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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2004 Stories by Christine Pelisek

• 26 Food Banks Where You Can Share Your Wealth

  published December 23, 2004

  LOS ANGELES/ DOWNTOWN L.A. All Peoples Christian Center. 822 E. 20th St., (213) 747-6357. Monday–Friday, 9 a.m. to 5:30 p.m... More >>

• Happy Balloons and Homicide

  published December 2, 2004

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• These Are the People Who Died

  published December 2, 2004

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• Brent Shapiro’s Final Hours

  published November 25, 2004

  A CORONER’S REPORT CONCLUDED that the 24-year-old son of renowned defense attorney Robert Shapiro died last month from an accidental... More >>

• Jennifer K. Howell

  published November 25, 2004

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• Cooking 101

  published November 11, 2004

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• Judith Luther-Wilder: Art Smarts

  published October 14, 2004

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• Drowning Deaths Remembered

  published September 23, 2004

  Twenty-two-year-old Kristin High wanted to be a civil rights attorney. The former Cal State Los Angeles student and mother of a... More >>

• Francesca De La Rosa:
  Food for Thought

  published September 2, 2004

  Photo by Wild Don Lewis Francesca de la Rosa knows how to organize people — from founding Women Advocates for Knowledge and Empowermen... More >>

• The Siren’s Song

  published August 26, 2004

  Florentine Gardens, the once popular World War II servicemen’s hangout and the site of Marilyn Monroe and Jim Dougherty’s weddi... More >>

• It’s Dog Eat Dog in Runyon Canyon Parking Ruckus

  published August 12, 2004

  The long-simmering standoff between Runyon Canyon rivals has turned into a real dogfight. Faced off against each other over issues of park... More >>

• Who Will Stop This?

  published July 22, 2004

  We asked the Board of Commissioners of the Department of Water and Power about discrimination at the DWP and the city attorney’s use o... More >>

• Infamy and Fortune

  published July 15, 2004

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• Fuck Yourself, Dick Cheney

  published July 1, 2004

  Dick Cheney had some advice during the U.S. Senate’s annual photo session for Vermont Senator Patrick Leahy, who has been relentless i... More >>

• War on the States

  published June 24, 2004

  Aetna Health Inc. v. Davila By a vote of 9-0, the court this week struck down laws that gave patients the right to... More >>

• Mary Mullen: Soul Music

  published June 3, 2004

  Photo by Alyssa Nicol Singer-songwriter Mary Mullen is out to teach the world to sing — and make it better at the same time. Now settled bac... More >>

• U.S. Army Vehicles Lost in Iraq

  published May 20, 2004

  We asked the Army, the Marines and the Air Force for information on vehicles destroyed in the Iraq conflict. The Marines and Air Force ignored... More >>

• Compton Casino Faces Long Odds

  published May 6, 2004

  A Santa Monica–based Indian tribe’s plan to build Los Angeles’ first slot-machine casino in Compton may be dead. Assemblyman Mervyn Dyma... More >>

• A Kilo Full of Kryptonite

  published April 29, 2004

  Illustration by P-Jay Fidler Carrying his recently deceased father’s sky-blue retro suitcase as well as a Walkman and a dozen CDs, Joe Brali... More >>

• Casino Nation

  published April 8, 2004

  Photo by Ted Soqui Congresswoman Hilda Solis knew many people opposed her legislation to help a group of Indians in San Gabriel, but she... More >>

• Paolo Cilione & Claudio Camaione, Mix Fix

  published March 25, 2004

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• War by Numbers

  published March 18, 2004

  BLOOD AND GUTS As of March 11, U.S. service members killed in Iraq: 556 Number of those killed in hostile... More >>

• Standing Stall

  published March 18, 2004

  Photo by Ted Soqui Motorists cruising through Hollywood seem resigned to the 35-foot-tall glass tower surrounded by trash and wire fencing at... More >>

• Another View of Elliott Smith

  published January 15, 2004

  Photo by Marina Chavez LAPD detectives investigating the death of Elliott Smith have asked their supervisor to take a look at the case to see... More >>

• The Final Moments of Elliott Smith’s Life

  published January 8, 2004

  Moments before he died, singer Elliott Smith argued with his live-in girlfriend, who said she found him screaming outside the bathroom door of... More >>