As she sought the truth for her characters on the page, Mara Vélez Meléndez’s real self began to emerge. Now she’s making her Off Broadway debut. Source: New York Times
Posts published in “Puerto Rico”
Tito Matos, Virtuoso of a Puerto Rican Sound, Dies at 53
By Gotham Rex on January 29, 2022
A lifelong champion of the plena genre, he helped rejuvenate it for a new generation both in Puerto Rico and in New York. Source: New York Times
Chocobar Cortés, a Beloved Restaurant From San Juan, Heads for the Bronx
By Gotham Rex on December 13, 2021
Cortés, a family-owned chocolate maker in Puerto Rico, is opening a location in Mott Haven, banking on local nostalgia for the brand. Source: New York Times
Under Caribbean Skies, New York Power Brokers Shape a Crucial Race
By Gotham Rex on November 13, 2021
The contest for City Council speaker was in high gear at a political gathering in Puerto Rico, where candidates politicked among the palm trees. Source: New York Times
Adál Maldonado, Provocative ‘Nuyorican’ Photographer, Dies at 72
By Gotham Rex on January 2, 2021
Adál, who moved from Puerto Rico to New York as a teenager, created art that was often bitingly satirical and politically subversive. Source: New York Times
Miguel Algarín, Force Behind Nuyorican Cafe, Dies at 79
By Gotham Rex on December 4, 2020
His Lower East Side performance space has been an incubator for poets, playwrights and other artists, many of them not initially embraced by the mainstream. Source: New York Times
Soraya Santiago Solla, Transgender Trailblazer, Dies at 72
By Gotham Rex on October 3, 2020
She was the first in Puerto Rico to change a gender designation on a birth certificate and the first there to reveal that she’d had sex-reassignment surgery. Source: New York Times
Soraya Santiago Solla, Transgender Trailblazer, Dies at 73
By Gotham Rex on October 2, 2020
She was the first in Puerto Rico to change a gender designation on a birth certificate and the first there to reveal that she’d had sex-reassignment surgery. Source: New York Times