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Rita Moreno To ‘My Gente’: Be Proud Of Who You Are, And Don’t Give Up

By Lulu Garcia-Navarro – NPR.org – Photo: AP. Actress Rita Moreno holds the Oscar she won at the Academy Awards ceremony at Santa Monica, Ca., April 9, 1962. She won best supporting actress of the year for her role in West Side Story. Read...

California State Historical Resources Commission to Consider 15 Properties for Action Including Hotel Fresno

GoldrushCam.com – Photo: Courtesy of Pop Laval Collection. Photo: Hotel Fresno, ca. 1920. Sacramento, California—The California State Historical Resources Commission considers fourteen nominations for federal historic designation and one relocation of a...

SickLife Lowriders host their first car show in Vallejo

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...

Crocker Opens ‘Testament of the Spirit: Paintings by Eduardo Carrillo’

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...

Cheech Marin’s Chicano art museum given $9.7 million from state of California

By Associated Press – LATimes.com – Photo: Alan Rogers / Casper Star-Tribune via AP. Just months after California legalized recreational marijuana the state is giving stoner comedian Cheech Marin’s Chicano art museum $9.7 million. The Cheech Marin...