Music
‘The Girl From Ipanema’ made Astrud Gilberto the worldwide voice of bossa nova. The Brazilian singer and songwriter died Monday at 83.
June 6, 2023
Food
Why we chose the newly expanded mariscos stand in Historic South-Central’s Mercado la Paloma as our Restaurant of the Year.
June 13, 2023
Sérgio Mendes, the Grammy-winning Brazilian band leader who helped popularize bossa nova in the ‘60s, died Thursday in Los Angeles. He was 83.
Sept. 6, 2024
Get to know L.A.’s best Latin American restaurants from the 2023 101 Best Restaurant guide, featuring Mexican, Colombian, Salvadoran and Brazilian cuisines, among others.
Sept. 12, 2024
Olympics
Minority athletes don’t just bear their countries’ hopes for gold at the Olympics and Paralympics, but the fight for others of similar backgrounds to be accepted.
Sept. 1, 2024
Over the last two decades, Mexican singer-songwriter Natalia Lafourcade has established herself as one of the most revered and celebrated artists from Latin America. This week, she’ll be performing two shows at the Hollywood Bowl.
Sept. 3, 2024
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July 7, 2019
Obituaries
João Gilberto, a Brazilian singer, guitarist and songwriter considered one of the fathers of the bossa nova genre that gained global popularity in the 1960s and became an iconic sound of the South American nation, died Saturday, his son said.