Cheech Marin is an occasional visitor to his namesake museum in Riverside. Visitors have bumped into him in The Cheech’s galleries and gotten autographs and photos. Now a statue of the actor and comic ...

This is read by an automated voice. Please report any issues or inconsistencies here. “The fame of the museum is spreading far and wide, and people are coming from all over the United States,” says ...

Inside Riverside’s Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture, two walls in a quiet corner are devoted to paintings of palm trees on fire. Painted in 2021, “Three Studies of Palm Trees” by Perry ...

Tall, spindly palm trees with their crowns on fire were a familiar sight during the Pacific Palisades and Eaton fires. Burning palms became a somber visual shorthand for the fires or simply for life ...