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Long Beach Chicana shop offers safe place and healing – NBC Los Angeles
A shop inside a store along Long Beach’s Fourth Street offers more than just gifts for Southern Californian Chicanas.
“We are more than just our culture. We are also women on the verge of healing,” said Yvonne Marquez, the owner of Las Adelitas, a gift shop inside Agua y Viento coffee house. “It is small, but it holds so much.”
Marquez named the shop after “Adelitas” women freedom fighters in the Mexican Revolutionary War. The women soldiers wore ammo belts around their torsos and led regiments of men into battle.
“They were such strong women and I wanted to hold space for women,” said Marquez.
In addition to vending jewelry and artifacts showcasing cultural pride, the shop doubles as a safe space for Chicanas to gather, share and grow.
“It’s almost like going to your hermana’s house — your sister’s house,” said Milagro Ruiz Bello, a healer who uses sound in spiritual cleanses at the shop. “It’s a very warm (place).”
“It’s like all like the magic put into one place,” said Xochitl Brizuela, a children’s Spanish teacher, who teaches the adult women at the shop the language they’ve lost or never learned.
“There is a need for us to learn again; Spanish is not easy for me, but it still is something I want to learn,” said Marquez.
Along with the lessons and healing, Marquez brought along Rebecca Contreras, an art curator to design the show “Nuestro Tiempo: El Grito de la Independencia”.
“It’s a real beautiful and unique space here,” said Contreras.
The show features 12 artists from around the region including Oaxaca, as well as Central and South America and their cultural expressions of strength and love.
It is the love that brightens Marquez’ heart the most. The love of women finding a space to be who they are, learn more about their culture and feel safe.
“The love that we get has just been beautiful,” said Marquez. “I’ve had people who have gotten emotional and who have cried, who just say it just feels like my abuelita’s house.”
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Driver killed in crash off freeway into El Monte riverbed – NBC Los Angeles
A driver died late Wednesday in a crash off a freeway and into a concrete structure in an El Monte riverbed.
The driver was ejected in the crash, reported just before midnight near the eastbound 10 Freeway and Santa Anita Avenue. The car flew off the freeway and into the Rio Hondo Watershed, ending up on top of the concrete structure.
The driver was later found in the wash. They died at the scene.
Details about the driver’s identity and what led to the crash were not immediately available.
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Video released in domestic assault case of former Dodgers pitcher Julio Urías – NBC Los Angeles
The violent incident involving former MLB pitcher Julio Urías has surfaced, revealing troubling behavior that may have ended his baseball career with the Los Angeles Dodgers.
A 72-second recording by a bystander obtained by the LA Times and California Highway Patrol shows the moments the former MLB pitcher lost his cool.
In the video, Urías is seen charging at two women, one of whom is believed to be his wife. He grabs her and slams her against a fence, while multiple bystanders rush to intervene. Urias also takes a swing at her, cursing in Spanish.
This alarming incident occurred last September outside BMO Stadium in downtown Los Angeles after an LAFC game. Following the event, Urías was arrested, and the video aligns with the initial police report from that day.
Urías later pled no contest to a misdemeanor domestic battery charge. He was sentenced to 36 months of probation and required to complete a domestic violence counseling program, among other conditions. The Dodgers responded by placing him on administrative leave, and he has not played since, remaining a free agent.
Major League Baseball is currently conducting its own investigation and has not yet commented on the newly released video.
However, the footage has led some fans to conclude that Urías should not be allowed to play professional baseball again.
“He lost his opportunity by putting his hands on a woman. No man should ever put his hands to hit a woman,” said Dodgers fan Eddie Garcia.
Dodgers pitcher Julio Urías was arrested Sunday on suspicion of domestic violence, according to the Los Angeles Police Department.
This marks the second domestic violence incident involving Urias. In 2019, he faced a suspension for reportedly pushing a woman to the ground in a parking lot, though he was not criminally charged in that case.
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Boat goes up in flames in Marina del Rey – NBC Los Angeles
Fire crews were working to put out flames coming from a yacht docked in Marina del Rey.
The 100-foot vessel was engulfed in flames, coming from inside the cabin.
The call came in at around 8:30 p.m. of a vessel burning at 2201 Basin A in Marina del Rey, according to the LA County Fire Department.
It’s unclear what ignited the fire and if any people were injured.
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