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.
This one-square-mile Riverside neighborhood is one of the oldest Mexican-American districts, or barrios, in Southern California.
While early graffiti artists left their mark for riders to find on New York's subway cars, L.A. transit brings riders to find art through its windows.
Skateboarding has held court for decades in the Southland. Now urban cycling is making itself a local.
Hop onto the California High-Speed Rail Authority's website and you'll see that the route whisks passengers between Los Angeles and Bakersfield with a station in the Antelope Valley. Now an older plan to run the train over the Grapevine has resurfaced,...
The U.S. Post Office has worked with Seventh-day Adventists in Loma Linda, CA for 81 years to deliver mail on Sundays instead of Saturdays, their Sabbath. That service stopped this weekend.
The Museum of Contemporary Art's ambitious "Art in the Streets" carries a decree declaring graffiti is a contemporary art form. While the show has been tagged as a success by critics and been enjoying solid attendance, the exhibition isn't matching the...
Public meetings were held last week for the High Desert Corridor, a 63-mile freeway that will connect Palmdale and Victorville, replacing long dark stretches of routes 138 and 18.
With so many poets and artists using the river once named Porciuncula as a muse, it can be channeled to be a bookmark for local poets and artists.
The ongoing whitewashing of street art is transforming a city once known as the mural capitol of the world.
For many Angelenos, sacred rituals to ancestors demonstrate the ethnic diversity found in the City of Los Angeles.
By Ed Fuentes with Maria Lopez | April 1, 2011 4:15 PMThis post is in support of Departures, KCET's oral history and interactive documentary project about…
The high-speed rail that will carry passengers back and forth from the city of bling to the California high desert passed a major Federal junction.