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.
A little guitar from Veracruz could save the Chicano movement.
There's a student movement brewing in the schools hardest hit by budget cuts.
There's no joy in Lakertown. But there's plenty of bliss in Barça-land. Yes, there are some L.A. Kobe Bryant fans who are just as down for Lionel Messi.
At the blackboard: I will not write about Cinco de Mayo. I will not to write about Drinko de Mayo. I will not write about Stinko de Mayo.
The Chicano rock tribes gathered at East L.A. College's gym last week.
A dead Mexican modernist helped me appreciate Esa Pekka Salonen.
As a Mexican food town Los Angeles has taken me on the highest highs and the lowest lows. You know, like a personal relationship with its share of cuddles and door slamming goodbyes.
25 years ago you couldn't utter that acronym in Los Angeles without looking over your shoulder. L.A. was a Marxist hotbed, created in large part by the…
Last week, this guy was selling patriotic tchotchkes outside the middle school where Barack Obama led his Los Angeles town hall meeting. His name is Fermin Rosas and he moved to Los Angeles from Mexico about a decade ago. Business was slow.
Last week, I joined the herd of thousands of Southern Californians looking for fresh powder on Mammoth Mountain. I found it.
Both the Guzman and Lopez sides of my family like their ranchera singers manly like Jose Alfredo Jimenez or feminine like Lucha Villa. Think of them as the Johnny Cash and Loretta Lynn of Mexican traditional music.
Mexican American sculptor Robert Graham, who died a couple of months ago, was the closest thing L.A. had to a modern day Auguste Rodin.