How the Inland Empire became key to música Mexicana’s success
Not even a mini heatwave could deter thousands of Inland Empire residents from showing up to a local música Mexicana festival. On a Saturday afternoon in May, when the temperature ...
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A pachuca wanted to help her community. Now, she’s a trustee at Fullerton’s school district
With pompadoured hair accented by a sparkly rose, a floral short-sleeved blouse and high-waisted and wide-legged burgundy slacks held up by black suspenders, Vanesa Estrella looked like a model for ...
Paloma Mami graduates into womanhood with new LP, ‘Códigos de Muñeka’
Something shifted within Paloma Mami when she turned 25, she said — referring to the age at which the average human’s frontal lobe, the part of the brain that manages ...
Mexican influencer Esmeralda Ferrer Garibay found dead in Jalisco
TikTok content creator Esmeralda Ferrer Garibay has died. She was 32. On Aug. 22, four bodies wrapped in plastic bags were discovered inside a pickup truck near a mechanic shop ...
Legendary Cuban percussionist Walfredo de los Reyes Sr. dies at 92
Walfredo de los Reyes Sr., the internationally lauded Cuban percussionist who had a prodigious six-decade career in the music industry, died Aug. 28 in Concord, Calif. He was 92. Walfredo ...
Rome after Sublime: A California soul all his own
Rome Ramirez wasn’t built in a day. He was once a guitar-strumming, teenage Sublime fan in a Mexican American household in Fremont, Calif. At 18, he moved to Los Angeles ...
Tei Shi lets loose in new LP, ‘Make believe I make believe’
Last fall, indie pop auteur Tei Shi immersed herself in the British Columbia backwoods during a creative retreat — an experience that helped her reclaim artistic control over her decade-long ...
To write his solo debut, Café Tacvba’s Meme del Real first had to surrender
The summer rain in Mexico City has been driving Meme del Real crazy. “This season of permanent torrential downpour gets to a point where you’re like, ‘Enough,’ he says with ...
Lucha libre and leather: Latinos rule the L.A. goth scene
On a recent Saturday in July, as the sun set behind East L.A. club Don Quixote, a line of black-clothed and face-pierced youths chattered excitedly outside the venue. Inside, luchadores ...
Fuerza Regida awards 4 scholarships to Cal State San Bernardino students
Four Cal State San Bernardino students received the news of a lifetime this month: full funding to support their ongoing studies. The prize came courtesy of the band Fuerza Regida ...
