D. J. Waldie
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D. J. Waldie is the author of "Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir" and "Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles." He is a contributing editor for the Los Angeles Times.
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The persistence of things is part burden, part murmured dialog. Time slipping is our common condition, and we're never wholly new.
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Ghosts, gangsters, glamour, and grime are all part of the heritage of downtown's Hall of Justice. The iconic building from Jazz Age Los Angeles is being restored after nearly 20 years of abandonment.
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The distinction between east and west in Los Angeles has been a fixture of the city's landscape from the beginning. But does that distinction -- even though it persists -- shape what Los Angeles is becoming?
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The city's Adaptive Reuse Ordinance succeeded in turning empty office buildings into residential lofts. Downtown needs even more ideas for building tomorrow's city.
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The scandal of priestly abuse, abetted by silence, leaves priests and the faithful less able to minister to each other.
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Making something out of the American landscape, one house at a time.
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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?
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As cars and trucks become more fuel efficient and more all electric and hybrid vehicles take to the road, states are seeing gas tax revenues shrink.
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The Getty's "Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940 - 1990" and the Huntington's "Maynard L. Parker: Modern Photography and the American Dream" consider how Los Angeles sought to be forever modern.
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The sight of an orange tree, laden with golden fruit on a cold winter afternoon, remains a guarantor of Southern California's mythic qualities.
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Huell's only was to send viewers into their own neighborhoods fired with the belief that something equally remarkable resided there.
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Cities are supposed to carry out the state's affordable housing mandates. Except the state has clawed back the money that's supposed to build the homes that working-class Californians need.
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No NFL team has expressed "serious interest" in moving to Los Angeles, and the game clock runs out in six weeks.
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Southern California has its own way of celebrating the New Year, by taking aim at easterners who might yearn to live -- warm and snowless -- in our presumed paradise.
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Social and political forces are shaping neighborhoods to become more dependent on walking and cycling. Greater risk is an unintended consequence.
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I'm the boy in front. My brother, two years older, is behind.
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The stories we have our pictures tell seem to say more about us than anything about the past.
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Sunday morning, a little before dawn, down some ordinary suburban streets, and through their aural landscape.
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Opossums wander our backyards by night and occasionally startle a homeowner, who imagines that nothing so wild could be part of everyday life.
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Does your city have too many police officers or not enough? A new study suggests there is an answer, but it's not likely to be one that your city council will care to hear.
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The Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County is getting a new permanent exhibition ready. It will help us understand how we became Los Angeles.
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A letter found at the swap meet gives a young visitor's vivid account of Mount Wilson's observatories during the first months of World War II.
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The inflatables on my block whir and glow at night, grinning Christmas cheer. In the gray light of morning, their expression has changed.
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Californians buy one out of every ten new cars sold in America. Southern Californians buy most of those.The L.A. Auto Show has been packing them in since 1907 to show what their future on wheels will be.
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Less outdoor lighting is the goal of a new county ordinance and the aim of those who see darker night skies as benefiting both people and wildlife.
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Light and air are substances in the Los Angeles basin, as material as the mountains that frame our horizon. What goes up in the air of L.A. stays there - the minimum is three days - and its presence both harms and delights us.
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City Council Member Larry Van Nostran has died.
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Even some conservatives believe the GOP is dead in California. But dead (as we know) isn't really, really dead. The state GOP is still shambling forward, looking for brains
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While the national media focused on El Monte's soda tax and the regional media tracked Measure J's almost win, other local elections were reshaping the political landscape.
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From San Diego to Santa Barbara, as much as $280 million in spending flowed through Pacific Standard Time's museums and galleries. But there are other values, too.
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The persistence of things is part burden, part murmured dialog. Time slipping is our common condition, and we're never wholly new.
-
Ghosts, gangsters, glamour, and grime are all part of the heritage of downtown's Hall of Justice. The iconic building from Jazz Age Los Angeles is being restored after nearly 20 years of abandonment.
-
The distinction between east and west in Los Angeles has been a fixture of the city's landscape from the beginning. But does that distinction -- even though it persists -- shape what Los Angeles is becoming?
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The city's Adaptive Reuse Ordinance succeeded in turning empty office buildings into residential lofts. Downtown needs even more ideas for building tomorrow's city.
-
The scandal of priestly abuse, abetted by silence, leaves priests and the faithful less able to minister to each other.
-
Making something out of the American landscape, one house at a time.
-
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?
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As cars and trucks become more fuel efficient and more all electric and hybrid vehicles take to the road, states are seeing gas tax revenues shrink.
-
The Getty's "Overdrive: L.A. Constructs the Future, 1940 - 1990" and the Huntington's "Maynard L. Parker: Modern Photography and the American Dream" consider how Los Angeles sought to be forever modern.
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The sight of an orange tree, laden with golden fruit on a cold winter afternoon, remains a guarantor of Southern California's mythic qualities.
