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...oldest thing you'll find at the Pulitzer is the white-and-gold Baroque reception desk, salvaged from a Sicilian church. The rest is straight out of a Modernist design book, but with added heart. The Picasso-like sketches and giant Miró-esque canvases create a very Spanish backdrop to a ground floor dedicated to the Catalunyan art of chilling. Spend the afternoon sinking into one of the white leather couches, sipping cocktails at the red Chinese-lacquer bar, or flipping through the collection of books, which deputy manager Julian Rubio invites guests to take away. "We want people...
...Harvard reported that Hispanics in Boston are more than three times as likely as whites to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty, and this is reflected in the quality of education in those areas. Nor is recruiting an adequate long-term strategy. With a sizeable pool of bilingual Spanish and English speakers in Boston itself, the problem now is more a lack of organization than talent. Efforts to channel the best and brightest native bilingual college students into teaching programs—much like Teach for America does—should be boosted immediately, especially in less wealthy neighborhoods where...
...Searchlight/Weinstein Co. picture connected with both Hispanic and indie film audiences, earning $2.6 million, the highest opening weekend ever for a Spanish-language film in the U.S. Studios have long known Hispanic crowds will show up for their comedies and animated films. But the success of Under the Same Moon suggests the growing Latino moviegoing audience is under-served when it comes to films that tell their own stories...
...diversity of the Latin market. "We talk about the Latino community as a monolith," says Nancy Utley, chief operating officer of Fox Searchlight. "But it's people from all different countries who've been here for all different lengths of time and some are English dominant and some are Spanish dominant...
...result was that Under the Same Moon surpassed the previous record for a Spanish-language movie, Ladron Que Roba a Ladron, by nearly $1 million, despite opening on fewer screens. This weekend the movie will expand from 266 screens to 400 before going wider still on April...