June 2012 Archives
Where We Are:
In the competition for transit funding, inequalities, windfalls, and politics.
Notes of a Native Daughter:
A chance encounter with coyotes shows just how wild the 96-Mile Santa Ana River can still be.
Commentary:
As the Forum prepares for renovation, AEG disses Inglewood as a place where entertainment magic can't happen like it does in L.A. Those are fighting words.
Commentary:
A long-promoted plan to pipe water from one of the driest parts of the Mojave Desert to irrigate Southern California's cities continues to find new critics, who are slamming the project on environmental grounds.
LA as Subject:
A silent witness to four centuries of Southern California history, El Aliso -- a massive, ancient sycamore -- stood at the center of the Tongva village of Yaanga and later shaded the cellars of early wine and beer makers.
Movie Miento:
"National Public Radio is dismayingly white, and I think they know that and we all know that. That's not news. The question is what are they going to do about it."
Where We Are:
By the highway, next to the artificial stream, it's not so far from Walden Pond.
Where We Are:
Los Angeles can be a tough place to make a buck making beer.
Commentary:
The face of the 1992 civil unrest was, in many ways, just a face.
Commentary:
How will Americans see us now? Will we be a threat of a different nature? Say economic prejudice?
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