by Terry Grieve | Jun 22, 2018 | Culture, Publications | 0 Comments
By Lettycia Terrones – HBook.com – Photo Not Credited. In 1942 Los Angeles, after working all day at the canneries, teen sisters Lorena and Marisela can’t wait to put on their sharpest swing skirts and high heels for a night of jazz dancing with...
by Terry Grieve | Jun 21, 2018 | Culture, History, Museums | 0 Comments
By Elizabeth Juarez | Sun Staff – TheSWCSun.com – Photo Not Credited. Photo: The Fronterizos exhibit presents a history of Spanish-speakers in San Diego. Mexicans who lived in the San Diego region became Mexican-Americans when the international border...
by Terry Grieve | Jun 20, 2018 | Culture, Videos | 0 Comments
SanFrancisco.CBSLocal.com – Video Capture: YouTube. Photo: Movie producer Moctesuma Esparza, CEO of Mayo Pictures speaking at an event in Newport Beach, California. Delano (AP) — For nearly 10 years, residents in a California farming community have had to drive...
by Terry Grieve | Jun 19, 2018 | Culture, History, Murals | 0 Comments
By Bryan Kittman – SDEntertainer.com – Photo from Hamza Daoui via CC by 2.0. Barrio Logan can claim some of the most sweeping art murals in all of San Diego. Here you’ll find countless local artists works, included murals painted by Guillermo Aranda,...
by Terry Grieve | Jun 18, 2018 | Culture, Museums | 0 Comments
By Ryan Hagen | The Press-Enterprise – PE.com – File photo by Terry Pierson, The Press-Enterprise/SCNG. Phoro: Actor, comedian and artist Cheech Marin and Melissa Richardson Banks, the arts manager for Marin’s Chicano art collection, show a print donated...
by Terry Grieve | Jun 15, 2018 | Culture, Festivals, LowRiders | 0 Comments
By Sun-News Reports, Las Cruces Sun-News – LCSun-news.com – Photo: Dottie Lopez. Photo: One of the photographs to be displayed in the Lowriders, Hoppers and Hot Rods photography exhibit in June. Las Cruces, New Mexico – Lowriders are coming to...
by Terry Grieve | Jun 13, 2018 | Cuisine, Culture | 0 Comments
By Kinsee Morlan – VoiceOfSanDiego.org – Photo: Milo Lorenzana. Photo: El Carrito, a historic restaurant inside a former trolley car, is reopening in Barrio Logan. El Carrito is back. The historic restaurant housed in an old trolley car on Logan Avenue has...
by Terry Grieve | Jun 11, 2018 | Culture | 0 Comments
Times staff report – ElPasoTimes.com – Photo: Mark Lambie/El Paso Times File. Photo: Benjamin Alire Sáenz is seen here at the Cinco Puntos Press office. At a time when the U.S.-Mexico border is under a political microscope, the El Paso Times is working to...
by Terry Grieve | Jun 8, 2018 | Culture, Dia de los Muertos, History | 0 Comments
By Kevin L. Jones – www.kqed.org – Photo: Kris Davidson, courtesy SFMOMA. Photo: A multitude of Fridas converged upon the SFMOMA for the “Pasión por Frida!” event — the culmination of the Frida Kahlo exhibit. Curated by Rene Yanez,...