"LA Originals" director and co-subject Estevan Oriol with his 1964 Chevrolet Impala. (Brian van der Brug / Los Angeles Times) There was a time in the recent cultural history of Los Angeles when ...

On a recent Saturday a little past noon, Jennifer Hernandez sat at the dining table in the South Gate home where she grew up. She focused intently, holding a handheld makeup mirror as she used liquid ...

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A style of tattooing called "black and gray realism" has its roots in East Los Angeles' Chicano culture. It moved from penal institutions, to the... Black And Gray ... And Brown: A Tattoo Style's ...

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There was a time in the recent cultural history of Los Angeles when tattoos were strictly the markers of bona fide gangsters, when graffiti was vandalism — little more — and when going downtown at ...