This Week in las Noticias

International soccer comes to Seattle (HeraldNet) – "I think any time you can bring big international games to the city is a bonus and a plus," said Gary Wright, the senior vice president of Seattle Sounders FC, which is serving as host for the event. All of which begs the question: Just why are Mexico and China playing a game in Seattle?

Media, Internet court young Latino swing vote (San Francisco Chronicle) – Take two twentysomething Latinos with a taste for politics, give them a crash course in news reporting, equip them with video cameras and press credentials, "embed" them at the Democratic and Republican conventions this summer and let 'er rip. That's the idea cooked up by the nonprofit Voto Latino and SíTV, the cable and Internet company geared to young English-speaking Latinos.

'Phantom Sightings' at LACMA (Los Angeles Times) – At the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the sprawling exhibition "Phantom Sightings: Art After the Chicano Movement," brings together a diverse and satisfying array of recent painting, sculpture, video, installation and mixed-media work. Sometimes the art is specific to questions of ethnic identity; often it's not.

MTV Tr3s' Neuhaus Joins LATV (Mediaweek) – His appointment at LATV comes as the fledgling network prepares to host its first upfront presentation on May 1 in New York. The event is designed to augment one-on-one agency presentations the network will be mounting throughout May.

MySpace latino enhances offerings (USA Today) – The online hangout MySpace is expanding its offerings for U.S. Hispanics, adding eight bilingual communities focused on Latino bands and celebrities, soccer and other interests. The year-old MySpace Latino has largely been a translation of MySpace's English site into Spanish.