Native-born Californians regain majority status - latimes.com

Native-born Californians regain majority status

A USC study finds that immigration has peaked in the state, a longtime melting pot. Border restrictions and the recession are seen as factors.

By Teresa Watanabe and Hector Becerra

California has long been the ultimate melting pot, with the majority of its population coming from outside the state.

Dust Bowl emigres, Asian railroad workers, high-tech entrepreneurs, Mexican laborers and war refugees from around the globe flocked to California. The majority migrant population filled the state's myriad labor needs, challenged the schools with a cacophony of new languages and roiled its politics with immigration debates.

But, in a dramatic demographic shift, California's narrative as the nation's quintessential immigrant state is giving way to a new reality.

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LL Cool J Slams Sarah Palin's New TV Show | NBC New York

LL Cool J Slams Sarah Palin's New TV Show

Rapper and musician Toby Keith allege that Fox recycled old interview

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LL Cool J says there's something phony about Sarah Palin's new TV show -- he never signed up to appear on it.

Rapper LL Cool J hit back at reports Tuesday that seemed to imply a one-on-one sitdown with conservative media darling Sarah Palin, accusing the Fox News network of “lifting” an old interview for its own promotional purposes.

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'Stand and Deliver' teacher dies of cancer - CNN.com

Stand and Deliver' teacher dies of cancer

By Alan Duke

March 31, 2010 2:15 a.m. EDT

Jaime Escalante turned the failing calculus program at Garfield High into one of the nation's best.

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• Escalante, 79, died at his home in Roseville, California
• Teacher turned around failing calculus program at a Los Angeles high school
• Escalante was portrayed by actor Edward James Olmos in the 1988 film "Stand and Deliver"

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Los Angeles, California (CNN) -- Jaime Escalante, the math teacher portrayed in the 1988 film "Stand and Deliver," died Tuesday after a battle with cancer, according to the actor who played him.

Escalante, 79, was surrounded by his wife, children and grandchildren when he died at his home in Roseville, California, said Edward James Olmos.

Olmos visited Escalante's bedside Monday night, he said.

"We lost one of the true giants of education and inspiration in this country," Olmos said. "He really made us understand that it didn't matter what color, race, creed or ethnicity any of us are."

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10 Years on, ‘The Genome Revolution Is Only Just Beginning’ | Wired Science | Wired.com

10 Years on, ‘The Genome Revolution Is Only Just Beginning’

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• March 31, 2010 |
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Almost 10 years after the celebrated completion of the human genome’s first draft, the expected revolution in medicine and research has only partly come to pass.

The human genome’s sequencing has profoundly influenced basic research and the refinement of genome-reading tools. But those advances have had only limited medical impacts.

“The promise of a revolution in human health remains quite real,” wrote Francis Collins, director of the National Institutes of Health, in an essay published March 31 in Nature. “Those who somehow expected dramatic results overnight may be disappointed.”

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Redesigned YouTube Takes Aim at the Boob Tube, Trolls (Updated) | Epicenter | Wired.com

Redesigned YouTube Takes Aim at the Boob Tube, Trolls (Updated)

The sleeker YouTube redesign has yet to roll out as of 12:17 p.m. EDT, but here's an early version.

YouTube will change the look of every single one of its video pages Wednesday afternoon with a redesign meant to reduce visual noise and clutter, make it friendlier to watch longer-form content, increase viewing time, and introduce new playlists that follow you around the site as you search, browse and watch.

If you read our coverage of the stealth rollout back in January, you’ve already been able to access some of this redesign using a special link. YouTube is rolling the changes out across its entire site, so that starting Wednesday evening, every visitor will encounter the new redesign.

The problem with YouTube as it existed this morning, according to senior product manager Shiva Rajaraman, is that the site launched too many features in 2009 — more than in the previous two years combined — and tried to cram them onto the video-playback page without enough concern for how people were using them.

