March 2011 Archives
Arts & Culture:
Learn to shoot 3-D, discover the links between science and art, or expand your consciousness through mind-altering movies this week in LA's eclectic media scene.
Transportation:
Research has shown that time spent outside of transit--walking, waiting, transferring--is more important than the experience of riding transit. NexTrip, which delivers real-time next bus arrival information, is key to making public transit more user friendly.
Commentary:
The radiation that blew out from Japan barely left a trace on sensitive monitoring equipment in California. Yet its minute presence also registered loud and clear.
Movie Miento:
The flyer promised a tribute at an old Bellflower nightclub to the spirit of recently deceased Mexican rockera Rita Guerrero. Instead I bumped my forehead into L.A.'s Mexico-City heavy metal scene.
Government:
Not only is the high desert city of Victorville facing a Securities and Exchange Commission probe, an independent auditor last week doubted the city's "ability to continue" amid $480 million in debt and concern about tens of millions of dollars...
Commentary:
There can be no more dramatic rebuke of the ambition to dominate Mother Earth than the ruined lives, crumpled infrastructure, and flattened communities along Japan's northeastern coast.
Arts & Culture:
Just east of the Salton Sea near the town of Niland, Calif. is the famous desert dwelling of Leonard Knight. There, at the entrance of the so-called Slab City, is the 50-foot tall Salvation Mountain, a 30-year (and continuing) labor of love that spans 150 feet in length.
Emergency:
Governor Jerry Brown last week proclaimed a local emergency for the city of Morro Bay, one of California's coastal cities that experienced a series of "extreme tidal surges" on Friday, March 11 after a large earthquake in Japan....
Commentary:
When "12-to-2" sank out of sight, another plan to speed up development stepped right in.
Commentary:
Prop 14 created an open primary, top-two general election system. Now the California Republican Party (CRP) is trying to take back some of the influence it likely lost.
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