Los Angeles – The dance floor at “Barrio Boogie Sunday” is filled with sharply dressed women in flouncy skirts and brightly colored fitted blouses, being twirled in perfect swing rhythm by their ...

A “brujo,” a “magician,” “a social arsonist” and the “father of Chicano Theater” — these are just a few of the monikers that have been bestowed upon Luis Valdez over the course of his decades-long ...

Decked out in baggy suits, their watch chains swinging to the mambo as feathers bop atop their wide-brimmed hats, Mexico's "pachucos" are keeping alive the tradition of the zoot suit -- and the ...

The Juárez city council has declared Sept. 19 as "Día del Pachuco," or Pachuco Day, in honor of the late star of the Mexican silver screen Germán "Tin-Tan" Valdes, who embodied the pachuco style that ...

Kitted out in zoot suits, snappy shoes and hats, the so-called pachucos add a dash of style to the Mexican capital. The pachuco scene is thought to date back to the 1930s and 40s in Los Angeles, where ...