Biography
As a native of East Hollywood, Hector Tobar grew up reading the Los Angeles Times. He devoured the sports pages, especially, but never ...
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Celebrating the language of their roots
May 18, 2012
Deep inside my writerly brain, down where my earliest memories reside, there is a voice. It speaks to me in Spanish.
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Their Mother's Day goal: redemption
May 10, 2012
Every parent knows what it's like to fail his or her child in some important way. We speak a hurtful word. We are absent at a critical moment, or we simply fail to hear what our children are telling us.
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In a sick and exhausted city, upheaval couldn't be stopped
April 27, 2012
I've been waiting 20 years to write these words in these pages.
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Barbasol and a brew are ingredients for downtown's revival
December 14, 2009
Matt Berman believes that barbershops can change the world.
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Hope endures in a recession-battered area of L.A. County
September 15, 2009
In South Los Angeles' flat plain of humble homes, apartments and palms, there is a community officially (but rarely) called Westmont that has no "mont," not even a hill. It got its name, it seems, from being west of Vermont Avenue.
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Readers share thoughts on immigration
March 16, 2009
When I was a boy growing up in Los Angeles circa 1970, I did something that brought dishonor to my people.
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Villaraigosa cruises to his coronation
March 3, 2009
Jim Hubbard was one of the legions of people who followed the 2008 presidential campaign obsessively. Primaries, polls: He took it all in, from Iowa to election day.
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Winter unveils Southern California's wonders
February 24, 2009
In Southern California, winter is our season of renewal.
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Friendship Park's intended purpose is lost in fog of border war
January 6, 2009
There are just two weeks left in his presidency, but down in San Diego County the heavy machinery is grinding away at one last grand project from the administration of George W. Bush.
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Ties to power win Nuñez's son special treatment
December 23, 2008
I have no idea if Esteban Nuñez is a "gang member," a term that's used and misused so often that I prefer to give it a home inside quotation marks.
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East L.A.: The tragic underside of the census
December 16, 2008
A lot of us Angelenos take East Los Angeles for granted.
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Zoo without elephants would be a loss for the children of L.A.
December 9, 2008
Stand behind the curtain of bamboo just outside the paddock of the last, lone elephant at the Los Angeles Zoo and you'll hear the daylong drumbeat of running feet.
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