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seen here at work in Oakland, has documented lowrider culture for years, with a specific focus on women. \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Miss Lopez Media)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://unscriptedphotographers.com/misslopezmedia\">A photographer\u003c/a> who’s spent the past six years documenting lowrider culture, specifically the women in the scene, Lopez says the inclusion in the exhibit is a huge honor, and something that she’s still trying to wrap her head around.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“I don’t get paid,” she says about her cultural documentation, “I do it out of love.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lopez’s mission to center women in lowriding underscores a significant shift within the culture. “We were really only allowed to be passengers,” Lopez says, in reference to older ways of thinking. “Now,” she says, “women have money to buy their own cars, they’re building their own cars and painting their own cars.” Two years ago, for the first time, she saw a woman 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The touring exhibition \u003ca href=\"https://www.sites.si.edu/s/tour-schedule?exhibit=Lowrider%20Culture%20in%20the%20United%20States%20%2F%20Cultura%20Lowrider%20en%20los%20Estados%20Unidos\">visits three cities in California\u003c/a>: Anaheim, Port Hueneme and Fresno. \u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Be sure to check out our full \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/fall-guide-2025\">2025 Fall Arts Guide\u003c/a> to live music, movies, art, theater, festivals and more in the Bay Area.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mother Nature clearly overheard us discussing this year’s frigid start to summer in the Bay Area. Now, as temperatures around the region rise and we transition into “real summer” (also known as autumn), here’s some highlights of the season’s festivals and street fairs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13974858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Courtesy-of-Yerba-Buena-Gardens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13974858\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Courtesy-of-Yerba-Buena-Gardens.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Courtesy-of-Yerba-Buena-Gardens-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Courtesy-of-Yerba-Buena-Gardens-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Courtesy-of-Yerba-Buena-Gardens-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Courtesy-of-Yerba-Buena-Gardens-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Courtesy-of-Yerba-Buena-Gardens-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Courtesy-of-Yerba-Buena-Gardens-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Performances at the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival are always free. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Yerba Buena Gardens Festival)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ybgfestival.org/events/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=36955909&gbraid=0AAAAAD3Ys4dhgMHawicf5GGZOYX0Sz9gJ\">Yerba Buena Gardens Festival\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Through Nov. 1\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco\u003c/i> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This series of free shows has a little bit of something for everyone, including poetry with \u003ca href=\"https://www.niamcallister.com/\">Nia Pearl\u003c/a>, a performance by the\u003ca href=\"http://www.parangal.org/\"> Parangal Dance Company\u003c/a>, puppet shows by \u003ca href=\"https://www.caterpillarpuppets.com/\">Joe Leon\u003c/a> and music from the likes of\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/samorapinderhughes/?hl=en\"> Samora Pinderhughes\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://marcusshelby.com/\">Marcus Shelby Orchestra\u003c/a>. Held in the open grounds between the Metreon and SFMOMA, the series concludes with a “Halloween Hoopla” event. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cultura-fest-2025-tickets-1502121548989?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Cultura Fest\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Aug. 23\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Grand Avenue, South San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South San Francisco comes alive for this free street party, held along the city’s main thoroughfare. Stand-up comedian\u003ca href=\"https://www.hoozay.tv/\"> Jose ‘Hoozay’ Velasquez\u003c/a> and onetime \u003ci>The Voice\u003c/i> finalist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cathiamusic/?hl=en\">Cáthia\u003c/a> are among the performers at Cultura Fest, which also includes a community parade, a visual art exhibition, Lucha Libre wrestling, Latin American cuisine, a craft fair and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bizerkeley-food-fest-week-exclusive-events-sept-1st-7th-tickets-1502022893909?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Bizerkeley Food Fest Week\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Sept. 1–7\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Various venues, Berkeley and North Oakland\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erika Hazel, also known as the Bizerkeley Vegan, founded this annual festival to celebrate meat- and dairy-free lifestyles. The week’s events include a screening of the food-systems documentary \u003ci>They’re Trying to Kill Us\u003c/i>, a pickleball tournament, a vegan mac & cheese contest and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1136px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/Joe-Bataan-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1136\" height=\"757\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13980412\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/Joe-Bataan-Cover.jpg 1136w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/Joe-Bataan-Cover-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/Joe-Bataan-Cover-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1136px) 100vw, 1136px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Latin soul singer Joe Bataan will perform at this year’s Chicano Soul Fest in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Joe Bataan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chicano-soul-fest-tickets-1273321261169?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Chicano Soul Fest\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Sept. 8\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>History Park, San Jose\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Onstage at last year’s Chicano Soul Fest,\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAJiJq2Sd82/?hl=en\"> Sarah La Morena\u003c/a> explained how she, an African American woman, was raised by a Mexican family — and then delivered a Banda performance that quickly went viral. This year’s festival features Latin soul legend Joe Bataan, Aztec dancers, hip-hop group Lighter Shade of Brown, Chicano resistance art, lowrider bikes and cars, and a tribute to the late soul singer Brenton Wood. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edgeonthesquare.org/sf-program\">Annual Contemporary Art Festival\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Sept. 13\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Chinatown, San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s event, titled \u003ci>Super Flex: Powered by Alter Egos and Shadow Selves,\u003c/i> features modern artworks like \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sholehasgary/?hl=en\">Sholeh Asgary\u003c/a>’s sound performance “41 Alleys” — a “site-specific radio project” inspired by Golden Star Radio,” the first Chinese-language station on the continent formerly located at 850 Grant Avenue. A sensory tank and archival government documents make up other projects at this dynamic art festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mill-valley-fall-arts-festival-september-20-21-2025-hours-10-5-tickets-1405716859969?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Sept. 20 and 21\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Old Mill Park, Mill Valley\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mill Valley has changed drastically in the 55 years since a third-grade children’s chorus had \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcRIl23-t_s\">a minor hit paying tribute to the small Marin County town\u003c/a>. Along with live performances, the festival also hosts fine crafts from over 100 different makers and a children’s grove with magic tricks and storytelling — for the third graders of today. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231103-DMCBattle-28-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a baseball cap stands at a table under fluorescent lighting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937762\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231103-DMCBattle-28-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231103-DMCBattle-28-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231103-DMCBattle-28-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231103-DMCBattle-28-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231103-DMCBattle-28-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231103-DMCBattle-28-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231103-DMCBattle-28-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJ Qbert will lend his eye-popping turntable skills to benefit the Daly City Library. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dcplas-art-lit-fest-tickets-1478982208599?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Daly City Public Library’s Art & Lit Fest\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Sept. 27\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Serramonte Center, Daly City\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this day-long celebration of reading, art, poetry and music, \u003ca href=\"https://koit.com/shows/freska/\">96.5 KOIT radio show host Freska\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/djajaxsf/?hl=en\"> DJ Ajax\u003c/a> and world-renowned \u003ca href=\"https://www.djqbert.com/\">DJ QBert\u003c/a> are scheduled attractions. The free, all-ages event doubles as a fundraiser for the Daly City Public Library. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.folsomstreet.org/folsom-street-fair\">Folsom Street Fair\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Sept. 28\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Folsom Street, San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, art is a matter of what you’re wearing (or not wearing). The Folsom Street Fair (pro tip: don’t try to bring children) celebrates leather, bondage and the liberating act of letting the sun shine where the sun doesn’t shine. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/sshhb5ISHvI?si=PelIllKibSJTWDbQ\">Oktoberfest\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Throughout October\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Various locations\u003c/i> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederhosen! Tubas! And most importantly: beer! \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaktoberfest.org/\">Oakland’s “Oaktoberfest”\u003c/a> takes place on Oct. 4 and Sunday Oct. 5 East Oakland’s Dimond District. On the peninsula,\u003ca href=\"https://www.mvoktoberfest.com/\"> Mountain View’s Oktoberfest\u003c/a> is the following weekend, Oct. 11 and 12. And if you’re in the South Bay,\u003ca href=\"https://campbelloktoberfest.com/\"> Campbell’s Oktoberfest\u003c/a> is Oct. 18 and 19. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/241005-OaklandBlackCowboyParade-019-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13980417\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/241005-OaklandBlackCowboyParade-019-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/241005-OaklandBlackCowboyParade-019-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/241005-OaklandBlackCowboyParade-019-BL-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/241005-OaklandBlackCowboyParade-019-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaelah (left), 12, a member of the Blue Bird Riders from Manteca, rides with her friend Aniyah, 13, during the Oakland Black Cowboy Association parade in Oakland on Oct. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandbca.org/\">Oakland’s Black Cowboy Parade\u003c/a> / \u003ca href=\"https://lifeisliving.org/\">Life Is Living Festival\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Oct. 4 and Oct. 11\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Little Bobby Hutton Park, Oakland\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After celebrating its 50 anniversary last year,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008139/oaklands-black-cowboy-association-celebrates-50-years-with-parade-and-festival\"> the Oakland Black Cowboy Association\u003c/a> returns for its annual parade, with food vendors, dancers, tales of Black history and pony rides. The following Saturday sees the return of the long-running \u003ca href=\"https://lifeisliving.org/\">Life Is Living Festival\u003c/a>, which starts with a Black Panthers free breakfast and includes live music, poetry, DJs and a historic Black Panther Party exhibition.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://castrostreetfair.org/fair/\">The Castro Street Fair\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Oct. 5\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Castro Street, San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now in its 51st year, this celebration of community and resilience takes over the Castro for an event with all proceeds going to charitable causes. Live music, DJs, food, activities and more are heralded by Harvey Milk Plaza’s giant rainbow flag. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://gardensatlakemerritt.org/autumn-lights-festival-2025/\">Autumn Lights Festival\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Oct. 16–18\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Lake Merritt, Oakland\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An event tailor-made for those who think art is best served in the form of colorfully illuminated lights decoratively placed in a garden — preferably in Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://hmbpumpkinfest.com/\">Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Oct. 18–19\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Half Moon Bay\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winner of last year’s world championship pumpkin weigh-off at this festival drove 32 hours\u003ca href=\"https://abc11.com/post/2471-pound-gourd-minnesota-wins-world-championship-pumpkin-weigh-off-california/15430625/\"> from Minnesota\u003c/a> with a pumpkin that measured over 7 feet tall and 20 feet around, and weighed \u003ca href=\"https://hmbweighoff.com/results.html\">2,471\u003c/a> pounds. Who will win this year? Find out at this year’s weekend event – and maybe even get a photo with the winner.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937469\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231029_OAKDiadelosMuertosFestival_EG-37.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937469\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231029_OAKDiadelosMuertosFestival_EG-37.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231029_OAKDiadelosMuertosFestival_EG-37-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231029_OAKDiadelosMuertosFestival_EG-37-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231029_OAKDiadelosMuertosFestival_EG-37-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231029_OAKDiadelosMuertosFestival_EG-37-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231029_OAKDiadelosMuertosFestival_EG-37-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Sirena Covarrubias attends the Oakland Día de los Muertos Festival in Fruitvale on Sunday, Oct. 29, 2023. \u003ccite>(Estefany Gonzalez for KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://unitycouncil.org/program/diaoakland/\">Oakland’s Dia De Los Muertos Festival\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Nov. 2\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Fruitvale Village, Oakland\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Sugar skulls and marigolds are in great supply at this vibrant outdoor fair — and especially this year, as the event celebrates its 30th anniversary. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cb>Briefly Noted\u003c/b>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://sfcheesefest.com/\">SF Cheese Fest\u003c/a> (Sept. 13; San Francisco)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/filipino-island-fest-tickets-1389794977189?