by Terry Grieve | Jul 26, 2018 | Culture, Videos | 0 Comments
By Mike Sprague – DreadCentral.com – Photo Not Credited. Danny Trejo has a new horror-slasher film in the works called Murder in the Woods, which is described as “an all-Latino labor of love” and co-stars include Jose Julian, Jeanette Samano, Chelsea...
by Terry Grieve | Jul 26, 2018 | Culture, History, Murals | 0 Comments
By Nancy Flores | American-Statesman Staff – MyStatesman.com – Photo: Jay Janner | American-Statesman. Photo: From left, Mando “Taner” Martinez, Robert “Kane” Herrera, Oscar “Tez” Cortez and Bertha Delgado at the “For La Raza” mural at the old Holly Power...
by Terry Grieve | Jul 25, 2018 | Culture, History, Museums | 0 Comments
By Brittany Martin – LAMag.com – Photo Courtesy Of Riverside Art Museum. Cheech Marin will be 72 in July, but he doesn’t seem interested in easing into a quiet retirement any time soon. He has two films set for release over the coming months, has jumped...
by Terry Grieve | Jul 25, 2018 | Culture, LowRiders | 0 Comments
By DTLA JAY – LATaco.com – Photo Not Credited. I shot these photos in the city of Compton. I’m out there every Sunday shooting the lowrider culture– from the hop contests that can happen spontaneously, to just shooting the cars cruising by doing some...
by Terry Grieve | Jul 24, 2018 | Culture, LowRiders | 0 Comments
By Katy St. Clair – TimesHeraldOnline.com – Photo: Chris Riley | Times-Herald. Photo: Spectators go crazy as Jim Folan of Vallejo’s SickLife’s finest car club has his ‘87 Cutlass get stuck in the up position. The event was the SickLife Car Show at Jesse...
by Terry Grieve | Jul 24, 2018 | Culture, History, Museums | 0 Comments
By Cody Drabble – Capradio.org – Photo: Courtesy of the Crocker Art Museum. Photo: Eduardo Carrillo’s best-known work, “Testament of the Holy Spirit,” was painted in Midtown Sacramento in 1971 and will be hanging in the Crocker Art Museum...
by Terry Grieve | Jul 23, 2018 | Culture, Festivals, LowRiders, Murals | 0 Comments
By Joe Ray and Corey Ringo – Lowrider.com – Photo Not Credited. Photo: 2018 Albuquerque Lowrider Super Show Aztec mural Lowrider custom paint is always raw and beautiful to the imagination. Invented mixes of unique colors of paint that are sprayed within a...
by Terry Grieve | Jul 23, 2018 | Culture, History, Pachuco | 0 Comments
By Dr. Manuel Flores, Texana Reads – Caller.com – Photo: Contributed | Texana Reads. “Órale carnal (What’s up brother?)” That greeting was common among many South Texan Mexican American and Tejano men most of the 20th century. It isn’t Spanish or Tex-Mex....
by Terry Grieve | Jul 20, 2018 | Culture, History, Pachuco | 0 Comments
Anonymous – TheDailyOmnivore.net – Image Not Credited. Image: Zoot Suit Items In Spanish And English The Pachuco style originated in El Paso, Texas, and Ciudad Juárez, Mexico, and moved westward, following the line of migration of Mexican railroad workers...
