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.
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Where have the Chicano radio DJs gone?
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.
The passport's green cover and eagle on a cactus doesn't do it for me anymore.
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.
In April, Maria Rivera stood in Mexico City's main square and read "Los Muertos," a poem that for one of the first times in public dared name those killed in the country's government and drug cartel violence war.
I'd like to be there in a pre-dawn concert as a yet unborn jarana player plugs in his wood instrument and plays the Star Spangled Banner to welcome the new day.
Let me tell you about the double shudder down the spine I had a few months ago: the Jewish-Mexican mother.
Que lastima. So many bars, so small the liver.
I know a few Chileans in Los Angeles. The first one I met was Joaquin Murieta.
A very simple question seemed to follow me like a rain cloud last Friday. Are Chicanos outsiders anymore?
"The NBC affiliate in Laredo, KGNS, had reels of old films and cartoons that they would throw on again and again and La Dolce Vita, was one of those movies."
Inside a hilltop house in City Terrace a few months ago seven musicians recorded a son jarocho version of The Clash's "Straight to Hell."