Daniel Hernandez on the Mexico City Production of ZOOT SUIT, from the LA TIMES

The Xicanosmotic Aural Stylings of CHICANO BATMAN

Homeboy Industries Needs Your Help!

Carlos Avila, Chicano film maestro extraordinaire, writes in with this cool appeal:

From: Carlos Avila
Date: Fri, 14 May 2010 12:04:11 EDT
Subject: Homeboy Industries

Dear Friends:

I don't know if you saw today's L.A. Times article about
Father Greg Boyle and HOMEBOY INDUSTRIES... But they are struggling financially to stay afloat (hit the image opposite).

Consider making a small donation to this great organization. On the Homeboy website they have their VIRTUAL CAR WASH fundraising effort... If you're so inclined to make a small donation please do so... Here's the link. You can make a donation and watch
the short video that explains what they do at...

http://www.homeboy-industries.org/virtualcarwash.htm

Thanks for considering this... Help the homeboys and
homegirls!

Carlos

Gringo Mariachi in the Los Angeles Times

Henry Jaglom on Orson Welles in the LA Times Magazine

As I am teaching Touch of Evil next week, Monday, October 13, 2008 in my Naked Mirrors, Fractured Souls Literature and Film seminar, I thought I would provide this facsimile of a moving piece from this Sunday's LA Times Magazine by Henry Jaglom on his friend Orson Welles. It's a valuable piece of biography for fans and scholars (and students, hi!) alike.

LA Times on Clash of the Pochos and LACMA

Two cool pieces that throb with XicanOSMOTIC tumescence and humidity!