February 2011 Archives
Commentary:
Sacramento politics is now more important to a downtown stadium than the giddy enthusiasm of Los Angeles city council members.
Environment:
California's system of 270 state parks is once again facing budget trouble. This time the threat of park closures could be real--and permanent.
Commentary:
The differences between two famous heads of NFL hair--one straight, one not--is more than cuticle deep.
Arts & Culture:
LA's media art scene this week is international in scope, featuring work from Colombia, Iran and Germany....
Arts & Culture:
Preserving not only finished works by L.A. artists but also papers, photographs, and other materials related to the artists' lives and practice, the archives of Southern California's cultural institutions provide insight into the artists' influences, motivations and their relationship with the city they called home.
Government:
L.A. City Council spends the most of any large city on itself, about $1.7 million per council seat.
Commentary:
No longer are coastal engineers convinced that the best protection against the Pacific's tidal energy is to bring in the heavy armor. Where once they built seawalls, erected jetties, and laid down riprap, certain that these technologies would repulse waves' erosive power, or redirect sand to preferred locales, they now are adopting a softer approach.
Places:
Jocie Reynaga and her family moved to Compton's agricultural neighborhood about ten years ago. "My mom can live like how she lived in Mexico and how I grew up," she said of Richland Farms, where she calls her property "Pueblos Unidos" of the family Reynaga.
Commentary:
On the basis of freeways and parking spaces - the elements that apparently define who we are - a community is celebrated and given meaning by a football stadium deal.
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