California
In a small church classroom on a hot Thursday afternoon, a dozen teen-agers moved to the music, dancing the salsa and the quebradita , and learning other folklorico steps that were second nature to their ancestors.
Sept. 16, 1994
Teens: Officials fear that the Crip walk, a popular solo step, could incite violence.
June 4, 2002
Music
In the mid-to-late ‘70s, punk rock and disco represented entirely different musical and social philosophies.
March 16, 1995
Entertainment & Arts
‘I want to give them a way to express their own struggles and issues . . . with integrity and feeling.’
Oct. 4, 1988
Kool & the Gang have bopped through the 1980s as the decade’s most successful singles band, out-charting all other contenders with 16 Top 40 hits.
May 12, 1988
Four beefy guys with ponytails and tattoos strut through the crowd at a South-Central Los Angeles party.
Feb. 3, 1994
Photographer Gail Fisher, above, and reporter Rebecca Trounson below, spent nine months with a handful of dancers at the Saint Joseph Ballet to show how the dance group offers refuge for youth beset by poverty, broken families and drugs.
April 20, 1997
Under a canopy of balloons and red-and-white streamers, a dozen or so children from the San Fernando Gardens Housing project in Pacoima got together Saturday afternoon and did what they like to do best.
Feb. 4, 1990
Standing outside a Sylmar nightclub during a recent dance bash, 19-year-old party promoter “Clover” said he can’t understand what all the fuss is about.
April 9, 1996
For more than two decades, Kool and the Gang have guarded their musical turf as zealously as any inner-city street gang.
May 18, 1988