East Los Angeles’ journalism dean retires after 55 years
After more than five decades at East Los Angeles College, journalism professor Jean Stapleton found herself this week…
Deadline looms for billionaire tax to make the ballot
It’s deadline day for the contentious proposal to impose a new tax on California billionaires, an idea opposed…
A day at Dodger Stadium with my kids cost hundreds just to get through the gate
I still have the tickets — well, the print-outs from StubHub — from my husband’s and my first…
The Boyle Heights fire is latest pollution crisis to affect L.A.’s Eastside
A fire in a massive cold storage facility in Boyle Heights that started on Wednesday hasn’t stopped yet.…
Beers and hair braiding bring dads seeking deeper connections together
The challenges of fatherhood take several forms. For some men, the difficulties stem from not having had a…
In Long Beach, you don’t need ‘starchitects’ to make a mark
Prairie Avenue in Inglewood doesn’t have the name brand of Wilshire or Sunset or Rodeo. But head down…
The L.A. Zoo’s dilapidation crisis was seven decades in the making
In the 1950s, Los Angeles’ population was exploding. The decade brought a development boom as well as good…
A vital California highway is sliding into the sea. A $2.5-billion tunnel would go around it
There’s an eroding three-mile stretch of Highway 101 in California’s remote northwest corner that hugs fog-shrouded cliffs between…
Hockney created an L.A. to lust over. Not all of us could fit into it
I found my first David Hockney print leaning against a beat-up Volkswagen Rabbit at the edge of an…
California sues Shasta County — as expected — after voters approve measure to eliminate most mail-in voting
The painfully slow vote count after California’s June 2 primary attracted national headlines and baseless claims of cheating…
Still don’t have a Father’s Day gift? We have some ideas, including one of L.A.’s best cookies
Father’s Day is exactly one week away, and you are panicking because you haven’t shopped for a gift,…
We Lived in China and Cambodia. Our Daughter Found Home in Los Angeles.
I showed my daughter a video of her gnawing on a chicken claw, back when we lived in…