Email Author Christine Pelisek

Awards

• 2011 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published June 17, 2010

  "The Killer of His Daughter's Mother"

• 2010 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published May 28, 2009

  "Bad Little Suburban Boys"

• 2010 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published March 12, 2009

  "Grim Sleeper's Sole Survivor"

• 2010 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published July 23, 2009

  "The Closers"

• 2009 - Investigative Reporters and Editors, published August 28, 2008

  "Grim Sleeper"

• 2008 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published March 16, 2007

  "What Really Happened at Fire Station 5?"

• 2008 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published January 19, 2007

  "Flying High with the Vicious Ladies"

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published October 18, 2006

  "The Scourge of Skid Row"

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published October 18, 2006

  "The Scourge of Skid Row"

• 2007 - Southern California Journalism Awards/LA Press Club, published December 13, 2006

  "Broken Bridges"

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2002 Stories by Christine Pelisek

• A Union 'Miracle' in Santa Monica

  published December 26, 2002

  Workers at Loews Santa Monica Beach Hotel scored a major victory last week in their longstanding fight to organize a union. The hotel chain... More >>

• Bowled Over

  published October 24, 2002

  Manuel Montano has been a regular at All Star Lanes in Eagle Rock since he was 12. “My father was a patron, I‘m a patron, and my children a... More >>

• Personal Wars

  published September 26, 2002

  War, it seems, is one of those things that the more you know about it, the less you want any part of it. With Iraq in the... More >>

• The Crack-House Rave

  published September 19, 2002

  Some 600 ravers gathered on the lawn outside the Federal Building in Westwood last Friday to protest proposed federal legislation that could... More >>

• Just the Facts, Ma'am

  published September 12, 2002

  LAPD’s budget for the fiscal year 2000–2001: $835,934,537 Numb... More >>

• Cop-speak

  published September 12, 2002

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• Unwelcome Workers

  published September 5, 2002

  FOR TWO YEARS, GABRIEL PEREZ GALVAN worked as a box boy most Friday nights at Super Assi, one of Koreatown's largest supermarkets. Last... More >>

• Yanking the Welcome Mat

  published August 29, 2002

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• The Unelected

  published January 3, 2002

  Tom Hayden recently finished two books: Irish on the Inside, about ethnicity and race, and Zapatista Reader, a... More >>

• The Robert Downey Jr. Celebrity Crime Blotter

  published January 3, 2002

  Rebecca Gayheart. The actress-model pleaded no contest to misdemeanor manslaughter in the death of a 9-year-old boy she struck with... More >>