August 2012 Archives
Commentary:
Where were you August 11, 1965? Musician Brian O'Neal remembers, in song and story, the day everything changed.
Commentary:
"I don't know why this happened. We don't believe in aggression. We don't believe in violence."
LA as Subject:
As Southern Californians tune into the infamously delayed coverage of London's 2012 Olympic games, L.A. as Subject member archives provide a look back at Los Angeles' two turns in the Olympic spotlight.
Commentary:
The Marines' Johnson Valley War underscores a fact of life in California: we no longer have enough desert to go around.
Where We Are:
The county's two largest cities are near the end of their ability to "make do." There's plenty of blame for what's happening in Los Angeles and Long Beach.
Po-Law-Tics:
One of my least favorite things about the ballot initiatives process is the huge sums that those in favor and against these measures typically shell out during the election cycle. This prop is no exception.
Technology:
Live updates for the landing of Curiosity, the roving Mars Science Laboratory.
Where We Are:
Late Saturday evening, NASA will learn if Curiosity survived the landing and is waiting for JPL's command to rove Mars, where the Space Age lingers still.
Black elected officials are becoming rare in L.A. and California. So how do we retain them without giving the questionable ones a pass?
Commentary:
Hi-Fi still doesn't quite have the visible cultural impact that its fellow Asian designated communities possess, but it's not a lost cause.
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