Articles by Gustavo Arellano

Whether I’m headed for Little Arabia or Angel Stadium, my parents’ house for a visit or City Hall on assignment, I always try to pass through one specific area of Anaheim when I visit my hometown – a slice of Santa Ana Street between Anaheim and Harbor boulevards. Read more

While Los Angeles County celebrates Chicano art with the fabulous “Phantom Sightings” exhibition at LACMA, Orange County deals with its own brown Botticellis the way it always has: with dismissals, ignorance and a can of paint thinner. Read more

Remember the days of homesteaders, when generations lived under one prairie-sod roof? Read more

STOP ME IF you’ve heard this one before. Read more

Black-brown tensions are simultaneously overplayed and understated – and I’ll explain the paradox with the following embarrassing anecdote. Read more

With one tricolored mouthpiece, USC’s Mark Sanchez has done more to advance the image of Mexicans in Southern California than a thousand marches could ever hope to achieve. Read more

In early 2004, in front of dozens of reporters and parishioners, Bishop Tod D. Brown of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Orange nailed a “Covenant with the Faithful” to the door of the Holy Family Cathedral in the city of Orange. Read more

Teens killing teens. Read more

MY HISTORY TEACHER in high school was a good man, but we sure didn’t learn much in his class. Read more