Eva Longoria criticized by Latino group for ‘exploiting’ community’s culture in new low rider movie
Eva Longoria criticized by Latino group for ‘exploiting’ community’s culture in new low rider movie
*Storytelling is an integral part of the U.S. Latino narrative. It’s important that Latinos own their stories and tell them in their own way, even though we don’t always agree […]
Ring In the Oldies: ‘Happy New Year Baby,’ ‘Sabor A Mi’
By Queso Quesem, Pocho Ñews Service It’s 1965 and big hair and girl groups are all the rage. In East L.A., sisters Rosella, Ersi and Mary Arvizu, who had been singing and […]
Ode to LA: The Sister City of Your Best Nightmares
By Oscar Barajas I live in Los Angeles, which I find to be a weird city. It is a slow moving competitive city where no one is proud of being […]
Counting The Signs That I Am Turning Into My Father
My friend Richard and I have known each other since middle school, and we have been friends since he was MEChA royalty and I was part of the Ecology Club. […]
NewsTaco Roundup: February 20 – 25, 2012
Self-deportation takes on a new meaning this week with my top pick, a story lamenting the sad story of massive deportations of Mexican Americans during the Great Depression. There was […]
East LA Has Its Own Accent, Literally
A great story from The Los Angeles Times this week breaks down the complexity of the Mexican immigrant-powered accent particular to people who grew up near or in the East […]
When I Was Racially Profiled By LAPD Coming Home From School
It was not unusual for me to be enrolled in night school when I attended East Los Angeles College. Classes would go until 10 p.m. and the student body’s groans […]
East LA Community Leader Richard S. Amador Sr. Dies At 75
Richard S. Amador Sr., founder of the CHARO organization, a non-profit organization that aided the Latino community in East Los Angeles passed away on September 19 in the L.A. suburb […]
Of Carne Asada, Crime And Family In East LA
The summer of 1988 was a memorable one in my neighborhood. We still lived in that yellow house on Bodie Street in East LA. The sun still managed to leave evidence […]
How East LA’s Bodie Street Lost Its Name
I grew up in a street filled with kids with little or no inhibitions. There were about six or seven of us, which by today’s standards would be a gang, but […]
