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According to the Congressional Hispanic Caucus, the National Film Registry needs more Latinx movies. For the unfamiliar, the registry is a list of “culturally, historically or aesthetically significant films” picked by the Library of Congress’ National Film Preservation Board. The 775-movie list is intended to encapsulate America’s film heritage and history. It includes movies like “The Wizard of Oz,” “North by Northwest” and “Die Hard.” It also only includes 17 Latinx films — “La Bamba,” “Stand and Deliver” and “Buena Vista Social Club” among them. The Cong...

Print The “new normal” that lies just ahead for Southern California will be anything but business as usual — yet it’s a start. TOP STORIES On the Verge of a ‘New Normal’ Southern California is set to take big steps toward something more closely resembling pre-pandemic life as some economic restrictions that have been in place for months are close to being lifted. Some major changes are possible within days. This newest normal will still be a considerably different world — one marked by continued strict capacity limits for businesses, required masks and social distancing, and red...

Print Among the things endangered by the COVID-19 pandemic has been the New Jalisco Bar in downtown Los Angeles. As my colleague Andrea Castillo notes in her Column One story from Monday, the New Jalisco Bar is more than just a watering hole. It has been a lifeline for the city’s Latinx LGBTQ community since the early 2000s. After nearly a year of being closed, New Jalisco is on the brink of disappearing. New Jalisco wasn’t always an LGBTQ space. When Maria Rosa Garcia, the current owner, first started working there in 1992, it was a billiards bar called the Jalisco Inn. By the time the S...

TOP STORIES The debate over reopening schools in California has intensified after Gov. Gavin Newsom and the Biden administration said campuses could safely reopen without teachers being vaccinated — and as unions have pushed back, calling for school workers to be immunized as part of any sweeping reopening effort to return students to classrooms. The discussion comes as coronavirus infection rates and other health metrics in the state trend in a positive direction. That could soon allow for the reopening of campuses that have been closed since March in Los Angeles, Orange and San Diego cou...

We have to be smarter than the baddies and expect the unexpected Rupert Goodwins Mon 21 Dec 2020 // 09:30 UTC Share Copy Column One of the great threats to our civilization is space weather. Specifically, the Sun's proven ability to target the planet with a tremendous cosmic belch of radiation, knocking out satellites, power grids, and networks worldwide. In that context, SolarWinds' choice of company name seems gruesomely apt. We still don't know the full harm done by Sunburst, the splendidly evil hack of its Orion network monitoring platform, but it was global in sco...