From Bookshelves to Literary Arts Festival: A Look into the Books (& their Authors) from Yesteryear
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Arts & Culture on the Corner with Gabriel San Román
Spotlighting our local and diverse O.C. communities and global topics that traverse our streets.


- Feb 3
- 3 min
A Letter to the Comunidad: At the Heart of Art & Culture


- Jan 6
- 4 min
Silvia Rodriguez Vega Forces Us to Listen to Children of Immigrants in Drawing Deportation

- Nov 4, 2022
- 6 min
From the Ground Up: Orange County BIPOC Businesses on the Rise


- Oct 7, 2022
- 6 min
From One County to the Next, Author and Columnist Gustavo Arellano Oversees a New Horizon in L.A.


- Sep 2, 2022
- 6 min
From Book to Film: Coppola’s Apocalypse Now is an Anti-War Epic

- Aug 5, 2022
- 9 min
A New Chicanx Cohort: Profes in Borderlands, Punk Communities, & Healing Justice


- Jun 3, 2022
- 5 min
Cinematic Experience Series includes Spielberg’s timeless Close Encounters of the Third Kind

- May 3, 2022
- 5 min
Navigating the In-Between: A Review of Luivette Resto’s “Living on Islands Not Found on Maps”

- Apr 8, 2022
- 4 min
OC Youth Poet Laureate Curating a Community Poem For & By Youth


- Mar 4, 2022
- 5 min
Jodorowsky’s Social Commentary & Surreal Fantasy in “The Holy Mountain” is Still Relevant Today

- Feb 4, 2022
- 4 min
A Letter from the Founder: Where we’ve been, where we’re going


- Dec 3, 2021
- 6 min
This Holiday Shop Small, Reinvest In Our Community


- Nov 5, 2021
- 5 min
First-time Feature Director Unravels a Monstrous Femme on the Screen at The Frida


- Oct 3, 2021
- 5 min
Inaugural Poet Laureates Picture a Home for Poetry in Orange County

- Sep 3, 2021
- 4 min
5 QBIPOC Artists in California to Know


- Aug 6, 2021
- 5 min
From Anaheim to TimesOC, Gabriel San Román Shares his Journey Towards Journalism


- Jul 2, 2021
- 3 min
‘Canciones Bordadas’ Radio Show Stitches the Sounds of Santa Ana Together


- Jun 4, 2021
- 4 min
Between OC and OJ, the Lives of ‘The Lockhart Women’ Delight in Debut Novel


- May 7, 2021
- 4 min
History is Healing as the Heritage Museum of Orange County Finally Reopens!

Gabriel San Román is a contributor to Times OC and a former OC Weekly staff writer. Subscribe to his weekly Slingshot! Newsletter. And in case anyone is wondering, he's still the tallest Mexican in OC.