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1 week, 2 days ago

L.A. meets Tokyo in a night for freaks and aliens

LA Times

In late October, a beloved L.A. duo, Valerie Akiko Campbell and Justin Romero of Freak City, met with another beloved duo in Tokyo, Nene and Ryugo Ishida of the Yurufuwa Gang. “People in Los Angeles really embraced us and gave us confidence.” For the shoot, Freak City made two custom looks for Nene and Ishida that merge the worlds of …

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4 weeks ago

For the guest rappers on ‘GNX,’ recording with Kendrick Lamar means ‘You’ve got to be a student.’

LA Times

A few months ago, the Compton rapper Siete7x was up in the Bay Area shooting a music video. “But me and my manager, we got in the car and drove six hours right back to L.A.” That night drive turned into a session that got Siete lines on “dodger blue,” a soulful hometown-pride anthem and a local favorite on Lamar’s …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Battles between Latino and Asian political candidates could reshape L.A.’s Eastside

LA Times

The text message that showed up on the phones of Eastside voters last month began with a warning: Forty years of Latino political representation is under threat. Los Angeles City Councilmember Kevin de León, center, sent a text message warning that Latino representation in his district is “threatened.” His opponent, Ysabel Jurado, called it racially divisive. At the same time, …

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1 month, 3 weeks ago

Willy Chavarria is Menswear Designer of the Year again. He has a message for America

LA Times

Willy Chavarria earned the top fashion prize for Menswear Designer of the Year at the 2024 Council of Fashion Designers of America Fashion Awards held Monday in New York. During his acceptance speech, Chavarria also addressed the upcoming presidential election, acknowledging it as “discomfort” for many fashion aficionados in the room who feel concerned about their existence as people — …

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2 months, 3 weeks ago

Bob Navarro, a pioneer for Latinos in broadcast journalism, dies at 92

LA Times

At a time when few Latinos worked in broadcast news, Bob Navarro became a news writer in Los Angeles at KNXT-TV Channel 2 on “The Big News.” The year was 1967 and, as Navarro recalled decades later, “When I first came to ‘The Big News,’ there was a woman reporter, a woman writer, no woman on the desk, no woman …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Welcome to the farm where cows, pigs and sheep are part of the climate curriculum

LA Times

You might miss it when you’re driving by, but there’s a 1.75-acre farm wedged between the football field and active Metro and freight train tracks at the back of the Sotomayor Arts & Sciences Magnet High School campus in Glassell Park. “Agriculture can reset natural ecosystems and become part of the solution to climate change,” said Reies Flores, the agriculture …

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3 months, 1 week ago

Where Mario Lopez goes for the best Mexican food in Los Angeles

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Where Mario Lopez goes for the best Mexican food in Los Angeles Getty Images The actor and born-and-bred Chicano loves hole-in-the wall Mexican food. Best birria tacos: Birrieria Gonzalez "I don't really go to a lot of high-end Mexican restaurants," says Lopez. Best Mexican style seafood crudo: Mariscos el Faro Lopez also loves Mariscos el Faro, a mariscos truck in …

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4 months, 3 weeks ago

Estevan Oriol and Teen Angel see eye to eye in exhibition ‘Dedicated to You’

LA Times

Street photographer and artist Estevan Oriol, best known for his image of the “L.A. “My dad told me to start shooting all the stuff that you’re around,” Oriol said. He and Estevan always saw the same kind of beauty.” A bookshelf, complete with every issue of Teen Angel, is positioned next to a wall featuring the magazine’s original cover art …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

Cheech Marin: Chicano art impresario (yes, that Cheech Marin)

LA Times

In 2017, the Riverside Art Museum presented a touring exhibition of works on paper from the private collection of actor and comedian Cheech Marin. In 2022, the Riverside Art Museum opened the doors to the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, which is focused on presenting art from Marin’s collection: namely, the Chicano artists he has championed and …

