East L.A wants to be its own city Oct 3, 2008
Lowriders, often with customized Chicano-theme paint jobs, cruise the streets. Among the community's famous sons are boxer De La Hoya and actor Edward James Olmos. (MSNBC -- Race)
"Saggy pants" suspect arrested again Sep 20, 2008
local authorities need to find a real job finding the bad guys not simply stereo typing the "lowriders", did the saggy pants commit a crime ... local authorities need to find a real job finding the bad guys not simply stereo typing the "lowriders", did the saggy pants commit a crime. (The Palm Beach Post)
ESCONDIDO: Organizers hope street closures will revive Cruisin' Grand Aug 16, 2008
BTW, are lowriders allowed at this event. Or would that be too "ethnic". (North County Times)
Street racing exposes generational rift among aficionados Aug 5, 2008
On the one hand, there are those who consider themselves the true lowriders, people like 67-year-old, cowboy-boot wearing Kelsey Martin ... Lowriders, first made popular in the 1950s in postwar southern California, were never designed for speed ... And that's one big reason why purists have a problem with Nu ez and his generation of car owners, whom Martin calls the "idiot lowriders.". (Boston Globe)
Lowrider bicycles: About as comfortable as stilettos Jun 8, 2008
The difference between lowriders and stilettos is that bikers can be creative with their two-wheel vehicles, embellishing them to suit their personalities ... Other lowrider groups include Jakarta Street Lowriders, Hell O Shorty community, Pirate Lowrider and Ciputat Brothers ... With the rising popularity of lowriders, a growing number of people are buying them pre-assembled. (Jakarta Post, Indonesia -- Features)
Rolls through Houston Saturday! May 10, 2008
They include lowriders, classic cars, costumed rollerskaters, musicians on floats, art bicyclists, hot-rodders, and hard-to-classify rolling contraptions. The event has come a long way from when it first began in 1988 with 40 decorated vehicles and a handful of spectators. (KHOU.com, TX)
Online Play Kicks Grand Theft Auto IV Into Overdrive May 6, 2008
Games Without Frontiers: Online Play Kicks 'Grand Theft Auto IV' Into Overdrive. s multiplayer mode makes the street-smart videogame series smarter, more volatile and more fun than ever before. (Wired News)
And ... (No) Action! May 2, 2008
"Mission Street Rhapsody" stars Benjamin Bratt as a Muni driver who builds lowriders as a hobby. He discovers that his son, an honor student at Mission High, is gay and struggles to rise above Latino machismo and accept him for who he is. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Crime)
Lowriders evolve into art May 2, 2008
On a recent Sunday, two dozen lowriders lined up their cars in the parking lot of a McDonald's in East Los Angeles. The sunshine dances off the cars' flashy paint jobs. (The Augusta Chronicle)
Latinos celebrate Chicano Park Day Apr 21, 2008
Do not touch the lowriders, because if you break it you're going to have to buy it, he said. Crow Santiago, 52, of the San Diego Car Club arrived before 5 a.m. to find a prime spot for his 1938 Chevrolet, which he described as one of those Al Capone cars. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Parade marks legacy of Chavez Mar 31, 2008
The diverse collection of youth groups, community organizations, unions, lowriders, government workers and cultural groups indicated the different ways people coalesce around Chavez 15 years after his death. To Johnny Simpson, who marched with the International Brotherhood of Electrical Workers, Chavez is a revered labor leader. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
* [MOTORING] Once a classic, always a classic Feb 3, 2008
In the 1950s and 1960s, the Impala became the quintessential big American car, serving not only as family transportation, but also as a canvas for customizers who turned them into the lowriders of East Los Angeles and later, the outrageous sky-high urban creations known as donks. The styling of 1958 Chevys was a notable departure from the boxy, upright models of previous years. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Dixie Chicks Maguire Expecting Again Jan 29, 2008
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Death in a desert bunker Jan 18, 2008
"They had shaved heads and looked like Nazi Lowriders.". The Nazi Lowriders are a white supremacist gang active in the high desert. (Los Angeles Times)
Johnny Hopper , 1039 Chevy get national recognition Dec 5, 2007
Building lowriders takes a lot of time, patience, and money. My motto has always been, You have to pay the cost to be the boss. (Douglas Daily Dispatch, AZ)
Hello to the Holidays Dec 2, 2007
In addition to the traditional fire engines, marching bands, color guards and floats, there were motorcycles, antique cars, lowriders and flaming baton twirlers. That is, the batons were flaming, not the twirlers. (Modesto Bee, CA)
California lowriders become art, big business Dec 1, 2007
