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A Mount Washington mural is restored but not without challenges and hard feelings

By Nathan Solis – TheEastsiderLA.com – Photo Not Credited. Mount Washington, California — Artist Pola Lopez leans against the painted wall and fills out the details with her paint brush. She’s the second artist to put her signature on the Southwest...

A new museum tells the Pacific Northwest history of Latinx identity

By Agueda Pacheco Flores – CrossCut.com – Photo: Dorothy Edwards | Crosscut. Photo: Christina Gallegos of Seattle, Washington, looks through an exhibit with her grandson Cash Overton, 8, during the Sea Mar Museum of Chicano/a/Latino/a Culture grand opening...

Fronteras: ‘Carlos Almaraz: Playing With Fire’ — The Brief, Rich Life Of Prominent Chicano Artist

By Norma Martinez and Lauren Terrazas – TPR.org – Image Not Credited. Image: “Carlos Almaraz: Playing With Fire” is directed by Elsa Flores Almaraz and Richard Montoya, and produced by Mark Roberts. Inner demons, passions and life...

Actor Cheech Marin displaying private art collection ‘Papel Chicano Dos’ at the Loveland Museum

By Kate Powell | Loveland Reporter-Herald – ReporterHerald.com – Courtesy photo | Melissa Richardson Banks. Photo: Cheech Marin stands next to a painting titled “¡Méjico, Mexico!” “Papel Chicano Dos,” a collection of Chicano and Chicana works on paper from...

1,240 stories: UT’s ‘Voces’ project marks 20 years of cataloging Latino veterans’ lives

By Chris Davis – KXAN.com – Video Capture: KXAN | Austin, Texas. Video Capture: Latino Vets Oral History Project (Voces) Austin, Texas (KXAN) — In the early 1990s, Maggie Rivas-Rodriguez went looking for books about Latinos who served in World War II; she...

Longtime Mexican restaurant The Mex in Ellsworth has closed

By Emily Burnham | BDN Staff – BangorDailyNews.com – Photo: Gabor Degre | BDN. Photo: Downtown Ellsworth, Maine. Longtime downtown Ellsworth Mexican eatery The Mex announced on Wednesday that it has closed, effective immediately. According to a post on the...