by Terry Grieve | Jul 4, 2019 | Cuisine, Culture, Festivals, History | 0 Comments
By Adeshina Emmanuel – WashingtonPost.com – Photo: Lucy Hewett. Photo: Little Village Arch. “Bienvenidos a Little Village” — this terra cotta gateway welcomes visitors to the area. A thriving Mexican American enclave dubbed “the Mexico of the Midwest,”...
by Terry Grieve | Jul 4, 2019 | Culture, History, Music, Wine | 0 Comments
By Scott Mervis | Pittsburgh Post-Gazette – Post-Gazette.com – Photo: Courtesy of War. Somewhere in the pantheon of trippy songs of the late ’60s/early ’70s, you’ll find “Spill the Wine,” on which Eric Burdon talk-sings about falling asleep in a field of...
by Terry Grieve | Jul 4, 2019 | Culture, LowRiders | 0 Comments
By A.J. Baime – WSJ.com – Photo: Cate Dingley for the Wall Street Journal. Photo: Jeff Quintana’s 1960 Chevrolet Impala lowrider in Española, New Mexico, a town that bills itself as the Lowrider Capital of the World. It Took 25 Years to Get This Lowrider...
by Terry Grieve | Jul 3, 2019 | Culture, Museums | 0 Comments
By Caitlin Dewey – BuffaloNews.com – Image: Courtesy of Stieglitz Snyder Architecture. Image: A rendering of the proposed Hispanic Heritage Cultural Institute at Niagara and Hudson streets. A slim row of vacant lots at the corner of Niagara and Hudson...
by Terry Grieve | Jul 3, 2019 | Culture, Festivals, History, Museums | 0 Comments
By Rachael Myrow – KQED.org – Image: Rachael Myrow | KQED. Image: “El Calendario,” by San Jose artist Claudia Blanco. Note that this sci fi nod to Jesus Helguera’s iconic 1966 painting “La Leyenda de los Volcanes” purports to...
by Terry Grieve | Jul 3, 2019 | Culture, LowRiders | 0 Comments
By Eric Zamora – FresnoBee.com – Video Capture: The Fresno Bee. Fresno Grizzlies baseball team, playing as the Lowriders de Fresno this weekend, kick off the weekend with a lowrider car show along Fulton Street. The cars were on display both days. Read...
by Terry Grieve | Jul 2, 2019 | Culture, Festivals, LowRiders | 0 Comments
By Dale Yurong – ABC30.com – Video Capture: ABC 30. Video Capture: The once-heavily policed activity in Fresno, California, will now be in the sports spotlight when the Fresno Grizzlies take the field as the Fresno Lowriders. The Valley’s low-riding...
by Terry Grieve | Jul 2, 2019 | Culture, Festivals | 0 Comments
By Chaney Skilling – 5280.com – Photo: Courtesy of Jose Beteta. Photo: Colorado Latino Festival 2018. What does it mean to be Latino? For Jose Beteta, this question has been at the forefront of his mind since the 2016 presidential election brought Latinos...
by Terry Grieve | Jul 2, 2019 | Culture, Music | 0 Comments
By Bernadette Giacomazzo – HipHopDX.com – Image Not Credited. Los Angeles, California – Veteran actor and serial entrepreneur Danny Trejo — best known for his role as Machete in both the Spy Kids films and the titular films of the same name — has announced...
