The Future Teachers club explored topics such as our solar system, constellations, and astrological signs at their Planetarium Night with kid-friendly and interactive activities before the show.
Set within a 35-foot diameter hemispherical dome, the planetarium created an immersive experience for children to study and was presented by math and engineering assistant professor, Jorge Ramirez.
Professor Ramirez introduced the planets with a fun educational music video for the children and their parents to sing along to and learn about dwarf planets and other celestial objects in our solar system.
Children and parents were taught about the different groupings the planets are categorized in.
Terrestrial planets and Jovian planets were introduced with explanations of why each planet was placed in their category.
Mercury, Venus, Earth and Mars are Terrestrial planets, identified by their rocky or metal exteriors which make them the inner planets closest to the sun.
Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, and Neptune are gas planets and fall into the category of Jovian planets.
“Jupiter is the largest planet in our solar system, you could fit over a thousand earths inside of it. That red spot is a huge storm, we have records of it going on for about three hundred years now,” said professor Ramirez during the demonstration.
The newest zodiac, Ophiuchus, was introduced as the thirteenth zodiac joining the twelve other signs.
Student Mary Columna (right) with her sister Gabby Columna (left) enjoying space-related word search activity at planetarium night. Photo by Savannah Gomez.
“The planets and the sun and the moon will always go along these thirteen constellations,” added Ramirez.
A planet related word search and coloring pages were a couple of the many activities offered to children at the event and were assisted by volunteer members of the Future Teachers club.
“We are building a rocket – so pretty much were letting them pick the rocket that they want to do and after they color it in we have them roll the paper up and attach it to the back, and with the straw we launch it up,” said volunteer club member Alia Medrano.
“We also just wanted to invite the community and students with children to let them have a night where they can bring them to campus to get a sense of what their parents or big brother does when they come here – and just have fun doing spacey stuff,” said Education Course contact for the club, professor Melanie Levy.
Planetarium night took place on October 11, at the LAC Planetarium in the D-Building, room 326.
The Future Teachers Club hosts many events on campus for members to become involved with campus life and help spread the word about their program to encourage other future teachers.
As the semester progresses and grades are inputted, LBCC professors need to be more understanding of students spending time out of class as transfer season approaches and students are preparing to make the of the most important decisions of their academic career.
There are a variety of workshops that are held at the transfer center on both campuses. They guide students through the process of transferring but occur when students are already stressed for time while classes are in full swing with midterms steadily approaching.
Students know they’re supposed to go talk to a counselor but many students are unsure of what type of questions to ask, what paperwork to fill out and what to expect in the weeks following their meeting.
In the past, a trip to the counselor’s office would result in a student leaving more confused than when they went in, only now they had a piece of paper filled with vague information that the counselor had just explained to them.
Recently LBCC has made an effort to increase the ratio of counselors to students to make it more convenient for a student to get the assistance they need.
Although, if a student is already time constricted they might struggle to make time to schedule an appointment, then the resources are worthless.
This is why students need to be given some amount of flexibility around their class schedule to properly utilize the resources offered to them.
If the professors gave students the option to make up missed time in class to attend certain workshops, the school would be facilitating the growth of their students into responsible adults educated with relevant information.
If professors that teach general education classes were more involved in the process of students transferring, as well as other academic pursuits involving more complex financial literacy, it would provide students a rich and convenient source of information.
Professors could offer students extra credit to attend these workshops, then students would have an incentive to educate themselves outside of class.
This will facilitate a strong academic culture in which students can work together to increase their quality of life through education.
Although there are several outlets from which the school sends notifications and updates, many students struggle with finding events or resources convenient to their current situation and schedule.
Including workshop dates and times within CANVAS along with your class schedule calendar would help students discover upcoming events that works with their schedules.
Queer Space supported others in writing their coming out story onto a paper mache chain link to unite and acknowledge unspoken stories of the LGBTQ community the day before National Coming Out Day.
The LGBTQ club set up a tent in front of Building A by the fountain to spread the word about National Coming Out Day on October 10.
A large paper chain link made from various colors to form a rainbow was displayed on the table for volunteers to write on and link their papers together.
They handed out informative freebies such as awareness information and safe sex products.
“We are here for National Coming Out Day which is actually tomorrow but there’s not as may folks on campus on Friday so we thought today would be better,”
“What we’re doing is handing out sexual resources, condoms and lube. We had dental dams but we ran out. We also have some magazines with some information, we have a resource sheet for Long Beach events in general for the city,” explained Shoup Shoup, member of the LGBTQ club.
