Cheech Marin is frequent visitor to Riverside and namesake art museum

Cheech Marin is a regular visitor to the Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art & Culture in Riverside, and not just because he gets in free.

How often has he been back since the June 2022 opening of the center, which is largely made up of his personal art collection?

“Six, seven times,” Marin tells me. “Whenever they summon me to appear. I always try to stop in on my way to Joshua Tree, where I live half the time.”

We were speaking Jan. 26 at the Riverside Convention Center...