By exploring L.A.’s racial injustice, Luis Valdez’s ‘Zoot…
SAN JUAN BAUTISTA, Calif. — Eyes defiant, chest out, right hip cocked like a switchblade, Luis Valdez is channeling his inner Jaguar. He’s demonstrating the El Pachuco stance, the…
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The staying power of Joe Kapp’s ‘The Toughest Chicano’ Sports…
The football player on the vintage Sports Illustrated cover looks beat.He’s framed from the chest up, the No. 11 on his rumpled purple Minnesota Vikings jersey barely visible. The sky…
What a future-set Chicano noir inspired by ‘Sunset Boulevard’ tells us…
The year is 2042. Laws protecting human rights have been reversed, and community elders are vanishing. Chicana starlet Veronica Del Rio, soon turning 75, then emerges from the mist of…
Review: Christina Fernandez’s photographs, on view in Riverside, are a major…
RIVERSIDE — In 2010, Christina Fernandez made a panoramic landscape photograph 20 inches high and six feet wide. The extreme format is unlike anything in her work before or since. At the…
A mariachi space opera meets gender-bending Chicano punk in an ambitious sound art…
In 2012, four members of Mariachi Nueva Generación, decked out in their dapper charro ensembles, took the stage at the San Francisco Conservatory of Music as part of a performance organized…
Review: What is Chicano art? Riverside’s new Cheech Marin Center offers an…
Saturday was a red-letter day for the history of art in Southern California. On June 18, the Riverside Art Museum opened its Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture in a handsomely…
Chicano, Mangrobang may compete in triathlon and duathlon at Hanoi Southeast Asian…
JOHN Leerams Chicano and Kim Mangrobang may end up wearing two hats in the Hanoi Southeast Asian (SEA) Games next year as they could compete not just in triathlon, but in duathlon as well.…
The pioneering Chicano series stored 50 years in a garage
Every so often, Frank Cruz would walk into his spacious garage in Laguna Niguel and contemplate the boxes filled with things old and unused: tax returns, clothes and paperwork from his days…
Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art names María Esther Fernández as director
The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art, Culture and Industry has named María Esther Fernández as its artistic director, the center’s top post and the person who will steer the curatorial…
‘Wonder Woman,’ ‘Airplane!,’ ‘Yo Soy Chicano’:…
Find a flick with our weekly curated list of classic movies, cult favorites, film festivals, etc., streaming online or coming soon to a theater, drive-in, pop-up or rooftop near you.…