January 2013 Archives
LA as Subject:
"Never Built: Los Angeles" presents an alternate history -- and an alternate present -- for a place where inspirational solutions to the city's problems have often been downscaled, defeated, or altogether forgotten.
Notes of a Native Daughter:
This is what it means to have been a teacher for 30 years, as of this new January quarter.
West Is Eden:
It's the people you never hear of who really make a difference. And the boys from New Jersey and the California surfboard shaper fit that bill.
Where We Are:
Making something out of the American landscape, one house at a time.
East CA:
The desert is defined by its lack of rain. Ironic, then, that it's during rainstorms that the desert most truly expresses its nature.
Transportation:
Caltrans announced today it has put in place ways to warn desert travelers of such massive traffic jams like the catastrophic February 12, 2012 backup.
Where We Are:
What would you chart as a guide to the city you know? Beaches, radio stations, Hollywood beauty salons, taquerías, swimming pools, the other downtowns of Los Angeles?
LA as Subject:
During World War II, Catalina Island reinvented itself as a training camp for the U.S. armed forces, including the forerunners to today's CIA and Navy SEALs.
Cakewalk:
The Morningside Park Chronicle is a new paper that's determined to get Inglewood right.
Po-Law-Tics:
The current legal framework breeds the almost ceaseless need for campaign cash, which harms both officeholders and the public.
SoCal Focus is a blog about the people, places, and issues in and around Southern California.
I Am Los Angeles: The Art of Being Earnest
OBEY/Studio One artist Ernesto Yerena grew up in El Centro near the border, where there was a distinction between "good" and "bad" Mexicans.
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