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5 months, 3 weeks ago

A memoir about Chicano studies, intertwined with a history of Compton

LA Times

Book Review Compton in My Soul: A Life in Pursuit of Racial Equality By Albert M. Camarillo Stanford: 312 pages, $28 If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn a commission from Bookshop.org, whose fees support independent bookstores. Camarillo relays the history of Compton in the decades following World War II, when it became increasingly Black …

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6 months, 3 weeks ago

Column: The Democratic civil war behind an Anaheim recall election

LA Times

Natalie Rubalcava poses for a portrait in front of a historic Chicano mural across the street from Little People’s Park in Anaheim. She showed me a video on her cellphone of protesters who crashed a meet-and-greet to chant that she was corrupt while holding a banner that read “Natalie Rubal-cabal.” Dressed in jeans, fashionable sandals and a white T-shirt emblazoned …

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8 months, 2 weeks ago

Girl Ultra, Eddie Zuko and more Latin artists tell us how they are prepping for Coachella

LA Times

Perhaps no other major musical fest has led the way in booking Latin acts quite like the Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival. Cimafunk As the first Cuban-born artist to ever play at Coachella, Erik Alejandro Iglesias Rodríguez, better known as Cimafunk, says he is ready for the Latin “invasion” of the festival. The Red Pears Five years after their …

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8 months, 3 weeks ago

How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Cheech Marin

LA Times

You’d be hard-pressed to find someone with local roots deeper than L.A.-born Cheech Marin, who parlayed a 1970s stoner comedy act into a six-decade movie and TV career, becoming a high-profile collector of Chicano art along the way — all while living in the Greater L.A. area. Interesting!” I also get two newspapers — the New York Times and the …

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9 months ago

Sinseers craft a love letter to L.A. Chicano soul on debut album ‘Sinseerly Yours’

LA Times

Thee Sinseers have been on an upward trajectory in the L.A. music scene, bringing their take on Chicano soul from the Boulevard to Memphis, Tenn. “It’s cool to share a little bit of our culture with a bunch of people that are watching from all over the world.” Thee Sinseers have been on an upward trajectory ever since, bringing their …

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10 months, 1 week ago

Art about AIDS has often depicted grief. L.A. painter Joey Terrill made it about life

LA Times

Joey Terrill was feeling grateful to be alive, but also conflicted about it. “Still-Life with Crixivan” is one of almost two dozen works by the artist — most of them still lifes — on view at Marc Selwyn Fine Art in Beverly Hills through early March. Terrill was born in Los Angeles in 1955 — “the year Disneyland opened and …

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10 months, 2 weeks ago

UCLA doubles down on ethnic studies expansion amid fraught national politics

LA Times

Karen Umemoto, director of the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA, stands next to the multicultural mural between the Asian American and American Indian studies centers depicting the program’s legacies. “The Chus’ investment will allow us to deepen the impact of this essential work.” Shannon Speed, the director of UCLA’s American Indian Studies Center, called the Chu gift a “game …

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11 months, 3 weeks ago

Opinion: Are Latino voters really defecting in droves to Republicans? Not according to our data

LA Times

A supporter of Trump’s first presidential campaign holds up a sign before a rally at the Anaheim Convention Center. While some Latinos moved toward Trump in South Florida and South Texas, the reports of Democrats hemorrhaging Latino voters have been greatly exaggerated. The actual result was the opposite: Nearly two-thirds of the state’s Latino voters supported Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto’s …

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1 year ago

‘Romeo and Juliet: Rolling Through East L.A.’ gives former gang members a second chance

LA Times

Lowriders, cholo wear, L.A. gang life and classic Chicano humor take center stage in “Romeo and Juliet: Rolling Through East L.A.,” a new stage production that remixes Shakespeare for the Latinx community. Benvolio pulls Romeo away from Tybalt’s dead body on the opening night of “Romeo and Juliet: Rolling through East L.A.” on Friday, Dec. 8, 2023. I always kept …

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1 year ago

Bésame Mucho 2023 recap: Maná and Los Bukis bring the vibes

LA Times

Welcome to live coverage of the 2023 Bésame Mucho festival. — Andrea Flores 1:20 p.m. “Y arriba Los Angeles!” Roberto Verduzco Ramirez, the lead singer from Industria Del Amor says to the crowd at the Beso Stage. The moment the crowd has been waiting for finally arrived during Natalia Lafourcade’s set as she performs her cumbia mix of “Nunca es …

