Elvia Perez and her family have owned Super Pan Bakery in the Virgil Village community at the intersection of Virgil and Monroe avenues for over 20 years. On any day of the week, locals could stop by the bakery on a crisp morning with less than five dollars for fresh pan dulce or sweet bread, […]
Meet David Holguin: Our Guitarist for Next Saturday’s Concerts at Cahuenga!
Originally born in Medellin, Colombia, David arrived with his mother to East Los Angeles in the early 1990s at the tender age of two years old. Now at 27, David has at least ten years of experience “strumming away emotions” on his guitar. Just last summer, David lent his time and talents to the annual […]
Osaka, Hokkaido, Kansai
It’s been over a full year since JIMBO TIMES reached Japan for the first time last summer. I’ve had ‘Nippon’s’ pueblos in mind ever since, and even more so lately due to the anniversary at hand. But now, I’ve also learned of a recent series of typhoons and earthquakes that have struck the island-nation. My […]
From L.A. Stories to Los Cuentos; Four Years of ‘J.T.’
JIMBO TIMES began just a little over four years ago following a special walk from my mother’s newsstand on Santa Monica boulevard the evening of August 19, 2014. It was near mid-night when the idea took hold of me, and I can still remember crawling from the apartment bedroom into the bathroom with the same […]