The club had to rechart this semester due to past leaders and members leaving the club when they transferred to other schools.
Shoup was able to receive help from the club her first semester here at LBCC and took charge to bring the club back. Although she was the one to bring the club back to life, she does not identify herself as the club’s president.
“It wasn’t getting chartered so I wanted to recharter it, so I guess I kinda am standing in as president, but all of our positions are currently open: president, vice president, secretary and treasurer. We do have an advisor, Kim Hamin. Super grateful for them. But all cabinet positions are open right now,” said Shoup.
With Shoup’s temporary lead, the club spent their morning talking about the club, National Coming Out Day and getting people to sign up.
Rainbow chain link displayed at Queer Space booth for National Coming Out Day and magazines featuring LBGTQ information. Photo by Arlene Hawkins.
Nearing the end of their time outside, the club succeeded in getting a hefty amount of signatures from people to join.
Volunteers and club members attracted passerbyers to their tent and got them to add on to the paper chain. While doing so, they shared how they felt about the importance of National Coming Out Day.
“We don’t all have the same privileges of coming out. Queer and trans folks are valid whether they’re out or not, like publicly, but I know that for a lot of folks in our community it’s the visibility that’s super important, especially on a college campus where maybe we feel like we don’t have that community. It’s good to come out today and see other people who are in the same community as you and have nice coming out stories to share,” said Shoup.
Seda Kun, a volunteer for the event shared her thoughts.
“I feel like to others, it’s really important. If you’re not yourself, you’ll always be unhappy. People have to keep their identity a secret for personal reasons. Bottling up those feelings affect you negatively so it’s really important for me,” Kun said.
Member of LGBTQ club, Miki Jimenez shared the importance of community.
“Everybody should have a chance to support the LGBTQ community. For allies and also for people in the actual community as well. It’s important to be yourself and it’s not healthy to keep things to yourself. It’s all about the love and support, for everybody,” said Jimenez.
Jimenez identifies themselves as gender fluid; they may identify as male or female some days, or neither or both.
“For people who are still in the closet, I hope they find the courage to come out sometime or if it’s still a no-go, I hope they’ll at least know that they are loved and we support them. For others who may not be in the LGBTQ community, I hope that they will become our allies so that we get more love and support and more representation, because honestly, we could use it. There are still a lot of haters out there,” said Jimenez.
For those who are not in the LGBTQ community, being an ally is an option to choose to support those in the community, by listening, supporting, and working to understand their LGTBQ peers who are willing to come out and share their story on National Coming Out Day.
Meng Yang was taken into foster care at age 16 while his mother was wheelchair-bound on dialysis and his father suffered from stage 2 pancreatic cancer.
“I was just doing what your average high schooler was doing, going to parties, doing tests, homework, hanging out with friends, staying out late. It was more freedom. I had a more quiet life, a more normal life,” Yang explained.
After being diagnosed with a kidney disease, the entire course of Yang’s life was altered.
After missing three scheduled doctor’s appointments, Yang’s doctor contacted the Department of Social Services, sparking an investigation.
“Truthfully, it wasn’t a form of neglect. I wasn’t missing the appointments because I wanted to, but it was because both my parents were ill,”
“I was worried more about taking care of my parents than about my own health,” the LBCC student said.
Photo by Tess Kazenoff. Meng Yang visits his parents’ headstones. “It’s been almost a decade,” he says.
The investigation led to Yang being placed far from his biological family in a new home in Pasadena.
Neither of his foster parents spoke English and Yang had to primarily communicate through their middle-school-aged son.
“I had a hard time communicating since they only spoke Spanish. They tried their best, but there was a lot of miscommunication and a lot of cultural differences. I felt alienated because of the language barrier.”
“I had to take a stand for myself and advocate because what they want, and what they think I need, may not be what I really want,” Yang explained.
Yang’s father passed away three months into Yang’s life in foster care. His mother was taken into hospice care and her death followed six months later on Christmas Day.
“I really don’t know who’s left to advocate for me,” Yang said.
Yang has nine siblings, but at the time most of them were living out of state.
After his 17th birthday, one of Yang’s brothers, Chee Yang, began to fight for guardianship.
