Ed Fuentes
Ed Fuentes is a cultural journalist who has been covering the Inland Empire, the High Desert, and downtown Los Angeles for KCET since 2010. He lived in downtown Los Angeles for 13 years before moving to Las Vegas, where he covers regional art, including murals and street art, at painthisdesert.com. He tweets at @viewfromaloft.
Developers of DesertXPress, the $6 billion high-speed rail project linking Las Vegas with Victorville, were granted approval this week to move forward by the U.S. Department of Transportation.
A legal drama has recovered a long history of Chinese in Riverside, and is beginning to uncover how farmers from the Pearl River Delta in China influenced an industry.
Tanner Blackman is Los Angeles' lead when it comes to mural policy.
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In an odd twist of politics, street art has become far more visible than traditional murals.
The desert tortoise and their young are not threatened by an extensive solar project in the Mojave Desert, wildlife officials said last week.
The art of large-scale storytelling is struggling in the very city that shaped the craft.
By 1869, wine production reached four million gallons of wine annually, making Los Angeles the wine capital of California.
Details and logic filled a study supporting spending increases for walking and cycling paths, but the message got lost in a presentation with warnings of pedestrians dying in the streets.
Dressed down in a Havana-style guayabera shirt, Cuban-born Sergio Diaz not only made a statement where he was from, but where he ended up after retiring from the LAPD.
Some pedestrians find themselves in the same predicament cyclists face on the streets with drivers.
Residents of San Bernardino and Redlands may be connected by a commuter train system in just a few years.