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Filipino Island Fest\u003c/a> (Oct. 4; Alameda)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://fleetweeksf.org/\">Fleet Week\u003c/a> (Oct. 5–13; San Francisco)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.litquake.org/2024-festival\">Litquake\u003c/a> (Oct. 9–25; San Francisco)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.fallchocolatesalon.com/\">Fall Holiday Chocolate Salon and Festival\u003c/a> (Nov. 23; San Francisco)\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Be sure to check out our full \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/tag/fall-guide-2025\">2025 Fall Arts Guide\u003c/a> to live music, movies, art, theater, festivals and more in the Bay Area.\u003c/em>\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mother Nature clearly overheard us discussing this year’s frigid start to summer in the Bay Area. Now, as temperatures around the region rise and we transition into “real summer” (also known as autumn), here’s some highlights of the season’s festivals and street fairs. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13974858\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Courtesy-of-Yerba-Buena-Gardens.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1331\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13974858\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Courtesy-of-Yerba-Buena-Gardens.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Courtesy-of-Yerba-Buena-Gardens-800x532.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Courtesy-of-Yerba-Buena-Gardens-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Courtesy-of-Yerba-Buena-Gardens-160x106.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Courtesy-of-Yerba-Buena-Gardens-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Courtesy-of-Yerba-Buena-Gardens-1536x1022.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/04/Courtesy-of-Yerba-Buena-Gardens-1920x1278.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Performances at the Yerba Buena Gardens Festival are always free. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Yerba Buena Gardens Festival)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://ybgfestival.org/events/?gad_source=1&gad_campaignid=36955909&gbraid=0AAAAAD3Ys4dhgMHawicf5GGZOYX0Sz9gJ\">Yerba Buena Gardens Festival\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Through Nov. 1\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Yerba Buena Gardens, San Francisco\u003c/i> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This series of free shows has a little bit of something for everyone, including poetry with \u003ca href=\"https://www.niamcallister.com/\">Nia Pearl\u003c/a>, a performance by the\u003ca href=\"http://www.parangal.org/\"> Parangal Dance Company\u003c/a>, puppet shows by \u003ca href=\"https://www.caterpillarpuppets.com/\">Joe Leon\u003c/a> and music from the likes of\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/samorapinderhughes/?hl=en\"> Samora Pinderhughes\u003c/a> and the \u003ca href=\"https://marcusshelby.com/\">Marcus Shelby Orchestra\u003c/a>. Held in the open grounds between the Metreon and SFMOMA, the series concludes with a “Halloween Hoopla” event. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/cultura-fest-2025-tickets-1502121548989?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Cultura Fest\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Aug. 23\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Grand Avenue, South San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>South San Francisco comes alive for this free street party, held along the city’s main thoroughfare. Stand-up comedian\u003ca href=\"https://www.hoozay.tv/\"> Jose ‘Hoozay’ Velasquez\u003c/a> and onetime \u003ci>The Voice\u003c/i> finalist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/cathiamusic/?hl=en\">Cáthia\u003c/a> are among the performers at Cultura Fest, which also includes a community parade, a visual art exhibition, Lucha Libre wrestling, Latin American cuisine, a craft fair and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/bizerkeley-food-fest-week-exclusive-events-sept-1st-7th-tickets-1502022893909?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Bizerkeley Food Fest Week\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Sept. 1–7\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Various venues, Berkeley and North Oakland\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Erika Hazel, also known as the Bizerkeley Vegan, founded this annual festival to celebrate meat- and dairy-free lifestyles. The week’s events include a screening of the food-systems documentary \u003ci>They’re Trying to Kill Us\u003c/i>, a pickleball tournament, a vegan mac & cheese contest and more.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980412\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 1136px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/Joe-Bataan-Cover.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1136\" height=\"757\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13980412\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/Joe-Bataan-Cover.jpg 1136w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/Joe-Bataan-Cover-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/Joe-Bataan-Cover-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1136px) 100vw, 1136px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Latin soul singer Joe Bataan will perform at this year’s Chicano Soul Fest in San Jose. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Joe Bataan)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/chicano-soul-fest-tickets-1273321261169?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Chicano Soul Fest\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Sept. 8\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>History Park, San Jose\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Onstage at last year’s Chicano Soul Fest,\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/reel/DAJiJq2Sd82/?hl=en\"> Sarah La Morena\u003c/a> explained how she, an African American woman, was raised by a Mexican family — and then delivered a Banda performance that quickly went viral. This year’s festival features Latin soul legend Joe Bataan, Aztec dancers, hip-hop group Lighter Shade of Brown, Chicano resistance art, lowrider bikes and cars, and a tribute to the late soul singer Brenton Wood. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.edgeonthesquare.org/sf-program\">Annual Contemporary Art Festival\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Sept. 13\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Chinatown, San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This year’s event, titled \u003ci>Super Flex: Powered by Alter Egos and Shadow Selves,\u003c/i> features modern artworks like \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/sholehasgary/?hl=en\">Sholeh Asgary\u003c/a>’s sound performance “41 Alleys” — a “site-specific radio project” inspired by Golden Star Radio,” the first Chinese-language station on the continent formerly located at 850 Grant Avenue. A sensory tank and archival government documents make up other projects at this dynamic art festival.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mill-valley-fall-arts-festival-september-20-21-2025-hours-10-5-tickets-1405716859969?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Mill Valley Fall Arts Festival\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Sept. 20 and 21\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Old Mill Park, Mill Valley\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Mill Valley has changed drastically in the 55 years since a third-grade children’s chorus had \u003ca href=\"https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qcRIl23-t_s\">a minor hit paying tribute to the small Marin County town\u003c/a>. Along with live performances, the festival also hosts fine crafts from over 100 different makers and a children’s grove with magic tricks and storytelling — for the third graders of today. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13937762\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231103-DMCBattle-28-BL-KQED.jpg\" alt=\"A person wearing a baseball cap stands at a table under fluorescent lighting.\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13937762\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231103-DMCBattle-28-BL-KQED.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231103-DMCBattle-28-BL-KQED-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231103-DMCBattle-28-BL-KQED-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231103-DMCBattle-28-BL-KQED-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231103-DMCBattle-28-BL-KQED-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231103-DMCBattle-28-BL-KQED-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/11/231103-DMCBattle-28-BL-KQED-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">DJ Qbert will lend his eye-popping turntable skills to benefit the Daly City Library. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.eventbrite.com/e/dcplas-art-lit-fest-tickets-1478982208599?aff=ebdssbdestsearch\">Daly City Public Library’s Art & Lit Fest\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Sept. 27\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Serramonte Center, Daly City\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At this day-long celebration of reading, art, poetry and music, \u003ca href=\"https://koit.com/shows/freska/\">96.5 KOIT radio show host Freska\u003c/a>,\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/djajaxsf/?hl=en\"> DJ Ajax\u003c/a> and world-renowned \u003ca href=\"https://www.djqbert.com/\">DJ QBert\u003c/a> are scheduled attractions. The free, all-ages event doubles as a fundraiser for the Daly City Public Library. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.folsomstreet.org/folsom-street-fair\">Folsom Street Fair\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Sept. 28\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Folsom Street, San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For some, art is a matter of what you’re wearing (or not wearing). The Folsom Street Fair (pro tip: don’t try to bring children) celebrates leather, bondage and the liberating act of letting the sun shine where the sun doesn’t shine. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/sshhb5ISHvI?si=PelIllKibSJTWDbQ\">Oktoberfest\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Throughout October\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Various locations\u003c/i> \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lederhosen! Tubas! And most importantly: beer! \u003ca href=\"https://www.oaktoberfest.org/\">Oakland’s “Oaktoberfest”\u003c/a> takes place on Oct. 4 and Sunday Oct. 5 East Oakland’s Dimond District. On the peninsula,\u003ca href=\"https://www.mvoktoberfest.com/\"> Mountain View’s Oktoberfest\u003c/a> is the following weekend, Oct. 11 and 12. And if you’re in the South Bay,\u003ca href=\"https://campbelloktoberfest.com/\"> Campbell’s Oktoberfest\u003c/a> is Oct. 18 and 19. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13980417\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/241005-OaklandBlackCowboyParade-019-BL.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1333\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13980417\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/241005-OaklandBlackCowboyParade-019-BL.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/241005-OaklandBlackCowboyParade-019-BL-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/241005-OaklandBlackCowboyParade-019-BL-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2025/08/241005-OaklandBlackCowboyParade-019-BL-1536x1024.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Jaelah (left), 12, a member of the Blue Bird Riders from Manteca, rides with her friend Aniyah, 13, during the Oakland Black Cowboy Association parade in Oakland on Oct. 5, 2024. \u003ccite>(Beth LaBerge/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://www.oaklandbca.org/\">Oakland’s Black Cowboy Parade\u003c/a> / \u003ca href=\"https://lifeisliving.org/\">Life Is Living Festival\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Oct. 4 and Oct. 11\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Little Bobby Hutton Park, Oakland\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After celebrating its 50 anniversary last year,\u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/12008139/oaklands-black-cowboy-association-celebrates-50-years-with-parade-and-festival\"> the Oakland Black Cowboy Association\u003c/a> returns for its annual parade, with food vendors, dancers, tales of Black history and pony rides. The following Saturday sees the return of the long-running \u003ca href=\"https://lifeisliving.org/\">Life Is Living Festival\u003c/a>, which starts with a Black Panthers free breakfast and includes live music, poetry, DJs and a historic Black Panther Party exhibition.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://castrostreetfair.org/fair/\">The Castro Street Fair\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Oct. 5\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Castro Street, San Francisco\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now in its 51st year, this celebration of community and resilience takes over the Castro for an event with all proceeds going to charitable causes. Live music, DJs, food, activities and more are heralded by Harvey Milk Plaza’s giant rainbow flag. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://gardensatlakemerritt.org/autumn-lights-festival-2025/\">Autumn Lights Festival\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Oct. 16–18\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Lake Merritt, Oakland\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>An event tailor-made for those who think art is best served in the form of colorfully illuminated lights decoratively placed in a garden — preferably in Oakland. \u003c/p>\n\u003ch2>\u003ca href=\"https://hmbpumpkinfest.com/\">Half Moon Bay Art & Pumpkin Festival\u003c/a>\u003c/h2>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>Oct. 18–19\u003c/i>\u003cbr>\n\u003ci>Half Moon Bay\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The winner of last year’s world championship pumpkin weigh-off at this festival drove 32 hours\u003ca href=\"https://abc11.com/post/2471-pound-gourd-minnesota-wins-world-championship-pumpkin-weigh-off-california/15430625/\"> from Minnesota\u003c/a> with a pumpkin that measured over 7 feet tall and 20 feet around, and weighed \u003ca href=\"https://hmbweighoff.com/results.html\">2,471\u003c/a> pounds. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>KQED’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/siliconvalleyunseen\">Silicon Valley Unseen\u003c/a> is a series of photo essays, original reporting and underreported histories that survey the tech capital’s overlooked communities and subcultures from a local perspective.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>\u003cstrong>Editor’s note\u003c/strong>: Angel Romero is the founder of the all-women’s car club Dueñas, which has been featured in lowrider events and exhibitions around the globe. Here, Romero shares her personal history with cars, her mother’s influence and the pains of gentrification.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>As told to Alan Chazaro.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13964538'][dropcap]I[/dropcap]’m proud to have grown up in Sunnyvale, where I’ve lived for most of my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Starting with my grandparents, who were Mexican immigrants, my family first settled down in Texas in the late ’50s and early ’60s. That’s where my mom was born in 1963. My grandpa came to Sunnyvale later that year and found a job at a cannery, then sent for my grandma, mom and aunt Juanita. I lived here with them after I was born.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The reason I got into lowriders was because my mom hung around her cousin Gustavo, who had a 1964 Impala. He started the Midnite Classics car club. My mom was always around that culture. It was all a family thing, you know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965364\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1242px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965364\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9472.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1242\" height=\"1317\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9472.jpg 1242w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9472-800x848.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9472-1020x1082.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9472-160x170.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9472-768x814.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family portrait of Angel Romero (left) with her mother, brother and younger sister in 1985. Romero and her siblings lived in Sunnyvale for their entire lives until recently having to leave due to the cost of living. