Saturday was a red-letter day for the history of art in Southern California. On June 18, the Riverside Art Museum opened its Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture in a handsomely renovated, ...
To most, Richard “Cheech” Marin is a movie star, a comedy legend, and a counterculture icon. However, the man — who found success as one-half of the stoner comedy duo Cheech & Chong and later starred ...
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LOS ANGELES — They met as teens, formed as young adults, and called their group “asco” — “nausea” or “disgust” in Spanish — after one of their early DIY exhibits. Subscribe to read this story ad-free ...
Over 11 years and 570 episodes, John Rabe and Team Off-Ramp scoured SoCal for the people, places, and ideas whose stories needed to be told, and the show became a love-letter to Los Angeles. Now, John ...
Richard “Cheech” Marin–the iconic comedian and actor–had for 30 years established himself as a preeminent collector of Chicano art by the time officials from the City of Riverside, California and the ...
Zachary Roman tours the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture with TODEC, an educational group for children of Coachella Valley farmworkers. (Robert Gauthier / Los Angeles Times) In 2022, the ...