As a young woman, Guadalupe Rivera Marin hated being introduced as Diego Riveraās daughter. āI wanted to be myself,ā she said. Motivated to escape the shadow cast by her father Diego ā the internationally renowned muralist who later married Frida Kahlo ā Rivera Marin forged a career in Mexican politics. But now, at age 90 […]
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Alfonso Texidor August 2, 1946 ā December 25, 2014
Revolutionary poet and beloved, longtime El Tecolote contributor Alfonso Texidor, 68, died Christmas Day, 2014 from lung cancer. Texidor was born in Puerto Rico, where he got involved in the pro-independence movement after graduating high school. He eventually moved to the Bronx, New York City and became involved with revolutionary politics and militant anti-war activism. […]
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Developer is trying to downplay impact of Plaza 16 project
The housing development at 16th and Mission streets proposed by Maximus Real Estate Partners will cause surrounding rents to increase, pushing even more residents out of the Mission and San Francisco. The project will negatively impact students at the Spanish Immersion School next door and will cause local businesses to close.
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El Tecolote 2014 Year in Review: Immigration
The kidās name was Walter. He was 17, far from home and curious about the camera strapped around my neck. Thatās how we got to talking. I was visiting a shelter in Southern California in September, one that housed Walter and dozens of other unaccompanied minors who had made the journey from Central America to […]
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El Tecoloten 2014 Year in Review: CCSF
Faced with an accreditation crisis, rapidly declining enrollment and a student body fed up with all that and more, itās safe to say that City College of San Francisco (CCSF) endured a lot this year. Hereās how El Tecolote tracked the unique and important institution through all of its woes in 2014. Accreditation CCSFās accreditation […]
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El Tecolote 2014 Year in Review: Sports
Too often relegated to the ranks of mere entertainment, sports yield special power. An athletic competition can elicit both euphoria and agony. The combatants feel it, as do the fans who cheer, and jeer, them on. But what transpires on any given playing field can and has oftentimes infiltrated other more meaningful realms. Whether itās […]
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El Tecolote 2014 Year in review: Arts & Culture
In 2014, 53 articlesāor 28 percent of El Tecoloteās coverageāshed a spotlight on specific arts events and the role of the arts within the Bay Areaās Latino community.
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El Tecolote 2014 Year in review: Gentrification
[su_note note_color=”#f7f7f7″]Note from the editor A year before I started at El Tecolote, I was on a 49ers practice field in Santa Clara, living the miserable dream of a freelance sports writer. Roughly a dozen of us reporter, wise guys huddled around a then beloved Jim Harbaugh (the soon-to-be former head coach of the aforementioned […]
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El Tecolote 2014 Year in review: Latin America
[su_note note_color=”#f7f7f7″]Note from the editor A year before I started at El Tecolote, I was on a 49ers practice field in Santa Clara, living the miserable dream of a freelance sports writer. Roughly a dozen of us reporter, wise guys huddled around a then beloved Jim Harbaugh (the soon-to-be former head coach of the aforementioned […]
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Iconic Carnaval mural is reborn
Restoring 1,824 square feet of weather-beaten, chipped, 30-year-old muralāone one-inch paintbrush stroke at a timeārequires a lot of time, patience and paint, and sweat, too.