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    December 15, 2011

    My Scooter Got Me a $526 Ticket?! When Small Bikes Collide With the Law

    ​ In our new column, First Person, L.A. writers tackle the good, the bad and the funny about life as they know it.There is a high price to pay in the city of Los Angeles for the feeling of wind rushing through your hair -- $526, or 68 community service hours, to be exact. I know, because it ... More >>

  • Music

    September 22, 2011

    East L.A. Backyard Punk Scene Rages On

    As uninhibited and intoxicated as ever

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    March 10, 2011

    School Reformer Yolie Flores Departs LAUSD to Fight From Outside

    She forced through the most radical idea in recent lausd history. So why’s she leaving for a Bill Gates start-up?

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2010

    Public Wake And Memorial Planned For Jaime Escalante

    ​A public wake and memorial have been planned to honor former Garfield High School mathematics teacher Jaime Escalante, according to a Thursday announcement made by the actor who portrayed him in Stand And Deliver, Edward James Olmos. On April 16, a wake will be held in the classroom where Es ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 31, 2010

    Jaime Escalante's Legacy: Success Doesn't Come Overnight

    Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante in 'Stand and Deliver.'​It's said that Jaime Escalante's biggest problem with the 1988 movie about his successes with East L.A. Latino students at Garfield High School was that Stand and Deliver made it seem like they achieved academic excellence overnight ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 30, 2010

    'Stand and Deliver' Teacher Jaime Escalante Dies

    ​Following recent fund-raising efforts to help continue his cancer treatment, retired teacher Jaime Escalante of Stand and Deliver fame died in Reno, Nev. at the age of 79. Garfield High School's Facebook made an announcement Tuesday, stating that the former math teacher there "will forever ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 2, 2010

    Family Asks Well-Wishers To 'Stand And Deliver' For Jaime Escalante

    Edward James Olmos as Jaime Escalante.​The family of Jaime Escalante, the Garfield High School math teacher known for getting his Eastside students to strive for better educations, has announced that they need more money to help the 80-year-old battle cancer. Family members told Fox 11 News t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 1, 2010

    Meet Your Food Blogger: Javier Cabral of Teenage Glutster

    Javier Cabral turned 21 two weeks ago, which means not only that now he can legally drink alcohol when he eats out with his blogger friends, but that the name of his blog, Teenage Glutster, seems a bit outdated. Some might agree that after a mention from Dana Goodyear in a New Yorker profile of Jona ... More >>

  • Blogs

    December 22, 2009

    Teachers' Union Sues Over Charter School

    ​United Teachers Los Angeles filed suit against the Los Angeles Unified School District over its establishment of a charter campus that would relieve overcrowding at the Eastside's storied Garfield High School. What's wrong with charter schools, you ask? This could be about jobs. The UTLA arg ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 23, 2009

    KIDS WRITE THE COOLEST THINGS

    ​United Teachers Los Angeles filed suit against the Los Angeles Unified School District over its establishment of a charter campus that would relieve overcrowding at the Eastside's storied Garfield High School. What's wrong with charter schools, you ask? This could be about jobs. The UTLA arg ... More >>

  • Music

    October 11, 2007

    Rock Picks: Akron/Family, Duncan Sheik, PJ Harvey, Jill Scott

    For the week of Oct. 11 - 18

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    May 10, 2007

    Argelia Atilano

    Think pink in the morning

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    July 13, 2006

    Music Picks

    For the week of July 13 - 20

  • News

    June 16, 2005

    Chicanos and the Man

    Comedian Paul Rodriguez and his skateboarding son, Paulie, are rich and famous. But where would they be without Pablo?

  • Music

    June 17, 2004

    East Los Lobos!

    Thirty years of survival in the wild

  • News

    January 2, 2003

    The 2nd Annual List Issue

    Thirty years of survival in the wild

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