- Low-slung cruising cars known as lowriders, banned from most Los Angeles streets, have become big business and an art form decades after being hailed as a symbol of urban life at its best and worst ... "The hot rodders were about raising their cars and driving them fast. The lowriders took to the ground and it was about going slow," said Sandoval ... Wearing zoot suits, lowriders quickly became synonymous with crime and juvenile delinquency in the eyes of the city's white establishment. (Reuters India)
THE GUIDE: The lowrider gets museum cred Nov 15, 2007
Top-tier lowriders can sell to Japanese collectors for six figures; you can see teenagers wandering around Tokyo's Roppongi district in baggy jeans and Virgen de Guadalupe T-shirts ... In the 1970s, the police in Los Angeles and other Southwestern cities began cracking down on lowriders, whether they were gang members or not ... In the first decades of the hobby, lowriders fixed up used cars that were cheap and plentiful, like the now-iconic Impala, which was one of the bestselling cars of all... (Los Angeles Times)
More of this story Oct 20, 2007
Walk amid shiny hot rods, customs, lowriders and restored classics and check out the little things - the way they pay tribute to the past and the Boyle Heights and East L.A. neighborhoods these car artists come from. On the vintage fleet lines, look for visors, dual exhaust "twice pipes," of course hydraulics, and a little Felix the Cat logo on the license plate frame (because a lot of these cars were originally purchased at the dealership on Figueroa). (Los Angeles Downtown News, CA)
Lowrider exhibit is about more than cars Oct 17, 2007
"Lowriders were a way for working class people across the city to express themselves," she said ... She said many people have misconceptions about lowriders, confusing their owners (referred to as lowriders) with gang members ... "Lowriders in Los Angeles reveal not only their passion for classic cars, but they also speak to the importance of visualizing and communicating cultural identity and community," Sandoval said. (Los Angeles Daily News)
Kalle Kaliente '07 Celebrates Latino Urban Culture with Tour Debuting in Los Angeles Sep 18, 2007
Unlike most other Hispanic Heritage events, Kalle Kaliente highlights the creative musical and artistic contributions of U.S. born Latinos to urban culture - graffiti art, hip hop, reggaeton, and lowriders, among others. Most Latinos are U.S. born, and the median age for all Latinos in this country is 27. (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Every picture tells a story in artist Vincent Valdez's 'Ravine' Photos Sep 15, 2007
"Lowriders have long been used, in a way, as a canvas to tell the stories of the barrio," says Denise Sandoval, professor of Chicana/o Studies at Cal State Northridge, curator of the upcoming show, "La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels," which opens at the Petersen Automotive Museum on Oct. 27 and will feature Valdez's truck. "Lowriding, in essence, is performative. Cruising allows people to not only express themselves but transcend the limits of the barrio culture in Los Angeles." It... (Los Angeles Times)
Shriners pull out Jul 16, 2007
Too bad you put so much emphasis on this much safety which I feel really should focus maybe on the lowriders as they turn there funny little cars towards the crowds and bounce around. And for your information just last year 2006 in the parade you had a lowrider in front of one of the shrine cars flashing his gang signs as he went down the street. (Odessa American, TX)
Two sides of Cruise Night - Day Jul 10, 2007
New cars, old cars, motorcycles, lowriders, vehicles with lift kits, rat rods and shiny cars could be seen parading up and down the streets waving at the gawking citizens who were trying to get a good look from a shady spot. Teeth chattering horsepower shook the ground as those with a penchant for American made muscle revved their engines. (Rensselaer Republican, IN)
Billy Talent, Avril Score Big at the 2007 MMVAs Jun 20, 2007
Hirsute rocker Sam Roberts took the Earth-loving cause even further by walking to the award show, while Canadian musicians Classified and AlexisonFire threatened to make Al Gore cry by arriving in a stretch SUV and bouncing lowriders respectively. Black Eyed Peas frontwoman Fergie got the show off to a booty-shaking start with the incomprehensibly catchy "Fergalicious." Leaving the night's nudity to the boys of Hedley, Avril Lavigne managed to keep her butt-crack covered when she nabbed the... (Canada.com)
North San Diego County Community News Briefs: 'In the Park After Dark' family film series continues Jun 12, 2007
Saturday Cruzin is open to all cars, trucks, hot rods, bikes and lowriders and is free to participate. The next event will be June 30. (North County Times)
Home is where Lil Rob's heart is Jun 11, 2007
