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Folk Alley
Saturday at 10pm on WPSU2

Folk Alley brings you the best in singer/songwriter, Celtic, traditional bluegrass, American acoustic, and world music.

  • Maria Hinojosa speaks with Bernardo Ruiz, a Mexican-American filmmaker, about why few movies about the U.S.-Mexico Drug War have been directed by Latino directors.
  • Gaby Rodriguez Corona, 17, decided to teach people a lesson about stereotyping and ostracizing pregnant teens: she faked her own pregnancy and lived the life of a pregnant teen.
  • If there's anything Paola Pasley wanted more in life, it was to be a mother – that was until Hyperemesis Gravidarum.
  • Millions of women across the United States suffer from infertility or the inability to carry a baby to term. We hear from Annette Prieto-Llopis, who struggled with infertility for seventeen years
  • A newcomer to the the 2016 Summer Olympic Games in Rio de Janeiro, Laurie Hernandez quickly became a fan favorite. We sat down with her to discuss her new book and her experiences so far.
  • Fernanda Echávarri and Antonia Cereijido find out if watching all of Pedro Almodovar's films will make them more or less neurotic. They even get advice from the iconic Spanish director himself.
  • iLe, aka Ileana Cabral Joglar, has been the dulcet female voice on acclaimed Puerto Rican hip-hop band Calle 13's records. Now she's out on her own.
  • Two members from Chicano Batman tell Latino USA about what a musician's role should be in the current political climate.
  • Maria Hinojosa speaks with Mark Memmott of NPR and Dan Barry of the New York Times about their respective takes on the word "lies."
  • Recently, published articles wrote on "the Latin-Americanization of U.S. politics" when referring to President Trump. We talk to the author of one of these articles to contextualize this comparison.