Dan Guerrero at The Bing Theater at LACMA Photo Credit: Luther Orrick-Guzman On a fresh summer night in L.A., there’s always so much going on. This past Thursday Dan Guerrero gave a presentation called “Platica” at the Plaza De Cultura
The psychology involved in the aesthetics Photo courtesy of David Lena and GSA In 2013 the Federal Government announced in a salivating press release that they had indicted 13 people of the Mexican Mafia and the La Familia Drug Cartel.
I was looking for something to watch the other day and I found myself instinctively opening my family’s Amazon Firestick and login for the Netflix app before switching to the Hulu app to see if anything interesting was on there.
Amateur boxers take the Green Belt Challenge at South El Monte High SchoolPhoto Credit: Cecilia Sulaiman Who is the WBC? To many boxers and fight fans it may be the holy grail. To some LA Canvas readers it may be
Pinoe, who is like, THE queer icon when it comes to out footballers, is pretty much the only thing that makes me proud to be an American. She also just launched a new company with Meghan Klingenberg, Christen Press and Tobin Heath,
The Sister of Perpetual Indulgence. Photo by Harrison Pearl @harrisonpearlphoto. People come from far and wide to attend RuPaul’s DragCon. The event has grown from a subculture phenomenon (driven by the rising popularity of RuPaul’s Drag Race), to a huge
As 20GayTeen came to an end, the People bid the successful year of positive representation and support goodbye and carried the energy into the new year, 20BiTeen. The excitement of this momentum spills into the upcoming yearly LGBTQ+ festivities this
In its almost 70-decade long history, Bollywood has seen the female lead take on many forms, from the sacrificing mother, whimpering damsel in distress, to a woman in charge of her own destiny. But the one thing that becomes clear when you
Selling more than 215,000 copies in the three weeks following its American debut, Richard Wright’s 1940 novel, Native Son, successfully captivated readers nationwide. The story of Bigger Thomas—a hardened, murderous black 20-year-old confronting poverty in Depression-era Chicago—thrust audiences into a complicated
Growing up Asian American, I often questioned my own identity. In technical terms, I am Filipino-American. I was born here, I grew up in the United States and have no deep personal connection to any homeland in Asia besides the
Source: Amber Christine Photography Outside of the Watts towers, riots and zoot suiters, what do you know about the city of Watts? Originally Watts was a railroad town with nothing in it. In the 1930’s and 40’s, Watts was an
Ace DTLA. Los Angeles, California. 2014 It’s Women’s History Month 2019, and I’ve just learned about the Scott Lloyd practice of tracking refugee’s menstrual cycles hasn’t ended and what that may mean for their constitutional reproductive rights potentially still being
Boxer Michael “El Calentano” Norato wins by unanimous decision Photo Credit Chris Fu The battle of the Rising Stars was more like the battle of the brutal warriors. This evening served up a platter of black eyes, bruised ribs, with
In the first few moments of Dawn Richard’s new album, New Breed, you are immediately transported back in time and space to New Orleans, where it all began for the singer-songwriter. Richard wistfully retells the stories of her Catholic school days,
Lizzie McGuire Source: Disney Channel It’s the year of 2019. Millennials are the largest population, surpassing the Baby Boomers. Then comes Gen. Z, which often gets mixed into the millennial and Gen. Alpha categorization. Gen. Z is the generation of
Melanie Martinez There was a time on Twitter when everyone praised a painting. The painting went from beautiful to disturbing when people found out the painting was done by Nazi leader, Adolf Hitler. Art is art, isn’t it? Or should
Photo by Steven Cleghorn on Unsplash Nobody ever has or ever will write a fairy tale about divorce. Just imagine Cinderella telling Prince Charming that they need to spend some time apart. Or Beast informing Beauty of his plans
Gervonta Davis delivers a right in red. Courtesy Premier Boxing Champions The young champion boxers of today are rock stars like no others. Gervonta Davis vs Hugo Ruiz was a title fight for the Super Featherweight Championship February 9th at
Black women. So desirable. So vivacious. So accredited. Imagine taking the power of the sun, and harmonizing with it. I Love the black woman. There are so many wonderful traits and characteristics that black women possess, one can easily become
Rocsi Diaz The face of boxing happens to be a beautiful one. Every boxing event you watch will have one of these women in front or behind the camera. There’s no doubt after interviewing all four of these women in
Jay A. Brown, courtesy of the Brown family The daughter of a former political aide had no idea she had a piece of history sitting in a drawer. In May of 1964, less than one year after making his “I
Source: Cladwell. Photo credit: Dylan Engels. Despite being grateful for finding a rental home so quickly after losing her previous one to the Woolsey Fire, my mother was not altogether pleased. “Krystyn,” she seethed, “It’s a Millennial Barn!” I had
Artist and LAAC member Lauren Halsey, pictured on the the Club’s basketball court. Los Angeles, CA: Established in 1880, The Los Angeles Athletic Club has been operating out of its building at the corner of 7th and Olive Streets in
Charles Bukowski by Carl Mikoy Whether you’re suffering from a broken heart, too many parking tickets, or just your run-of-the-mill existential crises, my advice is to look to Bukowski. When he was asked why he was alone on a Friday
