Julie Sharp is a digital producer at CBS Los Angeles. She is a South Bay native and majored in print journalism at Cal State University Long Beach. The 42nd Postmaster of Los Angeles will be ...

with one of the city's most prominent points of inspiration coming from our neighbors to the south -- the beautiful country of Mexico. Los Angeles' proximity to the Latin American country allows ...

If you’ve lived in Los Angeles for any ... mild salsa are as embedded in our cultural landscape as our beaches and our freeways. Call it classic American Mexican, or Mexican American, or Califor ...

Think ‘historic American cities’, and the likes of New Orleans and Boston may come to mind more readily than Los Angeles. But at the core of this sprawling metropolis lies a quiet square lined ...

And just as in Mexico, antojitos are essential to Mexican cultural life in Los Angeles ... The extended LA Latin American tamal season begins at Thanksgiving, when Mexicans, Central Americans ...

Today, Mexican Americans comprise 31.9% of the city's population, and there are many historically Mexican enclaves, including East Los Angeles ... "[Mexican culture is] everywhere you go ...

In Los Angeles, tamal season begins just before Thanksgiving, when Mexican and Central Americans eat and share these Mesoamerican masa parcels made from nixtamalized or sweet corn, along with ...

Today, Cinco de Mayo in the U.S. is primarily a celebration of Mexican-American culture, with the largest event in Los Angeles. If you want to do Cinco de Mayo right, put down the taco ...

Johnny Rodriguez, the pioneering singer-songwriter widely regarded as the first Mexican American country star, has died. He ...

Cinco de Mayo festivities are taking place across the U.S. with music, tacos and tequila flowing. In the U.S., the date is seen as a celebration of Mexican American culture, ...