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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A Chicana has been born, graduated from high school, and is halfway done with college since "Real Women Have Curves" was written 20 years ago.
Los Lobos, Lysa Flores, and Alice Bag... great East L.A. Chicano rockers or great American rockers?
I came to Los Angeles
looking for the eagle perched on the cactus
Here's an idea: to balance the massive budget deficit Latino legislators could tap into the Aztec notion of a cyclical universe in which destruction is followed by re-birth.
The flyer promised a tribute at an old Bellflower nightclub to the spirit of recently deceased Mexican rockera Rita Guerrero.
"The Tao of Funkahuatl is the merging of spirit, funk, sex and soul on the path to the beloved while living your life as a work of art."
Luis Sanchez is a supporter of charter schools and other non-traditional school models to improve learning in L.A. Unified. He agrees with incoming Superintendent John Deasy that teachers who don't cut it should be out of the educational system.
My yearly ski trip to Mammoth last week prompted me to wonder about the Chicano analysis of skiing and the Owens Valley.
I don't like using the lawnmower. The fumes remind me of the military trucks that came through town every Sunday.
It took the death of a poet for me to sit up and wonder what the hell is going on in Ciudad Juarez.
The spirit of a Salvadoran mensch lives on at a small charter school near the Vermont Avenue off ramp of the Santa Monica Freeway.
Memories of grape vines and fruit trees in the San Joaquin Valley brought 36 year-old Jaime Garcia to Proyecto Jardin in Boyle Heights.