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Shakespeare OC And Santa Ana College Present Unexpectedly Timely Zoot Suit

By Joel Beers – OCWeekly.com – Photo courtesy Shakespeare OC. Photo: Miguel Perez plays El Pachuco. Someday, maybe Luis Valdez’s 1978 play Zoot Suit will be treated with the humble reverence and respect afforded any museum piece, as something that was...

Weldon R. Shaw Pens a Story About Hope, Love, Hate, and Death While Exploring Aspects of Culture, Racism, and Civil Rights

By WebWire.com – WEBWIRE – Image: “Pachuco: The American Dream” | Author: Weldon R. Shaw. Sanger, California – WEBWIRE – Weldon R. Shaw crafts a novel that will give a glimpse the old East Los Angeles and how the Hispanic gang mentality...

Graciela Iturbide Makes Boston Debut

By Eleanor Grondin – BCHeights.com – Photo Not Credited. Flocks of birds and lost dogs, the Seri and the pachuco, life and death. These juxtaposing themes weave through Graciela Iturbide’s captivating black and white photographs. The exhibit Graciela...

Classic cars, lowriders shine at 2018 Lincoln Park Day car show Sunday in El Paso, Texas

By Rudy Gutierrez, EL PASO TIMES – ElPasoTimes.com – Photo: Rudy Gutierrez. Photo: Francisco Perez and Patsy Sanchez in traditional Pachuco and Pachuca outfits Sunday. Classic cars and trucks, lowriders and shiny motorcycles lined Lincoln Park below the...

Museo de las Americas exhibit honors Pachuco culture

By Sonia Gutierrez – 9News.com – Video Capture: 9 News. An exhibit at Museo de las Americas celebrates the unique fashion and language of the Pachuco culture of the 1930s and 1940s. The “Pachuco y Sieranas exhibit,” which started in February...

Pachuco era helps define search for Chicana identity

By Alexsandra J. Ruiz-Ortiz – MyMetMedia.com – Photo Courtesy Of Antonia Fernandez. Photo: Antonia Fernandez poses with “Peacock,” her life-size portrait of a modern-day pachuca. Fernandez’s exhibit “Pachuco y Sirenas” will be on display at Museo de las...