All posts tagged: Rodeo

A Rodeo That Reminds Me of Home

A Rodeo That Reminds Me of Home

Published by Sam Flores

This is an edition of The Atlantic Daily, a newsletter that guides you through the biggest stories of the day, helps you discover new ideas, and recommends the best in culture. Sign up for it here. Welcome back to The Daily’s Sunday culture edition, in which one Atlantic writer reveals what’s keeping them entertained. Today’s special guest is Yvonne Wingett Sanchez, a staff writer who’s covered the fight over who runs elections in Maricopa County, the arc of the Voting Rights Act, and why election deniers are winning. Yvonne has a nostalgic fondness for state fairs and rodeos, and she’s excited for an upcoming one in her home state. She also recommends watching anything with Billy Bob Thornton in it, reading Chris Whitaker for a good mystery, and putting down the hair crimper in the year 2026. — Stephanie Bai, senior associate editor The upcoming event I’m most looking forward to: The Hondo Rodeo Fest in Phoenix, where I’ll watch the Turnpike Troubadours sing and the cowboys compete in everything from bull riding to barrel …

Mexican Rodeo Film ‘Jaripeo’ Shows Queer Subconscious, Hidden Desire

Mexican Rodeo Film ‘Jaripeo’ Shows Queer Subconscious, Hidden Desire

Published by Daniella Wilson

Cowboy hats, jeans, a lot of alcohol and bull riding combine into a special mix of hypermasculine rituals at Mexican rodeo shows. But underneath also lies hidden queer desire, as we find out in Jaripeo, a film that world premiered at Sundance and now screens at the 23rd edition of the Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, CPH:DOX. Co-directors Efraín Mojica and Rebecca Zweig mix cinema vérité, Super 8 footage, and stylized scenes into a cocktail where machismo and queerness come together. “We meet macho cowboys who have come out of the closet and a flamboyant diva who effortlessly takes the bull by the horns,” notes the CPH:DOX website, calling Jaripeo “a sensual exploration of performative masculinity, secret desires, and the longings that breathe beneath the surface of a rodeo show.” Cinematography for the film was handled by Josué Eber Morales and Gerardo Guerra, editing by Analía Goethals, and the sound by Maria Rojas. Music is courtesy of Emilia Ezeta and Marton Radics. The co-directors and producer Sarah Strunin spoke to an appreciative Copenhagen audience after a screening early this week. …

A Rodeo Romance, A Magic Circus, and More New YA Book Releases for February 4, 2026

A Rodeo Romance, A Magic Circus, and More New YA Book Releases for February 4, 2026

Published by José Betancourt

This content contains affiliate links. When you buy through these links, we may earn an affiliate commission. Four big things are true of February. First, it’s Black History Month, and while highlighting Black literature and Black YA books is a year-long practice, this month, it’s especially important to pick up books by Black YA authors. Where and how you can, prioritize them in your reading life, and then before the month comes to a close, ensure that you’ve not only added a few forthcoming Black YA titles to your to-read list but that you’ve also requested that your public library purchase some of those titles for their collection (that’s one easy task to help protect the right to read and champion inclusive literature all year long). Second–and sadly, past us already–is the annual prognostication by a giant rodent. Groundhog Day is my personal favorite holiday of the year for the whimsy and absurdity, but also because it marks the half-way point of winter. Whether or not you believe in Phil or Willie’s prophecies, this week …

Sundance 2026: Inside the queer Mexican rodeo film ‘Jaripeo’

Sundance 2026: Inside the queer Mexican rodeo film ‘Jaripeo’

Published by Sam Flores

Before starting a cosmopolitan life as an artist in Mexico City, queer filmmaker Efraín Mojica came of age between Riverside and the rural town of Penjamillo, Michoacán: home to an annual jaripeo, or a Mexican rodeo competition that takes place every Christmas. Every year, cowboys convene to test-drive their masculinity, namely by swigging handles of tequila and precariously mounting the backs of bucking bulls. These heroic shows of manhood long fascinated Mojica, who frequented jaripeos with family — and quietly forged a community with other locals who diverged from Mexican gender norms. That community would become the cast of “Jaripeo,” the debut documentary feature film by Mojica and co-director Rebecca Zweig, which premiered at this year’s Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Shot in the style of cinéma vérité, Mojica appears as both a narrator and protagonist. Zweig, who first encountered Mojica in Seattle’s punk scene, follows them behind the lens as they interview members of the LGBTQ community in and around Penjamillo. “[Mojica] invited me to Michoacán in 2018 to spend Christmas with …

The Democrats’ Last Rodeo? | ZeroHedge

The Democrats’ Last Rodeo? | ZeroHedge

Published by Jenni Sidey

Authored by James Howard Kunstler, “. . .the Minnesota protests look less like a local eruption and more like the latest deployment of an international revolutionary machine.” – Insurrection Barbie on “X” Chrump, Chrump Chrump… He’s come to occupy the Left’s minds like an infestation of weevils chawing away the ligaments of civilized society. But, of course, the whole wicked, Cluster-B, anomie-driven, insurrectionist extravaganza is a made-for-video production bought and paid for by a tiny coterie of super-wealthy megalomaniacs untouched by consequence — George and Alex Soros (The Open Society Foundations), Shanghai-based American Neville Roy Singham (Codepink and more), Reid Hoffman (funder of Trump prosecutions and more), Lauren Powell Jobs (The Atlantic and the Emerson Collective), Hansjorg Wyss (Berger Action Fund), Bill Gates (of course). . . . Their main client in all this mischief is the Democratic Party, and the Democratic Party’s chief motivation, its raison d’être going on at least ten years now, has been to hide its multifarious crimes, its vast racketeering operations now garishly on display in the state of Minnesota, where …