“The basic idea was that pixels were cheap, and what that meant is that there was a lot of wasteful use of real estate,” said Rajaraman during a press conference call on Wednesday afternoon. “In the future, pixels will be expensive. We’re going to guard, essentially, the usage of our page and ensure that only the actions that matter are presented there, as opposed to showing all actions all the time.”

Extensive focus groups and user testing over the past several months revealed the need for a number of changes:

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Urban Legend Watch: Cyberwar Attack on U.S. Central Command | Threat Level | Wired.com

Urban Legend Watch: Cyberwar Attack on U.S. Central Command

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• March 31, 2010 |
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Claim: A foreign government’s computer hackers were found lurking on a classified U.S. military network in 2008.

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More than 20 years ago, the United States realized that having an advantage in “intangible factors” — more information, better communications, greater precision — was as important as having more tanks or airplanes. Some call it a “force multiplier.” Cyber capabilities are a force multiplier. Having an “informational advantage” makes U.S. forces more effective. The people who plan to fight us are looking for ways to undo that advantage. Cyberattack is one.

These are not hypothetical capabilities. Other nations’ intelligence services frequently penetrate our networks. So far, they have been more interested in stealing than disruption. But in December 2008, unknown foreign intruders were able to break into Central Command’s classified networks and sit there.

Variations: A November 2009 version sighted on the CBS News magazine 60 Minutes moves the date of the putative cyber attack to November 2008, and expands on the identity and capabilities of the supposed intruders. “The malicious code opened a backdoor for a foreign power to get into the system … They could see what the traffic was, they could read documents, they could interfere with things.”

Origins: Tales of “cyberwar” and “cyberterrorist” threats against the U.S. and other countries first circulated almost two decades ago. After briefly subsiding following the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, the stories resurfaced, reaching a fever pitch in the Fall of 2009. The stories appear to be most frequently circulated by government contractors and credulous mainstream media.

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The Rising Stars of Gossip Blogs - NYTimes.com

The Rising Stars of Gossip Blogs

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From left, Steve Krakauer, TV editor of Mediaite.com; Erin Carlson, editor of Crushable; Fred Mwangaguhunga, MediaTakeOut.com; Maureen O’Connor, Gawker weekend editor; Tommye Fitzpatrick, of Fashionologie; Lilit Marcus, editor of The Gloss; Sara Polsky, a writer for Curbed; and Foster Kamer of the Village Voice; Not shown: Bess Levin, editor of Dealbreaker.

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IT had all the elements for the perfect tabloid gossip item — a clash between star financial journalists, big egos and a surprise ouster that had Wall Street buzzing: Henry Blodget, the well-known disgraced-analyst-turned-financial-pundit and co-founder of the much-read blog, The Business Insider, stunned the financial community last week by firing John Carney, the star managing editor of the site’s Clusterstock blog, reportedly because of philosophical differences over the site’s coverage.

The news, which was quickly picked up by the Reuters financial blogger Felix Salmon, who subsequently sparked an online spat of his own with Mr. Blodget, did not break in a gossip column like The New York Post’s Page Six or in the pages of The Wall Street Journal, which in a previous era might have owned this story. Rather, the scoop came from a 25-year-old Village Voice gossip blogger and University of Utah dropout named Foster Kamer.

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LEBANON: Memoir sheds light on the life and struggles of Arab transsexual from Algeria | Babylon & Beyond | Los Angeles Times

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The threatening letters and phone calls at night trickled in at a steady pace. They had become a part of everyday life for Randa, an Algerian transsexual and one of the pioneers in the Arab world's gay and transsexual activist movement.

One letter dropped in Randa's mailbox said, "We will kill you." Another one read, "You are a threat to all Muslims in Algeria." In mosques around the country, Randa's name was being circulated. Still, she refused to be intimidated and shrugged off the threats.

But one day, a friend showed up at her house in Algiers, the Algerian capital, with a worried look on his face. He had bad news.

"One my friends took me for a ride in his car and told me, 'You have 10 days to leave the country,'" Randa, the author of a new book about her experiences, said in an interview with Babylon & Beyond. "Influential people had come to talk to him."

