#hector becerra

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When childhood innocence and gang violence lived side by side in Boyle Heights / LA Times

– by Hector Becerra / LA Times

In the 1980s, my boyhood best friend in Boyle Heights and I chatted about gangs. Particularly about starting one.

The idea was absurd since me joining a gang was a little like Potsie from “Happy Days” driving south of the border and becoming a hit man for a Mexican drug cartel. It wasn’t in my hard-wiring, nor did my life experience lend itself to me going from a…

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"Lumberjack Man" (2015) - He's A Lumberjack And He's Not OK

“Lumberjack Man” (2015) – He’s A Lumberjack And He’s Not OK

Are you unaware of how to find nude women on the internet? Do you find poorly put together comedic set pieces used to pad out a running time entertaining? Does the idea of Michael Madsen‘s sad weathered face popping up for fifteen minutes of screen time sound like fun to you? If the answer to all those questions is an extremely sad “yes”, then the low budget slasher comedy Lumberjack Man is just…

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Owner of Teixeira Farms Mark Teixeira said, "Americans don't want to do the fieldwork....I don't care if you pay $20 an hour, they'll come here one or two days, and they're gone. It's a mind-set: They think fieldwork is below them." Los Angeles Times reporter Hector Becerra experiences the rigors of picking strawberries first hand. http://lat.ms/11HOE2t

A day in the strawberry fields seems like forever