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FEATURES & REPORTING
‘I try to show people who they are’: Artists paint portraits of Orange County’s homeless (TimesOC)
An art exhibit on an O.C. lawn displays signs for every failed U.S. presidential candidate (TimesOC)
How Anaheim artist William Camargo plays with the city’s history and present realities (TimesOC)
Costa Mesa doesn’t have the budding, and lucrative, cannabis industry it expected, and operators want help (Daily Pilot)
Poet Yesika Salgado blew up on Instagram. Now her books are breaking boundaries (Los Angeles Times)
Why Costacos Brothers posters never went out of style in the digital age (Los Angeles Times)
George Takei on his childhood in internment camps -- and his faith in the future (Los Angeles Times)
A visit with Other Books in Boyle Heights (Los Angeles Times)
Q&A
Santa Ana poet talks about coming of age in his debut poetry book ‘Flower Grand First’ (TimesOC)
‘The Donut King’ documentary release makes an O.C. homecoming (TimesOC)
How Priscilla González Sainz documented the inner lives of first-generation immigration lawyers (TimesOC)
How author Esteban Castillo put a stamp on Chicano cuisine with his debut cookbook (TimesOC)
The art of a revealing memoir: Terese Marie Mailhot and 'Heart Berries' (Los Angeles Times)
CULTURAL COMMENTARY & REVIEW
As 'Vida' is renewed for a second season, two Latina writers debate what it does well and what it could do better (Los Angeles Times)
Rescued from history: The baseball teams of East Los Angeles (Los Angeles Times)