The Power of Art and Youth

Luis J. Rodriguez | August 17, 2008

This past Saturday, August 16, Luis Villanueva, a high school student, and the Los Angeles Mural Experiment, an art group he started, had a mural inauguration at Dyer Street Elementary School in the community of Sylmar in the Northeast San Fernando Valley. This mural project is sponsored by the Young Warriors, the arts-based youth empowerment [...]

Tia Chucha’s 2nd Annual Benefit Event — an Amazing Evening of Music, Poetry, Aztec Dance, Hip Hop, Comedy & More

Luis J. Rodriguez | August 4, 2008

All I can say is a great big thank you to Angelinos from all over the LA area — Chicanos, Mexicanos, Centro Americanos, but also African Americans, Asians, Pacific Islanders, and European Americans — who came out on a hot August evening on Sunday to help Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural, the nonprofit cultural space and [...]