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“We want tacos! We want tacos! We want tacos!” At the Rancho Cucamonga Quakes home game on July 21, this was all most could chant as the game neared the 7th inning. This is the last sentence you would expect to be chanted...
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Robin Strayhorn jazzes up Central Avenue with mural expansion
Flames blanket the tiles and slowly transform the green glaze to a deep red. What appears at first like a destructive action reveals itself, with the opening of the kiln door, as a solidifying force to not just the clay the...
Elliot Pinkney’s mural restored for jazz festival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uft3BQl7-a8 Martin Luther King Jr., Tom Bradley, Jackie Robinson and Duke Ellington. These are the names of some of the prominent figures featured in Elliot Pinkney’s mural on 42nd and Central Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. While these...
Artist Sandy Rodriguez fires up the inaugural A+P Artists-in-Residency Exhibition
Pockets of flames dot the cityscape as the night goes on. Smoke obscures the buildings and signals to those sheltered in the safety of their homes that the destruction rages on outside. An adolescent at the time, artist Sandy...
COLA fellowship gives LA artists $10,000 and one year to create anything that comes to mind
11 artists, one year, and $10,000. These are the bare bones that have remained constant over the course of the 18 years that the City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowships Exhibition has taken place at the Los...
Flying high at the American Heroes Airshow
Over 500 feet in the air and over the roar of the rotors above me all I could hear was the awestruck, “Woah,” that escaped the lips from the young boy sitting beside me. He wasn’t the only one mesmerized by his first...
Granada Hills’ academic decathlon team wins state competition and heads to nationals
Photos courtesy of Nicholas Weber.On March 22, Granada Hills Charter High School’s Academic Decathlon team won the 36th Annual California Academic Decathlon State Competition in Sacramento with a score of 59, 040.3 points. Gaining the state title, the team will now go...
Travels in Thailand
Over winter break I traveled outside of the country for the very first time. My destination: Thailand. From trying coconut pudding to seeing a “lady-boy” show, being in Thailand was far different from spending the holidays in Los Angeles. In classic tourist fashion...
Pinning them down: Female wrestlers leave their mark at Granada
Wrestling, a sport usually dominated by men, is seeing some changes here at Granada. For the first time, there is now an official girls’ wrestling team that will compete in meets and earn a team score. Practicing...
Coaching for over 40 years: Carolyn Gunny
Gunny coaching the girls’ basketball team at Granada in 1988. Whenever anyone hears that I play sports at Granada Hills Charter High School, the question, “Does Coach Gunny still coach there?” often comes up. After I say yes, their responses are always...