Articles tagged with culture

Today is the day of the Virgin of Guadalupe. Across Mexico – and the world – devotees flock to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe in the heart Mexico City to celebrate and pay tribute to the patron saint that Catholics call the Queen of Mexico and the Empress of the Americas.
Los Angeles is the second city with the largest of population of …

The Los Angeles Ballet wraps up its latest show, “NextWave LA,” with three performances at The Broad Stage in Santa Monica this weekend. NextWave includes new pieces by four Southern California choreographers — Kitty McNamee, Sonya Tayeh, Stacey Tookey and Josie Walsh — and the company has posted nifty videos of each choreographer discussing her work. Here’s Tookey:

You can see all the videos on …

Its early origins are unclear (but just may date back to the time of Confucius), but the popularity of Mah Jongg in this country is tied to the twenties and thirties, when ladies convened around colorful game boards to gossip, eat, gamble, and play. Starting this week, you can learn about the “game of sparrows” (so-called because of the click-clack of the tile pieces …

On Saturday, millions of Americans will celebrate a holiday that’s not what it seems to be. On Cinco de Mayo, it’ll be all things Mexican from LA to Denver to New York City. But the day will be celebrated in only one small part of Mexico itself. It’s about as Mexican as pastrami burritos. Whatever its history, it’s a lot of fun, and …

Warren talks with Professor Todd Boyd about LA culture around the time of the Rodney King riots.

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It’s been 20 years since the so-called Rodney King Riots, which broke out when four white LA police officers were acquitted of charges stemming from the beating of a drunk-driving suspect, an incident caught by an amateur photographer and televised world-wide. At five year intervals since then, Loyola Marymount’s Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles has polled residents about their city.  The …

Forget LACMA’s rock. MOCA’s had fireworks all week, courtesy the rock star artist from China,  Cai Guo-Qiang.  A team of volunteers helps prepare with stencils arranged on the enormous canvases before he ignites the flame. They’re then deployed with mitts to extinguish the embers: “When you’re putting out fires,” Cai said through a translator on Wednesday night, “please be careful not to step on …

Mouth watering music? Well-known cook and food writer Michael Ruhlman was on the bill with the acclaimed musical performance group, the LA Chamber Orchestra. Works by Rossini, Puccini, Schoenfield and de Falla were performed with introductions by Ruhlman about the influence of music on food, and vice versa.  We talked with the “maestro chef” before Thursday’s appearance.  He says cooking is just as much …

“You’re not judging if something is acceptable or not acceptable, you’re just trying to survive,” says Roy Choi (Kogi Korean Taco mastermind) about his parents: Korean immigrants trying to get by. “We did videotape stores, liquor stores, gas stations… for us, as Asians, we got into a segment of society that a lot of people want to throw a blanket over. ”
But, there was …