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On Mexico's Carlos Monsivais: 1938-2010
La PlazaMonsiváis was a journalist, a critic, a cinephile, a collector of historical and pop ephemera (which led eventually to the founding of a museum), and a tireless activist for human rights, indigenous rights, and gay rights. In hundreds of articles and... -
Google celebrates Frida Kahlo's 103rd birthday by doctoring its logo -- and her self-portrait
Culture MonsterIf an image of a painting that pops up on a computer screen can be considered a viewing, then Frida Kahlo may be setting a record today for the most glimpses of an artist's self-portrait -- thanks to Google, which...... -
A greatest hits collection of the great 20th century muralists
Culture MonsterThe problem with murals is that they tend to stay put, like the mountain Muhammad had to go to in the old proverb because it wasn't about to come to him. Gregorio Luke has long offered a solution to Southern...... -
The Dry Garden: A skeptic's view of vertical gardens
L.A. at HomeThey say you catch more flies with honey than vinegar, but I’ve never wanted to catch flies. Moreover, as borrowed phrases go, I far prefer, “If you don’t have anything nice to say, sit by me.” And so, I issued an invitation: If you... -
Exploring the Depression's artistic legacy in San Francisco
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterStocks have crashed, industry is shuddering and banks are failing. The restless unemployed will soon fill the streets. Yet in San Francisco, some crazed optimist in the Pacific Stock Exchange Tower has hired Diego Rivera to decorate a private club for...Tags: Defense, Karl Marx, Dining and Drinking, World War II (1939-1945), Tourism and Leisure
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San Felipe, Mexico lures with rustic and laidback ways
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterSan Felipe, Mexico Two seaside towns on the Gulf of California are tussling for tourists. Both promise sun, sand and serenity. But San Felipe is quaint. Peasco has more pizzazz. And they both want you. It's . . . Rodrigo Ortega Montes was barefoot...Tags: Eggs Benedict, Customs and Tradition, Los Angeles Times, Dining and Drinking, Retirement
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Tours and cruises in Latin America, Yosemite
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterMEXICO Art's home bases Drop in at the homes of private art collectors, a Mexico City art dealer, one of the country's top architects and the homes and studios of contemporary artists on an 11-day interior-design and architecture tour. Visitors will...Tags: Building Material, Architecture, Los Angeles Times, University of California, Los Angeles, Metal and Mineral
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Cool drinks: Aguas frescas beat the SoCal heat
Los Angeles Times Staff WriterON COUNTERS of neighborhood taqueras and Oaxacan restaurants, at Salvadoran farmers market stands and Eastside backyard parties, even at swank Hollywood restaurants, you can see the huge glass vitroleros, beehive-shaped jars filled with aguas frescas...Tags: University of Southern California, Limes, Medina (Saudi Arabia), Newport Beach, Los Angeles Times
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Mexico celebrates Kahlo
Times Staff WriterAmong the dozens of spooky, iconic images made by Mexico's most spookily iconic artist, few pack more potent symbolism than the 1939 double self-portrait "The Two Fridas." On the right side of the large oil painting, Frida Kahlo depicted herself in...Tags: San Francisco, Photography, History, Hollywood (Los Angeles, California), Culture
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Now you see it
South Florida Sun-Sentinel Arts Writer"I am also your grandmother's Hungarian silver broach, / your husband's embroidered handkerchief, your Aunt's / suede purse from Sofia, your cousin's parasol / from Venice, your father's pantaloons from Pantagruel, / your sister's tea cup from Delft, your...Tags: Winslow Homer, Hollywood (Broward, Florida), E.E. Cummings, French Literature, Andy Warhol
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Roundup: Passport rule delay, TB traveler, Kahlo exhibit, Huntington Library
Senate votes delay passport rule Because of a huge backlog in processing passports, a Senate committee has voted to delay by 18 months passport requirements for U.S. travelers entering the country by land or sea from Canada and Mexico. Air passenger...Tags: Surgery, Politics, Mexico City, Mexico, Elections
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Lila Downs celebrates a new outlook
![<a href="http://www.liladowns.com/liladaSite/Landing.html">Lila Downs</a> is an artist who always seemed to have her act together. The Mexican American singer has a stunning voice, a confident multicultural vision grounded in her Mixtec Indian roots and a successful 15-year career in world music circles. What she doesn't have is a child.](http://www.latimes.com/media/thumbnails/story/2008-09/42317446-12131709.jpg "<a href="http://www.liladowns.com/liladaSite/Landing.html\">Lila Downs</a> is an artist who always seemed to have her act together. The Mexican American singer has a stunning voice, a confident multicultural vision grounded in her Mixtec Indian roots and a successful 15-year career in world music circles. What she doesn't have is a child.")
Times Staff WriterLila Downs is an artist who always seemed to have her act together. The Mexican American singer has a stunning voice, a confident multicultural vision grounded in her Mixtec Indian roots and a successful 15-year career in world music circles. What she...Tags: New Mexico, Spain, Dining and Drinking, Culture, New York
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