Any Dominicans in Los Angeles, California

Just got transfer to L.A., I would like to know about restaurants, clubs,radio stations and web sites.

It has been a long time since I lived there but there was a very good Dominican Restaurant in the West Hollywood section, sorry can't remember the name. There are some Dominicans there but not many.....remember, New York is the center of the Universe to them......Not LA.

You are bound to feel very lonely there if you need Dominicans. You can count them with your fingers. Even in Chicago, only 800 miles from N.Y.C. there are just a few thousand.Back in 1995 there were only 2000 there. The mexicans will be your neighbors and they have a much different culture. Their music is totally strange to us because it is Northern mexican American music.

Is it that music that they call "Norteña"? Could you give me the name of a singer that sings Norteña music. A dominican friend told me once that some dominican singers sing Norteña music. Is that true??

I learned there is a Dominican family in Milwaukee (Wisconsin).
My dad met them where he works.

There are many dominicans
here Alaska, specially in Anchorage.

Yes, it is called Nortena music and it is the equivalent of listening to bachata, in other words, popular unsophisticated folk music mixed with barrio slang themes bordering on home crisis, crime and passion. Some bands like Rosario Brothers and La Banda Gorda play a merengue fusion with some Nortena rythmns and colombian cumbia. Its is a terrible mixture.

I used to teach English As a Second Language in the DR (ICDA) and I had a student who worked for the goverment's foreign relation office (cancilleria) and we used to talk about this. She said there are Dominicans basically in every part of the world. Mongolia, South Africa, Alaska, Norway, Somalia, Afganistan, Bosnia, Australia...you name it. I remember she told me they once got a request from a Dominican family who lives in the Seychelle Islands. These are a group of small islands off the coast of Africa, and the unlikeliest place to find people from the DR. She also told me that one of the most common problems they had to get involved in were with people from the middle east who had married Dominican girls, had kids with them - especially boys - and took them back to their country and away from their mothers. Anyway I thought that was interesting.