We’re not trying to stereotype anyone, but when we heard that two men in Palm Desert, California pulled guns on each other in a Toys ‘R’ Us Friday after their women companions got into a bloody brawl, we just...

A school in Newman, California, has managed to grab attention for itself by banning the book Bless Me, Ultima, which appeared on First Lady Laura Bush’s list of ten books every young person should read. (And Guanabee editor Cindy...

After California voted to overturn legalization of gay marriage, members of other minority groups wondered if this signaled the beginning of a new era of discrimination. Although its proponents present it as “protecting” the institution of marriage, not an...

Los Angeles mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was one of the many Americans who showed up at Join The Impact’s nationwide protests Saturday against California Proposition 8. The proposition, which passed two weeks ago, overrode a recent state supreme court decision...

A rally is happening right now outside a Mormon temple in West Los Angeles to protest large financial contributions by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints to the Proposition 8 campaign supporting a measure that bans same-sex...

We couldn’t help but notice that the three states that banned gay marriage this election were in three of the most heavily populated Latino states in the nation. California passed Proposition 8 banning gay marriage (gays are shown being...

In a stunningly naive and/or racist move, a California women’s republican club sent out a newsletter depicting a satirical food stamp with Obama’s face on it. All well and good to question his position on welfare, but not if...

While the local news is going crazy with coverage of today’s Southern California blaze that has, so far, incinerated more than 3700 acres, claimed the life of a homeless man and his dog (sad!) and caused a mandatory evacuation...

Where will we blog when we go home for Christmas? The one Starbucks in Brownsville, Texas is a dead store walking! After announcing it will close 600 stores between now and FY09, the previously unstoppable Starbucks empire has published...

Remember when a Starbucks opening was the white, gentrified nail in the coffin for your hood? Well now that they’re closing 600 stores across the country, we guess Starbucks can’t afford to stick to that model anymore because they’re...

We were just sent a link to an op-ed piece in the Los Angeles Times today about “what Latinos want” this presidential election. It said something about “hard work” and “the chance to build a better future,” and then...

The California grooverati has finally influenced its neighbors to the south enough to manufacture a spectacle so touchy-feely as to be named Border Yoga. Our sweaty little brah Machochip has the SoCal perspective: We don’t really see too many...

The California Supreme Court has declared the state’s ban on same-sex marriage unconstitutional. Which is nice because getting married in Napa Valley is preferable to getting hitched anywhere in or near Massachusetts: Several gay and lesbian couples, along with...

In honor of cinco de mayo, here’s a heartwarming story of women who dare to play mariachi music in Los Angeles. Though, we will defer to our more Latino readers to verify that these are, in fact, mariachis. And...

The Los Angeles Times ran an interesting story last month acknowledging that Mexican-Americans with money do exist and have taken over Richard Nixon’s former town of Whittier, California. Whittier “is where the heart of the Latino bourgeoise wants to...

Our friend Al Carlos Hernandez is back with a list of the top ten ways they celebrate the resurrection of chocolate Jesus in Oaktown. Sorry if you’re Jewish, but no one sent us any Purim lists this week. TOP...

California is set to distribute vending machines that would sell medical marijuana. Oh, hey, guess who has some terrible incurable disease that has just… manifested… itself. Right this moment: The machines can only be used by people who have...

Now this is a smart use of Google Maps. A site called yumtacos.com is asking for contributions to its inventory of California taco trucks. If you know of a specific truck - whether it is one you visit regularly,...

60 Mexican firefighters crossed the U.S. border to help manage the ravaging fires in Southern California, but quickly steered back once they realized the fire was creeping on their side too. At least somebody’s going back to Mexico. [KESQ]...

Reports are coming in that half a million people are now being evacuated from the Southwestern portion of California as well as confirmation of a second casualty. As can be seen from the California governor’s wildfire web site map...

There’s nothing funny (except this, oh and this) about those fires in Southern California that continued to ravage houses and thousands of acres of land, (at least 267,000 as of the latest count), for a second day yesterday. Every...

Hey Los Angelenos, want to live inside Britney Spears’ Malibu home? Surprisingly it’s suddenly available to lease for a steal! (Okay, $9 million.) There’s an option to buy in 6 months, but considering the current situation in that area,...

California is seriously burning! A series of fires are blazing throughout the state of California —at least twelve of them across seven counties according to the Los Angeles Times. The fires sprouted yesterday in Southern California in San Diego,...

San Franciscoist reminds us that today is the 18th anniversary of the Loma Prieta earthquake of 1989 that rocked their city to the core, pardon the pun, killed 62 people throughout central California, injured almost 4,000 and left more...

The last time we considered ourselves middle class was when we stayed at the Venetian suites in Las Vegas and drank Glenlevit all day while sucking down oyster shooters that were half off. Now we blog for a living...

Life is hard out there for a day laborer. Until recently workers in towns like Los Angeles and Long Beach, California, had plenty of landscaping and construction jobs to choose from, but lately those jobs offers are being replaced...

The beginning of the end has come for Juan and Pedro in the fields of California, where crack scientists and engineers are developing various robots equipped with human-like digits, digital maps and other such sci-fi zaniness that’ll some day...

A new study released by the Public Policy Institute of California shows that Latina women there outlive their White and Black counterparts, enjoying an average life expectancy of 83. (That’s three years longer than gringas.) One Mexican egghead reacting...

Reflecting the obscene growth of such congregations in Fresno from 7 to 16 over the past however many years, a record-breaking crowd in excess of 10,000 Latinos attended this year’s “Follow the Christ!” Jehovah’s Witness Convention held in Spanish...

Titled “The real Laguna Beach teens”, the above clip is brought to you by the star of the protest video we posted a week ago. Videographer Naui recorded a bunch of airheaded, south California teens being interviewed about their...

If you’re not on MySpace looking for a good time, it’s hard to remember that the social networking site was at one point a way for unknown bands to get some exposure in the biz. Deftly dodging slews of...

A Long Beach, CA mother faces 25 years to life (and then some) for allegedly driving her 14 year-old son and six other members of the Latin Marijuana Smokers gang to a skate park so they could stab and...

California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger announced his idea for raising poor test scores among Latino students to a group of Latino journalists at the National Hispanic Media Conference in San Jose . The Fresno Bee explains: It’s not by studying...

In our continuing coverage of our nation's proms, we bring you the story of Cinthia Covarrubias who recently ran for king, and lost, at her high school in Fresno, California. The seventeen-year-old’s school ruled last week to allow a...