Dave Maestas

“Don’t ask what the world needs. Ask what makes you come alive, and go do it. Because what the world needs is people who have come alive.” -Howard Thurman

[Dave Maestas @Dave_Maestas_]

I love El Paso and would love everyone to take some time to read Patricia's awesome essay about the importance the town of El Paso

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

I'd be honored if you read my essay about burritos, the El Paso-Juárez border and the making of "authentic" Mexican food 🌯

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

I'd be honored if you read my essay about burritos, the El Paso-Juárez border and the making of "authentic" Mexican food 🌯

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

Thank you so much to the @LAPressClub for honoring this story with a nomination in the General News category. Extremely grateful for the vendors who took the time to speak with me, and to the wonderful @carrenjao for shepherding this piece into existence.
https://t.co/EygCzlMAri

[Los Angeles Review of Books @LAReviewofBooks]

"She is upset not so much about her personal career trajectory, but about all the stories she wasn’t able to tell, the voices she wasn’t able to elevate."@jaxwendy profiles Patricia Escárcega, the Los Angeles Times's first restaurant critic of color. https://t.co/Si8MyxrPFA

[Dave Maestas @Dave_Maestas_]

@piescarcega is the most amazing woman I know and am so glad @jaxwendy wrote a profile about her. Someone said it really well and I'm gonna steal it...Patricia is unsinkable. ❤️

[DOCUS @DocusMx]

💥KABOOM💥 Degustando Barrio Sonora 🌯🌮🌶️ Primera temporada: #Hermosillo, se estrenará el próximo martes 9 de Agosto en nuestro canal de Youtube. ¡Dile a todo el mundo!

https://t.co/03L9dGFbDB

[DOCUS @DocusMx]

¿Listos para el estreno del primer episodio de #DegustandoBarrioSonora? Este martes a las 11:00 de la mañana abriremos tu apetito con Doña Guille y su cocina.

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

Based on the trailer, this new @DocusMx Youtube doc series on Hermosillo, Sonora food culture looks great! I can’t wait to watch. 🌵🇲🇽🌯
https://t.co/tah6yIyFla

[Dave Maestas @Dave_Maestas_]

I love Hatch chile season

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

It’s Hatch green chile season 🥰

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

And here is @CheechMarin giving a short speech before @TheCheechCenter opens its doors to the public for the first time. "I look forward to seeing you here all the time, because this is your home," he said.

Lots of "We love you, Cheech!" echoing through the crowd.

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

Here is the lowrider procession arriving @TheCheechCenter in Riverside, Calif for the opening day of the new art and cultural center

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

Reporting live from Riverside, Calif., a lowrider procession leaving the city's historic Fairmont Park is headed to @TheCheechCenter for opening day at the center. I heard a rumor that Cheech Marin will be arriving to the center in a Chevy Impala 😎

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

Good morning. Buenos días. For @nytimesarts, I wrote about the opening of "The Cheech,"(@TheCheechCenter), the nation's first museum & cultural center devoted exclusively to Chicano/a/x art and culture, opening this Saturday in Riverside, Calif.
https://t.co/cOcwsq2a9u

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

Actor-comedian @CheechMarin has been collecting art by Chicano/a/x artists for ~40 years.

His collection includes masterworks such as Carlos Almaraz's "Sunset Crash" (1982), part of the late painter's haunting Los Angeles freeway crash series.

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

Here is Frank Romero's 1996 painting, “The Arrest of the Paleteros.” In the feverish scene, based on a real incident, police in riot gear train their weapons on a group of terror-stricken street vendors at Echo Park Lake.

Still relevant.

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

You really have to see Judithe Hernández's "La Santa Desconocida" de la serie Juárez / "The Unknown Saint" from the Juarez series (2017), in person to appreciate its scale, color, and somber beauty.

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

Marin's ambitions for the center extend beyond his collection. The center is establishing a film program, headed by director Robert Rodriguez, which will help train filmmakers in the principles of low-budget film-making. 🎥🎬

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

María Esther Fernández, @thecheechcenter's inaugural artistic director, says the center will engage with complicated questions around identity & terminology. "Do we say 'Chicanx', or do we not say Chicanx? There's 'Chicano' in the name, but what does that mean?" said Fernández.

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

.@TheCheechCenter will be a place to investigate what we mean by 'Chicano art,' said Marin. Check out this story from Walter Thompson-Hernández about Chicano/a/x-inspired cultura in Japan:
https://t.co/7REfCKZ0sv

[Patricia Isabel Escárcega @piescarcega]

The Cheech arrives on the scene almost exactly 50 years after the badass East Los punk-art Chicano collective, ASCO, spray-painted their names on the front of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) in 1972. Here is one of ASCO's founding members, Patssi Valdez, by said wall.