Adolfo Guzman-Lopez
Adolfo's been a reporter at NPR affiliate KPCC since 2000. He's reported on three L.A. mayors, four L.A. Unified superintendents, and covered the LAPD batons and rubber bullets flying at the May, 2007 MacArthur Park immigrant march. In 1994 he co-founded the poetry-performance group The Taco Shop Poets. He continues to wander the sidewalks, streets and freeways of Southern California searching for the right words for the sounds he hears.
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Inside a hilltop house in City Terrace a few months ago seven musicians recorded a son jarocho version of The Clash's "Straight to Hell."
In the opening scene of the book "Down & Delirious" Daniel Hernandez is swept up by the masses of people in a Virgen de Guadalupe pilgrimage in Mexico City. Very Canterbury Tales.
The late nun who founded Self Help Graphics would get a kick out of the 41 year old organization's new home in Boyle Heights. It's next door to Purgatory Pizza.
"It was definitely a role more about ass-kicking than anything else. They had a few lines in Spanish and they gave me an Asian tattoo. Which kind of makes it interesting because it makes you wonder what made that person pick that side."
Maria Rivera channeled Emile Zola, Allen Ginsberg, La Llorona, and Coyolxauhqui, the dismembered Aztec moon goddess as she read her poem denouncing Mexico's drug cartel violence.
Frances Calderon has been in the ring of college education for 12 years, struggling it out, getting knocked down and getting back up again and asking for more.
Reyes didn't expect to be in the trenches against El Salvador's left-leaning government - elected two years ago after a succession of conservative regimes that fed the country's bloody civil war - but that's where he finds himself now.
At around this month sixty years ago, the horror movie actor Vincent Price took a drive to the eastside - maybe cruising down Whittier Blvd with the radio blaring - to give a graduation speech at East L.A. College.
About a dozen performers took the stage at various points and explored references to drugs in music, books, and video.
I've been fascinated for years by the natural bursting of water to the surface of the earth.
At the LeaLA Spanish language book fair the past, present and future bit at your heels in Spanish.
JOTEAR (from the Spanish joto, fag, often derogatory as queer used to be derogatory.), verb that's being reclaimed by Latino activists to center Queerness, i.e. to nudge the dominant paradigm of white maleness, and shove Queer experiences into the main...