June 2011 Archives
LA Vitamin Report:
It's time to nip this citywide trolley-to-nowhere talk in the bud.
Arts & Culture:
Jennifer West makes films by doing terrible things to the film stock that result in abstract expressions, but is she an abstract expressionist? She answers that question.
LA as Subject:
This month, the city of Pasadena turns 125 years old. Set ten miles northeast of central Los Angeles at the foot of the San Gabriel Mountains, the Crown City has been an important cultural center of Southern California since...
Commentary:
Who--and what--will rule at Westchester High School?
Arts & Culture:
The Los Angeles Film Festival is back to jump start summer with a 10-day tribute to national and international film.
Environment:
The desert tortoise and their young are not threatened by an extensive solar project in the Mojave Desert, wildlife officials said last week.
Commentary:
I met Kristina Wong via my good friend Vickie Nam. She suggested that I "friend" Kristina because of her charm, sense of humor and because she is one of the most interesting Asian women around.
Departures:
The art of large-scale storytelling is struggling in the very city that shaped the craft.
Commentary:
Can President Obama use the environment as a wedge issue in the 2012 campaign? Here's how he might.
Commentary:
Those who'd hoped to bring the Coachella and Imperial valleys closer together will be disappointed by the latest maps from the redistricting commission.
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