By Kamren Curiel

From a Once-Blighted City, A New Genre Blossoms Over the Internet

A barren border town, a lawless and violent no man’s land, an abandoned demilitarized zone between the US and Mexico…since 9/11, Tijuana’s bowed under the weight of perceptions both true and false. But take a closer look and discover a secret young tribe of Tijuaneses gathering around a new sound — ruidoson. It’s a sexy mix of electronica and Mexican folk, and as the ruidoson nation pumps music from bedrooms and backrooms onto the internet, it’s just waiting to sweep the world.

by Kamren Curiel

We Built This City: Breakfast of Campeónes

Chorizo, the spicy sausage mix that is a fixture in Mexican-American breakfasts, has come a long way in the past seven decades —in Los Angeles and beyond.

The baseball-cap-wearing, bat-wielding pig of the Carmelita Chorizo logo is nowadays more likely to be found in a Latino family’s refrigerator than Farmer John’s pitchfork, and that is a testament to the work ethic—and love of baseball—of Carmelita’s founder, Mario Lopez, who started the company 74 years ago.