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...other Miguel Contreras is a brilliant and passionate individual who dragged himself out of poverty and never stopped fighting for the nation’s poor. He’s the Contreras who began working as an agricultural worker at age five, the Contreras who so impressed Cesar Chavez that he was asked to work for the United Farm Workers at age 17. He’s the Contreras who worked his way up the labor movement hierarchy and ended by uniting L.A.’s fractured union movement, building bridges across race and class barriers and winning significant...
Like an echo from the past, Cesar Chavez, leader of the United Farm Workers of America, is back in the news. Between 1965 and 1973, he organized two grape boycotts and won passage in 1975 of the first state law guaranteeing farmworkers the right to unionize. Now Chavez is again launching a boycott of California grapes, contending that the 1975 law is rarely enforced. Says he: "Farmworkers continue to be fired, coerced and abused by corporate growers...
...known as the Redwood Run. (Think Altamont without the killing.) "They had a stage set up with these horrible blues bands, but then Los Lobos came on," recalls Idol. "And I thought, Hey, I wonder if I could sing with them?" "He was pretty drunk," says Los Lobos singer Cesar Rosas. "But so were we. So we brought him on and did Born to Be Wild. It was obvious the guy still had it." Says Idol: "I looked down, and there's all these bikers going mad, and I realized this is why it's worth being alive. God bless...
...most controversial decisions Taniguchi made was to retain the famous amalgam of fa?ades along the museum's West 53rd Street side. The product of five separate building campaigns, the streetscape features successive fa?ades by Edward Durrell Stone and Philip Goodwin, Philip Johnson, and Cesar Pelli. Taniguchi argued to keep them intact?as a kind of history of modern architecture. This fueled early mumblings that the renovation was an opportunity lost, a glorified embalming rather than a genuine rebuilding. Dismissing such complaints, Taniguchi says: "Unlike many museums, MOMA faces a street, not an avenue, so even if I did something interesting...
...become Downtown by Philippe Starck. Prices at the 326-unit conversion are a bit more accessible ($500,000 to $3.5 million), and the lap pool, basketball court, and yoga and Pilates studio should appeal to Wall Street traders looking to unwind. For uptowners, there's One Beacon Court, architect Cesar Pelli's 55-story tower, where a top-of-the-line penthouse reportedly goes for $26 million. Jacques Grange designed the interiors down to the bathroom hardware. Not a bad place to hang your hat. --BY KATE NOVACK