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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2005 Stories by Christine Pelisek

• A Prayer Denied

  published December 29, 2005

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• The Gambler’s Index

  published December 8, 2005

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• Brent Shapiro’s Final Hours

  published November 24, 2005

  A coroner’s report concluded that the 24-year-old son of renowned defense attorney Robert Shapiro died last month from a... More >>

• Homeless Blessed

  published November 10, 2005

  The money-strapped Hollywood Presbyterian Church has sold an apartment building to the city that it hopes to turn into 50 units of... More >>

• Doping Voters

  published October 20, 2005

  Los Angeles resident Margaret Sowma is in her mid-70s and trying to survive on a fixed income. It’s not easy juggling her prescriptio... More >>

• Brent Shapiro, 1980–2005

  published October 13, 2005

  The 24-year old son of renowned defense attorney Robert Shapiro died Monday of an apparent drug overdose, authorities said. ... More >>

• Human Tracks

  published September 29, 2005

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• The World Chokes

  published September 22, 2005

  From the coal-powered factories that contributed to the deaths of thousands in London in the 1950s to the smog caused by forest fires in... More >>

• Outing Polluters

  published September 22, 2005

  Oil refineries, grocery stores and lackadaisical enforcement have helped make L.A. the smog capital of the West. Here are just some of... More >>

• How Not to Manage a Crisis — The Timeline

  published September 8, 2005

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• Priceless Sunset: No $10 Tickets

  published September 1, 2005

  LAPD officers dropped by last weekend’s Sunset Junction Street Fair, and, as in past years, they didn’t like what they saw: staffe... More >>

• Unwinding at 'The Stretch'

  published August 4, 2005

  The one-block stretch along Franklin Avenue between North Bronson Avenue and Tamarind is such a bustling little mecca of urban... More >>

• LAPD's Half-Open Book

  published July 21, 2005

  Two days after the July 10 fatal shooting of Suzie Lopez and her 35-year-old car-dealer father Jose Raul Peña, a reporter asked Police Ch... More >>

• Taking Down the Vineland Boyz

  published July 21, 2005

  Eight local and federal law-enforcement agents loudly knocked four times on the door of a two-story condo complex in a middle-class... More >>

• Avenues of Death

  published July 14, 2005

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• Blight Makes Right?

  published June 30, 2005

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• Bad Night for the Vineland Boyz

  published June 23, 2005

  When a gang member fatally wounded Burbank Police Officer Matthew Pavelka in 2003, officers vowed that they would not rest until they... More >>

• Hooping With the Enemy

  published June 9, 2005

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• The Death Squads

  published May 5, 2005

  Photos by Ted SoquiThe storage facility in the San Fernando Valley has all the charm a slab of concrete can muster, which is to say very little.... More >>

• Who's Moving In?

  published April 28, 2005

  Monah Li, Clothing Designer Monah Li is in the process of selling her Silver Lake home, where she’s lived for four years. She i... More >>

• Tenant Services

  published April 28, 2005

  Bet Tzedek Legal Service Provides free legal assistance to low-income Angelenos, including seniors and the... More >>

• Tenants’ Rights

  published April 28, 2005

  Don’t let your apartment manager tell you otherwise: Tenants living in rental housing do have rights! Here are a handful of facts gathere... More >>

• Partying Out of Bounds?

  published March 31, 2005

  Photo by Kevin ScanlonThe last thing Jesus Cuellar had on his mind, as he and his brother traversed the USC... More >>

• Erring on the Side of . . . ?

  published March 31, 2005

  Would someone please calm the religious zealots so that we all could observe a moment of richly deserved silence for... More >>

• Goodbye with a Bang

  published March 17, 2005

  Kelly Bullwinkle always wanted to see the play Bang, Bang, You’re Dead — William Mastrosimone’s examinat... More >>