Homegirl Café Features An Innovative Menu Of Contemporary Latina Fare
Last week we posted a blog describing our visit to Homeboy Industries located in Chinatown. At the end of our tour, my mom and I popped into the Homegirl Café, a division of Homeboy Industries. The café also assists at-risk and formerly gang-involved young women and men get back on their feet through employment by [...]
Homeboy Industries Advocates Jobs Not Jails
For over 23 years, Father Greg Boyle and his team at Homeboy Industries have been helping former gang-involved youth and those at-risk clean up their lives by providing them with the resources needed to obtain jobs, training and an education. Homeboy Industries advocates “Jobs not Jails.” You may best associate his name with being an [...]
In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women of Mexico and the United States
This is your last weekend to visit In Wonderland: The Surrealist Adventures of Women of Mexico and the United States at LACMA. As the first exhibit devoted to women surrealists who worked in Mexico and the U.S., it is definitely worth seeing. With nearly 50 female artists from around the world, we focused on the [...]
Chef LaLa Advocates New Healthy Meals in LAUSD
The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) recently put a portion of a $15.9 million grant towards a revitalized nutrition program called “I’M IN”.  Through this grant, and over five years, LAUSD has committed $50 million to vegetarian school meal options. We caught up with Latina Chef LaLa – classically trained chef, certified nutritionist and [...]
Opening Night HOLA Mexico Film Festival
Latin in LA attended the Opening gala event of the 3rd annual HOLA Mexico Film Festival on Thursday, May 19th at the Montalban Theatre near Hollywood and Vine in Los Angeles, CA. Latinos crowded the lobby for the premier of ACORAZADO, mingling at the cash bar while others made their way to the 2nd floor [...]
Los Angeles Magazine’s 5th Annual Food Event
On Sunday, October 24th, we indulged in Los Angeles magazine’s 5th annual culinary extravaganza at Saddlerock Ranch carefully tucked away in the beautiful Santa Monica Mountains in Malibu. This year was especially spectacular given Los Angeles magazine was celebrating their November “Mexican Food Lovers Guide” as well as their 50th anniversary. Who would [...]
Win Appetizer at Silvio’s Brazilian BBQ!!
Giveaway!!!  Courtesy of Silvio’s Brazilian BBQ in Hermosa Beach we are giving away a free appetizer. To enter, “like” the LatininLA.com Facebook fan page (click here) and post a comment. If you missed the video we created, you can watch: http://www.latininla.com/silviosbrazilianbbq/ ¡Buen provecho! See Silvio behind the grill   Â
Ozomatli, Calexico, and other Great Artists at Hollywood Bowl
Is there a better way to celebrate your 15th anniversary than on a deliciously warm summer night under the stars at the 60-acre canyon in California that forms the natural amphitheatre Los Angeles Hollywood Bowl?
A Nation of Immigrants
For two hours, I laid on my couch and gazed intently at the television with eyes wide in astonishment. Suddenly, I jumped up, grabbed a notebook and pen, and rigorously scribbled numbers onto my pad of paper. I paused, rewinded, and listened again. Jake looked at me with a smirk, and slightly squinted eyes trying [...]