The Rise & Fall Of East LA’s Best Unknown Band, The Mexicats
The Rise & Fall Of East LA’s Best Unknown Band, The Mexicats
Sometimes the stars that burn the brightest, also burn the fastest. Such was not the case with The Mexicats, a band some friends and I started back in the 1990s. […]
The First Time You Witness Murder Is The Hardest
To this day, I cannot repress, suppress or otherwise erase the image of the first man I ever saw die. Even now my mind performs an odd ritual of vivisection. […]
ASCO Exhibit In LA Highlights 1970s Chicano Performance Art
“ASCO: Elite of the Obscure” is a new exhibit slated to start on September 4 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, representing a watershed moment in the history […]
Profile Of Hilda Solis Highlights Her Labor Roots
The Washington Post profiled Labor Secretary Hilda Solis this week. In the interview Solis shared some memories about her childhood near LA which seem to point to the fact that, […]
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 […]
Nopal Fest In Baldwin Park, CA Highlights Health
The second annual La Feria del Nopal was held on Saturday in Baldwin Park, California, a suburb outside of Los Angeles and News Taco was on the scene. The event […]
Bien Hecho: Latina Journalist Runs In Santa Barbara, CA
A Latina journalist has turned into a city council candidate in Santa Barbara, California. She would be the first Latina ever elected to the city council if she wins, she’s […]
How I Learned To Drown Without Swimming
It is summertime now, and one of my friends wanted to go to the lake in order to swim. She was surprised to hear that I do not know how […]
Fun, Family And T-Shirts At The Pulga, Or Swap Meet
Some people call them pulgas. Other people call it a tianguis. My family always called it swap meet. Whatever you choose to call it, it has always been an adventure. […]
Latinos Win Some, Lose Some In CA Redistricting
Depending on what level of redistricting you consider, Latinos in California have either lost out, or won out, according to Rosalind Gold, who is the Senior Director of Policy, Research […]
