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Seeing double-double? In-N-Out copycat in Mexico changes name, drops knockoff logo
By Nathan Solis | Los Angeles Times | AUG. 23, 2023 | Photo by Robert Guathier An imitation In-N-Out restaurant that opened in Mexico this summer has already given up the California lifestyle and changed its name, likely after facing legal action from the original burger chain. No one said ... -
How ‘Past Lives’ resonates with my Mexican bicultural experience
By Carlos Aguilar | Los Angeles Times | AUG. 7, 2023 | Photo by Jon Pack/A24 Films In “Past Lives,” playwright turned filmmaker Celine Song’s tenderhearted debut feature, cosmic forces align to bring together two former childhood sweethearts as adults. Nora (played by Greta Lee) left South Korea for Canada ... -
1,500-year-old Teotihuacan village found in Mexico City
By Issy Ronald & Jack Guy | CNN Travel | AUG. 11, 2023 | Photo by Juan Campos Archaeologists have uncovered a 1,500-year-old Teotihuacan village in Mexico City, complete with large concentrations of ceramics and three human burials, Mexico’s National Institute of History and Anthropology has announced. Excavations between March and June unearthed several remnants ... -
Latino fans recall the importance of Fernando’s Dodgers career
By Andrea Flores & Fidel Martinez | Los Angeles Times | AUG. 12, 2023 | Photo by Jason Armond Enrico Fernando Valenzuela wasn’t named after the legendary pitcher, but he became a Dodgers fan anyway. The 55-year-old truck driver recalls how his father, a supporter since the team’s Brooklyn days, ... -
Roberto Rodriguez, prolific writer on Chicano life, dies at 69
By Gustavo Arellano | Los Angeles Times | AUG. 1, 2023 | Photo by Millicent Michelle Pepion In the spring of 1979, Roberto Rodriguez was on assignment for Lowrider Magazine in East Los Angeles. The film “Boulevard Nights,” which dramatized the life of Chicano gangs in the neighborhood, had just debuted, and ... -
A New Worry for Mexicans in the U.S.: The Strong Peso
The peso’s soaring value means the money that Mexicans in the United States send home doesn’t go as far as it used to. By J. Edward Moreno | The New York Times | JUL. 31, 2023 | Photo by Claudio Cruz Most of the money that Antonio Solis makes delivering ... -
It’s time for the Pulitzer Prize for literature to accept noncitizens
By Javier Zamora | Los Angeles Times | JUL. 20, 2023 | Photo by Adam Riding Growing up during the Salvadoran civil war, I learned from my parents that poets and writers are often at the vanguard of justice and change. Years later, after we emigrated from El Salvador to ... -
Scientists Just Discovered a Complex Maya City Buried Deep in the Jungle
The ancient town comes with pyramids, buildings, stone columns, and a ball field. By Tim Newcomb | Popular Mechanics | JUL. 13, 2023 | Photo by Carlos Alonzo The jungles of the Balamakú ecological reserve on the Yucatan Peninsula recently offered up a remarkable look at an ancient Maya city, one ... -
Viral video after Mexico’s Gold Cup win sparks a conversation about speaking Spanish
‘Language isn’t the only thing that defines who we are and our relationship to our Mexican heritage.’ By Alejandra Molina | Los Angeles Times | JUL. 18, 2023 | Photo by Martina Ibanez-Baldor As El Tri fans cheered Mexico’s CONCACAF Gold Cup win on Sunday outside SoFi Stadium in Inglewood, ... -
The bold life of Tina Modotti, a 20th-century expat in Mexico
By Leigh Thelmadatter | Mexico News Daily | JUN. 29, 2023 | Photo by Edward Weston It is almost cliché that many foreigners find in Mexico the chance to do and be quite different from what we can in our home countries. But when it comes to commitment to personal ...
