Strange Tale of Road Trips That Never go Anywhere

By Oscar Barajas, NewsTaco Back in the good old, waning days leading to graduation, everyone wanted to be friends. People who had otherwise ignored you or taken you for granted […]

By Oscar Barajas, NewsTaco I have always been a fan of Halloween. It is one of the few holidays that I have taken seriously, outside of Arbor Day. I was […]

By Oscar Barajas, NewsTaco I never figured that my father was quite the revolutionary or an agent for social change. He just did what he did, and would later state […]

By Oscar Barajas, NewsTaco Death was never a stranger in our household. He hung a hat and placed his keys just far away to make an entrance and leave a […]

By Oscar Barajas, NewsTaco I was a teenage mess. I was constructed of acne, bad hair, and flannel shirts. There was so much rage, and that rage needed an outlet. […]

By Oscar Barajas It was the awful year of 1989, and I was getting ready to transition to junior high school. It all weighed heavily on my mind, because the […]

By Reyna Jacqueline Peña Do you have plans this weekend?  Well, whatever you do, plan on setting some time aside to honor the memory and legacy of labor leader and […]

California Governor Jerry Brown swore in Juan Felipe Herrera as the state’s new Poet Laureate last week.  Herrera currently serves as Chair in the Department of Creative Writing at the […]

By Carlos San Miguel “American Night: The Ballad of Juan José” is a fantastic play that premiered at the 2010 Oregon Shakespeare Festival. Written by Richard Montoya and developed by Culture […]

Yesterday President Obama awarded the 2011 National Medal of Arts and National Humanities Medal to a group of selected intellectuals, including UCLA professor Teofilo F. Ruiz, and Stanford professor Ramón Saldívar. The National […]