Is This How Gangs End?
Is This How Gangs End?
*Wonderful piece, as always, by NewsTaco contributor Sam Quiñones, published in Pacific Standard Magazine. I’m a fan of the creative process, and Sam gives us a little behind-the-scenes look at […]
L.A. Immigrants Push City Officials To Name Neighborhoods After Their Home Countries
*Tip O’Neill is credited with coining the phrase “all politics is local.” I’m not sure if Little Venezuela is what he had in mind, but the spirit of the phrase […]
Plant closure sought for polluting Latino district of Los Angeles
By EFE/Global Post Los Angeles, Mar 11 (EFE).- Community leaders requested Tuesday the urgent closure of a battery-recycling plant in Vernon, California, after a report was published showing the existence […]
Barefoot Triqui Indian Basketball Players Tour Los Angeles
By Sam Quiñones, A reporter’s Blog The barefoot Triqui Indian basketball team, from the mountains of Oaxaca, is in Los Angeles for a couple weeks. The team of 10 and […]
Alejandro Escovedo don’t need no six-string basses
By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog Last week, in the middle of a 90-minute set in West L.A., Alejandro Escovedo hunched over his black electric guitar and splayed his feet […]
Gael Garcia Bernal, Diego Luna’s Ambulante film fest plays L.A.
This article was suggested by Becky Landa. By Reed Johnson, The Los Angeles Times Ambulante, the Mexican itinerant not-for-profit documentary film festival, founded by actors Diego Luna and Gael Garcia […]
L.A. high school coach runs extra mile, awarded Most Inspiring Coach of the Year
By Maria Camila Bernal, NBCLatino In the East Los Angeles community where Coach Justin Torres trains his cross country and track high school students, the dropout rate is 70 percent, […]
Cal Worthington, a legend passes. Se habla Español
By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog I grew up listening to, and memorizing the commercials of, “Cal Worthington and his dog Spot.” Cal is now dead. At 92. Worthington, of course, […]
The World’s Best Trombonist … from Oaxaca to Pico-Union
By Sam Quiñones, A Reporter’s Blog The world’s greatest trombonist appeared in a small music studio in the Pico-Union district of Los Angeles this week. Faustino Diaz, from Oaxaca, won […]
Among the tacos and Mariachis, tiny youth orchestra blossoms in Boyle Heights
By Mary Plummer, KPCC Mayte Castro’s bedroom door is decorated with stickers that read,”In a world where you can be anything, be yourself.” Three sets of butterfly wings made out […]