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Angel Romero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On her quinceañera, my mom was given a brand new 1977 Monte Carlo. My grandparents ordered it with a custom paint job. It had swivel bucket seats. A sunroof. Such a beautiful car. But my mom was like, I want it to be a lowrider. So she got some Truespoke rims and hydraulics, and had it lifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after, when my mom was still very young, I popped out, and then my brother and sister. We’re each a year apart. My mom was a single mother who divorced early. She didn’t have a lot of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up, we would just cruise around in her car for fun. Three little ones — 3, 4, and 5 years old — just jumping around, messing with the switches. We did everything in that car back then as a family when we didn’t have much else, so I cherish it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, we’d go down to San Jose, and there were lots of lowrider events going, especially back then. San Jose doesn’t get the recognition it deserves for being the lowrider capital. \u003cem>Lowrider Magazine\u003c/em> was originally published by Sonny Madrid, a student of San Jose State University. It doesn’t get more obvious than that. People want to fight about where it all started. I get it. But\u003cem> Lowrider Magazine\u003c/em> was our social media back then. Seeing the cars and the drivers, where it’s from, that all came out of San Jose. And we got to see all that growing up here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965361\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1242px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965361\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9461.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1242\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9461.jpg 1242w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9461-800x403.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9461-1020x513.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9461-160x81.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9461-768x386.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Romero’s mother, Maricela Rodriguez, poses next to her 1977 Chevy Monte Carlo, which she received as a gift from her Mexican immigrant parents for her quinceañera. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Angel Romero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s really when I fell in love with cars. I didn’t have money to get my own when I was younger, but my cousin had a mini truck with hydraulics. He would pick me up from high school in it and on weekends we would go cruising. There used to be these popular cruises on El Camino in Santa Clara in the early ’90s. The first time I really got in trouble was cause I went cruising there in my mom’s car and I got pulled over. I was driving with the high beams on. I was only 12 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day when we were teenagers, we were in downtown Sunnyvale playing hooky, and we were looking through an old-school magazine that had advertisements. I saw a ’65 Impala for sale on Fair Oaks in Sunnyvale. That was close to where we lived. We called the number and the owner was a lady, and she confirmed that it was still available. We pulled up and I immediately fell in love with the car. It was all original and needed some work — the paint was scratched and it was on stock wheels — but I fell in love. It was cameo beige with original fawn interior, even though it was all ripped up. I was too scared to drive it, so my sister test-drove it. She pushed me to buy it, and later, to paint it. I’ve had it for 21 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13923205']That car is my true baby. Anyone who knows me knows about that ’65 Impala. My sister is on her sixth or seventh lowrider now. But I’ve only had that one. When I took it home, I immediately showed my momma. She absolutely loved it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, we didn’t see a lot of women driving lowriders. People would joke that the lowrider was my boyfriend’s or Daddy’s ride. My mom had a jumpsuit she kept with her, and if something happened with her car, she would work on it. We got into this lifestyle and culture very differently from most people. It wasn’t our dad or a male role model who taught us about cars. It was our mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965358\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965358\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Romero has owned her 1965 Impala, nicknamed ‘Saturday Love,’ for over 20 years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Angel Romero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My mom passed away in 2019. Nowadays, lowriding is even more near and dear to my heart. It’s always a big reminder of her. My mom always instilled hard work and respect in us. She was doing things back then that weren’t really being done by women — going back to college to get her degree, and working full-time while raising three kids as a single mom and fixing up her lowrider. Meanwhile, my grandparents were working at a bar they purchased when they retired. They made a life for themselves in Sunnyvale. They worked hard their whole lives and always pushed us to earn what we’ve got. I think that’s something that we don’t see as much these days. We forget our struggles and where we came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For nine years, I kept my ’65 all stock. One time, my brother Junior drove it during a Cinco de Mayo cruise and blew the rings. So I rebuilt the motor. Got a new interior, a new paint job. I wanted purple, since that’s my mom’s favorite color, and I wanted everyone to know it was a woman’s car. Then I joined my first car club, Aztec Creations, about a decade ago. A cousin on my dad’s side was the president. I didn’t know much about car clubs, and I learned the basics — the do’s and don’ts. But it seemed a little bit like a disconnect for me. I love my family and the car club was great, but I went back to being a solo rider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965363\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1242px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965363\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9465.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1242\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9465.jpg 1242w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9465-800x433.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9465-1020x553.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9465-160x87.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9465-768x416.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Romero’s 1965 Impala as it looked in 2003, when she bought it from the classified ads in a local paper in Sunnyvale. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Angel Romero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few years later, I missed the whole camaraderie and unity of a car club, just riding with other people. So I reached out to a friend who was in the Str8 Riders. I became the first lady of that club, and I hoped to take it to a whole different level. More community, more things we could do like fundraisers and drives, bigger events. Giving back. My mom always told us from a young age that when she didn’t have much, other people helped her. Sunnyvale Community Services helped pay our bills and helped us on Christmas when we didn’t have much. Later on, when my mom got a better-paying job, she would always donate things and help people. My mom was very giving and loving, always helping the less fortunate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wanted to honor her sense of giving and take the car club in a new direction, but it didn’t feel like a good fit for me at the time, so I decided to leave. After that, I started to help with the\u003ca href=\"https://ulcsj.com/\"> United Lowrider Council of San Jose\u003c/a>. In 2018, me and another girl helped to get the council started. Even then, lowriding still seemed to be male-dominated. Sometimes it felt like a woman’s voice wasn’t being heard. Nowadays, it’s great to see so many women on the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I always dreamed of having an all-female car club — \u003cem>how badass would that be?\u003c/em> — so me, my sister, my niece and some friends got together and said “Let’s do this. We’ve been in the scene for years, it’s our lifestyle. We cruise and go to car shows already. We might as well put a name on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965357\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1462px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965357\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1462\" height=\"1949\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-39.jpg 1462w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-39-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-39-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-39-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-39-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-39-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1462px) 100vw, 1462px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of Dueñas lowrider club parked in a strip mall in Sunnyvale, close to the childhood neighborhood of group founder Angel Romero. Today, the area has changed drastically, but pockets of Spanish-speaking immigrants and Chicanos still gather at Tres Portillos Taqueria and Chavez Supermarket. \u003ccite>(Alex Knowbody)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We ordered plaques. We put things together. The hardest part was coming up with the name. We wanted people to know we were female owners of these cars. We were tired of the whole, “It’s your man’s ride.” Dueña means “owner” in Spanish. And we’re the proud female owners of all these cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I told my mom, she was so excited. When we used to go out to events, I would be in the hallway bathroom getting ready, and my mom would always say I looked so beautiful. We’d wash our cars, polish them, and my mom would stand in the garage doorway cheering us on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the beginning everyone was like, whatever. We were just more cars on the road, people didn’t really pay attention. But eventually when we passed through, people were like, \u003cem>wait\u003c/em>. We knew people on the scene and everyone started to get excited. It’s all females, so we didn’t know what to expect. But we’ve been happy with how much support we’ve gotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the ’65 was involved in an accident, I wanted to get a ’63 Impala convertible to dedicate to my mom, since she was born in ’63. I kept looking around for one. They’re very pricey. I decided to sell the ’65 to my brother. When I told her I was getting the ’63, she said “Those are effing ugly.” It broke my heart. We talked about it, but we didn’t get to finish our conversation, because we were in a rush, getting ready to hit a cruise. My mom stayed home. That night, she had a complete heart block and ended up on life support. She didn’t make it. That was one of the hardest times of my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965360\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 645px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965360\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_4090.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_4090.jpg 645w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_4090-160x144.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural of Angel Romero’s mother, Maricela Rodriguez, on the back of Romero’s purple Chevy Impala. Known for her generosity, everyone in the neighborhood knew Rodriguez as Tia Mari, whose favorite color was purple. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Angel Romero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So many things have just changed since she’s been gone. One thing is that I feel like lowriding isn’t just lowriding. It’s something I did with my mom, a love we shared. After that, me and the girls in my club, maybe five or six of us at the time — all of us close family friends for 30 years, sisters, nieces, cousins — we wanted to do something. It was our first year as a car club, and my mom was so big on giving back. We decided to do a toy drive. We got in contact with the San Jose Earthquakes who allowed us to use their parking lot to have the toy drive. We had an outpouring of support from the lowriding community, and the community in general. We donated to some of the local shelters and camps for union workers, for farmers. That was amazing. We couldn’t believe it. We got to do what we love with lowriding, being with my sisters, but also got to do things for the community. Helping people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have a good relationship with all the car clubs around here. The lowrider community is all about unity. What most people don’t realize about our lifestyle is the family aspect. If you look at these car clubs, it’s dads, moms, grandpas, grandmas, grandchildren. It’s truly our family. The women in the lowriding community were extremely supportive when we first came out. We weren’t being passenger princesses who only helped to cook and get the kids dressed. This was different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I was growing up in Sunnyvale, people had classic cars here and there. There were more lowriders and more Chicanos in the area. Of course, that all started to change a little bit throughout the years with Google and Yahoo! and tech and all that stuff. People started to be driven out, or bought out. Neighbors could no longer afford those weekend cars, and maybe had to sell their rides or sell their homes. Sunnyvale changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, San Jose’s love for lowriding was growing. It felt like more people were buying cars, and more women became involved over the years. Now, I go cruising and there’s so many women with cars. Women in general have evolved. I think tech had something to do with that around here, too. There are women CEOs, women out there doing more and getting more education, not just being a housewife. Now with technology you go on Facebook or Instagram and you can see lowriders here, or over there, everywhere. So it’s easier to network. That technology had a big impact on lowriding and where it’s at today going worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965358\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965358\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Romero’s has owned her 1965 Impala, nicknamed “Saturday Love” for over 20 years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Angel Romero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I recently saw a video about two sisters who built their car in Texas. That’s badass. When I work on my car, I get help from my family and I use YouTube. I learn stuff. Technology and the internet has really impacted the lowrider community in many good ways. Google sponsored an event I attended that was put on by\u003ca href=\"https://blogs.sjsu.edu/newsroom/2023/ricardo-cortez-and-the-abcs-of-lowrider-culture/\"> Ricardo Cortez\u003c/a>. He’s known as “Mr. Lowrider Fever” and he has hosted a few of his workshops in the area. But tech also makes it hard to live here like we used to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, I visit my family home in Sunnyvale, even though we had to sell it. The new owners rent it out for $800 a night on Airbnb. It’s sad. It’s crazy, what the neighborhood has become. We used to go cruising in the Bay every weekend. Now, I feel like you can’t buy a house and build a car, it’s too expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all this money here, how can we not do more for the middle class? You have all these rich techies moving in. When I visit my friends who are still in Sunnyvale, it’s just so different. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Last Friday we hosted a bake sale at a local high school as a fundraiser to help kids on the football team to get their helmets and equipment. Where is Silicon Valley for that? These kids don’t even have the proper equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postID='arts_13965374']I would’ve loved, \u003ci>loved\u003c/i> to have stayed in Sunnyvale around my family and friends. It’s impossible. So here I am in Modesto — it’s okay, but it isn’t home. There should be another solution. I wanted to move back, but I can’t even afford an apartment with a garage for my car (laugh out loud).\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I moved to Modesto, everyone asked if I was going to create a Dueñas chapter here in the Central Valley. But we feel that what works for us — as we celebrate our five-year anniversary — is quality over quantity. Keeping it small with close friends and family who really have the passion for this. My sister is in Hollister, a few of us are in San Jose, I’m out in Modesto and the rest are in Sunnyvale. Nine total members. We also started a lowrider bike club. Our daughters were interested and helped us in building it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad floatright]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>They wanted to cruise with us, too. They enjoy it just as much as we do, and it reminded us of growing up with our moms, aunts and older sisters. Let’s do something for them, for our girls. Something they can build and be proud of.\u003c/p>\n\n",
