The inspiring, infuriating, even comic tale of how we defeated L.A.’s smog and why we may have to again
A city of swans, that’s us. From the world’s vantage point, Los Angeles can look like a place…
Jardinette Apartments, Neutra’s first Los Angeles building, reopens
One of the most painstaking architectural renewals in recent Los Angeles memory has finally pulled a world-class jewel…
Why I’m not taking down my César Chávez photo
The framed photo of César Chávez and Dolores Huerta sits in my personal office on a bookshelf crammed…
Eric Idle talks “Monty Python,” “Spamalot” at the Pantages
The last time Eric Idle’s “Monty Python and the Holy Grail” spoof musical “Spamalot” landed at a major…
Commentary: The grief behind the cascade of online Dolores Huerta photos
The photos currently flooding my social media stream are like a highlight reel of the life of Chicana…
Commentary: And just like that, the Cesar Chavez myth is punctured. What’s next?
An eerie silence had settled. As word evidently reached activists in the last few weeks that disturbing allegations…
Cesar Chavez abused girls, raped labor icon Dolores Huerta: report
Cesar Chavez, the iconic labor leader, is accused of sexually assaulting two under-aged girls in the 1970s as…
Contributor: The window to declare success in Iran is closing
If you’re looking for the most elegant way to wrap up our “little excursion” in Iran, it’s this:…
Homeless mortality is down in L.A. County for the first time in a decade.
For the first time in the decade that homeless mortality has been tracked in Los Angeles County, fewer…
A new mental health campus is coming to historic state hospital in Norwalk
The Metropolitan State Hospital opened in Norwalk in 1916, a self-contained facility complete with its own farm that…
Handicapping a Gavin Newsom-Kamala Harris presidential fight
Gavin Newsom and Kamala Harris have long circled one another. The two moved in the same political slipstream,…
From ‘Bonnie and Clyde’ to ‘Star Wars’: The real history of New Hollywood
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