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This is MY America

Most people believe that the First Amendment to the United States Constitution gave us the right of free speech. We were taught that the First Amendment granted us the right to protest things that we think are wrong, th…
Decoding Area Codes (Greater Los Angeles Area Edition)

I live in the nation’s capital: Los Angeles, California. There are people who would disagree with this notion, and they should! The nation’s capital is really a place called “Washington, D.C.” I was being sarcastic, …
Ushering Generation X

I know who Usher is and this is mainly because I had a girlfriend in college who wouldn’t shut up about him. Although I had known of Usher since 1994, it was around 1997 when he was climbing the Billboard R&B charts…
Understanding White People

There is a scene in Spider-Man 3 that pisses me off every time I see it. The scene shows Mary Jane (played by Kirsten Dunst) and Harry (played by that one dude in Pineapple Express) on a date, except they’re not really …
The (Metro)Link Between Life and Death

The greater Los Angeles metropolitan area has a population of over 17 million people. This population is sprawled across five counties (Los Angeles, Ventura, Orange, Riverside, and San Bernardino) which encompass an are…
Los Cerritos

I download music and I don’t pay for it. Regardless of what the music industry thinks (this includes artists, producers, and executives), I don’t consider it stealing. It’s not stealing because I’m not taking anything …
Utopia, 90703

A couple of years ago I met a boyfriend/girlfriend couple named Anderson and Kortney. They moved to Los Angeles together from the east coast. Anderson moved to attend grad school at USC, and Kortney moved for work. I…
TAKE A BOW

There are a couple of communities in the San Fernando Valley that have piqued my interest lately. One of them is North Hollywood, which is the largest community in the Valley. What’s interesting about North Hollywood …
CERRITOS FLIPPED OUT WORLDWIDE

There is a highly popular show on MTV right now called A Shot at Love with Tila Tequila. The premise of the show is fairly intriguing. It’s an ongoing game/reality show in which a group of contestants, which is made up…
BITCH NIGGA

There is no greater country in the world than America, andthis is solely because of the racial diversity of its population. Growing up in Cerritos, I was surrounded bypeople from all types of ethnicities, religions, and…

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