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It was all a family thing, you know?\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965364\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1242px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965364\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9472.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1242\" height=\"1317\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9472.jpg 1242w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9472-800x848.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9472-1020x1082.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9472-160x170.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9472-768x814.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A family portrait of Angel Romero (left) with her mother, brother and younger sister in 1985. Romero and her siblings lived in Sunnyvale for their entire lives until recently having to leave due to the cost of living. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Angel Romero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>On her quinceañera, my mom was given a brand new 1977 Monte Carlo. My grandparents ordered it with a custom paint job. It had swivel bucket seats. A sunroof. Such a beautiful car. But my mom was like, I want it to be a lowrider. So she got some Truespoke rims and hydraulics, and had it lifted.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Shortly after, when my mom was still very young, I popped out, and then my brother and sister. We’re each a year apart. My mom was a single mother who divorced early. She didn’t have a lot of money.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Growing up, we would just cruise around in her car for fun. Three little ones — 3, 4, and 5 years old — just jumping around, messing with the switches. We did everything in that car back then as a family when we didn’t have much else, so I cherish it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At times, we’d go down to San Jose, and there were lots of lowrider events going, especially back then. San Jose doesn’t get the recognition it deserves for being the lowrider capital. \u003cem>Lowrider Magazine\u003c/em> was originally published by Sonny Madrid, a student of San Jose State University. It doesn’t get more obvious than that. People want to fight about where it all started. I get it. But\u003cem> Lowrider Magazine\u003c/em> was our social media back then. Seeing the cars and the drivers, where it’s from, that all came out of San Jose. And we got to see all that growing up here.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965361\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1242px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965361\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9461.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1242\" height=\"625\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9461.jpg 1242w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9461-800x403.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9461-1020x513.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9461-160x81.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9461-768x386.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Romero’s mother, Maricela Rodriguez, poses next to her 1977 Chevy Monte Carlo, which she received as a gift from her Mexican immigrant parents for her quinceañera. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Angel Romero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>That’s really when I fell in love with cars. I didn’t have money to get my own when I was younger, but my cousin had a mini truck with hydraulics. He would pick me up from high school in it and on weekends we would go cruising. There used to be these popular cruises on El Camino in Santa Clara in the early ’90s. The first time I really got in trouble was cause I went cruising there in my mom’s car and I got pulled over. I was driving with the high beams on. I was only 12 years old.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>One day when we were teenagers, we were in downtown Sunnyvale playing hooky, and we were looking through an old-school magazine that had advertisements. I saw a ’65 Impala for sale on Fair Oaks in Sunnyvale. That was close to where we lived. We called the number and the owner was a lady, and she confirmed that it was still available. We pulled up and I immediately fell in love with the car. It was all original and needed some work — the paint was scratched and it was on stock wheels — but I fell in love. It was cameo beige with original fawn interior, even though it was all ripped up. I was too scared to drive it, so my sister test-drove it. She pushed me to buy it, and later, to paint it. I’ve had it for 21 years.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>That car is my true baby. Anyone who knows me knows about that ’65 Impala. My sister is on her sixth or seventh lowrider now. But I’ve only had that one. When I took it home, I immediately showed my momma. She absolutely loved it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Back then, we didn’t see a lot of women driving lowriders. People would joke that the lowrider was my boyfriend’s or Daddy’s ride. My mom had a jumpsuit she kept with her, and if something happened with her car, she would work on it. We got into this lifestyle and culture very differently from most people. It wasn’t our dad or a male role model who taught us about cars. It was our mom.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965358\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965358\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Romero has owned her 1965 Impala, nicknamed ‘Saturday Love,’ for over 20 years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Angel Romero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>My mom passed away in 2019. Nowadays, lowriding is even more near and dear to my heart. It’s always a big reminder of her. My mom always instilled hard work and respect in us. She was doing things back then that weren’t really being done by women — going back to college to get her degree, and working full-time while raising three kids as a single mom and fixing up her lowrider. Meanwhile, my grandparents were working at a bar they purchased when they retired. They made a life for themselves in Sunnyvale. They worked hard their whole lives and always pushed us to earn what we’ve got. I think that’s something that we don’t see as much these days. We forget our struggles and where we came from.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>For nine years, I kept my ’65 all stock. One time, my brother Junior drove it during a Cinco de Mayo cruise and blew the rings. So I rebuilt the motor. Got a new interior, a new paint job. I wanted purple, since that’s my mom’s favorite color, and I wanted everyone to know it was a woman’s car. Then I joined my first car club, Aztec Creations, about a decade ago. A cousin on my dad’s side was the president. I didn’t know much about car clubs, and I learned the basics — the do’s and don’ts. But it seemed a little bit like a disconnect for me. I love my family and the car club was great, but I went back to being a solo rider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965363\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1242px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965363\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9465.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1242\" height=\"673\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9465.jpg 1242w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9465-800x433.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9465-1020x553.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9465-160x87.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_9465-768x416.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1242px) 100vw, 1242px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Romero’s 1965 Impala as it looked in 2003, when she bought it from the classified ads in a local paper in Sunnyvale. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Angel Romero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>A few years later, I missed the whole camaraderie and unity of a car club, just riding with other people. So I reached out to a friend who was in the Str8 Riders. I became the first lady of that club, and I hoped to take it to a whole different level. More community, more things we could do like fundraisers and drives, bigger events. Giving back. My mom always told us from a young age that when she didn’t have much, other people helped her. Sunnyvale Community Services helped pay our bills and helped us on Christmas when we didn’t have much. Later on, when my mom got a better-paying job, she would always donate things and help people. My mom was very giving and loving, always helping the less fortunate.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I wanted to honor her sense of giving and take the car club in a new direction, but it didn’t feel like a good fit for me at the time, so I decided to leave. After that, I started to help with the\u003ca href=\"https://ulcsj.com/\"> United Lowrider Council of San Jose\u003c/a>. In 2018, me and another girl helped to get the council started. Even then, lowriding still seemed to be male-dominated. Sometimes it felt like a woman’s voice wasn’t being heard. Nowadays, it’s great to see so many women on the council.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>I always dreamed of having an all-female car club — \u003cem>how badass would that be?\u003c/em> — so me, my sister, my niece and some friends got together and said “Let’s do this. We’ve been in the scene for years, it’s our lifestyle. We cruise and go to car shows already. We might as well put a name on it.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965357\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1462px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965357\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-39.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1462\" height=\"1949\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-39.jpg 1462w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-39-800x1066.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-39-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-39-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-39-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/CanonPNS_Aug25-39-1152x1536.jpg 1152w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1462px) 100vw, 1462px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A member of Dueñas lowrider club parked in a strip mall in Sunnyvale, close to the childhood neighborhood of group founder Angel Romero. Today, the area has changed drastically, but pockets of Spanish-speaking immigrants and Chicanos still gather at Tres Portillos Taqueria and Chavez Supermarket. \u003ccite>(Alex Knowbody)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>We ordered plaques. We put things together. The hardest part was coming up with the name. We wanted people to know we were female owners of these cars. We were tired of the whole, “It’s your man’s ride.” Dueña means “owner” in Spanish. And we’re the proud female owners of all these cars.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I told my mom, she was so excited. When we used to go out to events, I would be in the hallway bathroom getting ready, and my mom would always say I looked so beautiful. We’d wash our cars, polish them, and my mom would stand in the garage doorway cheering us on.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In the beginning everyone was like, whatever. We were just more cars on the road, people didn’t really pay attention. But eventually when we passed through, people were like, \u003cem>wait\u003c/em>. We knew people on the scene and everyone started to get excited. It’s all females, so we didn’t know what to expect. But we’ve been happy with how much support we’ve gotten.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>After the ’65 was involved in an accident, I wanted to get a ’63 Impala convertible to dedicate to my mom, since she was born in ’63. I kept looking around for one. They’re very pricey. I decided to sell the ’65 to my brother. When I told her I was getting the ’63, she said “Those are effing ugly.” It broke my heart. We talked about it, but we didn’t get to finish our conversation, because we were in a rush, getting ready to hit a cruise. My mom stayed home. That night, she had a complete heart block and ended up on life support. She didn’t make it. That was one of the hardest times of my life.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965360\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 645px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965360\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_4090.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"645\" height=\"581\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_4090.jpg 645w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_4090-160x144.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 645px) 100vw, 645px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">A mural of Angel Romero’s mother, Maricela Rodriguez, on the back of Romero’s purple Chevy Impala. Known for her generosity, everyone in the neighborhood knew Rodriguez as Tia Mari, whose favorite color was purple. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Angel Romero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>So many things have just changed since she’s been gone. One thing is that I feel like lowriding isn’t just lowriding. It’s something I did with my mom, a love we shared. After that, me and the girls in my club, maybe five or six of us at the time — all of us close family friends for 30 years, sisters, nieces, cousins — we wanted to do something. It was our first year as a car club, and my mom was so big on giving back. We decided to do a toy drive. We got in contact with the San Jose Earthquakes who allowed us to use their parking lot to have the toy drive. We had an outpouring of support from the lowriding community, and the community in general. We donated to some of the local shelters and camps for union workers, for farmers. That was amazing. We couldn’t believe it. We got to do what we love with lowriding, being with my sisters, but also got to do things for the community. Helping people.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>We have a good relationship with all the car clubs around here. The lowrider community is all about unity. What most people don’t realize about our lifestyle is the family aspect. If you look at these car clubs, it’s dads, moms, grandpas, grandmas, grandchildren. It’s truly our family. The women in the lowriding community were extremely supportive when we first came out. We weren’t being passenger princesses who only helped to cook and get the kids dressed. This was different.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>When I was growing up in Sunnyvale, people had classic cars here and there. There were more lowriders and more Chicanos in the area. Of course, that all started to change a little bit throughout the years with Google and Yahoo! and tech and all that stuff. People started to be driven out, or bought out. Neighbors could no longer afford those weekend cars, and maybe had to sell their rides or sell their homes. Sunnyvale changed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>At the same time, San Jose’s love for lowriding was growing. It felt like more people were buying cars, and more women became involved over the years. Now, I go cruising and there’s so many women with cars. Women in general have evolved. I think tech had something to do with that around here, too. There are women CEOs, women out there doing more and getting more education, not just being a housewife. Now with technology you go on Facebook or Instagram and you can see lowriders here, or over there, everywhere. So it’s easier to network. That technology had a big impact on lowriding and where it’s at today going worldwide.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13965358\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 1920px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13965358\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-scaled.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"2560\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-scaled.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-800x1067.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-1020x1360.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-160x213.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-768x1024.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-1152x1536.jpg 1152w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/09/IMG_2733-1536x2048.jpg 1536w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Romero’s has owned her 1965 Impala, nicknamed “Saturday Love” for over 20 years. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Angel Romero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>I recently saw a video about two sisters who built their car in Texas. That’s badass. When I work on my car, I get help from my family and I use YouTube. I learn stuff. Technology and the internet has really impacted the lowrider community in many good ways. Google sponsored an event I attended that was put on by\u003ca href=\"https://blogs.sjsu.edu/newsroom/2023/ricardo-cortez-and-the-abcs-of-lowrider-culture/\"> Ricardo Cortez\u003c/a>. He’s known as “Mr. Lowrider Fever” and he has hosted a few of his workshops in the area. But tech also makes it hard to live here like we used to.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>To this day, I visit my family home in Sunnyvale, even though we had to sell it. The new owners rent it out for $800 a night on Airbnb. It’s sad. It’s crazy, what the neighborhood has become. We used to go cruising in the Bay every weekend. Now, I feel like you can’t buy a house and build a car, it’s too expensive.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>With all this money here, how can we not do more for the middle class? You have all these rich techies moving in. When I visit my friends who are still in Sunnyvale, it’s just so different. The rich get richer and the poor get poorer. Last Friday we hosted a bake sale at a local high school as a fundraiser to help kids on the football team to get their helmets and equipment. Where is Silicon Valley for that? These kids don’t even have the proper equipment.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\u003c/div>",
