Javier Cabral

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22-year-old writer from East LA who covers food, drink and music on his blog The Glutster

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San Diego craft brewer Border X is planning to open a new location in LA this fall. The people behind the brews put a Mexican spin on traditional beers.

Mexican craft breweries are coming to LA

San Diego craft brewer Border X is planning to open a new location in LA this fall. The people behind the brews put a Mexican spin on traditional beers.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

It’s a musical phenomenon that is as embedded in the Mexican-American culture of East Los Angeles as bean and cheese burritos: Morrissey, lead singer of The Smiths, an English rock…

Why do LA’s Mexican Americans love Morrissey?

It’s a musical phenomenon that is as embedded in the Mexican-American culture of East Los Angeles as bean and cheese burritos: Morrissey, lead singer of The Smiths, an English rock…

from Arts & Culture Stories

Algebra was responsible for the first F I ever got. While I was never a straight-A student, I wasn’t a screw-up either. But tell that to Mexican-immigrant parents who dropped…

How algebra ruined my chances of getting a college education

Algebra was responsible for the first F I ever got. While I was never a straight-A student, I wasn’t a screw-up either. But tell that to Mexican-immigrant parents who dropped…

from Arts & Culture Stories

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