Photos provided by Meng Yang. Meng Yang’s biological parents. Father, Wa Yee Yang, immigrated to the United States from Laos in 1984 and mother Lia Vue. She immigrated to the United States with Meng’s older siblings in 1991.
It was his mother’s last wish for Meng to return to the family.
He has been living with Chee since then.
Yang’s journey with education has been turbulent.
“In high school before the foster care system, I didn’t take it seriously. There just wasn’t much of a push for education. It was more about: go into the workforce, get a job, sustain your family,” Yang said.
“Education was not a priority, so I dismissed my education a lot. When I entered into the foster care system, during my high school years, I tried to turn it around. I wasn’t with my family or my friends, in a different culture and different city. But old habits die hard, and I’d slink back to where I used to be.”
Meng completed an additional two years of high school at a charter school before receiving his high school degree. He still wasn’t particularly interested in college but credited a therapist at the time for pushing him towards higher education.
“I didn’t know what major to pursue, because there was no college foundation. No one advocating for me. I didn’t know anything about how college, the expectations, or how the community college system works. No counselors to help lead me in the right direction or path,” Yang expressed.
Yang was not made aware of the foster care resources at LBCC at the time, or any grants available to him.
“A lot of people have the assumption that foster students don’t have much of a struggle due to funding from the government. I never even got my funding, I hit the age limit. I hit 21, so I couldn’t receive [any benefits]. My social worker failed me in not informing me about that,” said the 25-year-old.
After starting at LBCC, he became interested in automotive technology. However, due to budget cuts at the time, the automotive course was temporarily removed.
Yang participated in many rallies and protests at the time, advocating for the campus to reinstate the automotive technology major.
“I just came in, joined the fever. And even after all that, I was still lost,” said Yang.
While he wasn’t entirely clear about his path yet, his interest in advocating for his fellow students was ignited.
Photo by Tess Kazenoff. Meng Yang cleans off his mother’s grave. This is his third time visiting his parents’ graves since their passing in 2010.
Student Activities Advisor Derek Oriee speaks highly of Yang.
“He’s been really active and a committed member to student life, and always a person we could depend on. He’s a really big advocate for the voice of the students and it’s not uncommon to have him sit in on ASB meetings and hear him speak, and for him to attend Board of Trustee meetings. He’s sat in the PCC Cultural Affairs meetings. He’s a great person, a great advocate for the students, and really advocates for the trades,”
“Sometimes it’s hard to get students involved in the trades, involved in student government but he’s just a great person to have represent them. He’s really involved with the automotive program. Every time we have a big event he’s there. He’s there from beginning to end. He loves to be involved, and he’s taken full advantage of what we have to offer outside of class,” Oriee said.
Yang described receiving harsh judgments from other students.
“Pretty much whenever I brought up my status, in their mind, they were like ‘oh you must get all these benefits from the state government.’ I guess it’s the conclusion they came to from mainstream media and what’s been informed to them. They didn’t know how much I was struggling, and even if I was telling them, they wouldn’t understand,” Yang said.
“Even then, they would talk about my race, and get stereotypical. ‘You’re an Asian American, you’re in higher education, and you have a high placing rate in jobs, therefore you shouldn’t struggle compared to other races.’ You’d be surprised. Here at this college campus, people still have these assumptions.”
However, despite the beliefs of others, Yang has encountered difficulties finding a job.
“I was trying to find work, but [with] no work experience, no education, no degree… I turned in over these past six years, thousands of job applications, but I never got an interview,” Yang said.
Yang currently works three jobs.
“I never got a position until just recently this year. It took a long time. I work at Alex’s Bar as a security guard, I also work at the Long Beach Conservation Corps, where I help sustain our environment in the city of Long Beach, and as a student assistant for the NextUp program.”
On his work with NextUp, the newest resource at LBCC for former foster youth, Yang said that he was overall pleased with how the program has worked to help foster youth students through resources such as providing grants, book loans, and bus passes or gas cards. Yang would like to see a peer mentorship program implemented and more of a focus on transferring as well as scholarships.
“It’s important for him to make it known that foster youth need support. He’s been able to experience how the foster youth programs have changed and developed. He’s very dedicated to making sure people know we do have programs for foster youth,” LBCC Foster Youth Counselor and Coordinator Cristina Gutierrez said.
Photo by Tess Kazenoff. Meng Yang is currently studying automotive technology at LBCC and hopes to transfer.
