At this point, it takes a lot to shock me when it comes to using women's naked bodies to sell other products. Yet back in late April, I ripped an ad for Cabana Cachaha Brazilian rum out of the May 5 issue of New York Magazine. The black and white print ad featured a super slim, utterly hairless, totally naked-sans-a-thong-tan -line-and-stilettos woman on lifting her perfect nude ass in the air and arching her back. In small print at the bottom, viewers were promised uncensored photos, footage, and more online. Curious, I headed over, but it wasn't up and running.

This week I went looking in the Latina blogophere for posts on books and film. On The Latina (L)it Girl, Alisa Valdes-Rodriguez comments on TV, culture, and mainstream media images of Latinos in the U.S.. She is excited to see a new family drama, Cane, coming out on CBS; one that doesn't stereotype Latinos as scary gang members; instead, as "Latinos without cheesy accents, educated, easily bilingual, smart."