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Article: From Puerto Rican Pop Illustration to Macho Identity in Mexican Cinema, FOCO Is a Distinctly Offbeat Way to Celebrate Hispanic Heritage Month.
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- August 21, 2003
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CHICAGO, Aug. 21 /PRNewswire/ -- From the salsa beat at dance clubs to award-winning international cinema, the art and culture of the Latino experience is hot, getting hotter, especially during Hispanic Heritage Month.
Schools, museums and community organizations will celebrate with festivals, parades and a variety of educational experiences. No experience is "hotter" than what's planned at Columbia College Chicago, where Hispanic Heritage Month is being marked with FOCO (Spanish slang for "creativity," literally "light bulb"), a month-long multi arts festival (Oct. 1-Nov. 7) that showcases Latino and Latin American contemporary pop culture through visual ...