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After 37 years on the books, \u003ca href=\"https://www.pressdemocrat.com/article/news/repeal-of-santa-rosas-decades-old-cruising-ban-seen-as-step-toward-greater/\">Santa Rosa’s cruising ban was finally repealed in 2023\u003c/a>, thanks in part to the city’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/news/11845882/roseland-santa-rosas-largely-latino-neighborhood-elects-first-ever-city-council-member\">first-ever council member from the largely Latino Roseland neighborhood\u003c/a>, who knew his constituents’ frustration and decided to do something about it. \u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13961682\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Lowriders.Upholstery.Plaques.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1108\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13961682\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Lowriders.Upholstery.Plaques.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Lowriders.Upholstery.Plaques-800x443.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Lowriders.Upholstery.Plaques-1020x565.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Lowriders.Upholstery.Plaques-160x89.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Lowriders.Upholstery.Plaques-768x425.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Lowriders.Upholstery.Plaques-1536x851.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Lowriders.Upholstery.Plaques-672x372.jpg 672w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Lowriders.Upholstery.Plaques-1038x576.jpg 1038w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2024/07/Lowriders.Upholstery.Plaques-1920x1064.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">(L–R) A custom upholstery panel by Jose “Pepe” Lombera and a display of plaques from car clubs around Sonoma County. \u003ccite>(Gabe Meline/KQED)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Even at age 11, my skater friends and I could sense that laws like Santa Rosa’s cruising ordinance were discriminatory and unjust. \u003cem>Cruisin’\u003c/em>, an exhibition at the Museum of Sonoma County on display through Nov. 24, is a giant step toward understanding rather than persecuting lowrider culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Filled with the artwork and custom designs of Sonoma County car clubs, \u003cem>Cruisin’\u003c/em> shows the familial bonds forged in the lowrider community, and the unceasing dedication and creativity of the scene. With the cooperation of local riders, artists and archivists, along with members from the \u003ca href=\"https://www.srcity.org/Blog.aspx?IID=104\">Sonoma County Lowrider Council\u003c/a>, the exhibition gathers all the material evidence of lowrider life: meticulously painted car hoods. A reimagined upholstery panel. Airbrushed T-shirts. Sixteen different jackets and 19 custom car plaques. A large chassis with hydraulics. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Two vintage cars form the centerpiece of the show. Neto Longoria’s 1938 Plymouth was first lowered in the 1960s; it’s said to be the longest running lowrider in Sonoma County. 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Filmed in the early 1980s through a community access-style county program, it includes footage of cruises along Santa Rosa Avenue near City Hall and Juilliard Park, and interviews about the issues lowriders face: prejudice, selective enforcement and unlawful searches of their cars. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lowrider has dignity, self-respect, self-esteem,” says another interview subject. “They don’t have to show anybody how bad they are. They’re proud of who they are when they get dressed in the morning, they’re dressed clean and neat. They take pride in their car, themselves, their family, their friends. That’s what it means to me.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alfonso Dominguez’s \u003cem>Twisted Obsession\u003c/em> lowrider bike, which won \u003cem>Lowrider\u003c/em> magazine’s 1995 Bike of the Year, is on display, as is Jose Fausto’s customized 2001 Harley-Davidson, \u003cem>Aztlán\u003c/em>, combining Native American and Chicano aesthetics. 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Vintage photos prove that the lowrider footprint in Sonoma County stretched as far as Duncans Mills, out near the coast. Sonja Vasquez’s incredible portraits capture lowriders’ determination and pride. And a wall of hand-drawn artwork depicts fantastical dreams alongside daily life, such as a red pencil illustration from Anthony “Chuko” Garduño that includes a paleta cart and a Dollar Tree.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>No single museum exhibit can thoroughly capture Sonoma County’s entire lowrider scene, which includes hundreds of families — sometimes stretching back generations — and 21 different car clubs. 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Filmed in the early 1980s through a community access-style county program, it includes footage of cruises along Santa Rosa Avenue near City Hall and Juilliard Park, and interviews about the issues lowriders face: prejudice, selective enforcement and unlawful searches of their cars. \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“A lowrider has dignity, self-respect, self-esteem,” says another interview subject. “They don’t have to show anybody how bad they are. They’re proud of who they are when they get dressed in the morning, they’re dressed clean and neat. They take pride in their car, themselves, their family, their friends. That’s what it means to me.” \u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Alfonso Dominguez’s \u003cem>Twisted Obsession\u003c/em> lowrider bike, which won \u003cem>Lowrider\u003c/em> magazine’s 1995 Bike of the Year, is on display, as is Jose Fausto’s customized 2001 Harley-Davidson, \u003cem>Aztlán\u003c/em>, combining Native American and Chicano aesthetics. 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In metal vitrines painted a shiny magenta, Ayala’s copies of \u003ci>Teen Angels\u003c/i> and the San Francisco-based \u003ci>Mi Vida Loca\u003c/i> open up to ads for Arik’s Workwear and hand-drawn illustrations, gesturing at the networks and communities that inform so much of the imagery we’re about to see. In the vitrine displaying Rosales’ \u003ci>Los Angeles Chicano Archive\u003c/i>, a mirrored bottom cleverly allows viewers to see both the front and back of the ephemera displayed, including wallet-sized photographs with handwritten notes on their versos. Rosales has devoted much of her art practice to archiving, through the social media accounts \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/map_pointz/?hl=en\">@map_pointz\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/veteranas_and_rucas/?hl=en\">@veterana_and_rucas\u003c/a>, Southern California women, music subcultures and community-created history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the first gallery is about context (a Whittier Boulevard “No Cruising” sign is planted at the entrance), the second is about bodies and machines. esparza’s \u003ci>Self Portrait\u003c/i>, an acrylic painting on adobe, depicts the artist driving, his left arm hanging outside the car. But the arm’s metal, maybe chromed, just like the cast aluminum sleeves he created for \u003ci>Corpo RanfLA: Terra Cruiser\u003c/i>, a mechanical pony ride turned performative sculpture that esaparza activates with the help of friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13933664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13933664\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/11.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_COVER.jpg\" alt=\"White gallery with two painting hanging on walls, one car-shaped, and a mechanical sculpture in the middle\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/11.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_COVER.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/11.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_COVER-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/11.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_COVER-1020x762.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/11.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_COVER-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/11.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_COVER-768x574.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/11.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_COVER-1536x1148.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/11.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_COVER-1920x1435.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation view of ‘Sitting on Chrome’ with work by Mario Ayala and rafa esparza. \u003ccite>(Photo by Don Ross; Courtesy of SFMOMA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/4nrGNK0hPas\">short documentary\u003c/a> produced by the museum, esparza tours viewers through Elysian Park, long a gay cruising zone that’s now being overtaken by a disc golf course. His dual understanding of cruising informs the structure and decoration of \u003ci>Corpo RanfLA\u003c/i>, a sculpture that allows him to become a lowrider, but also speaks to a more harmonious future with technology, one that’s less about dependency than agency and hybridity.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosales’ contribution to this space is quieter, more melancholy: a large nighttime photograph housed in a delicately etched frame, showing a view from Elysian Park of Interstate 110. In the long exposure, the lights of a helicopter arc overhead, evidence of a car chase below. Cars mean mobility and freedom, customization and expression, but they can also become the targets of law enforcement; that tension between resistance and surveillance permeates the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rosales has also provided visitors with a window — a way of looking into the comfort of a space designed to resist external control. A wide slice of wall lined with magenta buttoned upholstery acts like the rear deck of a car, where fuzzy dice and a disco ball dangle. Through this view, we enter the interior space of the lowrider, a gallery with deep purple walls and velvety, hard-not-to-pet upholstery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13933666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13933666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/13.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000.jpg\" alt=\"A purple-walled gallery with a stack of paintings on left wall and a highly reflective mirror-based sculpture on the right\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1488\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/13.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/13.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000-800x595.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/13.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000-1020x759.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/13.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/13.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000-768x571.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/13.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000-1536x1143.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/13.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000-1920x1428.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation view of ‘Sitting on Chrome’ with work by Mario Ayala and Guadalupe Rosales. \u003ccite>(Photo by Don Ross; Courtesy of SFMOMA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here, we get two nods to San Francisco by way of Diego Rivera. esparza’s \u003ci>Alexa\u003c/i>, a painting on adobe, is propped up by a steel armature that resembles (in a scaled version) the way \u003ci>Pan American Unity\u003c/i> is supported downstairs. Beside it, Ayala’s \u003ci>Reunion\u003c/i> is an homage to SFAI’s Rivera mural with an \u003ci>Animorphs\u003c/i>-like self-portrait at its center, BuzzBallz and burritos floating around. (I demand a local institution acquire this work.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show’s final gallery goes even further “inside” with a hexagonal sonic sculpture that places visitors at the center of a powerful sound system. Created collaboratively by all three artists with help from eeba studio and Eddie Flores, it’s a futuristic and disembodied version of an experience one might have while cruising. In the room’s corner, Rosales’ \u003ci>low & slow\u003c/i> places photographs around a spinning wheel, a woman hula-hooping at the spokes’ center. Leaning over this piece is like peering into a wishing well, an infinite reflection of both memories and possibilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aesthetics of lowriders can be slick, almost machine perfect. But what Ayala, esparza and Rosales capture in their work, however shiny and well crafted, is the humanness of this desire to create a space of one’s own. In a cohesive display, the show achieves what the best customized cars accomplish: rubbernecking, in the best possible way. This work is not about speed. It comes from a deep knowledge of time and place, and shows how the layering up of that information can create complicated, nuanced ways of moving (ever so slowly) into the future.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ci>‘Sitting on Chrome’ is on view at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art through Feb. 19, 2024. Related performances by rafa esparza will occur during the run of the exhibition. Check the \u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/sitting-on-chrome-mario-ayala-rafa-esparza-and-guadalupe-rosales/\">museum’s website\u003c/a> for details.\u003c/i>\u003c/p>\n\n",
