Homeboy Industries

L.A. Weekly's Tacolandia: A Summer Taco and Tequila Party

Regardless of your protein predilections, tacos are a staple of the Angeleno diet. We've recognized as much on this blog, with no less than three top-10 lists counting down our favorite tacos: meat-filled, seafood and those you specifically get from a truck. On Sunday, June 23 from noon to 5 p.m., ... More >>

Midget Zombies and Black Republicans: Your Weekly Movie To-Do List

See also: *More L.A. Weekly Film Coverage Friday, March 22 Help celebrate two (non-mutually exclusive) minority groups by attending the 10th Annual Outfest Fusion LGBT People of Color Film Festival, which starts its two-day run on Friday. The fest will open at 7 p.m. at REDCAT with the documentar ... More >>

One Day Boyle Heights Artist Fabian Debora Tried to Take His Own Life on the I-5. That's When He Had an Epiphany

Fabian Debora stood on the railing of a busy I-5 Freeway, just beyond Hollenbeck Park, watching the cars zoom by. Blood spewed down his mouth and onto his water-soaked shirt -- consequences of the manic escape from his mother's home where she had discovered him doing meth. Haunted by his children' ... More >>

Father Knows Best

Sex-Change Comedy (Missing Dick), in the Latest New Theater Reviews, Plus New Works Festivals Bustin' Out

REDCAT's annual New Original Works Festival opens this weekend with Poor Dog Group's The Murder Ballad; Opera Povera's To Valerie Solanas and Marilyn Monroe in Recognition of Their Desperation; and puppeteer Susan Simpson's, Exhibit A. For compete schedule visit redcat.orgNext week, the Ojai Playwri ... More >>

Michael Voltaggio Homeboy Industries at L.A. Film Festival Wednesday

This year's L.A. Film Festival kicked off on June 14 with an eclectic lineup of programs and screenings, albeit scant on food films. Luckily the festival's two food-centric films both screen Wednesday night at L.A. Live, so you can make a night of it, save a few bucks on parking, gas, etc.

Cornerstone Theater Company's Hunger Cycle Kicks Off With Cafe Vida by Lisa Loomer

Fellowship!: the musical parody of Lord of the Rings Returns to the Steve Allen Theater, Plus the Latest New Theater Reviews

Bryan Harnetiaux's new play, Holding On -- Letting Go is difficult to watch for the way it captures the realistic agonies of a wife slowly losing her husband to liver cancer. It is nonetheless a tender drama, well rendered under James Reynold's direction at the Fremont Centre Theatre in South Pasade ... More >>

Could This License Plate Save California's Arts Funding Crisis?

You've likely noticed this sun setting behind an iconic row of palms as it darted in front of you on the 405. But unless you've got one of these specialty plates screwed on your own Prius, it's unlikely you knew that it supports the state's art funding. "I had lived in California my whole life, and ... More >>

This Is How to Use Your Head, Bangers

Quetzal, East L.A. Activists to Their Core, Play Tomorrow

See also: *Las Cafeteras Defy Tradition Sitting in a Highland Park restaurant behind a plate of french fries and a mint tea, Quetzal Flores talks about gentrification. The subject plays into his new album with his Mexican-Afro-Cuban rock band Quetzal, called Imaginaries, which is out next month on ... More >>

Teenagers Shot After Summer Night Lights Anti-Gang Program That Villaraigosa Planned to Show Off to U.S. Conference of Mayors Tonight

YouTubeSummer Night Lights.​Two teenagers were shot in Wilmington following a Summer Night Lights event, a program that is a cornerstone of L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's anti-gang efforts. In fact, Villaraigosa is the newly elected head of the U.S. Conference of Mayors, and he planned to ... More >>

Homeboy Diner to Open at LA City Hall

Celia Soudry​Homeboy Industries, a non-profit gang intervention group, will open its newest eatery, Homebody Diner, on Thursday -- this one inside City Hall. Founded by Father Greg Boyle in 1992, the organization already runs the semi-successful Homegirl CafĂ© near Chinatown and has, in the ... More >>

Celebrating National Salsa Month: 5 Places to Salsa

LA Weekly Flickr pool/R. E. ~Mexicali Taco & Co.'s salsa fresca​ It's May, which means it's National Salsa Month, (it's also National Hamburger Month, but we already pre-celebrated in our original burger round-up in February). Apparently, this commemorative holiday comes courtesy Pace Foods, ... More >>

The 42 Most Powerful People in Los Angeles*, According to the Downtown News

AEG CEO Tim Leiweke: He's got downtown Los Angeles in his hands​*Well, technically just in downtown Los Angeles, but that's where all the big players make all their big decisions anyway, right? Just ask a pissed-off Daily News outsider in the Valley. Jon Regardie at the LA Downtown News knows ... More >>

