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Sean de Lear

Daniel Hernandez
A little-known piece of trivia about L.A. party icon Sean de Lear is that he’s certified to dive to 50 feet below sea level in open water. He recently got himself an underwater camera. “The ocean has never been photographed at night,” he explains. “For me it’s about night photography......

MacArthur Park Showdown

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Until Tuesday, the immigrant-rights movement had been defined by its buoyant, almost jubilant nature. Immigrants and their supporters had marched peacefully by the millions for more than a year in cities and towns across America, celebrating the dignity of their lives and their cause. All that changed on May Day......

Trouble at the L.A. Times

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Did the Los Angeles Times kill a front-page article about the fight over the recognition of the Armenian genocide because its writer, Mark Arax, is Armenian? It’s a question L.A. Times managing editor Douglas Frantz would probably prefer not to address. News broke earlier this week that Frantz killed Arax’s......

Turning the Tables

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When she was hired as general manager of KPFK (90.7 FM), Eva Georgia appeared to be a walking trophy of progressive brownie points: a black lesbian with an almost cinematic personal story of facing persecution as a leftist radio activist in South Africa. In the summer of 2002, after highly......
Arnold likes what he sees in Fabian Nez. (REUTERS/MAX WHITTAKER)

Prince or Troll?

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Sure, pretty much every Latino politician in L.A. starts out as a prince. But how long can they last? Familiarity breeds contempt, and once they’ve been in office a few years, some begin to look like, well, trolls. So how do L.A.’s MAPs stack up? The L.A. Weekly’s handy troll-o-meter......
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Milestones in MAP History

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{mosimage}1949Edward Roybal, an “Hispano” from New Mexico, becomes the first Mexican-American elected to the Los Angeles City Council, replacing Parley Parker Christensen. During Roybal’s 13-year tenure, he opposes the Chavez Ravine swap that clears the way for Dodger Stadium. Elected to Congress in 1963, he becomes California’s first Latino congressman......
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All Over the Map

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Rocky DelgadilloHair-gel success story Delgadillo is known for his slick, shiny hair, football-jock build and ability to alienate just about every elected official in City Hall. Classic MAP. He is often the butt of jokes in the press for his admitted delusion that he could one day make it to......
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Mexican American Princes: ¡Mas Suave!

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“Youngsters got to learn, got to recognize, that the cold heart of Hispanic ambition can leave your soul as dry as the Owens Valley.” —Norte/Sur, in the play Water & Power On March 13, with the firing squad of the Washington press corps standing before him, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales......
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Are You a Map?

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{mosimage}1. You are a “junior” or a II or III, or you are named after your grandfather.2. You have a degree from a four-year college in California. Preferably, Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA or USC. (For the intra-Latino Pac-10 football-weekend parties, of course.)3. There is a wall in your parents’ house......