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Topic Archive: Cultures & clashes
Jamiel Shaw, the high school athlete whose murder has provided a new rallying cry for the right in the immigration wars, may have been killed...
Posted May 11, 2008 03:12 PM
Cal State Long Beach psychology professor Kevin MacDonald is a hero of the anti-Semitic crowd for writing that Jews have evolved as a tribal elite...
Posted May 9, 2008 12:21 AM
Our blogger-columnist Bill Boyarsky covered a march Downtown on Friday by 700-1,000 janitors and renters of the slum housing around MacArthur Park. It got him...
Posted April 29, 2008 03:55 PM
Grant High School has been plagued for years by clashes between Latino and Armenian students — dating, some say, to hard feelings over the response...
Posted April 24, 2008 09:20 AM
Now in the anchor chair at Fox 11, Carlos Amezcua blasts his former station in the May issue of Tu Ciudad. "When Hal Fishman died,...
Posted April 24, 2008 12:10 AM
Sheriff's deputies used tear gas to put down a riot that broke out Tuesday afternoon and involved 400 or so detainees at the Mira Loma...
Posted April 23, 2008 07:53 AM
Today's Daily News reports on this Passover's shortage of matzoh at chain stores such as Costco, Ralphs, Vons and Trader Joe's. I guess they read...
Posted April 23, 2008 07:48 AM
I didn't even know they made such a thing as kosher Coca-Cola, but apparently it's big around Passover. Or used to be. Frank Girardot, city...
Posted April 22, 2008 02:58 PM
Regarding this afternoon's item on a shortage of matzoh for Passover, mileages vary: "I noticed the shortage too! I live in a very Jewish neighborhood…..near...
Posted April 21, 2008 09:13 PM
Media in the Bay Area have been reporting all weekend on the difficulty of finding the unleavened crackers for Passover, due in part to big-box...
Posted April 21, 2008 01:24 PM
'Tis the season for new Los Angeles-focused releases — and the week for book parties — with the Times Festival of Books on tap this...
Posted April 21, 2008 12:36 AM
Rev. Eric Lee says the whole episode in which philanthropist (and Hillary Clinton supporter) Daphna Ziman accused him of anti-Semitic remarks has been wearing and...
Posted April 17, 2008 12:56 PM
Fox 11 reporter John Schwada has posted quotes from a video where Sheriff Lee Baca tells a mostly black audience in Compton that some Latino...
Posted April 15, 2008 02:29 PM
The Rev. Eric Lee, head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in L.A., today sent an apology to Daphna Ziman, the philanthropist who stalked out...
Posted April 10, 2008 10:55 PM
Rev. Eric Lee, president and CEO of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference in Los Angeles, denies he said "the Jews have made money on us...
Posted April 10, 2008 08:31 AM
Betty Pleasant, the Wave's Soulvine columnist, has been hammering away that there is a racial aspect to the gang murders sweeping South Los Angeles and...
Posted March 27, 2008 09:25 AM
Every so often we get a glimpse of how things really work, without the cautionary impulse and spinning that takes over when people are talking...
Posted March 26, 2008 11:55 AM
Just fyi, this is the day that heart surgery is scheduled at Children's Hospital for Davik Teng, the 9-year-old girl from rural Cambodia who was...
Posted March 24, 2008 12:53 AM
In his blog on the Times website, Kareem Abdul-Jabbar says that one of the most common perceptions of him when he played basketball — that...
Posted March 21, 2008 10:41 PM
Twelve U.S. journalists from ethnic media have been selected to take part in a week-long program, "Immigration: Reporting the Full Story," put on March 16-23...
Posted March 11, 2008 05:27 PM
The newspaper based in Monterey Park was hit with damages, penalties and interest in the class-action suit won by reporters and other staffers last year....
Posted March 2, 2008 01:53 PM
The Forward interviews Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and calls him "something of an honorary member of the tribe." “He’s basically treated as if he’s a Sephardic...
