TONY CASTRO, the former award-winning Los Angeles columnist and author of "Chicano Power" (E.P. Dutton, 1974), is a writer-at-large and national political writer with LAMonthly.org. "Chicano Power" will be published in a 50th anniversary edition in 2024. He can be reached at tony@tonycastro.com. Website: https//tonycastro.com
Unidentified would-be-assassin slain by Secret Service, rally spectator killed and two others critically wounded at Pennsylvania political event just two days ahead of the start of the Republican...
From the debut of “Magnum PI” in 1980, Hollywood has had an unrequited love affair with the Ferrari, objectifying, worshipping it and turning it into a glorified sex symbol as if it were...
He's Been in Israel, Land of Faith & Miracles Now, given events since last October 7, the Israel-Hamas War in Gaza and the ongoing heavily pro-Palestinian protests at college campuses across the...
ABC anchor George Stephanopoulos was surreptitiously recorded on a New York street saying President Biden effectively wasn't fit to serve another term to a stranger who asked him, “Do you think...
President Biden's troubling condition reminds me of my grandmother's own cognitive decline in which she didn't make sense at times, called my dad and me by different names and, worse, had stopped...
Traditional Dem Bloc Could Swing Election The most recent CNBC Survey found that in a head-to-head matchup, former President Donald Trump had a 5-point lead with Latino voters against President...
Cher, Diana Ross, Prince, Marvin Gaye, Barbara Streisand, Goldie Hawn, Liza Minnelli. Pick a name from that era, and they too likely shopped at Fred Slatten Shoes, a boutique he kept lit 24 hours a...
East End Studios Lands $130 Million in Loans to Make It Happen Set in the heart of the Los Angeles Eastside, East End Studios - Mission Campus is just part of a $1 billion, three-segment project the...
If He Wins, Joe Biden Will Soon Turn 82 Not long after leaving office, the 38th president of the United States imagined a scenario in which a future president might tragically die in office,...
In 1978, Los Angeles was still basking in the afterglow of its golden age. The city was a sun-drenched playground where dreams came to life—or, as I discovered on one particular day, where dreams...
Can It Be Nearly a Dozen Years Since Antonio Villaraigosa Was Mayor? The man who often gushed when recalling that London’s Guardian newspaper had called him the ‘Latino Tony Blair’ was like a...
Is the Sleeping Giant Latino Vote Finally Ready to Get Off Its Butt? The 2026 gubernatorial campaign is quickly shaping up with candidates like Lt. Gov. Eleni Kounalakis, State Senate leader...
We Don’t Use Ballrooms for Reunions. We Rent the Dallas Cowboys' AT&T Stadium My parents came from families big enough to play baseball against one another — and still have players on...
The Way It Might Have Been in the 2012 Presidential Election When GOP challenger Mitt Romney was about to derail Barack Obama’s reelection with running mate Marco Rubio, the president dumped Joe...
Remembering the Chicano Civil Rights Leader ‘I will forgive them, but I will also keep fighting them with non-violence, with justice and with human dignity — and you must do the same,’ said...
Could Swift be looking at making history beyond the Grammys? The political consultant who helped elect Bill Clinton president says that Taylor Swift has an unheard of 93% ‘very good’...
The famous but now shuttered Lucy's El Adobe Café in Hollywood holds a special place in California pop culture but now symbolizes the demise of the Chicano Movement's once promising political...
The Boy Who Loved Lint At a preschool in town, the teachers still talk about a boy named Trey who had special powers. It wasn’t magic, though that’s what his classmates had called it. The...
MY GRANDFATHER'S LAST CHRISTMAS gifts to me came early, sometime in mid-summer of the year when I was four. They were simple gifts. A stuffed lion and a bear, but they were expensive gifts for him...
'I am Latina and my parents are Lebanese," Rayes said in an interview. "I grew up in Venezuela until I was nine, and then my family moved to Santa Monica. At the time, L.A. was not as diverse as it...
AROUND 6 A.M. MONDAY, THE SOUND of drums will shatter the quiet in the plaza at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles as Aztec dancers appear out of the darkness, braving...
Movie stand-in Jameelah Elena Michl fell so madly in love with her film's beautiful director that she began stalking her — even brandishing a Glock — and when the director didn't return her...
By TONY CASTRO ON THE MORNING OF JANUARY 20, 2009, I am about 75 yards away from where Barack Obama would soon place his hand on the Bible used by Abraham Lincoln at his 1861 inauguration and...
From the debut of “Magnum PI” in 1980, Hollywood began an unrequited love affair with the Ferrari, objectifying, worshipping it and turning it into a glorified sex symbol much as it did Marilyn...
The national tragedy of November 22, 1963, affected all of us in different ways. For me, it intensified my childhood dream of wanting to write and later of wanting to report the news. By TONY CASTRO...
So I had come to the Rio Grande, symbolic of the border of my existence and the two sides of who I was. And right now I wanted to be neither. I AWOKE TO FIND MYSELF WITH a young woman I’d met the...
WHY DID PRISCILLA PRESLEY leave Elvis? Did the 14-year-old girl he fell in love with when he was 24 realize as she grew into a woman that they had little in common except for their daughter Lisa...
A video of the arrest shows Wendy Carrillo looking so inebriated that she appears starting to fall in the middle of a sobriety test, saved from collapsing only by two LAPD officers at her side who...
Imagine. Weekly, if not daily, plane loads of migrants sent by GOP governors to L. A. and other major Democratic-run cities, to disrupt and overrun the infrastructures and economies of those...
How Los Angeles deals with Kevin de León and therefore with itself will show it to be either the Tinseltown viewed by its detractors — selfish and exclusive — or the city seen by its...
Known as “the architect of the Nonviolence Movement of America,” the Rev. James Lawson mentored Martin Luther King, Jr. and other African-American leaders from the 1950s through today’s...
The Richard Alatorre I knew, the Richard Alatorre who said he had to change the world — and to a great degree, he did just that… that Richard Alatorre dramatically altered the...
On Aug. 29, 1970, the National Chicano Moratorium in East Los Angeles protested the disproportionately high casualties among Latinos in Vietnam — but led to the tragic police shooting death of...
ON A PICTURE POSTCARD CALIFORNIA EVENING, a group of Tibetan monks in cardinal robes and gold undershirts traipsed across Melrose Avenue from the direction of Paramount...