Though the raps often deal frankly with topics like drugs and sex (his San Diego Music Award-nominated Bring Out the Freak in You definitely earns a hard R ), songs like the melodic Summer Nights celebrate the simple pleasures he remembers growing up lowriders, parties, backyard barbecues, as he puts it. Rob grew up in a musical family his dad was in an oldies group, his brother DJ'd, his grandmother sang in a mariachi band. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Church overflowing for funeral of 'bright star' Jun 1, 2007
Beside her, the car carrying Jordan's casket set slowly in motion toward Beechwood Cemetery, followed by two lowriders - cars with modified hydraulics and suspension so as to allow the driver to bounce the vehicle up and down to the rhythm of hip-hop music. In their wake, traffic on Jane Street backed up several blocks and the storm clouds gathering above shed a few drops. (Globe and Mail -- National)
Bush's immigration reform deeply flawed May 24, 2007
GO Goobacks wrote on May 22, 2007 7:10 PM:" We Lodians must go homo to prevent the alien Goobacks of the future from stealing our jobs. Must see the GOOBACKS on Youtube. The Goobacks lost their diversity because of the multicultural crap. The only thing left was futuristic lowriders. No more Gangs, "El Rancho Grande" attitudes or graffitti. Southpark originally titled the video "Wetbacks" but the name was changed for political correctness. We don't want to offend ILLEGAL aliens. Instead of... (Lodi News Sentinel, CA)
Art Car Parade rolls into town Saturday May 10, 2007
More than 200,000 people are expected to come out and gawk at the stream of lowriders, classic cars, musicians, art bicyclists, hot rods, costumed rollerskaters and all other manner of modified moving contraptions as they make their way through the downtown area. The parade began in 1988 with 40 vehicles and has blossomed into the world s largest and oldest Art Car Parade. (KHOU.com, TX)
'Lost king' of lowriders embarks on final cruise May 4, 2007
Lost king' of lowriders embarks on final cruise ... Lost king' of lowriders embarks on final cruise ... His funeral procession was a parade of candy-colored custom lowriders, their cheerfully showy paint jobs and lavish murals belying the solemnity of the west Phoenix gathering. (AZCentral -- News)
Lowrider-style memorial set for godfather of car clubs May 3, 2007
His funeral will be a major gathering point for Valley lowriders, said David Torrez, also a Majestics founding member, because of Gonzales' renown and leadership in the lowrider community ... Scores of lowriders, custom cars and motorcycles are expected to participate in the procession. (AZCentral -- News)
Things to do Apr 20, 2007
Expect more cars, lowriders, trucks and bikes than ever on display this year. As usual, there's plenty of car competitions and some cool concerts, too. (Fresno Bee -- Lifestyle)
Legacy unites: Apr 2, 2007
The tricked-out cars of Lowriders for Education glistened like jewels in the sunlight. Members of the Granger Junior High School marching band from National City kept step with poise and precision. (San Diego Union-Tribune)
Underground art along the L.A. subway PHOTOS Mar 29, 2007
Lujan also designed five platform benches resembling lowriders. Perhaps not coincidentally, each has been heavily tagged with graffiti. (Los Angeles Times)
Here's the lowdown on high-waist pants Mar 17, 2007
And just as there were tricks and tips to making lowriders flattering, there are definite dos and don'ts for high waists, too. Plan the right top: "The most flattering way is how it was on the runway, with a tie-front blouse that you unbutton for a sexy '70s vibe or something with a billowy sleeve, which accentuates the waistline, making a longer, leaner silhouette," says Ann Watson, fashion director at upscale Manhattan retailer Henri Bendel. (Orlando Sentinel)
Art on wheels at lowrider blowout Mar 5, 2007
The 20-year-old said lowriders are much more than something to look at ... Lowriders have been a major part of Chicano and American culture since the 1940s ... Lowriders have led a number of car-customization trends, from the lowering and raising of the chassis to the use of hydraulics and specialty wheels and paints. (AZCentral -- News)
Choose tops, shoes carefully to complement high waistbands Feb 21, 2007
And just as there were tricks and tips to making lowriders flattering, there are definite dos and don'ts for high waists, too. Plan the right top. (The Standard-Times, MA)
Julio Ochoa Ruelas, 62; helped popularize lowriders Feb 11, 2007
Lowriders are "artistic creations that are also mechanical marvels." They ride low ... The Ruelas brothers learned to love lowriders in a multiethnic neighborhood of South Los Angeles, where they were raised and worked ... By the early 1970s, the brothers had returned and Fernando had opened Ruelas Custom, which specialized in building lowriders and a variety of other customized work. (Los Angeles Times)
Roane County: Volunteer Exchange excellent resource Jan 3, 2007
Harriman Cruisin' organizes a show of antique vehicles, street rods, motorcycles and lowriders on the second Saturday of the month between April and August. Its goal is to create interest in the Harriman downtown. (Kingston Roane County News, TN)
