David Richard Bloom

Photo by Kathleen ClarkMuralist and maverick Mike McNeilly has won fame and fortune pioneering the use of “tall walls,” the broad expanses on the sides of high-rise buildings, for both commercial and public-service art. His latest endeavor, however, on the west side of the Westwood Medical Center will land him......

While record-setting rains beat back the telltale stench, noxious fumes continue to plague the neighborhoods downwind of a meat-rendering plant operated near Vernon by Darling International Inc. Despite abatement orders issued last year by officials at the South Coast Air Quality Management District (AQMD), eight complaints were lodged against Darling......