She knew she had to move quickly, but she had no idea where she'd go. Getting a visa to Europe would certainly take longer than 10 days. No, they'd get her before that, Randa figured. A visa to Lebanon, however, would only take a few days. And she had friends in Beirut.

So, Lebanon it was.

A year later, Randa, wearing a long black dress, high heels and sporting new black hair extensions, is greeting crowds of guests and reporters with a smile on her face at a signing for her memoir in t

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An Exotic Look Into Colombia’s Drug Wars - NYTimes.com

An Exotic Look Into Colombia’s Drug Wars

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CALI, Colombia — Of all the animals that come to die under Ana Julia Torres’s samán trees, the ocelots are among the most numerous. There are eight of them here, seized from the estate of a murdered cocaine trafficker, who apparently collected them in the belief that any self-respecting drug lord should always have eight ocelots in his dominion.

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Hard-to-kill snails infest Santa Monica Mountain watersheds - latimes.com

Hard-to-kill snails infest Santa Monica Mountain watersheds

Even Formula 409 has proven ineffective at destroying the New Zealand mudsnail, an asexually reproducing invasive species that poses a threat to steelhead restoration efforts and native creatures.

Researcher Jack Topel looks for New Zealand mudsnails in Medea Creek. (Brian Vander Brug / Los Angeles Times)

They're nearly always pregnant, like the mythical tribbles of "Star Trek" fame. They pass through gullets of fish unfazed. And they could bring disaster to native bugs, frogs and steelhead restoration efforts in the Santa Monica Mountains.

New Zealand mudsnails have taken over four watersheds in the Santa Monica Mountains and are spreading fast, expanding from the first confirmed sample in Medea Creek in Agoura Hills to nearly 30 other stream sites in four years.

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Back To The '80s, This Time In A Hot Tub : NPR

Back To The '80s, This Time In A Hot Tub

by Ian Buckwalter

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Blast To The Past: Three best friends and a sidekick — played by Craig Robinson (left), Rob Corddry, John Cusack and Clark Duke — get sent back to their party-hearty days, the better to right past wrongs and re-create their futures.

Hot Tub Time Machine

Twentieth-century pop culture has produced some certifiably unlikely designs for the time machine — and if you can accept a blue London police call box or a DeLorean, then a hot tub isn't that much more of a stretch. Once you've cleared that hurdle, every other wild implausibility in Hot Tub Time Machine should make perfect sense.

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The Tea Thieves: How A Drink Shaped An Empire : NPR

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For All the Tea in China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History
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By the mid-19th century, Britain was an almost unchallenged empire. It controlled about a fifth of the world's surface, and yet its weakness had everything to do with tiny leaves soaked in hot water. By 1800, tea was easily the most popular drink in the country. The problem? All the tea in the world came from China, and Britain couldn't control the quality or the price. So around 1850, a group of British businessmen set out to create a tea industry in a place they did control: India.

For All the Tea In China: How England Stole the World's Favorite Drink and Changed History is Sarah Rose's account of the effort to control the tea market, what she calls the "greatest single act of corporate espionage in history."

"The task required a plant hunter, a gardener, a thief, a spy. The man Britain needed was Robert Fortune," Rose writes. Fortune was the agent sent to sneak out of China the plants and secrets of tea production.

Before Fortune, England engaged in trade with China, sending opium in exchange for tea.

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Four 'Hellraisers,' Living It Up In The Public Eye : NPR

He'll Play This Bout First: Peter O'Toole starred as Hamlet in an Old Vic production directed by Laurence Olivier in 1963. What's in the glass is anyone's guess.

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Richard Burton, Richard Harris, Oliver Reed and Peter O' Toole were among the four greatest actors of their generation. Onstage, they brought new vigor to Shakespeare and Shaw. Onscreen, they made British cinema sexy in classic films including Lawrence of Arabia, Oliver, Becket and This Sporting Life. They classed up Hollywood cheese like Cleopatra.

