If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it and there’s nothing about Viva! Pomona that needs to be fixed. Founder Rene Contreras celebrated the sixth birthday of his little festival that could in Pomona this past weekend with yet another stellar lineup of local and international independent artists that struck a perfect balance between Latino artists and everyone else. The annual two-day festival brought a range of artists from different genres, with acoustic weirdos such as Juan Wauter

In a new video series by videographer Eddie Gee and the Pomona Arts Colony, Jorge Moawad talks about his company, Luz de Mano. #Pomona #PomonaCulture #PomonaPeople

Opening the Fox Theater Pomona was an audacious, ostentatious, expensive proposition—both times. Its original grand opening on April 24, 1931, took place in the midst of the Great Depression and cost a then-exorbitant $300,000. And funnily—or terrifyingly—enough, the theater’s recent grand reopening happened just two months ago, during our current Great Recession. The restoration took a year and a half and cost $10 million. Was it worth it? Brothers and Pomona locals Ed and J