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The quality of Spanish language news in Southern California varies widely and it's been made worse, Arredondo said, by budget cuts that have decimated the ranks of reporters and editors.
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The current debate over son jarocho in L.A. ranges from expletive pissing matches online to a philosophical debate over the nature of community music building and the process by which a musical practice that's spiritual to many is carried out.
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The trovadores, the Spanish speaking troubadors of Los Angeles, will not forget May 1, 2007 in MacArthur Park. A group of them has released a CD of songs in tribute to the men, women, and children who suffered the pain of police batons and rubber bullets that day by LAPD officers in riot gear.
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They arrive torsos ripped down the middle, decapitated; fingers, hands, and toes severed.
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I brought out the casting couch for tamale auditions last week.
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Two mistakes recently in L.A.'s venerable Spanish-language La Opinion Twitter feed were too juicy to pass up.
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The day after Raul Borbon died the winds, like demons, threw themselves off the peaks of the San Gabriels and wishbone-snapped every tree in their reach.
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"I've chosen public transportation and my own two feet as my preferred means of navigating the city."
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"Is this what the '60s was like?"
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16 years of Ozomatli's out-of-the-nightclub conga lines would not have been were it not for group therapy.
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Activists are claiming victories in their effort to shut down what they call the "schools to prison pipeline."
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20-foot Chicanos erased themselves and in the same act replaced the various shades of their brown skins with reproductions of iconic and lost East L.A. murals.
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Kaliman is the patron saint of adults who've spent part of their childhood in Mexico and now live in the U.S.
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Surely on his way to the American Dream Dr Q heard the question, "What part of illegal do you not understand?" He just never bothered to stop and think about it.
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"For so many years we have so many English learners who are long term, and they're not kids who were born in Mexico, they're kids who were born here."
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Jacky doesn't have a drivers' license. The fear of being deported curves her shoulders into a wide U.
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Where have the Chicano radio DJs gone?
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Goldman earned her PhD in art history from UCLA but her true education was in traveling to meet artists and furiously debating the creation of their art and its influences.
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The passport's green cover and eagle on a cactus doesn't do it for me anymore.
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I'm worried. The internet is not a history book and if the book is dead, maybe so will be the exploits of the legendary East LA art group ASCO.
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I Am Los Angeles: Strings of Success
Sasha is content just to be living his life on his own terms, doing something he thoroughly enjoys: building and playing guitars.
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