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.
I walked away from the Friday and Saturday Dodgers-Red Sox games feeling like I'd overdosed on colors. I'm warning you now, if you're going to visit Fenway for the first time, be careful there's some bad green going around.
Talking to Elena Poniatowska about In regards to the women there's little to nothing about their contributions. It's always important to talk about forgotten people, people who have not been taken into account, people who've given their lives.
The corner next to the city's first church has been named Paseo Luis Olivares, after the pastor who - twenty five years ago - declared La Placita Church to be a sanctuary for undocumented immigrants.
Having fulfilled their service, these young troops are now ready for the next step: the classroom.
As we approached the two chairs for the author talk, Charles Bowden asked me which one was for the Holy Inquisitor, I replied, this one here is for the bullfighter. As long as there's no bull, he replied.
In 1968 Shifra Goldman, in her early 40s, took the young Chicano filmmaker Jesus Trevino to the rooftop of an Olvera Street building to look into the past…
Adolfo Guzman-Lopez tackles the difficult topic of how to report on a murder that can't be solved, only to learn that it's sometimes fiction that offers us the most meaningful answers.
The first book in the Old Testament of contemporary Southern California art is being written under our noses.
Culture is under siege in Los Angeles. But you won't find many high-end galleries on the endangered species list. That's a distinction reserved for our cultural events and independent arts spaces.
Bassist Jesus Velo wanted to interview one of his idols, El Chicano organist and arranger Bobby Espinosa. Adolfo Guzman-Lopez said he'd hold the microphone, so Velo could do his thing.