The Glories And Disappointments Of Cockfighting

My father grew up in a small municipality by the name of La Rivera, Jalisco.  At the time, there was nothing to do there, and there is nothing to do […]

En esta atrapante película de suspenso titulada “The Lincoln Lawyer,” Matthew McConaughey encarna el personaje de Michael “Mick” Haller, un carismático e inteligente abogado criminal de Los Angeles que tiene […]

In case you haven’t seen this yet, it’s worth a watch, if only because it reminds us all of the importance of being open-minded, and of the latent racism that […]

I was on my way to the post office to drop off some letters when I decided to take the local 25-cent bargain shuttle instead. Sure, I could walk the […]

USA Today created an interactive Census map showing what areas of which state, by county, have grown or decreased in population, along with information on race and ethnicity. Check it […]

Okay everybody, if you’re like me, you love going to the movies. Here are a few films that look really intense, but look like super good movies. One is about […]

It’s true, I graduated from Stanford University, yet, after I was laid off in 2009, I couldn’t get a job at Walmart. Believe me, I tried. As a matter of fact, […]

Crude oil prices are rising, given the unrest in the Middle East, this will translate to higher gas prices. Congress is figuring out how to fund government for a while […]

UCLA is set to shut down the independent Spanish and Portuguese Department to merge all language departments into one single department, irregardless of how popular any given language may be […]

[Editor’s Note: Author Oscar Barajas works in Los Angeles and will be writing dispatches for us from East LA.] I have grown up and spent most of my life in […]