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Muralist Frank Romero to leave his mark on a Highland Park parking lot

By Barry Lank – TheEastsiderLA.com – Photo: Courtesy of L.A. Cultural Affairs (DCA). Photo: Concept for ”Going to the Olympics, Again,” by Frank Romero Highland Park, California — It’s been 35 years since Chicano muralist Frank Romero painted “Going to...

$1 million grant advances study of California’s missions

By Tess Eyrich – News.UCR.edu – Photo Not Credited. If you were once a fourth-grader in California, you probably remember learning about the state’s trail of 21 historic missions. Maybe you even made a model of one of them with Popsicle sticks or...

Whoa, ‘Cheech & Chong’s Up in Smoke’ is 40 years old, man

By Jim Kiest – LMTOnline.com – Photo: Paramount Pictures. Forty years after its release, “Up in Smoke” remains a cultural touchstone and a reminder of this country’s weird relationship to drugs. What endures, even in an age of legal marijuana, is the...

The Rise and Fall of Oscar Zeta Acosta: What Happened to the ‘Brown Buffalo’?

By Daniel Hernandez – LATaco.com – Photo Not Credited. He was a high school football player and class president in the Central Valley. Then he went to Panama with the U.S. Air Force, where he became a Baptist preacher. Back in California, he went to law...

Photo Flash: The Classic Theatre presents BLESS ME, ULTIMA

By BWW News Desk – BroadwayWorld.com – Photo Not Credited. Photo: The Cast of BLESS ME, ULTIMA Latinx communities have long been left out of U.S. and Latin American histories. Latinos in the U.S often don’t know their own histories because Latinx...