Recently in Venice
Neighborhood Notes:
News and stories on the shifting culture of our neighborhoods.
Production Notes:
In preparation for our upcoming Venice Field Guide, we invite Angelenos to submit their suggestions for the guide and we share our own explorations of the area.
LA Letters:
After a 30 year absence, Poetry Festival Santa Cruz returns.
Portraits:
Black migrants with blue-collar jobs and middle-class American dreams found their ambitions blocked by racially restrictive covenants in all-white suburbs until the 1950s.
Maps:
Today marks the end of the Mexican-American War which not only secured the Southwest region for the U.S., but created a foundation of neighborhoods in L.A. still visible today.
Arts:
Donna Deitch's stylish 1978 mini-documentary 'The Great Wall of Los Angeles' captures a moment in time when the community came together to create the landmark mural.
Venice:
Last week, Land of Departures toured the first half of Departures' collection of oral history interviews with nine prominent Southern California elected officials. That political roll call featured: Compton Mayor Eric J. Perrodin, Compton City Councilmember Yvonne Arceneaux, State...
Richland Farms:
Departures has sought out and collected oral histories from nine prominent current and former Southern California elected officials. This week Land of Sunshine takes a tour of the first five* of those politicos' Departures presence.
LA River:
Every day should be Park(ing) Day.
Chinatown:
Many memorials can be found throughout Los Angeles, each with a unique story and history.
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