Party Crews: The Untold Story
Activity Overview
Episode publication activity over the past year
Episodes
Bonus: Eddie Ruvalcaba on Capturing Party Crew Life
28 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Photographer Eddie Ruvalcaba started his professional career capturing snapshots of party crews for Street Beat Magazine, an indie magazine for party ...
Bonus: Carribean Fragoza on Writing “The Vicious Ladies”
21 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Carribean Fragoza is a writer, artist and co-founder of the South El Monte Arts Posse. She writes about Latinx women and girls whose narratives aren’...
Ep. 8 Safe Space
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
What does the party crew scene ultimately tell us about what it means to have a safe space - and how might that shape the way Emmery is remembered? Ja...
Ep. 7 Desahogar
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
In 2022 – more than sixteen years later – we hear from Emmery’s entire family who gather and re-hash more than a decade’s worth of information...
Ep. 6 Searching for Digital Traces
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Before TikTok, Instagram and even – MySpace, party crew teens found ways to create communities online. One of these early social media sites was cal...
Ep. 5 Cat & Mouse
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
A year after Emmery’s death, a now-notorious Los Angeles City Council member became interested in her unsolved case and led a rallying cry for LA to...
Ep. 4 Anatomy of a Party
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
We go behind-the-scenes in the making of a mid-2000s flier party with an entrepreneurial teen party crew promoter from South Central to understand how...
Ep. 3 The Investigation
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Emmery was last seen on a Friday afternoon in January of 2006. In this episode, we delve into the investigation into Emmery’s unsolved murder. Emmer...
Ep. 2 Welcome to the Party
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Growing up in the San Gabriel Valley, Janice saw the party crew scene as a little slice of freedom, a place to let loose, and a break from her religio...
Ep. 1 Emmery
14 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
Janice Llamoca was one of the hundreds of mostly Latinx kids that made up LA’s underground party crew scene in the 2000s. But as an adult, she thoug...
Introducing: Party Crews: The Untold Story
07 Mar 2023
Contributed by Lukas
All episodes coming March 14, 2023. For many LA Latinx teens coming of age in the 2000s, flier parties and the party crew scene were an escape from th...