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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>It’s difficult to avoid punning when it comes to \u003ci>\u003ca href=\"https://www.sfmoma.org/exhibition/sitting-on-chrome-mario-ayala-rafa-esparza-and-guadalupe-rosales/\">Sitting on Chrome\u003c/a>\u003c/i>, a highly polished three-person show at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Works shine and sparkle — quite literally — in this wonderfully unrushed, materially evocative meditation on lowrider aesthetics and East Los Angeles history and culture.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show, co-curated by Jovanna Venegas, Tomoko Kanamitsu and Maria Castro, brings together new and recent work by Los Angeles artists (and friends) \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/lostbros/?hl=en\">Mario Ayala\u003c/a>, \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/elrafaesparza/\">rafa esparza\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.veteranasandrucas.com/\">Guadalupe Rosales\u003c/a> on the museum’s second floor. Continuing with the practice of keeping these galleries free (at least through the end of 2023), \u003ci>Sitting on Chrome\u003c/i> welcomes visitors up from the Botta atrium with a frankly staggering display of decoration and finish.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>On the show’s opening wall, imagery from all three artists (including an airbrushed cyborg mural from Ayala) is framed by custom pinstriping, faux silver leaf and lace stenciling courtesy of local sign painter and artist \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/spooky_orbison/?hl=en\">Lauren D’Amato\u003c/a>. It’s museum wall as lowrider exterior, giving snippets of Ayala, esparza and Rosales’ distinct styles while framing them within a unified exhibition design, a preview of what’s to come in the four galleries that follow.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13933663\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13933663\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/10.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000.jpg\" alt=\"View of white-walled gallery with road sign in foreground, stacked monitors on left, photos behind and a sculpture on the floor\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1549\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/10.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/10.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000-800x620.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/10.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000-1020x790.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/10.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000-160x124.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/10.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000-768x595.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/10.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000-1536x1190.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/10.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000-1920x1487.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation view of ‘Sitting on Chrome’ at SFMOMA. \u003ccite>(Photo by Don Ross; Courtesy of SFMOMA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>First we get a bit of background, courtesy of Ayala and Rosales’ own archives. In metal vitrines painted a shiny magenta, Ayala’s copies of \u003ci>Teen Angels\u003c/i> and the San Francisco-based \u003ci>Mi Vida Loca\u003c/i> open up to ads for Arik’s Workwear and hand-drawn illustrations, gesturing at the networks and communities that inform so much of the imagery we’re about to see. In the vitrine displaying Rosales’ \u003ci>Los Angeles Chicano Archive\u003c/i>, a mirrored bottom cleverly allows viewers to see both the front and back of the ephemera displayed, including wallet-sized photographs with handwritten notes on their versos. Rosales has devoted much of her art practice to archiving, through the social media accounts \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/map_pointz/?hl=en\">@map_pointz\u003c/a> and \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/veteranas_and_rucas/?hl=en\">@veterana_and_rucas\u003c/a>, Southern California women, music subcultures and community-created history.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>If the first gallery is about context (a Whittier Boulevard “No Cruising” sign is planted at the entrance), the second is about bodies and machines. esparza’s \u003ci>Self Portrait\u003c/i>, an acrylic painting on adobe, depicts the artist driving, his left arm hanging outside the car. But the arm’s metal, maybe chromed, just like the cast aluminum sleeves he created for \u003ci>Corpo RanfLA: Terra Cruiser\u003c/i>, a mechanical pony ride turned performative sculpture that esaparza activates with the help of friends.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13933664\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13933664\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/11.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_COVER.jpg\" alt=\"White gallery with two painting hanging on walls, one car-shaped, and a mechanical sculpture in the middle\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1495\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/11.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_COVER.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/11.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_COVER-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/11.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_COVER-1020x762.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/11.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_COVER-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/11.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_COVER-768x574.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/11.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_COVER-1536x1148.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/11.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_COVER-1920x1435.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation view of ‘Sitting on Chrome’ with work by Mario Ayala and rafa esparza. \u003ccite>(Photo by Don Ross; Courtesy of SFMOMA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>In a \u003ca href=\"https://youtu.be/4nrGNK0hPas\">short documentary\u003c/a> produced by the museum, esparza tours viewers through Elysian Park, long a gay cruising zone that’s now being overtaken by a disc golf course. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Rosales’ contribution to this space is quieter, more melancholy: a large nighttime photograph housed in a delicately etched frame, showing a view from Elysian Park of Interstate 110. In the long exposure, the lights of a helicopter arc overhead, evidence of a car chase below. Cars mean mobility and freedom, customization and expression, but they can also become the targets of law enforcement; that tension between resistance and surveillance permeates the show.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But Rosales has also provided visitors with a window — a way of looking into the comfort of a space designed to resist external control. A wide slice of wall lined with magenta buttoned upholstery acts like the rear deck of a car, where fuzzy dice and a disco ball dangle. Through this view, we enter the interior space of the lowrider, a gallery with deep purple walls and velvety, hard-not-to-pet upholstery.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13933666\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 2000px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13933666\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/13.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000.jpg\" alt=\"A purple-walled gallery with a stack of paintings on left wall and a highly reflective mirror-based sculpture on the right\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1488\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/13.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000.jpg 2000w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/13.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000-800x595.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/13.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000-1020x759.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/13.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000-160x119.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/13.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000-768x571.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/13.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000-1536x1143.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2023/08/13.-Sitting-on-Chrome-installation-view-SFMOMA-2023-photo-Don-Ross-courtesy-SFMOMA_2000-1920x1428.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 2000px) 100vw, 2000px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Installation view of ‘Sitting on Chrome’ with work by Mario Ayala and Guadalupe Rosales. \u003ccite>(Photo by Don Ross; Courtesy of SFMOMA)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>Here, we get two nods to San Francisco by way of Diego Rivera. esparza’s \u003ci>Alexa\u003c/i>, a painting on adobe, is propped up by a steel armature that resembles (in a scaled version) the way \u003ci>Pan American Unity\u003c/i> is supported downstairs. Beside it, Ayala’s \u003ci>Reunion\u003c/i> is an homage to SFAI’s Rivera mural with an \u003ci>Animorphs\u003c/i>-like self-portrait at its center, BuzzBallz and burritos floating around. (I demand a local institution acquire this work.)\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The show’s final gallery goes even further “inside” with a hexagonal sonic sculpture that places visitors at the center of a powerful sound system. Created collaboratively by all three artists with help from eeba studio and Eddie Flores, it’s a futuristic and disembodied version of an experience one might have while cruising. In the room’s corner, Rosales’ \u003ci>low & slow\u003c/i> places photographs around a spinning wheel, a woman hula-hooping at the spokes’ center. Leaning over this piece is like peering into a wishing well, an infinite reflection of both memories and possibilities.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>The aesthetics of lowriders can be slick, almost machine perfect. But what Ayala, esparza and Rosales capture in their work, however shiny and well crafted, is the humanness of this desire to create a space of one’s own. In a cohesive display, the show achieves what the best customized cars accomplish: rubbernecking, in the best possible way. This work is not about speed. 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode was originally part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13898211/rightnowish-wheels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roll With Us: Community and Culture on Wheels\u003c/a> \u003c/em>series from 2021.\u003cem> We’re revisiting it as a part of our 2023 kickoff series highlighting some of the best stories from our archives.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/duenascarclub/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dueñas Car Club \u003c/a>is a sisterhood that rolls on 100-spoke rims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel Romero is president of the club, which was founded in 2019 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. She’s been cruising the strip since she was a kid in the passenger seat of her mother’s lowrider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13900032\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13900032\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Three members of the Dueñas Car Club sit in a beige lowrider. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three members of the Dueñas Car Club. \u003ccite>(Miss Lopez Media)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was through her mother that Angel inherited her passion for cool cars, cruising through the city, and serving the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the members of the car club work with local organization to hold toy drives and distribute safety kits. They also pull up to events like car hops and car shows, stunting in full force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel says it’s amazing to see the look on the people’s faces when their fleet of dope cars driven by women pulls through, but it’s the young women whose imaginations they really love to inspire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week we discuss coordinating outfits with the color of your lowrider, the criminalization of lowriding culture, and how Angel is passing on her love of cars to the next generation of young women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13900030\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13900030\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Due%C5%84as_15-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"The next generation of Dueñas, the Dueñitas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The next generation of Dueñas, the Dueñitas. \u003ccite>(Miss Lopez Media)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC2492518377&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Angel Romero.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: Being a woman and having to get yourself ready and get your car ready, it’s a long process. We’re up at like 4 or 5 in the morning to hit the shows… We have to wash it, wax it, clean the rims, vacuum it, get everything all nice. That morning we’ll usually get ready, get together, touch up our cars one last time. By that time, sometimes our eyebrows are kind of already coming off [laughs] you know what I mean, they’re like, ‘half your eyebrows missing!’ I’m like, ‘oh, I was sweating!’ I try to take off the sweat and I took my eyebrows at the same time!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: I think we have it a little bit harder than men in lowriding because we got a lot more to do, I mean, especially when you got to draw on the eyebrows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: What does Dueñas mean ?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: So Dueñas actually means the female owner. We used to get the ‘oh, it’s your daddy’s ride. It’s your boyfriend’s ride or whatever.’ So we want to show that, no, this is our ride. We are the owners of these cars. We bought them. We built them. This is our love, our passion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13900034 size-medium\" title=\"Miss Lopez Media\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Due%C3%B1as-_12-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Looking at two low Riders, the Dueñas Car Club Logo is seen through a back window.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: What’s it like when you pull up to the scene and it’s a whole bunch of women in lowriders?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: Especially when we first came out. Oh! Everybody would stop and stare. People couldn’t believe it. And you know what? I think the best thing was so many young girls and women coming up to us. Coming up to us and saying, “Oh, my God, is this really your car? Oh, it’s awesome. We think it’s great.” We get so much support and love from women and I’ve noticed there’s so many more women with cars out there… and I think it’s awesome, I love it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Yeah, so Dueñas Car Club has done community service with large organizations in the South Bay, raised thousands of dollars for breast cancer research, and organized different toy drives, like the one you did with the San Jose Earthquakes. My question is what’s it like when you pull up in the lowriders to do community service work?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: Ahh, sometimes they take a double take, they’re not sure what they’re seeing sometimes because before [lowriding] was portrayed as a certain type of people, ya know. So we do what we can for our community. A lot of us know what it’s like to not have, not have everything, and sometimes even a roof over your head, so we wanna do something to give back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: … We’ve helped Envision Network donating toys to them as well. It kind of gives these kids something else to put their minds to not think about, ‘hey, I’m in a shelter.’ They see all these pretty cars, and they get all excited. And then we show up with toys and gifts for Christmas, they’re even more excited!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13900036\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13900036\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/angel2-1-800x979.jpg\" alt=\"Angel Romero, the founder of the Dueñas Car Club, takes a selfie in front of her car, through the window you can see the Dueñas logo, it's also on her black t-shirt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"979\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/angel2-1-800x979.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/angel2-1-160x196.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/angel2-1-768x940.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/angel2-1.jpg 995w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Romero \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Angel Romero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Aright, I got to ask you, What’s your favorite street to cruise down?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: Santa Clara street. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cem>This episode was originally part of the \u003ca href=\"https://www.kqed.org/arts/13898211/rightnowish-wheels\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Roll With Us: Community and Culture on Wheels\u003c/a> \u003c/em>series from 2021.\u003cem> We’re revisiting it as a part of our 2023 kickoff series highlighting some of the best stories from our archives.\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/duenascarclub/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Dueñas Car Club \u003c/a>is a sisterhood that rolls on 100-spoke rims.