June 2013 Archives
LA Letters:
This week L.A. Letters highlights important San Diego locations that help contribute to a quietly thriving community arts scene, in what its boosters call "America's Finest City."
Lost Landmarks:
The grand vision of one of L.A.'s first city planners included a highway that would have connect Hollywood to Newhall via a tunnel through Griffith Park.
Intersections:
During the late 1960s and early 1970s, pirates in Los Angeles provided a window into the tensions over access to music that besets the difficult relationship that exists between artist, label, and fan.
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Block by Block:
If you've been downtown there's a good chance that you've noticed the concrete overpasses above the streets, but probably never thought much about them.
A Los Angeles Primer:
One of Los Angeles' many formerly wealthy enclaves, one immortalized in song by Richard Harris and Jimmy Webb, MacArthur Park's Art Deco mansions have long since given way to pupusas and proselytizers. How should an Angeleno make best use of it all?
Writing on the Wall:
Sheets' public art projects can be seen throughout the country.
LA Letters:
This week L.A. Letters commemorates a few organizations, venues and poets that are building bridges and connecting cultures.
Lost Landmarks:
Wilshire Boulevard's iconic Gaylord Apartments today represents more of the socialist ideal than Henry Gaylord Wilshire could have ever truly imagined.
I Am Los Angeles:
As Angelenos, we're a bit spoiled to see this American icon floating in the skies.
Writing on the Wall:
A group of educators attending a conference wanted to see Los Angeles through its murals.
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