Posted February 26, 2008 12:17 PM
The new L.A. Times news blog looks and acts freakishly like LA Observed, often posting on the same news nuggets after we do. (And sometimes...
Posted February 20, 2008 08:34 PM
Kareem Abdul Jabbar's blog on the Times website seems to be working its way through his personal African American Hall of Fame — the latest...
Posted February 15, 2008 05:19 PM
President Felipe Calderón of Mexico was in Chicago and the Bay Area yesterday. Today he'll address the Legislature in Sacramento and visit the Napa Valley,...
Posted February 13, 2008 12:36 AM
In his last piece left in the can for the LA Weekly before taking his keyboard to Mexico, Daniel Hernandez uses Elizabeth Palacios's troubles with...
Posted February 12, 2008 11:18 PM
Trader Joe's will give up single-ingredient items from China, such as garlic and frozen spinach, by April 1. Products that include ingredients from China will...
Posted February 11, 2008 02:35 PM
This whole battle for the Latino vote between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama keeps getting more intriguing. Today, the state's biggest Spanish-language newspaper endorsed Obama,...
Posted February 2, 2008 10:10 AM
The most popular radio host in Los Angeles — and probably the nation — gave Sen. Edward Kennedy the royal treatment this yesterday morning, before...
Posted February 1, 2008 12:04 PM
In the midst of a spree of retaliatory shootings that has left two three dead and two other victims injured, the gang situation in the...
Posted January 30, 2008 03:15 PM
Irene Hirano will step down next year as president of the Japanese American National Museum in Little Tokyo. But that's not her big news. She...
Posted January 30, 2008 03:05 PM
In this week's ¡Ask a Mexican! column in the LA and OC Weekly(ies) — and around the country, I presume — Gustavo Arellano delves into...
Posted November 21, 2007 09:29 PM
OK, just kidding about that. But who knew her older sister is a rabbi on a kibbutz in Israel? I guess you would if you...
Posted November 19, 2007 12:47 AM
An email correspondent caught me up with angryasianman.com by Phil Yu, a 27-year-old Korean American who was the subject of a story last month (!)...
Posted November 18, 2007 02:36 PM
Ciudad's culinary guide to Latin dining in the November issue ranges from La Casita Mexicana in Bell to La Super-Rica Taquería in Santa Barbara, and...
Posted November 13, 2007 01:20 AM
Jay Levin's forthcoming RealTalk LA (and RealTalkLA.com) will try to "reinvent the concept of a city magazine and create the next evolution of the local...
Posted April 2, 2007 08:08 AM
The now-18-year-old girl got probation and community service like the others, but did not receive sixty days of house arrest. She told the judge she...
Posted February 6, 2007 12:48 PM
Four of the African American juveniles found guilty of attacking three white women in a Halloween mob were sentenced to probation and house arrest for...
Posted February 2, 2007 06:15 PM
Allegations of felony assault against nine juveniles are found to be true, not true for the youngest accused. The hate crime allegations are also found...
Posted January 26, 2007 01:58 PM
L.A.'s Latino vs. black gang violence lands on the front page of the NYT, with a web slide show of photos. The county's choice for...
Posted January 17, 2007 01:12 AM
Suspected gang members backed into and nearly totaled the car of a black woman who has been testifying for several days in the racially inflamed...
Posted December 6, 2006 02:11 AM
On the occasion of the paperback release of his well-received first novel, The People of Paper, Salvador Plascencia talks with guest blogger Daniel A. Olivas...
Posted December 1, 2006 11:39 AM
A Halloween night attack on three white women by 20 to 40 blacks (according to the Press-Telegram) is causing a lot of community upset in...
Posted November 17, 2006 12:31 AM
Jack Miles' essay asking if Lebanon is Israel's Iraq — and whether the war on Hezbollah is a miscalculation that might leave Israel worse off...
Posted August 4, 2006 02:20 PM
The impressive photos of the afternoon are the aerial shots of a solid string of marchers extending across all lanes of Wilshire Boulevard for a...
Posted May 1, 2006 06:15 PM
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