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Teatro Visión, a San José-based Chicano theater company, announced it will celebrate its 20th anniversary this 2004-2005 season with two audience favorites — the heartwarming comedy, Real Women Have Curves, and the hard-hitting contemporary drama, Santos & Santos.

Three Cuban-American Miami natives—all students at NYU’s Tisch School of Dramatic Arts–will make their New York off-Broadway stage debuted on August 13th, at 9:30 p.m., at the Eighth Annual New York International Fringe Festival in A Place Without Seasons, a full-length drama written by Marco Ramirez.

List of executives that have been nominated to date as potential candidates for the HispanicAd.com ‘Ad Executive of the Year 2004’ and the ‘Creative Director of the Year 2004’ awards.

An international campaign on education for rural people aims to improve agricultural productivity and reduce hunger, malnutrition and poverty in Latin American, FAO announced.

In a recent survey of 2,640* young Latinos age 18 to 34, conducted by Terra.com, 90.8 percent believe that the Hispanic vote is critical in this election year. On the heels of the much anticipated Democratic Convention, both presidential candidates have done their share of campaigning to this influential segment by making appearances to key Hispanic civil rights groups and spending large amounts of money on Spanish-language advertising.

Hispanic voters are more concerned this year about issues that affect all Americans — such as education, the economy, health care and the war against terrorism — than about immigration, according to a new comprehensive survey of Latino
registered voters. As has long been the case, these voters are much more concerned about education than the general public, and they are most likely to say education will be extremely important in their vote for president this year, according to the survey released today by the Pew Hispanic Center and the Kaiser Family Foundation.