On a hot summer night in East Los Angeles, a house near Cesar Chavez ... This is mainly because throwing a party in a backyard has been the easiest and most accessible option for low-income ...

Biochemist Alexander Shulgin accidentally discovered one of the most famous and infamous party drugs of the 1980s. He synthesized a compound called MDMA in 1976 in his backyard laboratory and ...

Griffin worked for 49 years at Barrio Planners Inc., an architectural firm in East L.A ... of East Los Angeles. The association, numbering about 100 members in the mid-1980s, began a battle ...