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Cakewalk:
Growing up in the '70s, the Dodgers were my rock stars. Things have changed.
West Is Eden:
In these graduating times, cause for celebration and remembering: smeary handprints won't forever stay messy or small.
Where We Are:
The "undecorated shed" that was the mass-produced tract house changed the American landscape, with consequences that are still to be fully appreciated.
Where We Are:
| Image from the author's collection Bill Deverell handed me a book the other day, with the recommendation that the author had put together a good story. The book is Building Home: Howard F. Ahmanson and the Politics of...
West Is Eden:
We all crave reassurance, the knowledge that a scrap of us will last beyond the flare of our life.
Where We Are:
Skid Row is a "Petri dish" for cultivating human misery. That now includes a strain of tuberculosis that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had tagged as unique to downtown. What began as a "health crisis" has become a "moral crisis."
Transpacific Routes:
Only in America could people whose heritage hails from within and around the world's largest continent be considered a single demographic group.
Where We Are:
It's summer. Ladies are lunching and window-shopping. Limousines are lined up on Wilshire Boulevard. Chauffeurs are idling in front of Perino's.
Cakewalk:
I find that black support for marriage equality is real, but it's not a given--or a gimme.
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I Am Los Angeles: Strings of Success
Sasha is content just to be living his life on his own terms, doing something he thoroughly enjoys: building and playing guitars.
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