By Rianna Singh – GlobalAnalyticsMarket.com – Photo Not Credited. If you go back to the 50s Southern California to find the not-so-smooth beginning of the low-riding. Back then, the young Mexican Americans commonly known as the Chicanos in Los Angeles...
By Steve Donofrio – OCWeekly.com – Photo: Steve Donofrio. This year marks the 45th anniversary of East L.A. Chicano rock band Los Lobos. Even if you don’t instantly recognize the name, chances are you’re familiar with their music, whether it be from a...
By Scott Huddleston – ExpressNews.com – Photo: Jerry Lara | Staff photographer. Photo: Conjunto musicologist Juan Tejeda talks about the musicians who performed at Lerma’s Nite Club on the city’s West Side. Juan Tejeda, wearing a straw hat in...
By Carl Hoover – WacoTrib.com – Photo: Jerry Larson | Staff Photo. Photo: Mulualista President Louis Fajardo looks over the Waco mutual aid society’s original 1924 banner. Waco, Texas — Waco’s Sociedad Mutualista Mexicana de Jornaleros is...
By César Albarrán Torres – WeAreMitu.com – Photo: TheCheechCenter | Instagram. Cheech told The Orange County Register that he first fell in love with art as a kid when at 11 he would stare at the ceiling at church. He said: “There were all these paintings...
By Samantha Chavarria – WeAreMitu.com – Photo: Instagram | @amandatattoos Tattoo by Amanda Rodriguez. Floral work like this has to be done in bright vivid color and Latina tattooist Amanda Rodriguez knows how to deliver. Working out of Brooklyn as well as...