Homeboy Industries Launches Chips, Salsa A Food Truck

Celia Soudry​ A non-profit for at-risk youths, Homeboy Industries, has been a successful endeavor in many ways for founder Father Gregory Boyle. But is it financially profitable? Not quite. After a difficult year for the 19-year-old organization, Boyle decided it was time to launch a food prod ... More >>

L.A. County Throws $1.4 Million Lifeline To Gang Intervention Group Homeboy Industries

Boyle's bestseller.​The Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors on Tuesday threw a nearly $1.4 million lifeline to the financially ailing gang intervention organization Homeboy Industries, which in spring announced it had laid off 330 of 427 employees and would require a $5 million injection t ... More >>

LAX Concession Clash: Councilman Bernard Parks Hands $30 Million To Magic Johnson's Company

Ka-ching! Magic Johnson cashes in.​Overturning the wishes of LAX staff, a five-member council committee on Monday awarded an airport retail contract worth $30 million a year to a business group that includes Magic Johnson. Councilman Bernard Pa ... More >>

LOYOLAN AND TRUE

Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's Gang Intervention Program: Secrecy, Plagued By Bureaucratic Bungling, Lacking Accountability

​Witness LA and Spot.US deliver part two of a series on the city's, and more specifcially, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's $26 million anti-gang efforts, and it's not encouraging. Reporter Matthew Fleischer indicates the city has put a lot of its hopes -- and nearly all of its intervention doll ... More >>

Mayor Villaraigosa 'Saddened' By Anti-Gang Group Homeboy Industries' Financial Woes

Father Gregory Boyle's recently published book.​Reacting to this week's news that gang-prevention group Homeboy Industries had to lay off 330 of 427 employees, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa told Patt Morrison on her KPCC (89.3) radio show Friday that he was "saddened" and "concerned." Homeboy fo ... More >>

LA Oktoberfest This Weekend: Lederhosen, Barmaids, Bavarian Music, Oh And Beer

Katherine Sacks​There's no better way to celebrate the arrival of cool autumn days then by walking around downtown L.A. in a pair of lederhosen and drinking a strong German beer. This year, instead of paying for the expensive flight to Munich (or driving to Alpine Village in, umm, Torrance), c ... More >>

Best of L.A.: Shopping

Always Writing: 'Homeboy Review' Launches

Homeboy Industries, the anti-gang intervention program founded by Father Gregory Boyle, now has a literary wing in the form of the Homeboy Review, a 160-page anthology of memoir, poetry and fiction by first-time authors and the likes of such professionals as Luis Rodriguez (Always Running, La Vida L ... More >>

L.A. Gangs: Nine Miles and Spreading

More codeless, arbitrary and brutal than ever... and coming to a neighborhood near you

Clearing the Case

Ham-handed LAPD has trouble getting witnesses to talk in murder cases

The Withering Spotlight

“An American Family” role model faces a drug charge; ex-Crip and memoir writer haunted by his words

Old-School Bean & Cheese

A Fragile Peace

Frances and Luis Aguilar fight to get their children back. But it takes more than that to keep the family together. Tensions reach a boiling point.

Renaissance in the Barrio

Will mixed-income housing revitalize Boyle Heights? Or just chase out the poor?

All Chaos on the Home Front

Luis and Frances get a big break, and begin the rebuilding. Then things fall apart

Longing for a Reprieve

Luis dreams of a glimpse of freedom. But first he must deal with nightmares.

An American Family: Close to Breaking

The Aguilars face money problems, bad grades and near-constant arguing about Luis’ future

Hanging On — Barely

Luis’ lawyer loses faith, and neighbors want the Aguilars out

An American Family: Jail Time

A police raid threatens everything

An American Family: Living on the Verge

Chapter One: Starting all over — again

Marking the Chief

William Bratton’s report card shows talent and huge challenges

Zen and the Art of Sheriffing

Lee Baca’s Khaki Revolution

Flying the Flag

The debate over the latest gang crackdown

The Blue Bottom Line

Egos overcome reason in debate over more cops

Los Lobos

Antonio "The Heartthrob" Villaraigosa vs. Nick "The Choirboy" Pacheco for the welterweight championship of the city

The Long Wait

Staking out taggers with the LAPD

Miracles and Pain

The life and death of Roman Gonzalez

Crime Pays

. . . the phone company and the state. how inmate calls raise millions for Gray Davis’ budget

Letters

Streetwalkin' Times Woman