A Profile On World Class Latino Surfer Bobby Martinez

The LA Weekly  wrote a very interesting piece about Latino surfer Bobby Martinez, his career, his rise through the ranks, as well as his ostensible fall from grace, after criticizing […]

I have always been a baseball fan. I grew up watching on television — when my mom was not watching “Sábado Gigante.” The ritual was always the same: the pre-game show […]

“Contested Visions in the Spanish Colonial World,” a current exhibit at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, represents an intricately choreographed dialogue between several players in pre-Columbian history. Primarily, […]

Rubén Salazar was born in 1928 in Ciudad Juárez,, Mexico. Through his journalism career in El Paso and later Los Angeles, Salazar became the first Mexican-American to cover the Chicano community […]

I remember growing up in Los Angeles, everybody — and I mean everybody — who was cool listens to Ozomatli. For a few years there, the LA-based band was almost […]

Our friend and super talented chef Juan Mondragon, he of Juan’s Restaurante in California, shared his special Christmas recipe with us this week. Below are the recipes for Lomo de Cerdo […]

I hope nothing severe enough ever happens to me to the point where I end up in the 11 o’clock news – simply because I am not a very photogenic […]

There has been but one time in my life where I relished the opportunity to drink a mouthful of seeds and eat weird-looking green food, and that was last week […]

I grew up during some really strange times. Like 1989. We had already braced through eight years of Ronald Reagan, and George Bush was getting ready to take the helm. […]

Beyond Baroque is a literary center in Los Angeles that’s housed in the old Venice City Hall. Originally a magazine, Beyond Baroque got its start as a storefront phenomenon and […]