Lena Gonzalez, Councilmember and State Senate Candidate, sat down with PalacioMagazine.com to discuss a wide range of topics: from the women who have helped shape her dedication to public service to the challenging issues that she will face in Sacramento. That list includes affordable housing, climate change, and the future of education in California. Lena…
It’s Finals Week at Long Beach City College. Enjoy some of the best Podcasts from PalacioMagazine.com. Committed To Latino Student Success: A Conversation With CSULB President Jane Close Conoley Bob Cabeza is Building the Future in Long Beach and around the World Stephanie Rivera, LBPost: Seeking Social Justice with Journalism Regina Cash Just Wants to…
Sera Casas is in my Stats 21A class at Long Beach City College. This is her second semester. It doesn’t take long after you meet Sera that you realize she is not just another student. At thirty-one years old, Sera Casas has already lived a life that might challenge anyone. She’s the mother of four…
VoiceWaves is a Long Beach youth-led journalism and media-training project. The youth are learning to report, write, and create digital journalism content. One of its graduates, Michael Lozano, is now managing editor of the project housed in offices at St. Luke’s Church at 7th and Atlantic Avenue. PalacioMagazine.com interviewed Michael and one of the students…
Leadership Long Beach is more than a leadership training program. I should know as an alumnus, former Board of Directors member, and volunteer. The organization which celebrates its 30th Anniversary this year is a Long Beach institution that has, as they describe it, “helped inspire, create and cultivate the more than 1,500 community-engaged alumni to…
Luis and Brenda Navarro must be the hardest working family in Long Beach. They own and operate three restaurants in the city: Lola’s Mexican Cuisine on 4th Street and in Bixby Knolls and The Social List on 4th Street. Now, they’re busy putting the finishing touches on the city’s first distillery, Portuguese Bend in downtown…
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Robert Molina, owner of Roxanne’s in Long Beach’s California Heights, cut his teeth early in the business world: fourteen years old to be exact. ” The first thing I got into was promoting parties, events, doing little backyard [parties], getting into promotions and actually doing bigger clubs and festivals.” You read it right: fourteen years…
Aydinaneth Ortiz makes very powerful statements with her photography. 70% Isopropyl Alcohol. Sudafed. Acetone. Large photos of each item with a black background that are meant to jump into your face. These common everyday products are ingredients in the making of crystal meth (Methamphetamine). They are part of a series called Ingredients which is included…
Duke Givens is a photographer, documentarian, and social activist who made his life ambition to bring truth to power through his photography. The Long Beach City College alumnus documents that ambition in a powerful photography exhibit called “Power of Choice;” now on display at the school through Friday, March 22. These photographs from the Long…