That’s it! I’m putting my foot down on this whole cold and useless star rating system. There aren’t any shortcuts in life, buster. Not even in capsulated movie critiques. If you give a flying lemur ...

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This weekend maybe you stopped by the Lotus Festival in Echo Park. If so, you were treading on ground that once, way back before Clinton was elected president, was the domain of junkies and ...

A new era is born.

The death certificate of Johnny Tapia will say that he lived to be 45 years old. But anyone who knew him or followed his life and career will say that in terms of experience, of tragedy and triumph, ...

Mi Vida Loca (meaning my crazy life) deals with the ways these women forge friendships and identities outside of the men who often make them mothers and widows before they hit 16. Mousie (Seidy Lopez) ...

Set in L.A.'s Echo Park district, this focuses on a group of teenage Hispanic girls forced to look out for themselves and their babies because their menfolk tend to be dead, crippled or in prison by ...