIVE & KARL DENSON
SPARK
Soulive has never made any bones about what they do best; it’s right there in their name. Since forming in 1999, the trio of guitarist Eric Krasno, drummer Alan Evans and keyboardist Neal Evans has carried the torch for the soul-jazz organ trio—that venerable, funky institution pioneered by the likes of Jimmy Smith, Brother Jack McDuff and Groove Holmes in the late ’60s. Rest assured, when the Evans brothers first brought Kraz by their Woodstock studio, there was plenty of old vinyl spread out on the floor.
In their 13 years together, Soulive has followed the muse in the direction of hip-hop, R&B, blues and rock, collaborating with the likes of Chaka Khan, Dave Matthews, Talib Kweli, John Scofield, Derek Trucks, Maceo Parker, Susan Tedeschi, Robert Rando ... 
