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Canto XXXVII: How to Find the Way to San Jose
Gentle cabrones:
Greetings from San Jose, where the California debut of the play based on my career, Interview with a Mexican just happened last night to a sold-out crowd at MACLA.
San Jose? San Jose.
This is...
Canto XXXVI: Dia de Reaching One Person
Gentle cabrones:
I never celebrated Día de Los Muertos growing up. I knew of it: 1987, the last time I went to my parents' ranchos as a child, I remember sugar skulls and a visit...
Canto XXXV: Don’t Get Beat
Gentle cabrones:
A couple of months ago, my former reporter Frank John Tristan—who, as an INTERN, faced off against neo-Nazis losers in (where else?) Huntington Beach, and not only survived but got to see three...
Canto XXXIII: 5 Songs to Mark One Year Since I Left My Dream Job...
Gentle cabrones:
One year.
I've been thinking of how to write this particular canto for weeks, and figured a music listicle was the best way to do it, namely because music has always played a big...
In Pico Rivera, Ethnic Studies Faces A Reckoning About How “Radical” It Can Be
*See editor's note at the bottom.
In 2014, trustees with the El Rancho Unified School District–located within the working-class city of Pico Rivera—passed a resolution that made ethnic studies a high school graduation requirement....
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Gustavo's Other Writing
The Central Valley Is the Heart and Soul of California
A dispatch from Highway 99 and the underappreciated wonderland of Mexican food that stretches from Bakersfield to Sacramento
Chevy’s Traverse is for Mexicans who don’t need a huge-ass Suburban but still want...
It’s so much better than some rinky dink RAV4 or whatever the hell Toyota makes nowadays (I still stick to the Mexican credo that you buy Japanese cars and American SUVs and trucks).
