Con Safos Is Semi-Back
by Michael Sedano
From: La Bloga
At my fifth birthday party, an older kid named Johnny Roque scratched something on the stucco wall of the garage. I could read the letters but didn’t know what they meant. Johnny explained that c/s meant “you don’t mess with this.” I took a rock and scratched across the letters, at which point the little pachuco picked up an empty nickel deposit bottle and clunked me on the head with it. I tearfully realized he was serious about not messing with placas protected by C/S.
That lesson lurked at the back of my mind when I returned to the United States from Korea in 1970. That was when I learned that in my absence a magazine called Con Safos had gained popularity. I was delighted to learn C/S was a sterling exemplar of community-based media featuring raza arts and letters. C/S had stories, essays, drawings, photographs, and cartoons. Amidst all the good stuff—and there was a montón of good stuff–one cartoon stood out, Arnie and Porfi.
Soliloquy Slam at Los Feliz Branch Library
The following is the text from the Angel City Review’s Facebook post announcing their open for submissions:
Join us as Cynthia Garrett discusses and signs Prodigal Daughter: A Journey Home to Identity. In this candid , raw and challenging look at how identity gets lost in today’s modern world, TV personality and evangelist Cynthia Garrett shares an incredible, red-carpeted journey through her life, and we meet a faith that is inclusive and unifying, with love triumphing over hate.
at Sidewalk Café, Pasadena
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Zine-Making Workshops at Central Library
