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La Lucha de Antes: Cómo la Lucha Libre Se Convi...
Había un canal que siempre pasaba la lucha. No sé si era el dos o el cuatro o el cinco. Sé que era en blanco y negro primero, y luego...
La Lucha de Antes: Cómo la Lucha Libre Se Convi...
Había un canal que siempre pasaba la lucha. No sé si era el dos o el cuatro o el cinco. Sé que era en blanco y negro primero, y luego...
The Legends of Lucha Libre: El Santo, Blue Demo...
There are athletes, and then there are mythologies. Lucha libre produced both, sometimes simultaneously in the same person. The legends of lucha libre are not famous in the way that...
The Legends of Lucha Libre: El Santo, Blue Demo...
There are athletes, and then there are mythologies. Lucha libre produced both, sometimes simultaneously in the same person. The legends of lucha libre are not famous in the way that...
The Lucha Libre Mask: Why the Most Important Th...
When El Santo died in 1984, he was buried wearing his silver mask. He had worn it for nearly his entire career — from his debut in 1942 until a...
The Lucha Libre Mask: Why the Most Important Th...
When El Santo died in 1984, he was buried wearing his silver mask. He had worn it for nearly his entire career — from his debut in 1942 until a...
Lucha Libre: The Art, the Masks, and What the R...
In Mexico City, the Arena México seats sixteen thousand people and has been doing so, on most Friday nights, since 1956. The building is old enough that the paint on...
Lucha Libre: The Art, the Masks, and What the R...
In Mexico City, the Arena México seats sixteen thousand people and has been doing so, on most Friday nights, since 1956. The building is old enough that the paint on...
La Tele de Antes: Las Telenovelas Que Nos Criaron
Había una hora. En mi casa era las ocho de la noche. En otras casas era las siete, o las nueve, dependiendo del canal y del país y de los...
La Tele de Antes: Las Telenovelas Que Nos Criaron
Había una hora. En mi casa era las ocho de la noche. En otras casas era las siete, o las nueve, dependiendo del canal y del país y de los...
Betty La Fea: The Colombian Telenovela That Bec...
In 1999, a Colombian television network aired the first episode of a telenovela about an ugly woman. Not metaphorically ugly. Not "ugly" as in conventionally attractive with unflattering glasses. The...
Betty La Fea: The Colombian Telenovela That Bec...
In 1999, a Colombian television network aired the first episode of a telenovela about an ugly woman. Not metaphorically ugly. Not "ugly" as in conventionally attractive with unflattering glasses. The...