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1 year, 1 month ago

Why Latino representation in film remains stagnant

LA Times

It’s a little funny that “representation” itself is suffering from an optics problem. But new research is showing just how dire the state of Latino representation in Hollywood really is, and it’s making at least one cynical Chicano reconsider the subject. In the U.S., Hollywood is the greatest proliferator of American myths, drawing on the sentiments and anxieties of our …

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1 year, 4 months ago

British post-punk's place in U.S. Latinidad

LA Times

In the year since its publication, “A Kiss Across the Ocean: Transatlantic Intimacies of British Post-Punk and US Latinidad” has connected me with fellow admirers of Siouxsie and the Banshees, Bauhaus, Soft Cell, Frankie Goes to Hollywood and Pet Shop Boys. My parents and their siblings who grew up in Orange County in the 1950s and 1960s, where the history …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Roberto Rodriguez, prolific writer on Chicano life, dies at 69

LA Times

Roberto Rodriguez, in an undated photo. “Robert always kept his heart and soul with la gente,” said Felix Gutierrez, a retired USC journalism professor who first met Rodriguez when the latter was the editor-in-chief of UCLA’s Chicano newspaper in the 1970s. “He would write in an accessible language,” said poet Matt Sedillo, who helped Rodriguez with an online database of …

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1 year, 4 months ago

Commentary: Taco María, a restaurant that felt like home

LA Times

I came to Taco María in Costa Mesa at a formative time in life, almost accidentally. One carnitas and one fish taco, served on handmade blue corn tortillas at Taco María. Taco María served the best fish taco I have ever had in my life, and it remains the standard by which all subsequent fish tacos have been measured: beer-battered …

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1 year, 5 months ago

Appreciation: Farewell for now, Taco María. We didn’t deserve you

LA Times

Carlos Salgado opened Taco María in Costa Mesa in 2013, propelling an exploration of what Mexican food and a Mexican chef could be. Taco María’s Twitter account stated the truck was named after the matriarchs in Salgado’s family and would focus on “Chicano cuisine.” As food editor for OC Weekly at the time, I found Salgado’s proclamation preposterous. My wife …

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L.A. meets Tokyo in a night for freaks and aliens

For the guest rappers on ‘GNX,’ recording with Kendrick Lamar means ‘You’ve got to be a student.’

Battles between Latino and Asian political candidates could reshape L.A.’s Eastside

Willy Chavarria is Menswear Designer of the Year again. He has a message for America

Bob Navarro, a pioneer for Latinos in broadcast journalism, dies at 92

Welcome to the farm where cows, pigs and sheep are part of the climate curriculum

Where Mario Lopez goes for the best Mexican food in Los Angeles

Estevan Oriol and Teen Angel see eye to eye in exhibition ‘Dedicated to You’

Cheech Marin: Chicano art impresario (yes, that Cheech Marin)

A memoir about Chicano studies, intertwined with a history of Compton

Column: The Democratic civil war behind an Anaheim recall election

Girl Ultra, Eddie Zuko and more Latin artists tell us how they are prepping for Coachella

How to have the best Sunday in L.A., according to Cheech Marin

Sinseers craft a love letter to L.A. Chicano soul on debut album ‘Sinseerly Yours’

Art about AIDS has often depicted grief. L.A. painter Joey Terrill made it about life

UCLA doubles down on ethnic studies expansion amid fraught national politics

Opinion: Are Latino voters really defecting in droves to Republicans? Not according to our data

‘Romeo and Juliet: Rolling Through East L.A.’ gives former gang members a second chance

Bésame Mucho 2023 recap: Maná and Los Bukis bring the vibes

Why Latino representation in film remains stagnant

British post-punk's place in U.S. Latinidad

Roberto Rodriguez, prolific writer on Chicano life, dies at 69

Commentary: Taco María, a restaurant that felt like home

Appreciation: Farewell for now, Taco María. We didn’t deserve you