This week L.A. Letters visits the National Steinbeck Center, examines his lengthy career, and also briefly spotlights Steinbeck's influences and the local students carrying on his legacy.
Women who practice Zumba in El Monte have developed and embodied a kind of barrio feminist aesthetic that helps them reclaim their bodies and public space.
In this month's Community Story Lab the participants turned their cameras on themselves, layering and complicating the meaning of the ubiquitous "selfie."