Carol Mithers

Photo by Virginia Lee Hunter I: EDUARDO At 8 o'clock on a Monday morning in June, Rosa Coronado arrives for work at a two-story mansion in Beverly Hills. All over L.A., it's the hour of exchange, when those who inhabit middle- and upper-class homes turn them over — along with......

A Culver City childhood does not teach love of rivers. The concrete-lined Los Angeles River and La Ballona Creek, rank with oil and trash, hardly merit the names. Yet the glimpses I‘ve had in other places -- of the Ouachita in Arkansas, New York’s Upper Hudson -- have always tantalized......