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Cinco de Mayo installation art in Beverly Hills (video and photos)

by Comic Saenz May 5, 2012 Cultura
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Ramiro Gomez is an installation artist who makes the invisible visible by inserting cardboard versions of usually-overlooked Mexican laborers into actual settings. Last night he emailed: Fresh piece I just installed this afternoon on the westbound corner of Mountain Drive and Sunset Boulevard in Beverly Hills. If you’re driving around that part of town, stop [...]

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Mexican garden statues get up, stand up and go on tour (photos)

by MIRA MIRA ANDAJUAL April 16, 2012 Cultura
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(PNS reporting from the HATE STATE OF ARIZONA) The “Sleeping Mexican” statues of Tucson we featured last week snooze no more. Buoyed by the online support they received after POCHO publicized their plight, these hombres woke up, stood up, dressed up and went on tour across Los United Estates to tell their story. From their [...]

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Photos: ‘Sleeping Mexican’ garden statues? What’s racist about that?

by EDUARDO BURRO April 12, 2012 Cultura
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Arizona sure loves its Mexicans! Taos-based author John Hamilton Farr went to Tucson on family business and was stunned by the “Sleeping Mexican” statues all around his mom’s old hood. He photographed these guys “within a two or three block radius of my mother’s old place…less than 10 minutes!” He brought the statuary to the [...]

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Photos: Great Moments in Arizona Republican Party History

by RICARDO RICO April 11, 2012 El Now
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Republicans in the Hate State of Arizona are not newbies when it comes to ignorance, racism and stupidity. The state’s Grand Old Party has a grand old poopy history. Come with us now as we take a Hate State Hot Tub Time Machine Tour — in photos. A picture is worth a thousand palabras.

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Photos: He’s a real nowhere man lost in paletero land

by SOY CAPITAN March 23, 2012 Cultura
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Artist Ramiro Gomez, Jr. makes the invisible visible as he inserts cardboard images of hardworking Latinos into the landscape of Los Angeles and documents his installation art with photos. At half-past midnight he emailed POCHO: I went up to Hollywood Blvd. this afternoon and put up my newest cardboard installation. It is on the corner [...]

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KPCC radio billboard ‘Occupied’ by KPFK radio listener

by Lalo Alcaraz March 9, 2012 Cultura
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Much L.A. radio hay was made over the placing of a KPCC 89.3 FM billboard advertising its “Ideas not ideology” slogan practically on top my radio station’s studios at KPFK 90.7 FM, where I host the Pocho Hour of Power every Friday at 4 PM. As I walked in today, I was alerted that someone [...]

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You can see all the stars as you walk down Hollywood Boulevard

by Soy Capitan February 28, 2012 Cultura
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“You can see all the stars as you walk down Hollywood Boulevard, some that you recognise, some that you’ve hardly even heard of. People who worked and suffered and struggled for fame, some who succeeded and some who suffered in vain,” according to the Kinks. But artist Ramiro Gomez Jr. — whose art installations make [...]

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Organizations just about as diverse as the Oscars Academy of 2012

by Lalo Alcaraz February 26, 2012 Cultura
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The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences (AMPAS), commonly known as “the Academy,” has been recently profiled in the Los Angeles Times and, not surprisingly, exposed as one of the most exclusionary organizations in the United States. The Academy is 94% white, 77% male and the average age of its voters is 62. Basically the [...]

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Look y LOL: Lin-sanity caption chingazos for white athletes

by Amber Guesa February 21, 2012 El Now
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Chinese-American NBA rookie superstar Jeremy Lin has famously inspired some silly and fun “Lin-sane” punnery. ESPN editor Anthony Federico penned a controversial Lin-spired headline (screencapture, right) that used the word “chink,” as in “Chink In The Armor” and got fired for writing a dopey racist headline and/or for being lazy and publishing the first crappy [...]

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The astounding ‘installation art’ of Ramiro Gomez, Jr.

by Comic Saenz February 3, 2012 Cultura
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Artist Ramiro Gomez, Jr. makes the invisible visible as he inserts paper images of hardworking Latinos into the landscape of Los Angeles — a gardener with a leaf blower, a housekeeper with a mop. There are many more images on his Happy Hills blog where he describes himself this way: I live and work as [...]

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