By Bel Hernandez Castillo SUNDANCE SPOTLIGHT The 2026 Sundance Film Festival will shine a long-overdue national spotlight on ...

Los Angeles – The dance floor at “Barrio Boogie Sunday” is filled with sharply dressed women in flouncy skirts and brightly colored fitted blouses, being twirled in perfect swing rhythm by their ...

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The Juárez city council has declared Sept. 19 as "Día del Pachuco," or Pachuco Day, in honor of the late star of the Mexican silver screen Germán "Tin-Tan" Valdes, who embodied the pachuco style that ...

Pachuco boogie, the postwar, Mexican-American adaptation of jump blues named after the 1948 Don Tosti single that launched the subgenre, came to fruition in East L.A., but its roots are in El Paso, ...

Their outlandish zoot suits, tattoos and slang were a rebellion against mainstream US society that had marginalised them. The door to the bedroom closet opened wide, revealing dozens of brightly ...

The Pachuco subculture developed in the southwestern United States in the '30s and '40s by Mexican-American youth. The subculture had a certain dress code and language that was largely misunderstood.

L.A. marks the Pachucos' legacy 8 decades after facing racism, mistreatment. In the 1930s, Mexican American youth in the Southwest united to oppose racism, segregation and discrimination in the United ...

Folk heroes arise of a need to articulate feelings unsung by conventionality. Our real leaders, that is, people who actually run the country, are rarely inspirational enough to satisfy our need for ...