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Gustavo Dudamel | The Maestro Cometh

Gustavo Dudamel | The Maestro Cometh

Flaunt — Ten years ago, the Los Angeles philharmonic carved Gustavo Dudamel's name into the history of Los Angeles with fanfare fit for royalty. Deborah Borda, then CEO for the LA Phil, celebrated the Venezuela-born conductor's appointment as the orchestra's new Music Director with a months-long blitzkrieg.
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How Latinx In Gaming is uniting a community

How Latinx In Gaming is uniting a community

GameCrate — The final weekend of last year's annual Hispanic Heritage Month was an exciting time for the non-profit group Latinx In Gaming (LIG). The group hosted its first-ever Unidos Online event on Twitch, which featured dozens of panels, game jams, roundtables, and more from October 9 to the 11.
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IndigenARTS & Wellness Heals East L.A. Communities Through Indigenous Traditions

IndigenARTS & Wellness Heals East L.A. Communities Through Indigenous Traditions

KCET-TV (Burbank, CA) — In August of 2018, 21-year-old Anthony Vargas was killed after being shot over a dozen times in the back, including twice in the head, by East L.A. sheriffs. He was one of 15 people in East L.A. that year who died of gun-related homicide, whether victims of crime, gangs, police or unknown circumstances leading to their deaths.
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Broadsides Reveal L.A.'s Once-Booming Hispanic Vaudeville Scene

Broadsides Reveal L.A.'s Once-Booming Hispanic Vaudeville Scene

KCET — "Researchers at the USC Digital Library, for example, have been working with the Workman & Temple Family Homestead Museum to digitize various artifacts from the museum’s collection. Of these items, the collection includes a pair of broadsides from a theater in Los Angeles that hosted vaudeville acts performed entirely in Spanish."
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How video game companies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic

How video game companies are responding to the COVID-19 pandemic

GameCrate — It has been nearly a month now since the announcement of a national emergency over the outbreak of the COVID-19/Coronavirus pandemic. The pandemic, which began in China, has brought the world to a standstill as numerous countries have implemented quarantine and social distancing measures to mitigate infection.
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Death Stranding in the time of social distancing

Death Stranding in the time of social distancing

GameCrate — It comes as no surprise that fans of Death Stranding, Hideo Kojima's latest digital opus, have noticed some real-life parallels between the game and the current global response to the COVID-19/Coronavirus pandemic.
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Tropicália 2019, L.A.'s Multi-Generational Latin American Mixtape Brought to Life ~ L.A. TACO

Tropicália 2019, L.A.'s Multi-Generational Latin American Mixtape Brought to Life ~ L.A. TACO

L.A. TACO — How do you explain the Latin American experience in Los Angeles? That's a complex question, but we are sure it would look, sound, and feel a little something like this year's Tropicália festival.
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Ghosted: How Tickets to L.A.'s Biggest Soccer Match Disappeared ~ L.A. TACO

Ghosted: How Tickets to L.A.'s Biggest Soccer Match Disappeared ~ L.A. TACO

L.A. TACO — The week before any kind of rivalry match is typically full of tension, nerves, and anxiety. This was especially the case with the build-up for El Tráfico de Los Ángeles : the L.A. Galaxy versus LAFC.
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David Beckham Is a Statue: LA Galaxy Enshrine Their Biggest Star ~ L.A. TACO

David Beckham Is a Statue: LA Galaxy Enshrine Their Biggest Star ~ L.A. TACO

L.A. TACO — "This city has always felt like home to me," said Beckham, flanked by members of Dignity Health, AEG, Major League Soccer commissioner Don Garber, Rob Stone of FOX Sports, former teammates Chris Klein and Robbie Keane , and former Galaxy coach Bruce Arena.
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Before the L.A. Galaxy, Chivas USA, or LAFC, We Had the Los Angeles Aztecs ~ L.A. TACO