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel Romero is president of the club, which was founded in 2019 and is based in Sunnyvale, California. She’s been cruising the strip since she was a kid in the passenger seat of her mother’s lowrider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13900032\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13900032\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Three members of the Dueñas Car Club sit in a beige lowrider. \" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Laurel_100-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Three members of the Dueñas Car Club. \u003ccite>(Miss Lopez Media)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>It was through her mother that Angel inherited her passion for cool cars, cruising through the city, and serving the community.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Now, the members of the car club work with local organization to hold toy drives and distribute safety kits. They also pull up to events like car hops and car shows, stunting in full force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel says it’s amazing to see the look on the people’s faces when their fleet of dope cars driven by women pulls through, but it’s the young women whose imaginations they really love to inspire.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>This week we discuss coordinating outfits with the color of your lowrider, the criminalization of lowriding culture, and how Angel is passing on her love of cars to the next generation of young women.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13900030\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13900030\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Due%C5%84as_15-800x1200.jpg\" alt=\"The next generation of Dueñas, the Dueñitas.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1200\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-800x1200.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-1020x1530.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-160x240.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-768x1152.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-1024x1536.jpg 1024w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-1365x2048.jpg 1365w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-1920x2880.jpg 1920w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueńas_15-scaled.jpg 1707w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The next generation of Dueñas, the Dueñitas. \u003ccite>(Miss Lopez Media)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm/?e=KQINC2492518377&light=true\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>Below are lightly edited excerpts of my conversation with Angel Romero.\u003c/strong>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: Being a woman and having to get yourself ready and get your car ready, it’s a long process. We’re up at like 4 or 5 in the morning to hit the shows… We have to wash it, wax it, clean the rims, vacuum it, get everything all nice. That morning we’ll usually get ready, get together, touch up our cars one last time. By that time, sometimes our eyebrows are kind of already coming off [laughs] you know what I mean, they’re like, ‘half your eyebrows missing!’ I’m like, ‘oh, I was sweating!’ I try to take off the sweat and I took my eyebrows at the same time!\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: I think we have it a little bit harder than men in lowriding because we got a lot more to do, I mean, especially when you got to draw on the eyebrows.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: What does Dueñas mean ?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: So Dueñas actually means the female owner. We used to get the ‘oh, it’s your daddy’s ride. It’s your boyfriend’s ride or whatever.’ So we want to show that, no, this is our ride. We are the owners of these cars. We bought them. We built them. This is our love, our passion.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone wp-image-13900034 size-medium\" title=\"Miss Lopez Media\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Due%C3%B1as-_12-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Looking at two low Riders, the Dueñas Car Club Logo is seen through a back window.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-1020x680.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-768x512.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-1536x1024.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-2048x1365.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/Dueñas-_12-1920x1280.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: What’s it like when you pull up to the scene and it’s a whole bunch of women in lowriders?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: Especially when we first came out. Oh! Everybody would stop and stare. People couldn’t believe it. And you know what? I think the best thing was so many young girls and women coming up to us. Coming up to us and saying, “Oh, my God, is this really your car? Oh, it’s awesome. We think it’s great.” We get so much support and love from women and I’ve noticed there’s so many more women with cars out there… and I think it’s awesome, I love it.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Yeah, so Dueñas Car Club has done community service with large organizations in the South Bay, raised thousands of dollars for breast cancer research, and organized different toy drives, like the one you did with the San Jose Earthquakes. My question is what’s it like when you pull up in the lowriders to do community service work?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: Ahh, sometimes they take a double take, they’re not sure what they’re seeing sometimes because before [lowriding] was portrayed as a certain type of people, ya know. So we do what we can for our community. A lot of us know what it’s like to not have, not have everything, and sometimes even a roof over your head, so we wanna do something to give back.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: … We’ve helped Envision Network donating toys to them as well. It kind of gives these kids something else to put their minds to not think about, ‘hey, I’m in a shelter.’ They see all these pretty cars, and they get all excited. And then we show up with toys and gifts for Christmas, they’re even more excited!\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13900036\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13900036\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/angel2-1-800x979.jpg\" alt=\"Angel Romero, the founder of the Dueñas Car Club, takes a selfie in front of her car, through the window you can see the Dueñas logo, it's also on her black t-shirt.\" width=\"800\" height=\"979\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/angel2-1-800x979.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/angel2-1-160x196.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/angel2-1-768x940.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/07/angel2-1.jpg 995w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Romero \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Angel Romero)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cem>Pen: Aright, I got to ask you, What’s your favorite street to cruise down?\u003c/em>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Angel: Santa Clara street. 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"content": "\u003cp>Growing up in San Francisco’s Mission District, Roberto Hernandez loved zoot suits. He loved art, too. It was only a matter of time before he started lowriding.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It was in my DNA,” Hernandez said.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>As soon as he could, he bought his neighbor’s 1964 Chevy Impala and began to cruise “low and slow.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez was drawn to the elaborate paintings on the hoods and trunks of other lowriders, which had lowered bodies that hovered just above the street, and the hydraulic systems that made them bounce a few feet off the ground. He remembers the “joy of being able to cruise with a couple other lowriders and then just have people whistle at you or wave at you.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But in the late 1970s, as lowriding was rising in popularity among Latinos in Southern California, lowriders were also becoming the targets of police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904552\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904552\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/sflc-2_custom-75b5405a247ca2484e4cc0260762e95f785ab24c-800x598.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"598\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/sflc-2_custom-75b5405a247ca2484e4cc0260762e95f785ab24c-800x598.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/sflc-2_custom-75b5405a247ca2484e4cc0260762e95f785ab24c-1020x763.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/sflc-2_custom-75b5405a247ca2484e4cc0260762e95f785ab24c-160x120.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/sflc-2_custom-75b5405a247ca2484e4cc0260762e95f785ab24c-768x574.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/sflc-2_custom-75b5405a247ca2484e4cc0260762e95f785ab24c.jpg 1158w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Roberto Y. Hernandez, founder and president of the San Francisco Lowrider Council, stands at the entrance to an exhibit about the council at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. \u003ccite>(Courtesy Roberto Y. Hernandez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“At one point it was bumper to bumper for 20 blocks. It was like a parade every Friday and Saturday night,” Hernandez said. “It was something that the police just weren’t able to manage.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[ad fullwidth]\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Police issued citations, made arrests and even shut down Mission Street, the neighborhood’s main drag where the lowriders went to cruise.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But enforcement of the local laws wasn’t always equal. The lowriders were mostly Latino, and Hernandez said that explains the ferocity of the police crackdown.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='news_11885160']“It was racial profiling at its worst, and it was discrimination,” he said. “Across the city, on the west side of the city, they had white kids racing for pink slips. And they never messed with them.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Eventually Hernandez, who said he was arrested 113 times and beaten up by the police more than once, had had it. He and several other lowriders filed a lawsuit against then-San Francisco Mayor Dianne Feinstein and the police, alleging violations of their civil rights.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>In 1981, Hernandez united a group of car clubs to form the San Francisco Lowrider Council, an advocacy organization that helped lowriders stand up to police brutality then — and which just marked its 40th year in operation.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>How lowriding has evolved over the years\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The exact origin of lowriding is a matter of debate, but generally, it was a Chicano invention in and around Southern California after World War II.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It begins in the Mexican-American southwestern experience of the United States, in the barrios,” said John Ulloa, a professor of history and anthropology at Skyline College and a lowrider.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>It started as a blue-collar pastime. Gas was cheap, so lowriding was an inexpensive way to have fun with friends. It also united the Chicano communities in the Southwest and became a vehicle for local community organizing.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904553\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904553\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/ap080210181535_custom-1e6159db1f7d7ac8ac4affcae09c3eaac9270bdd-800x533.jpg\" alt=\"Visitors to the Peterson Automobile Museum in Los Angeles examine the Gypsy Rose, a 1964 Chevrolet Impala and one of the most famous lowriders in history, in this 2008 file photo.\" width=\"800\" height=\"533\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/ap080210181535_custom-1e6159db1f7d7ac8ac4affcae09c3eaac9270bdd-800x533.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/ap080210181535_custom-1e6159db1f7d7ac8ac4affcae09c3eaac9270bdd-1020x679.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/ap080210181535_custom-1e6159db1f7d7ac8ac4affcae09c3eaac9270bdd-160x107.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/ap080210181535_custom-1e6159db1f7d7ac8ac4affcae09c3eaac9270bdd-768x511.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/ap080210181535_custom-1e6159db1f7d7ac8ac4affcae09c3eaac9270bdd-1536x1023.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/ap080210181535_custom-1e6159db1f7d7ac8ac4affcae09c3eaac9270bdd-2048x1364.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/ap080210181535_custom-1e6159db1f7d7ac8ac4affcae09c3eaac9270bdd-1920x1279.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Visitors to the Peterson Automobile Museum in Los Angeles examine the Gypsy Rose, a 1964 Chevrolet Impala and one of the most famous lowriders in history, in this 2008 file photo. \u003ccite>(Ric Francis/AP)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>For many years it was a Latino subculture, but lowriding grew in popularity in 1979 when the film \u003cem>Boulevard Nights \u003c/em>was released, plastering the low-slung cruisers across the silver screen. The movie brought renewed attention to lowriding, but it also reinforced a stereotype that lowriding was associated with gangs and crime.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>[aside postid='arts_11670552']“You had a lot of cops who just didn’t like lowriders, and they exercised their authority to write any ticket or any violation or make up anything that they wanted,” Don Alonzo, vice president of Low Creations Car Club, said of the tensions between lowriders and police.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>But lowriding only continued to bounce higher in the public consciousness. Rappers Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg cruised through music videos in lowriders to promote Dr. Dre’s 1992 hit album, \u003cem>The Chronic\u003c/em>. Ramone, a character in the Disney movie \u003cem>Cars\u003c/em>, is a lowrider. Just this year, there were lowriders in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-2350526/Video-Mister-Cartoon-stars-Super-Bowl-2021-Modelo-spot.html\">Model commercial\u003c/a> featuring the artist Mister Cartoon that aired during the Super Bowl, TV’s most coveted ad space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904554\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/gettyimages-1143236_custom-b8a858e1f6d24826f95d6d41830752e92db0f2c7-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"Lowriders bounce as high as possible during a car hopping contest at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1996.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/gettyimages-1143236_custom-b8a858e1f6d24826f95d6d41830752e92db0f2c7-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/gettyimages-1143236_custom-b8a858e1f6d24826f95d6d41830752e92db0f2c7-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/gettyimages-1143236_custom-b8a858e1f6d24826f95d6d41830752e92db0f2c7-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/gettyimages-1143236_custom-b8a858e1f6d24826f95d6d41830752e92db0f2c7-768x501.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/gettyimages-1143236_custom-b8a858e1f6d24826f95d6d41830752e92db0f2c7-1536x1001.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/gettyimages-1143236_custom-b8a858e1f6d24826f95d6d41830752e92db0f2c7-2048x1335.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/gettyimages-1143236_custom-b8a858e1f6d24826f95d6d41830752e92db0f2c7-1920x1251.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lowriders bounce as high as possible during a car hopping contest at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1996. \u003ccite>(Stewart Cook/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was mapping for my forthcoming publication on the global diffusion of lowriding, the globalization of lowriding, [and] I started to map where lowriding is, and I think the more accurate map is … where it isn’t,” Ulloa said. “Where is lowriding now? It’s everywhere.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Lowriding has moved from a local custom to a worldwide phenomenon, from Japan to Germany to Brazil.\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3>Cruising was taboo—now it’s treasured\u003c/h3>\n\u003cp>The city settled the lawsuit filed by Hernandez and other lowriders several years after it was filed.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>Hernandez said he refused the city’s offer of a monetary payout, and that the final settlement guaranteed the lowriders’ right to cruise, led to a park and a gym being built and saw several police officers leave the force.\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>“It wasn’t about money,” Hernandez said. “It was about the whole discrimination and blatant selective racism and use of excessive force by the police department.”\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904558\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904558\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-9.14.57-AM-800x573.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"573\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-9.14.57-AM-800x573.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-9.14.57-AM-1020x731.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-9.14.57-AM-160x115.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-9.14.57-AM-768x550.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/Screen-Shot-2021-10-13-at-9.14.57-AM.png 1228w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The San Francisco Lowrider Council plaque on display at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. \u003ccite>(Roberto Y. Hernandez)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>The San Francisco Lowrider Council’s 40-year trajectory was just memorialized in \u003ca href=\"https://missionculturalcenter.org/event/40th-anniversary-san-francisco-lowrider-councill-exhibit/\">an exhibit\u003c/a> at the Mission Cultural Center for Latino Arts. 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To see more, visit \u003ca href=\"https://www.npr.org\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">NPR\u003c/a>.\u003c/em>\u003cimg decoding=\"async\" src=\"https://www.google-analytics.com/__utm.gif?utmac=UA-5828686-4&utmdt=40+years+ago%2C+San+Francisco+lowriders+organized+to+fight+police+harassment+%E2%80%94+and+won&utme=8(APIKey)9(MDAxOTAwOTE4MDEyMTkxMDAzNjczZDljZA004)\">\u003c/div>\n\n",
