Gentle cabrones: When I was a preteen, there was no one I wanted to be more than Nolan Ryan. He was a legendary pitcher with the Houston Astros and Texas Rangers while I was becoming of age in the late 1980s and e...

Gentle cabrones: So there I was, fresh from chatting with two MacArthur geniuses: UCLA profe Kelly Lytle Hernandez and USC profe Natalia Molina. We had just just finished a panel for the Los Angeles Times Festival...

This is not a humblebrag on my part — I swear! — but people have been jealous of me nearly my entire life.They were jealous of me when my mami would make me peanut butter-and-jelly sandwiches in elementary school despit...

Gentle cabrones: The spring and summer garden is...getting there. Tomatoes in the front, with basil as a companion plant. A couple of eggplants; a shitload of sunflowers (I've gotten into sunflowers over the past ...

Gentle cabrones: I've said this before, and I'll say this again: I haven't suffered much from racism. I think. I can count on one hand the number of times I know I've gone through it in person. Three cases invo...