January 2012 Archives
Movie Miento:
The quality of Spanish language news in Southern California varies widely and it's been made worse, Arredondo said, by budget cuts that have decimated the ranks of reporters and editors.
Arts & Culture:
Bill Mohr's new book on poetry in Los Angeles is a rich, exuberant and pleasurable history of nearly 50 years of extraordinary writing.
Where We Are:
There is a middle way between big government and little cities. It began 58 years ago.
Commentary:
At a time when a cynic would call the idea of the public having faith in government a laughable one, it is nice to see one agency -- the Fair Political Practices Commission -- aggressively doing its job.
Where We Are:
The Wicked Witch of redevelopment is dead, but we may regret it.
Notes of a Native Daughter:
The nighttime security officer arrives when the sun sets and the Santa Ana River is lit by floodlights at the construction site. Here in March of 1774, a party formed by Juan Bautista de Anza to form a trading route in New California crossed the river for the first time.
Commentary:
Will we never learn?
Arts & Culture:
One of this week's highlights in art is the opening of what LACMA director Michael Govan dubs "a portrait of LA," namely to Chris Burden's exhilarating freeway sculpture, "Metropolis II."
Commentary:
President Obama was born in the Year of the Metal Ox, while Mitt Romney is a Fire Pig.
LA as Subject:
Santa Monica might today be crawling with semi-trailer trucks, cranes, and container ships had a late-19th-century political dispute ended differently.
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