They also, in the words of Oliver Reed, didn't live "in the world of sobriety" — thus, Hellraisers, a new book about these four legends who lived in the same time and place. The stories collected in it make you wonder how they made any art at all between drinking binges, pub crawls and pub brawls, public scenes of ribaldry and all-around boorishne

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Author Examines 'The History Of White People' : NPR

Author Examines 'The History Of White People'

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Conversations about race often focus on what it means to be black, and throughout American history, laws have struggled with the rights of people of mixed race. But in her new book, The History of White People, historian Nell Irvin Painter explores the concept of whiteness — and explains how many ethnic groups now regarded as white, from Irish, Jews, Italians were once excluded from mainstream American society.

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Sex infection gonorrhea risks becoming superbug | Reuters

Sex infection gonorrhea risks becoming "superbug"

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LONDON (Reuters) - The sexually transmitted disease gonorrhea risks becoming a drug-resistant "superbug" if doctors do not devise new ways of treating it, a leading sexual health expert said.

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Catherine Ison, a specialist on gonorrhea from Britain's Health Protection Agency said a World Health Organization (WHO) meeting in Manila next week would be vital to efforts to try to stop the bug repeatedly adapting to and overcoming drugs.

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iPad to hit stores Saturday as consumer test begins | Reuters

iPad to hit stores Saturday as consumer test begins

Media members try out the new ''iPad'' during the launch of Apple's new tablet computing device in San Francisco, California, January 27, 2010.

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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - After months of hype, speculation and secrecy, Apple Inc will finally put the iPad tablet to the test that truly matters: the buying public.

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IPad sales are widely expected to rocket out of the gate this Saturday, helped by the scores of core Apple fans who are expected to line up hours before U.S. stores open at 9 a.m. on the East Coast, to be among the first to play with the new gadget, which costs a minimum of $499.

Although those who preordered the iPad will be able to pick it up on April 3, those placing online orders more recently have been told that their device may not ship until April 12.

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Long Island Man Testifies About Hate-Crime Attack - NYTimes.com

Teenager Testifies About Attacking Latinos for Sport

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Nicholas Hausch testified Monday that he and his friends called Marcelo Lucero and his friend “beaner” and “Mexican.”

RIVERHEAD, N.Y. — It was a Friday night in November 2008, and three Long Island teenagers looking for something to do ended up talking about going “beaner hopping.”

Nicholas Hausch, 18, testifying on Monday in State Supreme Court here, described what that meant. “It’s when you go out and you look for a Hispanic to beat up,” Mr. Hausch told the packed courtroom.

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Youth may pay a lot more for health premiums - Health care- msnbc.com

Youth may pay a lot more for health premiums

Costs expected to rise 17 percent once insurance is required

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Nils Higdon, 24, is a self-employed percussionist and music teacher. Higdon and other young Americans may face a 17 percent increase in health insurance premiums beginning in 20

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Ricky Martin is ‘a fortunate homosexual man’ - Access Hollywood - msnbc.com

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Singer Ricky Martin says that thinking about his twin sons Matteo, left and Valentino, led him to come out.

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Interest in white supremacist groups rise, Expert Predicts More Growth on The Louisiana Weekly

Interest in white supremacist groups rise, Expert Predicts More Growth

By: Jamisha Purdy, NNPA Special Correspondent

Posted: Monday, November 24, 2008 2:17 pm

WASHINGTON (NNPA) - Since Barack Obama's historic win as America's first Black president, there has been a membership hike in White supremacist groups, according the Alabama-based Southern Poverty Law Center, which tracks and monitors hate groups across the nation. SPLC Director Mark Potock says groups, including the Council of Conservative Citizens - which supports White nationalism and White separatism - claim that its membership has dramatically increased since Election Day.

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Man pleads guilty in plot to go on 'killing spree' against blacks - CNN.com

Man pleads guilty in plot to go on 'killing spree' against blacks

By the CNN Wire Staff

March 29, 2010 10:17 p.m. EDT

Daniel Cowart of Bells, Tennessee, faces up to 75 years in prison, the Justice Department said.