Before the L.A. Galaxy, Chivas USA, or LAFC, We Had the Los Angeles Aztecs ~ L.A. TACO

lataco.com — Though officially just a few months old, the Banc of California stadium in Exposition Park holds more than a half-century of history. The stadium sits atop what was once the Los Angeles Sports Arena , whose history is immortalized on dozens of plaques along the new stadium's walkway.
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Harry Gamboa Jr.'s 'Chicano Male Unbonded' Highlights Diversity Of Chicano Male Identity

Harry Gamboa Jr.'s 'Chicano Male Unbonded' Highlights Diversity Of Chicano Male Identity

KCET-TV (Burbank, CA) — The word “Chicano” has historically been a derogatory term, conjuring images of hyper-macho men prone to alcohol abuse, gang violence and aggression. These Chicanos were the kind of men you would hear about in police reports, rather than awards ceremonies. It wasn’t until young Mexican-Americans in the 1960s took on the politically-loaded term with pride and fought for social justice that Chicano started to mean something more complex, as it does for internationally-recognized artist and photographer Harry Gamboa Jr.
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Project Hope uses gaming to improve mental health, education of refugee children

Project Hope uses gaming to improve mental health, education of refugee children

GameCrate — For years now, Turkey has provided refuge to more than three million Syrian refugees, many of them children, who have fled their war-torn homeland. The millions of displaced children have various psychological and educational needs that are left unattended to and can stunt their growth and development as a result.
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Why More Indigenous Artist Are Using Hip-Hop To Reclaim Their Heritage

Why More Indigenous Artist Are Using Hip-Hop To Reclaim Their Heritage

LA Weekly — The links between hip-hop and indigenous people aren’t obvious at first. What could pop-locking, graffiti-tagging sneaker heads possibly have in common with peoples whose cultures date back centuries in the Western hemisphere? But as some of the artists performing at the Hip-Hop: First Peoples, New Voices event at Grand Performances explain it, the links and parallels are abundant in the music, the art, the narratives and the dances. Most important, hip-hop is a channel for these artists to reclaim their people's culture and heritage by building up their communities with their own voices.
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For Venezuelan Rockers La Vida Boheme, La Lucha ("The Struggle") Continues

For Venezuelan Rockers La Vida Boheme, La Lucha ("The Struggle") Continues

LA Weekly — Henry D'Arthenay sits in the living room of his new apartment in Mexico City, thousands of miles from his hometown of Caracas, Venezuela. We're a few weeks shy of four years from when the singer-guitarist for Latin rock group La Vida Bohème spent two hours with me on Skype, explaining the massive protests in Caracas after an election placed the deceased Hugo Chavez's chosen successor, Nicolás Maduro, in the presidential seat. Neither of us could have predicted then the upheaval he and his bandmates would endure in order to complete their latest album, La Lucha.
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Voice actor contract renegotiations remain at a standstill

Voice actor contract renegotiations remain at a standstill

GameCrate — The contract dispute between video game voice actors, represented by SAG-AFTRA, and various video game companies continues with no relief. Days after SAG-AFTRA launched a strike on Friday, October 21st, 11 video game companies, including Electronic Arts, Take Two, and Activision, banded together and launched a website disputing SAG-AFTRA's side of the story.
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Copa América Champs Pledge to Join Chile’s Imminent Soccer Strike

Copa América Champs Pledge to Join Chile’s Imminent Soccer Strike

Remezcla — Argentine players aren’t the only ones upset and angry with the suits in charge of their footballing careers. In Chile, players are threatening to strike on opening weekend (July 22-24) in protest of the Asociación Nacional de Fútbol Profesional (ANFP), the country’s soccer association, if it does not comply with the wishes of the Sindicato Interempresa de Futbolistas Profesionales de Chile (Sifup) players union.
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Meet the Next Generation of Latin American Indie Video Game Developers

Meet the Next Generation of Latin American Indie Video Game Developers

Remezcla — Latino gamers have been around as long as Atari. In fact, they are one of the primary drivers of the multi-billion dollar gaming industry; alongside African Americans, they play and purchase video games more than any other ethnic group in the US.
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