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Santa Ana
City Rising
Photos: Santa Ana's Underrepresented Citizens
Post date:With a seventy-eight percent Latino population, Santa Ana has become a sanctuary for Latinos in Orange County. Maintaining traditions from their homelands, generations of U.S. born and immigrant Latinos have cultivated Santa Ana’s distinct culture.
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City Rising
City Rising
The Right to Live: Southeast Los Angeles Life in Three Moments
Post date:Located 20 minutes from downtown, the southeast suffers from life-threatening pollution across the cities of Bell, Bell Gardens, Cudahy, Huntington Park, Lynwood, Maywood and Vernon.
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migrant kitchen
The Migrant Kitchen
New Book Excavates the Complexity of L.A.'s Mexican Food Scene
Post date:There is not just one style of Mexican food in L.A., says author Bill Esparza, but several. His new book explores the complexity and richness of the Mexican food scene in Los Angeles.
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Music
Artbound
Dublab's Alejandro Cohen on the Art of the Mix
Post date:Alejandro "Ale" Cohen, the current director of Los Angeles's premiere online radio station Dublab, talks with Artbound about growing up in Argentina and finding music.
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Hispanic Heritage Month
Artbound
Metralleta de Oro
Post date:The trio of young Mexican American DJs Metralleta de Oro specialize in Sonidero, an extremely rhythmic sub-genre of the Mexican, Central and South American cumbia genre notable for its thumping repetitive bass lines.
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Latin America
Artbound
Metralleta de Oro: Bringing the Bling to Cumbia
Post date:The trio of young Mexican American DJs Metralleta de Oro specialize in Sonidero, an extremely rhythmic sub-genre of the Mexican, Central and South American cumbia genre notable for its thumping repetitive bass lines.
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Cultural Politics
Artbound
Herman Sillas' Art and Activism
Post date:Chicano activist and attorney Herman Sillas' paintings are pictorial memoirs of a witness to social change in 1960s Chicano Los Angeles.
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Multi-disciplinary
Artbound
Weekender: Indie Video Games, East L.A. Surrealism and Monster Masks
Post date:From East Los Angeles surrealism and indie video games, to monster masks and collective typing, here's our list of art events taking place this weekend in Los Angeles.
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Music
Artbound
Chicano Batman: Not Another Band from East L.A.
Post date:As the cultural map of music making continues shifting in East L.A., Chicano Batman has become the sound of local Latino music in the 21st century. The band performs in the KCET Studios.
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latino
TV Talk
KCET Celebrates Hispanic Heritage Month
Post date:Check out what special programming KCET will be airing during Hispanic Heritage Month this year.
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writing on the wall
History & Society
Immigrant Installation Art Hits Capitol Hill
Post date:L.A. installation artist Ramiro Gomez Jr. timed his latest cardboard creations with the Senate hearings on immigration policy on Capitol Hill.
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commentary
SoCal Focus
Are You From Compton?
Post date:From Compton down to El Segundo, blacks just can't seem to live in peace.
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SoCal Focus
Ringing in the New? Maybe Not For Some.
Post date:For African Americans, the more things change, the more they stay the same
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Central America
History & Society
Should There Be a Central American Historic District in Los Angeles?
Post date:Should neighborhoods be named after a single specific ethnicity?
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Avila Adobe
History & Society
Iconic Hispanic Angelenos in History: Francisco Ramirez
Post date:As editor of the first Spanish-language newspaper in Los Angeles, he highlighted the discrimination and injustice faced by Mexican-Americans, Californios, Chinese, and Blacks.
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History & Society
Conversation with Taco Shop Poets Co-Founder Adolfo Guzman-Lopez
Post date:In anticipation of their upcoming performance at Avenue 50 Studios for the La Palabra Series, we got a chance to talk to Taco Shop Poets founder Adolfo Guzman-Lopez.
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Highland Park
Departures
The Avenues: Highland Park Gang
Post date:In the 1980s disenfranchised youth of Highland Park, bereft of community resources and victims of education inequality, became increasingly susceptible to gang activity.
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Highland Park
Departures
White Flight
Post date:As early as the 1920s the predominantly white residents of Highland Park began looking to other areas of Los Angeles for housing. After World War II, this westward drift became a full-on exodus of Anglo middle-class families out of communities like Hi...
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Agriculture
Departures
Richland Farms
Post date:When Griffith D. Compton donated his land to incorporate and create the city of Compton in 1889, he stipulated that a certain acreage be zoned for agricultural purposes only, and Richland Farms was born.