STORY HIGHLIGHTS

• Daniel Cowart of Tennessee and Paul Schlesselman of Arkansas face prison time
• Pair conspired to kill more than 100 African-Americans, including Obama
• Men were arrested in October 2008 after an aborted robbery attempt

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(CNN) -- A Tennessee man accused of planning a "killing spree" against African-Americans in a 2008 plot that included then-presidential candidate Barack Obama as a target, pleaded guilty Monday to eight charges in connection with the crime, the U.S. Department of Justice said.

Daniel Cowart, 21, of Bells, Tennessee, admitted to conspiring with Paul Schlesselman of West Helena, Arkansas, in planning to kill more than 100 African-Americans, according to the Justice Department.

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Unearthing the Sex Secrets of the Périgord Black Truffle - NYTimes.com

The black truffle of Périgord, the cynosure of every foodie’s dreams, is about to yield its most intimate secrets to a team of French and Italian researchers who have decoded its genome. Surely a great day for gastronomy and yet — truffle-lovers be advised — some of the new discoveries may reveal more than you really wanted to know.

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Truffles are the fruit of fungi that infect the roots of certain trees. They are of keen interest to pigs, particularly sows, because some secrete androstenol, a hormone produced by boars before mating. People who use sows to hunt for truffles often find it hard to prevent a sex-crazed animal from eating the truffle she has found and may lose fingers in the attempt.

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Moscow Attack a Test for Putin and His Record Against Terror - NYTimes.com

Moscow Attack a Test for Putin and His Record Against Terror

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MOSCOW — The brazen suicide bombings in the center of Moscow confronted Prime Minister Vladimir V. Putin with a grave challenge to his record of curbing terrorism, and raised the possibility that he would respond as he had in the past, by significantly tightening control over the government.

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Graphic Tales: June 2008

Monday, June 23, 2008

Orozco to Dartmouth: Kilroy Was Here!

I wrote this several days ago, while traveling. With the opportunity to scare up some images, I'm getting to the task of putting it up. I will admit straightaway that I don't know a great deal about the Dartmouth murals, beyond what I was able to read in the materials provided. So what follows is a riff, an associative essaylet.

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José Clemente Orozco - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

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José Clemente Orozco
Born	November 23, 1883(1883-11-23) Ciudad Guzmán, Mexico
Died	September 7, 1949 (aged 65) Mexico City, Mexico
Nationality	Mexican
Field	Painting, Muralist
Training	San Carlos Academy
Movement	Mexican Mural Movement, Social Realism

José Clemente Orozco (November 23, 1883 – September 7, 1949) was a Mexican social realist painter, who specialized in bold murals that established the Mexican Mural Renaissance together with murals by Diego Rivera, David Alfaro Siqueiros, and others. Orozco was the most complex of the Mexican muralists, fond of the theme of human suffering, but less realistic and more fascinated by machines than Rivera. Mostly influenced by Symbolism, he was also a genre painter and lithographer. Between 1922 and 1948, Orozco painted murals in Mexico City, Orizaba, Claremont, California, New York City, Hanover, New Hampshire, Guadalajara, Jalisco, and Jiquilpan, Michoacán. His drawings and paintings are exhibited by the Carrillo Gil Museum in Mexico City, and the Orozco Workshop-Museum in Guadalajara.^[1] Orozco was known for being a politically committed artist. He promoted the political causes of peasants and workers.^[2]

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The Temple of the Inscriptions, Mayan ruins of Palenque, Chiapas, Mexico (copyright 2007 BrownPride.com)

Temple of the Inscriptiones, Palenque, Chiapas Mexico

Three limestone panels with hieroglyphic inscriptions give this temple its name. The buildings pilasters are decorated with modeled stucco reliefs. Walking through its interior one finds an imposing funeral crypt decorated with bas reliefs where the sarcophagus of the Lord Sun Shield (Pacal) is located. He ruled Palenque from 615 to 683 A.D. The bas reliefs on the stone slab show the name, origin, and ancestors of this ruler. There is also a large central scene that recreates his death and furthermore shows the celestial heavens, various gods, symbols and signs that together represent a synthesis of the Mayan cosmic vision. The crypt's walls have depictions of the nine lords of the night.

