The familiar tale of "Romeo and Juliet" is given a twist by the Huntington Beach Academy for the Performing Arts, as it is ...
A suit lands in the United States on the back of an exiled king. It is copied, amended and upgraded, embraced by Hollywood actors in search of the fashionable. As it travels the country in the late ...
L.A. City Councilmember Curren Price sits beside a mural depicting Charlotta Bass, owner of the pioneering Black newspaper California Eagle, and victims of the Zoot Suit riots. (Dania Maxwell / Los ...
You would think that the Zoot Suit is so embedded in the history and culture of Los Angeles that an authentic one would still exist, right? It took LACMA a decade to find such a garment, and they ...
The 80th anniversary of the Zoot Suit Riots was commemorated on Saturday, June 3, with a caravan of vintage cars that started in Boyle Heights and snaked across the new 6th Street Bridge from Boyle ...
Alberto Nardoni Leads the Charge as Retro Pachuco Fashion Returns to the Spotlight in Fall 2025. The zoot suit is officially back in style, and Gen Z is leading its bold return. Fueled by TikTok ...
In June 1943, Los Angeles erupted into the worse race riots in the city to date. For ten straight nights, American sailors armed with make-shift weapons cruised Mexican American neighborhoods in ...
Marco Finnegan talks about setting his new YA graphic novel during the Zoot Suit Riots of 1943. By Graeme McMillan A new YA graphic novel takes a moment in real world history and turns it into the ...
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