“He’s committed to his education. Despite the struggles in his life, he hasn’t given up. He’s very resilient, and I really admire him for being here, despite everything he’s gone through. He’s defeating the statistics of foster youth.”
Yang intends to transfer but isn’t sure where he wants to go at the moment. He also wants to pick up a trade, which he is working towards through his automotive technology classes.
“My goal is to get myself out of my situation. I don’t always want to be dependent on government funding, and be more independent, so I can have the freedom to do what I want to do more, pursue what’s best for myself, and can give back to my community,” Yang said.
The Board of Trustees had a special meeting on September 17 in which they hired their first legal counsel.
The Long Beach City College District has had legal counsel advise the Board of Trustees in the past but the board itself has never had its own private counsel.
Based on the last meeting that occurred behind closed doors, the Board of Trustees came to the consensus that they are in need of private counsel.
Five different law firms who sought to become the board’s first legal counsel, gave presentations during the meeting, some of which have provided counsel to the board members and their families in the past.
Law firm Alvarez-Glassman and Colvin gave a disclaimer that they have worked with Trustee Zia, Trustee Ntuk, Board Secretary Hahn and Trustee Otto’s wife in the past.
Ruben Duran from law firm Best Best and Krieger reminded the board that roughly five years ago he gave direction to the board regarding the Brown Act.
Before the board voted, Student Trustee Donell Jones had the floor, despite not having been present for the closed meeting regarding the move to hire legal counsel.
“My concern is that moving forward with private counsel may be a costly endeavor, and it is from my understanding that it may be unnecessary as the school has been around for over 92 years and there’s no precedent of us doing that here,” Jones said.
He commented that he believed the funds could be put to better use by spending them on “student serving or institution community serving interests.”
Trustee Vivian Malauulu then said, “If I were a student trustee I would have said the exact same thing so I appreciate your remarks, I appreciate where you’re coming from, you ask excellent questions from a student perspective,”
“It hasn’t happened yet because it wasn’t needed and I think we’ve come to a place in our tenure as a board where it will probably be necessary,” Malauulu said.
Trustee Sunny Zia also shared her concerns.
“I don’t think it is appropriate for us to hire legal counsel, we have the district’s counsel to draw upon, they work for the district, they’re impartial and I don’t think we should spend tax-payer dollars on it,” Zia said.
Concerns were raised about where the funds would come from for covering the cost of legal counsel.
Marlene Drinkwine, Vice President of Business Services said “There is no current budget for a board counsel so the budget for this expense would essentially come our reserves. So it would be an additional expense that had not been previously been budgeted.”
When voting, the board individually ranked each firm with the highest-ranking firm being Alvarez-Glasman and Colvin.
The meeting concluded with an agreement that the Board will contract with Alvarez-Glassman and Colvin firm for legal counsel and that the cost will not exceed $20,000.
The contract will be made and ratified at the Board of Trustees’ next meeting set for October 23, with open session starting at 5:30 in T-1100 on the LAC campus.
Long Beach participated in a statewide effort to protect and clean our environment from debris killing our marine life this past September 21st for Coastal Cleanup Day.
At the meeting points, volunteers were found under tents handing out gloves and trash bags for those ready to participate.
Lakewood High School freshman and coastal cleanup volunteer Valerie Alvarez woke up at 7 am on a Saturday to “Find a community service event or service thing that I actually like.”
Alvarez added, “I want to be a pediatrician, but I’ve always lived in Long Beach and come to the beach with my family so why not clean it?”
Many Long Beach residents were found arriving with kids and their own trash bags ready to partake at this years Coastal Cleanup Day.
Long Beach City College political science major Omar Ruiz joined the cleanup with his younger brother Rene Ruiz.
“I heard about the event through my aunt because she works here in Long Beach, and I thought it was something good to do,” said Omar Ruiz.
Kids and adults participate in Coastal Cleanup Day. Photo by Karla Altuzar.
The political science major explained, “It really has nothing to do with my major but I love the beach, and Long Beach is the closest one to me”.
When asked if Coastal Cleanup Day was a sufficient effort to beautify and clean our community beaches LBCC student said “I honestly don’t think so, I would hope to see more local efforts for Long Beach because people don’t get to see how beautiful it actually is with all the litter.”
When asked about the event Rene Ruiz responded, “ I thought it was okay, they should make it more fun by bringing live music or something like that. I guess I would consider coming again next year, it really didn’t take long and it’s not that hard to clean the beach a little”.