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The Art And Life of CHAZ BOJORQUEZ | New Book March 2010

The Art and Life of Chaz Bojorquez: Curated by Marco Klefisch & Alberto Scabbia will be released on March 31, 2010.

This monograph charts the life and career of Chaz Bojorquez, known as "Chaz," a Los Angeles-born Mexican-American artist who began in the "Cholo" gang graffiti tradition but quickly arrived at his own groundbreaking style. This book includes previously unreleased photographs and traces the artist's story in fascinating detail.



Curated by Marco Klefisch and Alberto Scabbia, "THE ART AND LIFE OF CHAZ BOJÓRQUEZ" is the first monograph about Chaz Bojórquez, the artist that has influenced whole generations of street artists, writers and tattooists.

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Homeboy Industries Mural, Boyle Heights

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Mexico-Tenochtitlan "The Wall That Talks", Highland Park

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El Museo del Barrio New York

El Museo del Barrio New York

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TOOMER, Graffiti Writer featured in Infamy, of TKO crew

Infamy featured artist Toomer, now a gigantic, bald headed Mexican-American Chicano man of 30 years old, got his start in graffiti in 1988 as a junior high schooler in the gang-ridden neighborhood of South Los Angeles. Toomer describes the neighborhood as “a couple feet from South Central, Watts, and Compton. In the early 1990s, every time I went out my house there was some car driving by and someone shooting out it.” While gangs are territorial, graffiti is about exploring and painting in new places. Toomer remembers that “I’d go south from my house to go to a shopping area and I would get hassled by one gang. If I went north, to go buy some food, I would get hassled by another. I couldn’t really paint in my little town because there was a gang problem, so I would go to other parts of the city. In the early ‘nineties I practically lived in downtown LA and had everything crushed with graffiti.”

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The Zapotec Civilization Mural by Diego Rivera

The Zapotec Civilization Mural by Diego Rivera

This Diego Rivera mural represents the Zapotec and Mixtec Mesoamerican civilizations of Pre-Columbian Mexico. They developed in the region where the Mexican state of Oaxaca is located today. In the upper part in the center is the Balsas River, where the natives are gathering and panning for gold. To the right are some wild orchids growing as parasites on the trees, to the left are bird hunters with bows and arrows, black vultures and birds on the roof of the Indigenous huts, and four Quetzals are in a (cage; in the upper part extremely to the left in the same jungle are enormous nets, and traps for catching wild animals and birds of fine plumage.

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BrownPride.com : Chicano / Latino Artists | Chicano / Latino Street Murals

"Generations of Attitudes" by Gaspar Enriquez of El Paso, Texas. (Photo by Sal Rojas Photography)

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A Brief History of Chicano Murals

"Division of the Barrios and Chavez Ravine," by Judith Baca, segment of the Great Wall of Los Angeles, 1983. Coldwater Canyon Blvd. between Burbank and Oxnard Boulevards, Van Nuys/Hollywood border. Sponsored by SPARC

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Signs From The Heart: California Chicano Murals by Weber , Cockcroft and Cockcroft (9780826314482) | Borders

Signs From The Heart: California Chicano Murals synopsis

Over the past twenty-five years, Chicano artists have made a unique contribution to public art in California, transforming thousands of walls into colourful artwork that express the dreams, achievements, aspirations, and cultural identity of the Mexican-American community. This book tells the inside story of this new and important American art form in four interpretative essays by noted Chicano scholars about its historical, artistic and educational significance.

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Howard Halle Uber Pans The New Museum’s Skin Fruit

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Installation view, Skin Fruit, New Museum. Photo: AFC

Wow. Time Out New York’s Howard Halle really hates Skin Fruit: Selections from the Dakis Joannou Collection, an exhibition currently on view at the New Museum. Let’s run down the list of zingers:

• a perfect storm of wretchedness brought on by the collision of too much wealth and too little taste

a consensual hallucination—one in which everyone agrees that NewMu board member Joannou is some sort of

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