Gustavo Arellano is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times, covering Southern California everything and a bunch of the West and beyond. He previously worked at OC Weekly, where he was an investigative reporter for 15 years and editor for six, wrote a column called ¡Ask a Mexican! and is the author of “Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America.” He’s the child of two Mexican immigrants, one of whom came to this country in the trunk of a Chevy.
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Jaime Jarrín, leyenda de los Dodgers, reflexiona sobre su vida y un equipo repleto de superestrellas
Jarrín nunca se pierde un partido de los Dodgers por televisión y asiste a los partidos en casa siempre que puede “porque echo un poco de menos el ambiente del estadio”. Pero su gran proyecto estos días no es el béisbol.
Jarrín never misses a Dodgers game on TV and attends home games whenever possible ‘because I do miss a little bit the atmosphere of the stadium.’ But his big project these days isn’t baseball.
Francis rejected all trappings of sovereignty and cult of personality. Instead, he has lived and preached what Jesus commanded his followers to do in the Sermon on the Mount, which might as well be the Communist Manifesto nowadays.
Last month, Pearlman announced he was embarking on an altogether different kind of mission: To write about Orange County politics. Talk about a wicked curveball!
During Escobar’s tenure, L.A. firefighters have weathered some tough times: COVID. The Palisades inferno. Fewer fire stations than there were in 1960.
El Clasificado, the largest Spanish-language weekly in the United States, has started a new lifestyle magazine in an era where many print publication are dying.
Journalism schools teach that writers should report the news, not be the news.
Our growing embrace of English wasn’t the only thing S.I. Hayakawa and his crew were wrong about. All the kumbaya they insisted would happen if English was elevated in California unsurprisingly turned out to be a bunch of — excuse my Spanish — caca.
It was the most consequential election in the city’s history, yet there has been no commemoration of the anniversary. Not a peep from the current city council, nor reflections from local publications or posts from local historical societies.
The GOP caucus is forming at a time when Democrats still hold a supermajority in both of the state’s legislative chambers, while the Republican Party nationally has soured on anything with even a hint of multiculturalism.