Coastal cleanup day happens every third Saturday of September each year with volunteer spots all along the coast of California.
This year’s event featured six volunteer spots in the city of Long Beach.
Coastal Cleanup Day is an event that “welcomes more than 60,000 volunteers who will pick up hundreds of thousands of pounds of trash and recyclables from beaches, lakes, and waterways each year” according to coastal.ca.gov.
Freshmen outside hitters Callissa Candalot and Tiara Moseby led the Long Beach City College women’s volleyball team with 10 kills each as they swept visiting team LA Harbor Seahawks 3-0 with scores of 25-18, 25-10, 25-19 on Oct. 11.
The Vikings are on an eight game winning streak and now hold an overall record of 11-5 and a 6-0 record in the South Coast Conference.
Coming in with confidence, the Vikings won the first three sets of the game not giving the Seahawks the lead.
Vikings had a slow start in the first set as they were head to head but improved communication and finished off strong winning the set and ended with 16 kills and 43 total attempts.
Outside hitter Tiara Moseby ensured to better communication moving forward.
“Communication is something we really need to work on as a team, the minute we bettered our communication tonight we looked better,” Moseby said.
“Being consistent with it is also very important and it showed tonight.”
Along with the 10 kills, Moseby ended with 13 digs and one assist.
With better communication Vikings came out stronger in the second set taking lead the entire set finishing with a hitting percentage of .379.
“I’m happy we won, but as the coaching staff we always focus on and look at the things we need to work on,” head coach for Long Beach Misty May Treanor said.
“Our errors, communication, and consistency is what showed tonight that we need to work on.”
Last and final set, Seahawks attacked as it was a closer game but the Vikings prevailed and defended their home court, putting an end to the game.
“As we keep progressing throughout the season, we’re learning not to drop our mentality,” freshman defensive specialist and outside hitter Celestial Ropati said. “We’re going to keep fighting for each other.”
Ropati led the Vikings with 16 digs and ended with a killing percentage of .500, three assists, and one kill.
The Vikings will be back on the court and take on visiting team El Camino College on Oct. 16 at 6pm.
The Department of performing arts will be presenting an inspiring and empowering Choral concert titled “Rise and Sing.”
The entry fee is a suggested eight dollar donation at the door for students and local members of the community looking to attend the event.
Directed by Long Beach City College director of vocal studies Skye Angulo and director of vocal jazz studies Andrea Calderwood, Rise and Sing’s theme is centered on inspiring and empowering the audience.
“I was picking the music and thinking about stuff I wanted to do for this semester… and started to see a trend that all of our pieces were inspiring, healing, and recovering,” said vocal studies director Angulo.
Those attending the concert can expect to hear songs in English, Latin, Maui, and Haitian creole.
The concert will feature students from the LBCC Viking Singers, the Lyrical Workers, Viking Chorale, Evening Jazz Choirs, A cappella Madrigal Choir, and Kevin Kearney And Hannah Yi on Piano.
LBCC staff pianist Hannah Yi is on her fourth year as head pianist and has been motivating students with their voices, pitches and physicality to prepare for their concerts.
John Gonzalez, a Music major and jazz minor, looked up to his middle school and high school teachers who inspired him to major in music.
“It should be a good concert it has some pretty good songs, there’s one song called Twa Tanbou and I think the crowd will really love it,” Gonzalez said.
Director of Choral Studies Skye Angulo and her student performers are practicing the song “Kua Rongo” during their practice for Rise and Sing on October 7, 2019. Photo by Jorge Hernandez.
Twa Tanbou is a story about three drums who argue over which drum is the best and decide to put their differences aside to do for the greater good and stop arguing to start healing.
The Concert will feature all of the queries on campus and will show different varieties of songs that will be performed.
Celestina Black, a music major, is focusing on classical voice and has been singing in the choir since elementary school.
Black puts her focus into improving on higher ranges because she has a lower voice.
“I hopefully will get a solo and we’ll sound great as a group,” said Black.
This is the students formal mid-term concert this semester and they’ll interact with the performers, describe their songs and it’s origins.
The concert will be performed on October 20 at 2 p.m. at Our Savior Lutheran Church.
Three time Olympic gold medalist for beach volleyball, head coach and director of the Long Beach City College women’s volleyball team, Misty May-Treanor, is to be inducted in the class of the 2019 U.S. Olympic Hall of Fame.
