Email Author Ben Ehrenreich

2000 Stories by Ben Ehrenreich

• Double Agent for Cain

  published November 23, 2000

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• Leaf Blowers

  published November 9, 2000

  There is a long and noble tradition of misanthropy in American literature. The shadowy, ill-starred sibling of our much-celebrated sunny... More >>

• Pass the Ballot, My Friend

  published October 26, 2000

  It is hard to imagine any realm of American culture more riddled with hypocrisy than our collective attitude toward drug use. Pushing Ritalin... More >>

• Global Stench

  published October 26, 2000

  There is perhaps no better place to study the effects of the globalization of the world economy than the Tijuana--San Diego border region.... More >>

• When in Rome . . .

  published October 12, 2000

  Having lived for a stretch in Rhode Island, where I spent many a lonely late-night watching televised greyhounds race circles around an old... More >>

• Becoming L.A.

  published October 5, 2000

  Throughout the 1920s, Los Angeles was busy becoming the city it is today, paving, spreading, subdividing. It expanded at an unprecedented speed... More >>

• Rants and Reflections

  published August 31, 2000

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• A Quitter, a Chicana Role Model and One Angry Queer

  published August 3, 2000

  It was just two years ago that Aimee Bender published her first book, The Girl in the Flammable Skirt, a collection of strange and beautiful... More >>

• Televising the Revolution

  published July 27, 2000

  Earlier this month, beneath the high ceilings of downtown’s Patriotic Hall, Alan Minsky tried to explain the Independent Media Center (IMC) t... More >>

• Running on Empty

  published July 27, 2000

  This dark season draws on, numbingly, as the twin candidates leap and yammer at the very edges of the nation‘s consciousness, making nice wit... More >>

• The Latino Metropolis

  published July 13, 2000

  Los Angeles is not famous for being kind to those who love it best. It has been cruel indeed to Mike Davis, our homegrown Jeremiah who has for... More >>

• The First Amendment, LAPD Style

  published June 29, 2000

  The American Civil Liberties Union is poised to sue Los Angeles and its Police Department over restrictions placed on protests at the upcoming... More >>

• Cloak and Blather

  published June 29, 2000

  On two occasions in recent days, shadowy authorities have initiated steps to clamp down on protesters expected at August‘s Democratic Nationa... More >>

• Terrible Waste

  published June 8, 2000

  It has been noted that little difference can be detected between the presidential candidates our two-party state has vomited up for us this... More >>

• Re-enlightenment

  published May 25, 2000

  Cartoon by Bruce Eirk Kaplan There is something refreshingly old-fashioned about Peter Gadol’s Light at Dusk. Forget for a moment th... More >>

• Landscape Desired

  published May 11, 2000

  As I attempt to trace the origins of my rather tortured love for this city, I go back to two afternoons on Santa Monica Boulevard. The first... More >>

• D.C. Diary

  published April 27, 2000

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• Size Matters

  published April 13, 2000

  Lenicia B. Weemes Elementary School sits tucked away on a densely populated block of apartment complexes a short walk from the USC campus. As... More >>

• Barthes, Simpsoned

  published January 27, 2000

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• INS-Style Justice

  published January 20, 2000

  Photo by Virginia Lee HunterThe prosecution of five immigrants accused of taking part in a riot at an Immigration and Naturalization Service... More >>