Film aficionados will know Valdez best as the director of “Zoot Suit” and “La Bamba,” where he captured the hallmarks and ...

Edward James Olmos narrates an informative, archive-packed documentary that charts Valdez's rise from impoverished son of ...

Boilerplate as it can be, David Alvarada's documentary nevertheless offers a rousing assertion that Chicano art is as ...

If there was a reason for veteran actor Edward James Olmos to resurrect his magnetic role in "Zoot Suit," it's to honor the ...

Ahead of its world premiere at Sundance, De Los spoke to David Alvarado and Edward James Olmos about 'American Pachuco: The ...

Death to Pachuco #4 hits stores this Wednesday! The Zoot Suit Riot explodes as East L.A.'s finest face off against the U.S. Navy in this action-packed finale!

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Pachuco boogie, the postwar, Mexican-American adaptation of jump blues named after the 1948 Don Tosti single that launched the subgenre, came to fruition in East L.A., but its roots are in El Paso, ...

Los Angeles – The dance floor at “Barrio Boogie Sunday” is filled with sharply dressed women in flouncy skirts and brightly colored fitted blouses, being twirled in perfect swing rhythm by their ...

The Pachuco subculture developed in the southwestern United States in the '30s and '40s by Mexican-American youth. The subculture had a certain dress code and language that was largely misunderstood.

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Most people claim to know what “American” means, but few probably know the meaning of “Pachuco,” nor the name of the playwright ...