Coachella Festival Postponed Amid Virus Concerns

The Associated Press Mar 10, 2020 The Southern California desert event will be rescheduled to October. Meanwhile, death toll from coronavirus rises to 24 in Washington state. Dig deeper ( 9 Min. Read )

The Symbiosis Experience

Donald Kaufman / Truthdig Oct 3, 2016 A visit to the transformational festival in California's Central Valley shows why the anti-corporate event has the potential to become a movement in the United States. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

The L.A. Uprising’s 20th Anniversary and the Resurrection of Tupac Shakur

Marcia Alesan Dawkins / Truthdig Apr 29, 2012 Sunday, April 29, marks the 20th anniversary of the start of the Los Angeles uprising and the two-week anniversary of the resurrection of slain gangsta rapper Tupac Shakur as a hologram at Coachella. The events are not a coincidence. Rather, they are part of a cultural argument that speaks to racial tensions, police misconduct and vigilantism that have plagued the city for decades.The 20th anniversary of the L.A. uprising and the resurrection of slain rapper Tupac are not a coincidence. Dig deeper ( 4 Min. Read )

Night of the Living Dead at Coachella: Tupac’s Holographic Resurrection (video)

Staff / Truthdig Apr 17, 2012 Tupac Shakur was killed in 1996, but he rose from the stage at Coachella on Sunday, a hologram that entertained a mesmerized crowd and promised a new era of technologically enhanced grave robbing. Dig deeper ( 1 Min. Read )

On Edge of Paradise, Coachella Workers Live in Grim Conditions

Staff / Truthdig Nov 2, 2011 Arsenic-tainted water, raw sewage that backs up into the shower and other horrors make one end of Avenue 54, where residents of the eastern Coachella Valley’s roughly 125 illegal trailer park sites make their home, a place of grim housekeeping. Dig deeper ( 12 Min. Read )

Portraits of Misery in Coachella

Staff / Truthdig Oct 29, 2011 For those who live there, life at the wrong end of Avenue 54 in Southern California’s eastern Coachella Valley is a hot, rotting hell. As you head east, the “Bermuda shorts, putting greens and picture-window champagne dinners” found in abundance near the Arnold Palmer Golf Course give way to … (more) Dig deeper ( 2 Min. Read )