From Staff Reports For well over two decades, Angels Walk LA has focused its efforts on preserving and commemorating the important history and special character of L.A.’s diverse and culturally rich neighborhoods. And for the next two months, historic and modern-day Boyle Heights will be at the center of the unique work and ground-breaking contributions to historical preservation that Angels Walk offers greater Los Angeles as it develops a self-guided historical walking tour with support and input from the Boyle Heights Historical Society (BHHS), lifelong neighborhood residents and community stakeholders. Journalist and Chicano art historian Abel Salas, a founding editor at Brooklyn & Boyle as well as a 22-year resident of L.A.’s East Side, has also signed on to assist with the research and writing part of the project. “Angels Walk Boyle Heights,” comprised of 15, all-weather, outdoor informational stanchions and a companion guidebook, will highlight and celebrate the people...

Special thanks to Raúl González, of Mictlan Murals for the image above, Dos Pericos , acrylic on canvas. By Luís Reyes Lamas A flock of parrots gathered on a tree to interrupt the tranquility of the cemetery, to chatter and build community. They sounded like a big group of comadres gathered around the dinner table drinking wine. The beautiful birds were there to fill-in our ancestors on the on-goings of the neighborhood. One told of how the streets were still calm if compared to the decades of drugs and the crazy life. Another marveled, at a high volume and pitch, at all of the new buildings and the different looking people moving in. A third comadre commenting on how she had not seen people so light since the owners of the shops on Brooklyn a long time ago… Several commiserated over the sad state of the schools so many years later. They chatted of the wonderful jogging track and of how it attracted so many brown faces in their quest for better health. They squawked about the be...