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Jan 14, 2025 | 
latimes.com | Sarah Quiñones Wolfson
The teens lined up with their parents at a Boyle Heights warehouse this week in search of a tiny bit of familiarity — a Squishmallow plush toy, lipstick, a T-shirt, some eye shadow, a cute hair accessory. One 15-year-old, who evacuated with just one change of clothing before her home was destroyed in the Eaton fire, picked up toiletries and socks, undergarments, pants and shirts.
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Nov 25, 2024 | 
onclive.com | Leonard H Augenlicht |Ziv Cohen |Sarah Quiñones Wolfson |Jiahn Choi
Over the past 15 years, colorectal cancer (CRC) diagnoses have risen among men and women aged 40 years and older, and even among younger individuals.1 Currently, people born after 1990 are twice as likely to be diagnosed with CRC— and 4 times as likely to develop rectal cancer—as those born in 1950, according to the American Cancer Society (ACS). The ACS estimates about 107,000 new cases of colon cancer and 46,220 new cases of rectal cancer in the US in 2024.
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Nov 4, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Sarah Quiñones Wolfson
In the weeks before the Nov. 5 elections, Eliana Rodriguez knocked on one door after another in her South Los Angeles neighborhood of Vermont Knolls, registering her neighbors to vote and letting them know what is at stake. While so much of the conversation has been around the presidential election, she said, there are ballot measures and propositions that directly affect their community.
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Aug 9, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Sarah Quiñones Wolfson
Periodically, the Latinx Files will feature a guest writer. This week, we’ve asked Sarah Quiñones Wolfson to fill in. She is a Los Angeles-based journalist with experience crafting stories focusing on the intersection of arts, culture and social justice. She has written for outlets including the Los Angeles Times, Hyperallergic and KCET. In February 1974, a collective known as Los Four made history as the first Chicano artists to exhibit at a major art institution in the United States.
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Jun 11, 2024 | 
geist.com | Sarah Quiñones Wolfson
It went like this: I looked through the dream window and remembered remembering a salamander,the one from childhood I always moved from road to ditch, the one and only, though I did so dailyfor the length of someone’s mating season. I remembered the week the fireflies dissolved into crickets. We’d just lived through the big thing, which had destroyed our brains.
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Apr 25, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Sarah Quiñones Wolfson |Fidel Martinez |Cerys Davies
On a rainy March evening, a group of roughly a hundred people huddled inside the Eastern Projects art gallery in Chinatown for the opening of “Un-Rehearsed,” the first solo show for photographer Merrick Morton, on display until May 18. Adorning the walls of the space are more than 100 images spanning a 40-year trajectory— selections from his travels in Mexico and Cuba, and stills from various films where he worked as on-set photographer.
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Mar 17, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Sarah Quiñones Wolfson
A small but mighty troop of Irish-born soldiers would defend their faith and defy the United States, a country where they sought freedom. El batallón de San Patricio, defectors from the U.S. Army, stood in solidarity with Mexico during the Mexican-American War of 1846-48. Nearly 180 years later, historians, scholars and writers still find themselves engrossed by the story of the San Patricios.
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Feb 28, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Sarah Quiñones Wolfson
Ozzie Juarez at Charlie James Gallery Chinatown Art In his first solo exhibition, “OXI-DIOS,” at Charlie James Gallery, artist and Tlaloc Studios fiunder Ozzie Juarez features a personal perspective of Los Angeles, combining paintings of classical realism onto imagined contemporary objects, such as a wall enclosed by barbed wire. Juarez, whose artwork mainly draws upon Mesoamerican codices, creates interconnected portals that assemble into a language of its own.
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Feb 15, 2024 | 
latimes.com | Sarah Quiñones Wolfson
Periodically, the Latinx Files will feature a guest writer. This week, we’ve asked Sarah Quiñones Wolfson, a Los Angeles-based journalist, to fill in. If you have not subscribed to our weekly newsletter, you can do so here. When it comes to Southern California radio personalities, there are few who match the cultural impact of Art Laboe.
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Nov 29, 2023 | 
yalereview.org | Sarah Quiñones Wolfson
I am offered a pill. My grandmother was notoffered a pill. She died of cancer. She couldn’tgo to art school. It was the Depression. I wentto art school. It was the Nineties. She had the gene. We may all have the gene. It got to her, the gene. She ignored the signs. She didn’t know. There were signs,but she didn’t know. How could she know? The day aftershe was gone, I saw her mattress. A vast white canvas. A month earlier, a child had been bouncing there.
