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.
The Dude clinched it! And he did it an hour before our boys in Chavez Ravine. Really, Gustavo Dudamel and the L.A. Philharmonic brought the house down Saturday night.
The Dominican Manny Ramirez is walking up to the batter's mound. And what song is blasting? A down-but-not-out, you'll-miss-me-when-I'm-gone classic, stirring up only the strongest of emotions in Mexicans.
Fernando Botero's depiction of images all too familiar to Southern Californians reminds us that his disasters are ours too.
The Stars and Bars is dancing a reluctant merengue with the flags of Simon Bolivar.
At MOCA, L.A.'s poetry old-guard held out the torch to the young bucks and said... psych!
Six year-old Ethan Zamora is mad at his dad. Both are soccer fans. Ethan cheered for Mexico. His father, Juan Zamora, rooted for the U.S. saying it played more cohesively as a team, not as a group of individual, prima donna soccer stars.
The wisest Latina in L.A. County according to my unscientific poll is... your mother.
These artists made music drip, cut its head off, sewed it into quilts and laser cut it into sheets of metal.
Latinas now make up nearly half of L.A. Unified's board of education! I was oblivious to the obvious in the school district press room while covering the new board's swearing in on Wednesday.
The Mexican Ambassador ducked the drug legalization question as if it were a flying shoe.
A Muslim 12th grader at a San Fernando Valley campus schooled me on the complexities of ethnic identity.
Teachers at the Los Angeles Unified School District are resorting to increasingly extreme measures to block the likely layoff of thousands of colleagues.