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Just this year, there were lowriders in a \u003ca href=\"https://www.dailymail.co.uk/video/news/video-2350526/Video-Mister-Cartoon-stars-Super-Bowl-2021-Modelo-spot.html\">Model commercial\u003c/a> featuring the artist Mister Cartoon that aired during the Super Bowl, TV’s most coveted ad space.\u003c/p>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13904554\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13904554\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/gettyimages-1143236_custom-b8a858e1f6d24826f95d6d41830752e92db0f2c7-800x521.jpg\" alt=\"Lowriders bounce as high as possible during a car hopping contest at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1996.\" width=\"800\" height=\"521\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/gettyimages-1143236_custom-b8a858e1f6d24826f95d6d41830752e92db0f2c7-800x521.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/gettyimages-1143236_custom-b8a858e1f6d24826f95d6d41830752e92db0f2c7-1020x665.jpg 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/gettyimages-1143236_custom-b8a858e1f6d24826f95d6d41830752e92db0f2c7-160x104.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/gettyimages-1143236_custom-b8a858e1f6d24826f95d6d41830752e92db0f2c7-768x501.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/gettyimages-1143236_custom-b8a858e1f6d24826f95d6d41830752e92db0f2c7-1536x1001.jpg 1536w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/gettyimages-1143236_custom-b8a858e1f6d24826f95d6d41830752e92db0f2c7-2048x1335.jpg 2048w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/10/gettyimages-1143236_custom-b8a858e1f6d24826f95d6d41830752e92db0f2c7-1920x1251.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Lowriders bounce as high as possible during a car hopping contest at the Los Angeles Coliseum in 1996. \u003ccite>(Stewart Cook/Getty Images)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>“I was mapping for my forthcoming publication on the global diffusion of lowriding, the globalization of lowriding, [and] I started to map where lowriding is, and I think the more accurate map is … where it isn’t,” Ulloa said. “Where is lowriding now? 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"content": "\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California is car country, we know that. The beautiful highways, brilliant weather and room to cruise makes this place paradise for automobiles. From NASCAR events at the Sonoma Raceway to sideshows on East Oakland streets, car culture is thick out here. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But we’ve got more than just cars rolling through the Golden State.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the next few weeks, the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rightnowish\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> team is turning to the stories behind the tires on Northern California’s terrain. In five interviews, we’ll look at how wheels power community, culture, self-expression and fun. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Roller Skating \u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898279\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 612px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13898279\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Image-from-iOS.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of The Golden Rollers. The three of them look like they are doing a Temptation-esque, in a diagonal formation striking a pose almost down in the splits -- really low to the ground --- with arms stretched out\" width=\"612\" height=\"408\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Image-from-iOS.jpg 612w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Image-from-iOS-160x107.jpg 160w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 612px) 100vw, 612px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Golden Rollers \u003ccite>(Courtesy of Richard Humphrey)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">\u003cbr>\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC9905854391\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>San Francisco’s \u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/richardhumphrey/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Richard Humphrey\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> has been on roller skates for five decades. He’s been in films, on TV shows and even has a signature skate shoe. Over the past year, while teaching his roller dance techniques at parks in Alameda and San Leandro, he’s seen the uptick in roller skaters twirling to pop songs and spinning to R&B tunes. Now his goal is to make sure these new skaters understand that their moves aren’t just part of a social media trend brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic, but a part of a deep-seated culture. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Biking\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898306\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 400px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13898306\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Photo-credit_-@creatvedev-800x1200.jpg\" alt='Omar \"Meez\" Jones' width=\"400\" height=\"600\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Omar “Meez” Jones \u003ccite>(@creatvedev)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003ch5 id=\"embed-code\" class=\"inconsolata\">\n\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC9664600248\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003cbr>\n\u003c/h5>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Berkeley’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/p/CPOfBoIFcRs/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Omar “Meez” Jones \u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">bends corners all throughout California with his bike crew, photographing their lives and branding what they do. He also appears in front of the lens. Recently, a photo of him and his buddy, Almighty Gio, was pasted on billboards around the Bay Area as part of an Apple campaign. Meez talks about his perspective on biking culture and what it means to make a living off your lifestyle, even if that means working with big corporations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Skateboarding\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898307\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898307\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Photo-cred_-Tom-Shattuck-e1622767914753-800x1213.jpg\" alt=\"Marsha Howard balances on her skateboard atop a giant cement ball. Palm trees are in the background.\" width=\"800\" height=\"1213\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Marsha Howard \u003ccite>(Tom Shattuck)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC5106607389\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">San Francisco’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/marshaann_duh/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Marsha Howard\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> calls her hometown \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">a skateboarding mecca\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">. She’d know, given her experience: on top of bombing Twin Peaks and hitting kick flips outside of the Ferry Building, Marsha is a former skateboarding model and longtime employee at Thrasher Magazine. We discuss how she created her own network of women who skate after she got tired of navigating the “boys club” that exists within the skateboarding world. And we talk about how she currently uses videos of her falling off her board to teach elementary school students about the concept of perseverance. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Wheelchair Sports\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898305\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898305\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-5.44.10-PM-800x324.png\" alt=\"Randy and Garnett\" width=\"800\" height=\"324\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-5.44.10-PM-800x324.png 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-5.44.10-PM-1020x413.png 1020w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-5.44.10-PM-160x65.png 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-5.44.10-PM-768x311.png 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Screen-Shot-2021-06-03-at-5.44.10-PM.png 1025w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Randy and Garnett \u003ccite>(Dave Rollans)\u003c/cite>\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC3525100469\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Santa Rosa’s \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/rizdeauxjones/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Randy Harlan\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> and Bolinas’ \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/garnett_silverhall/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Garnett Silver-Hall\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> are co-founders of the Northern Californian chapter of the extreme wheelchair sport league, WCMX. Lately, Randy has been holding it down in NorCal while Garnett plays wheelchair basketball for the University of Arizona. On this episode, Garnett and Randy\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> discuss \u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">the culture and camaraderie in “chair skating,” and how they’re\u003c/span>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> working to ensure that other athletes have a clear path to participating in this extreme sport.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Lowriders\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898308\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"max-width: 490px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-13898308\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/angel2-800x979.jpg\" alt=\"Angel Ramos\" width=\"490\" height=\"600\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/angel2-800x979.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/angel2-160x196.jpg 160w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/angel2-768x940.jpg 768w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/angel2.jpg 995w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 490px) 100vw, 490px\">\u003cfigcaption class=\"wp-caption-text\">Angel Ramos\u003c/figcaption>\u003c/figure>\n\u003cp>\u003c!-- iframe plugin v.4.3 wordpress.org/plugins/iframe/ -->\u003cbr>\n\u003ciframe loading=\"lazy\" frameborder=\"0\" height=\"200\" scrolling=\"no\" src=\"https://playlist.megaphone.fm?e=KQINC1340218886\" width=\"100%\" class=\"iframe-class\">\u003c/iframe>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Sunnyvale’s Angel Romero says her mother made sure she knew two things: the value of community service and how to cruise the strip in a lowrider. Now, Angel, president of the all-women car club known as \u003c/span>\u003ca href=\"https://www.instagram.com/duenascarclub/\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Dueñas\u003c/span>\u003c/a>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">, likes to ride through her old neighborhood and give back to it through volunteering.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">In this episode, Angel and I discuss her intergenerational family tradition, the changing the perception of lowrider culture and how she adorns herself in preparation for cruising her vehicle down the avenue.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">…\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Even though we cover a lot with these rich conversations, there’s still much more to be said about how wheels shape our lives in Northern California. So, while we’re pushing out these stories over the next month and a half, we’d also like to hear from you about what your set of wheels, your community and your culture mean to you. Feel free to take a pic and post it on twitter or instagram, and tag #Rightnowish. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">And be on the lookout for the episodes from this series… First one rolls out this week!\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-12127869\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"800\" height=\"78\" srcset=\"https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_.jpg 800w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-400x39.jpg 400w, https://cdn.kqed.org/wp-content/uploads/sites/2/2016/09/Q.Logo_.Break_-768x75.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 800px) 100vw, 800px\">\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cstrong>\u003cem>Rightnowish is an arts and culture podcast produced at KQED. 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"content": "\u003cdiv class=\"post-body\">\u003cp>\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">California is car country, we know that. The beautiful highways, brilliant weather and room to cruise makes this place paradise for automobiles. From NASCAR events at the Sonoma Raceway to sideshows on East Oakland streets, car culture is thick out here. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">But we’ve got more than just cars rolling through the Golden State.\u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Over the next few weeks, the \u003c/span>\u003ci>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\">Rightnowish\u003c/span>\u003c/i>\u003cspan style=\"font-weight: 400\"> team is turning to the stories behind the tires on Northern California’s terrain. In five interviews, we’ll look at how wheels power community, culture, self-expression and fun. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Roller Skating \u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898279\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 612px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-13898279\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Image-from-iOS.jpg\" alt=\"A black and white photo of The Golden Rollers. 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He also appears in front of the lens. Recently, a photo of him and his buddy, Almighty Gio, was pasted on billboards around the Bay Area as part of an Apple campaign. Meez talks about his perspective on biking culture and what it means to make a living off your lifestyle, even if that means working with big corporations. \u003c/span>\u003c/p>\n\u003cp> \u003c/p>\n\u003ch3 style=\"text-align: center\">\u003cb>Skateboarding\u003c/b>\u003c/h3>\n\u003cfigure id=\"attachment_13898307\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\" style=\"max-width: 800px\">\u003cimg loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-13898307\" src=\"https://ww2.kqed.org/app/uploads/sites/2/2021/06/Photo-cred_-Tom-Shattuck-e1622767914753-800x1213.jpg\" alt=\"Marsha Howard balances on her skateboard atop a giant cement ball. 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