A suit lands in the United States on the back of an exiled king. Clark Gable wore a long frock coat and loose pants in “Gone With the Wind” that some theorize inspired the look of the zoot suit. “Every boy or girl who buys such a garment and every person who sells it,” the head of the WPB stated, …
Edgar Sargsyan, left, and John Balian pose with Gavin Newsom in Sargsyan’s Beverly Hills office in an undated photo. They were still talking when it closed for the night, Sargsyan testified at the FBI agent’s trial, so they climbed drunkenly into the back seat of Termendzhyan’s limousine-style Mercedes Maybach and were chauffeured to Sargsyan’s apartment, where they continued on about …
A watchtower at Pelican Bay State Prison in Crescent City, the facility where Donald “Little Man” Ortiz first joined the Mexican Mafia. They listened and watched as the men accused Ortiz of “disrespecting” the Mexican Mafia and decided that he should die for the transgression, according to evidence presented at a racketeering trial a few years later. Ortiz had also …
Nicole Fahey sits with her daughter Adelina, 6, as she receives the pediatric Pfizer-BioNTech vaccine from nurse Shirley Alfonso at Eugene A. Obregon Park in Los Angeles. National surveys show that parents are split on vaccinating children ages 5 to 11: Although 27% of parents who were surveyed said they would get them vaccinated right away, 33% said they would …
Lugging gallon jugs of water, migrants walk along footpaths just north of the Mexico-Arizona border in 2007. A recent Breitbart article — “Report: ‘Mostly’ Single Male Border Crossers Bussed to Louisiana Cities” — inspired comments such as “Their job is to vote communist democrat and rape women” and “They are REPLACING YOU, Louisiana.” Now for the irony: The people who …
“A Surge of Power 2020” by British artist Marc Quinn. “The incident at Sleepy Lagoon is born from a series of interrelated events,” says Romo, who, like De la Loza, also creates work that engages the history of Los Angeles. Price, who is currently finishing a commissioned bronze statue of a Black “everywoman” that will be erected in east London, …
