Illustration by Mike Lee
Nash and I went to a swap meet or a fair or a bake sale or something at the Orange County fairgrounds. It was the last summer before
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On 30 January 2000 at 8:38 p.m., I listed a 45 rpm record by a band called the Maids on eBay. I included photographs of the front and back of the paper sleeve and th
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The setting was the Athenian Room at downtown‘s grand Biltmore Hotel. It was time for the final question at the official introductory news conference of L.A. s
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The $1.5 million cleanup of toxic contamination at one of L.A.’s largest housing projects was dogged by criticism — even before it started.
It seemed o
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The plaintiffs opposing Playa Vista this time around are called the Grassroots Coalition, Earthways Foundation and Spirit of the Sage Council. The last is, according
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Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov
Ten years ago, 17-year-old Alvaro Reyes crouched into a dank Tijuana water tunnel. Moments later, he emerged on California soil an
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Photo by Ben Ehrenreich
Wednesday, April 12
By 11 a.m., the main alley behind the Convergence is buzzing with energy. It is the headquarters, training groun
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Photo by Micheal Powers
HER GIVEN NAME, WHICH SHE SHARES WITH HER maternal grandmother, has arguably brought her more grief than her gruesome subject matter. “
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Illustration by Mike Lee
AT 9 A.M., ESPECIALLY, IT WAS A HARD DRIVE TO THE self-storage facility on Olympic, where fragments of my life had been optimized in
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Photo by Debra Dipaolo
Up until Sunday, I can’t say it ever really occurred to me that the Chandlers might sell the Times. The O’Malleys may hav
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Kenneth Dolin calls sometimes — usually late Saturday or Sunday morning — to speak nonsense in a breathy, high-pitched, faux-Gaelic slide whistle of a vo
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Photo by Virginia Lee Hunter
Something important was missing from the Seattle anti-WTO demonstrations. Oh yes, there were, in some proportion, all the just causes I&
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