References in The Arts
Chávez Ravine is an album recorded by Ry Cooder in 2005, based on a series of photographs of the area by Don Normark.
Chavez Ravine is mentioned in The Mescaleros' song "All in a Day" in their 2003 album Streetcore.
Chavez Ravine: A Los Angeles Story, a film directed by Jordan Mechner, tells the story of how a Mexican American community was destroyed to make way for a low-income public housing project.
A portion of the Great Wall of Los Angeles, a mural by Judith F. Baca in the Tujunga Wash Drainage Canal in San Fernando Valley, California, is titled "The Division of the Barrios and Chavez Ravine." It depicts families separated by freeways and the Dodger Stadium in the air like a spaceship.
In 2003, the Urban Performance Troupe Culture Clash, comprising three writers and performers Richard Montoya, Ric Salinas and Herbert Siguenza, premiered a stage show titled Chávez Ravine at the Mark Taper Forum.
During Dave Dameshek's "Number One Sports" segment on The Adam Carolla Show, Dodger Stadium was often humorously referred to as Chavez Ravine.
At the end of the Twilight Zone episode "The Whole Truth" (1961) Rod Serling says "be particularly careful in explaining to the boss about your grandmother's funeral when you are actually at Chavez Ravine watching the Dodgers."
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