Growing up in San Francisco, Cynthia De Losa never lived any one place for very long. It’s a past she prefers to sketch vaguely, saying that she ended up at Mount Saint Joseph convent in Bayview when ...

Chuca wears her white bustier tight. Her slick black pompadour is high in the sky, and those ruby-red lips are bright beneath her cat-eye sunglasses. Cuco — short for Cucaracha — only comes out at ...