Documentary: LA Muralist Eloy Torrez

There’s an interesting new documentary coming out, “Eloy Take Two.” According to the entry on YouTube: Part One of a three part film —Eloy Take Two is a film by […]

I was riding on the bus today, on my way to work, when I was accosted by the weirdest solicitor of all time. He was a young man, about 17 […]

Back in the G0od Ol’ Bad Days, my family was part of the working poor caught inside the vortex of the Reagan Revolution. My father worked as a railroad laborer […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

After more than 15 years of asking to see the records pertaining to the killing of Rubén Salazar, Los Angeles County Sheriff Lee Baca has agreed to let reporters see […]