August 2012 Archives
Notes of a Native Daughter:
San Bernardino's making national headlines because elected officials have filed for bankruptcy, but a lot of people said what really outraged them: The city council said it couldn't host the Route 66 Rendezvous downtown.
Commentary:
Losing a long-time business on Market Street in Inglewood feels like losing it all.
Movie Miento:
The lurid hooked me but the straightforward narration of her body, her soul, her desire, her thirst, and her hunger for love and life kept me reading.
Commentary:
Well-refrigerated, it's the perfect beverage on hot summer days like these. Until I saw it: A large Hollywood office building swaddled in oversized advertising wrap featuring pop singer Rihanna, hawking... coconut water.
LA as Subject:
There was a time when, far from being a defining characteristic of the city's landscape, freeways were merely an experimental impulse of traffic engineers.
Environment:
A new interactive map charts vulnerability to climate change in the state, and the results are bad news for Los Angeles, the Low Desert, and the San Joaquin Valley.
Where We Are:
What could be wrong with local self-government? If the goal is "municipal consolidation," incorporation is just one more inconvenience.
Po-Law-Tics:
Challenging election law could be costly, thanks to a recent case ruling. Let's hope this decision gets appealed.
Where We Are:
The city's oldest Jewish congregation commits itself to the future by restoring a grand monument from its -- and the city's -- past.
Environment:
The amount of one particular class of smog-forming chemicals in Los Angeles' air has dropped by a surprising amount, according to a study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research.
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