An induction ceremony will be held on Nov. 1 with all-alumni in Colorado Springs.
May grew up with a family of athletes, at the age of eight May joined her first tournament with her father and began club at the age of 10.
Growing the passion and love for the sport May pursued her student athlete life at Cal State Long Beach in the years of 1995 to 1999.
In 1998 May was the captain of the team and was the first to have an undefeated season in the women’s NCAA volleyball team.
“The medals represent everything, my fans, my country and love for the sport,” May said. “It’s an honor to be able to carry these memories with me for the rest of my life”
May volunteered at Long Beach State and USC but decided to stick to Long Beach City College to make a larger impact on the girls who will soon move to a four year, and work on growing her family.
“I like this two year level, I feel like I can make a much bigger impact on these great players,” May explained.
May is currently in her fourth year as the head coach for LBCC and players on the team look up to May and appreciate having her as their head coach.
Photo by Arlene Guerrero/Viking Staff. Head Coach of women’s volleyball team and three-time Olympic gold medalist for beach volleyball, with referee on Oct. 11 vs LA Harbor.
“Coach makes me see things from a different perspective,” LBCC freshman outside hitter Tiara Moseby said.
“She has techniques that my past coaches have never thought of, I appreciate her. You can see how passionate she is and it’s amazing to see her still carry volleyball in her life.”
Assistant coach Devon Taylor is honored to be apart of the coaching staff.
“We have a four time Olympian and three time gold medalist, who is now retired. This is such a blessing and these girls have such an amazing person to look up to,” Taylor said.
The 2020 Olympics will be the second year after being retired that May will not participate but hopes to be watching from home.
“I have my little ones now and if they’re not watching Disney Junior I’ll be watching the Olympics,” May said.
Los Angeles Times journalist, Gustavo Arellano spoke to students about being a food critic, working with Anthony Bourdain on a TV show and exposing hate groups in Orange County for Latino Heritage Month at Long Beach City College.
LBCC Vice President Mike Munoz coordinated the event and spoke highly of Arellano.
“We chose him to speak because he can talk about a wide range of topics: historical, sociopolitical in a humorous way and has connections to the region,” Munoz said.
After experiencing racism multiple times throughout his life, Arellano decided to devote his career to fighting “idiocy” and wanted to better the community around him.
He extensively covered hate groups while working at OC Weekly and managed to infiltrate a white supremacist group by learning how to speak their language by regularly reading pro right-wing articles.
Arellano fought racism through humor and is most famously known for starting the column, “Ask a Mexican” at OC Weekly.
In Ask a Mexican, Arellano responds with satire to racial cliches and topics that pertain to Latinos.
The LA Times writer addressed the people who found the article as “insensitive” during his speech.
“Humor is one of the most powerful weapons because it’s an innate human emotion. It’s an innately human thing and you can take away all these things from people,” Arellano told the audience.
Los Angeles Times Columnist Gustavo Arellano Speaks at LBCC for the LATINX Heritage month on October 8, 2019. “As long as you have humor, There’s still a chance.” Arellano said. Photo by Jorge Hernandez.
Former LBCC student Danny Rivera attended the event.
“It’s great to have someone who passionately encourages civility by the way he approaches people with different views and mindsets rather than resorting to conflict,” said Rivera.
As a food critic, Arellano was able to co-star on Anthony Bourdain’s Netflix show, Parts Unknown.
Arellano addressed the late Anthony Bourdain and said, “I look up to him, he was amazing, humble, accommodating, he even made his uber driver wait for forty five minutes while he spoke to his fans and gave them foot-notes on episodes they claimed to have enjoyed.”
At the OC Weekly, Arellano pushed to cover more diverse communities and found that one of the ways he could do that was through food.
He has a passion to discover the stories behind food and claimed that food is incredibly historical and political.
The food critic spoke of Asian inspired taco restaurant Chinitos Tacos in Lakewood.
The owner, Chef Beeline Krouch is of Cambodian descent.
Krouch found an appreciation for Mexican Cuisine while working at Ortega 120, a Mexican restaurant in Redondo Beach.
Arellano expressed his appreciation for those who incorporate Mexican dishes into their own cultures and said how food is a melting pot of different ethnicities.
Gustavo Arellano currently writes for L.A. Times and has a book called Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America.
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