Archive for January, 2011

An Evening with Guillermo del Toro

Posted By Zócalo On January 19, 2011

Guillermo del Toro and Rick Kleffel

by Deanna Neil

“Tonight’s presentation will be in 3-D,” moderator Rick Kleffel of The Agony Column quipped when introducing acclaimed film director Guillermo del Toro. In many ways, it was.

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Rethinking Arizona

Posted By Zócalo On January 17, 2011

Death Valley National Park, California, Jubilee Pass Road

Arizonans: Only Connect!
By Lattie Coor

Despite what you might believe as a result of last year’s contentious immigration debate and this month’s horrifying shooting in Tucson, Arizona is not some rogue state populated entirely by crazies…

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How Does Street Art Help Cities?

Posted By Zócalo On January 14, 2011

starth

by Deanna Neil

It’s unclear at exactly what point street art became a cultural phenomenon, but for Retna it was long apparent: “We always knew it…just took the public a while.”

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Intelligent Pig

Posted By Zócalo On January 13, 2011

flock

by Christopher Schnieders

Went to El Centro with the men in my family
down by the Calexico border
and the mountains of Mexicali.

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Street Art Stars

Posted By Zócalo On January 12, 2011

Street Knowledge by King Adz

King Adz began his career as an ad man, as his moniker suggests, and transformed into a chronicler of street art, the sometimes temporary, often illegal pieces that bring humor or beauty or political commentary to otherwise unadorned city surfaces. In Street Knowledge, he presents an A-to-Z guide to the form, capturing stars like Banksy and Obey in exclusive interviews, early pioneers, and related art forms, from hip-hop to fashion.

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Friday, December 3, 2010
How One Family Created Chinese America
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The Lucky Ones, by Mae Ngai The Lucky Ones: One Family and the Extraordinary Invention of Chinese America by Mae Ngai Hyphenated cultures seem to be a natural part of California’s landscape today, but it wasn’t always so. The Lucky Ones by Mae Ngai offers a fresh look at California history by reconstructing the lives of immigrant and second generation pioneers who lived between cultures when it was not such a common phenomenon. Ngai’s narrative brings Chinese Americans into a richer tradition of historical storytelling by humanizing an ambivalent, middle-class immigrant family, situating their lives within the more well-known histories of Chinese laborers and those who suffered from the 1882 Exclusion Act.

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