Día de los Muertos is a Latin American holiday that's also a huge part of SoCal's cultural heritage.
Dating back to pre-Columbian Aztec culture, th
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Arekatera Katz? Maihi can vividly recall the sickening stench of smoke and harrowing echo of family members' cries as his tribal house in Auckland, New Zealand, went
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Sometimes magic happens when and where you least expect it. Say, for example, in a random suburban strip mall in Encino on a Monday night. That's where, in a dimly l
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Anyone who's worked in public education in the inner city understands the extent to which impoverished American youth have been betrayed. Playwright Ike Holter, who
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When maverick artist and activist Barbara Carrasco sees an opportunity to tell a story, she takes it. Before becoming one of L.A.'s most iconic muralists, Carras
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Gerardo Velasquez was punk as fuck. In the late 1970s, the young artist had co-founded Nervous Gender, a seminal force not only within Los Angeles' punk scene b
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Early last month, uniformed officers from an undetermined agency were on the scene when a crew of men cleared away the roadside art installation carefully created an
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Seamstress. Nanny. Cook. Housekeeper. Maybe teacher, nurse or secretary. Those were the roles women of color were expected to hold in American society during the mid
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Every autumn, there are more and more elaborate haunts and spooky attractions to choose from in Southern California, but there's something to be said for going back
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If it weren't for art, I'd have killed myself a long time ago, Japanese artist Yayoi Kusama told ArtReview in a 2007 interview. Ten years later, at 88 years
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New York Public Radio president Laura Walker's jaw dropped when she read a study reporting that only 20 percent of the podcasts on the iTunes top 100 were hosted
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For all the things they're OK at, men can't seem to understand that women don't want random penises emailed, texted and Snapchatted to them. With the tra
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