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This Artist Peyote-Stitched 30,000 Beads on Utility Poles to Say “FUCK ICE”
L.A. artist Kimberly Dawn Robertson created “bead bombs,” fastening Native feminist resistance to the city.
Daily Memo: Another Kavanaugh Stop, Woman Detained and Released Outside Courthouse
Today, ICE was observed stopping a vehicle in Colton, hanging around Riverside, San Bernardino, at the Santa Maria Jail again, and in Escondido. In Paramount, ICE was seen taking a man off the street. Community members were also able to pressure agents back to their field office in Oxnard. In San Diego, community members confronted ICE in a parked vehicle outside of Lincoln High School. The agent pepper-sprayed the community watcher before driving off.
Behold Lincoln Heights’ Moroccan Fried Sardine Taco
Moroccan chef Majda Belaroui's take on tacos are the life force of Café Maghreb, a pop-up at Zizou.
UPDATE: These L.A. Artists Flipped a 99 Cents Only Store Into a Bizarrely Beautiful Mid-City Art Gallery
L.A. artists stacked hypnotic sculptures and portraits as a call to nostalgia in an out-of-business 99CENTS Only Store.
Flock License Plate Readers Spark Privacy Concerns at L.A. State Historic Park in Chinatown
“For many the state park [and] Yaanga, has been a place of convening and arrival since before this country. The irony of these cameras disrupting that legacy is upsetting," said Joel Garcia of Meztli Projects.
He Built a Camera From Firearms To Photograph U.S. Gun Owners For ‘Thoughts & Prayers’ At La Luz de Jesus Gallery
"I hope the exhibit leaves people unsettled in a productive way, says artist Wayne Martin Belger. "I don’t tell viewers what side to stand on. I create a space where they have to sit with what they’re seeing."
How Photographer Alanna Airitam Got In With Black Outlaw Motorcycle Clubs For Her Show ‘Black Diamonds’ at La Luz De Jesus Gallery
"When an OG told me, ‘We just wanted to ride,’ I kept thinking about that. The open road. Wind in your face. Pulling over wherever you want. It’s the American freedom myth we’ve seen in films like Easy Rider. But what did that actually look like for Black men in the late 1950s, navigating sundown towns, police harassment, and the necessity of the Green Book?"
Waking Up In Puerto Vallarta The Morning After Cartel Attacks
L.A. TACO's editor-in-chief reports from the ground the day after El Mencho's death.
Daily Memo: ICE Pepper-Sprays and Throws an 80-year-old Attorney, Arrests a Community Watcher, and Takes Seven From Lompoc
Video shows a couple of agents piled on top of Randamaa, shoving his head to the ground as other community members watched in anger and horror. An 80-year-old attorney trying to advocate for the agents to get off Randamaa was pepper-sprayed in the face by one of the agents pinning down Randamaa with the signature Yoga Cobra Pose. As he was pepper-sprayed, you can see the lawyer throws his hands out while blinded, being eventually thrown to the ground by the Yoga agent.
