Bob Cabeza has a great story about growing up. I’ve known Bob for nearly ten years and I had no clue about the story. “I was raised on a ranch in northern California outside of Angel’s Camp, California.” That’s above Stockton and below Yosemite. The Vice-President for Community Development for the Greater Long Beach YMCA,…
I am not from Mexico nor are my parents from there. Before I came to California from back east, my ideas about Mexican food revolved around hard taco shells with ground beef in them. Thank goodness, my knowledge of Mexican cuisine has considerably expanded in the thirty-three years I’ve lived in southern California. It has grown to include…
Not all Mexican cuisine in the United States is real Mexican cuisine. That is the one conclusion you reach after an interview with Chefs Luis Navarro and Diego Isunza Kahlo Navarro is the successful owner of Lola’s Mexican Cuisine and Social List in Long Beach. Kahlo is a culinary consultant in Mexico City where he…
From PBS NewsHour: Tracy K. Smith, a writer and teacher, is taking on a very public role as the nation’s poet laureate. Jeffrey Brown sits down with Smith to discuss how language can be a tool of revelation, her reflections on race in America, her teaching philosophy and why we still need poetry.
PalacioMagazine.com wants to be the source for community stories about Latino and other communities of color in Long Beach. It’s no secret that Long Beach is a “media desert”. We have one daily print newspaper, one mass circulation weekly, several biweeklies and two local online news websites updated daily. There are other niche sites covering…
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Jobs and the Economy in My New America is one of the topics tackled in the latest PalacioMagazine.com project with the Political Science classes of Professor Som Chounlamountry at California State University, Long Beach. This is the third partnership with the Professor and his students. In My New America, we wanted to discover as many voices surrounding three important issues:…
Walter and Julie Larkins are co-Chief Executives for Education Equals Opportunity Too, a Long Beach based foundation, that prides itself on building bridges between business and students in order to teach them important life lessons. According to their website, the Education Equals Opportunity Too Foundation (E=O2™), “…has developed a unique and effective approach with the vision…
Health Care in My New America is one of the topics tackled in the latest PalacioMagazine.com project with the Political Science classes of Professor Som Chounlamountry at California State University, Long Beach. This is the third partnership with the Professor and his students. In My New America, we wanted to discover as many voices surrounding three important issues: Health…
