Email Author David Zahniser

Awards

• 2008 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing, published January 26, 2007

  "The End of Murder"

• 2008 - Best of the West/First Amendment Funding, Inc., published June 1, 2007

  "What's Smart About Smart Growth?"

• 2008 - AAN AltWeekly Awards, published January 26, 2007

  "The End of Murder"

More

2007 Stories by David Zahniser

• Villaraigosa's Media Affair

  published July 5, 2007

  {mosimage}THERE WAS ONLY ONE television station to watch on the day in mid-June when Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa first broached the... More >>

• Splitsville: Villaraigosa Spins his Wrecked Marriage

  published June 14, 2007

  Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa strode in front of a dozen cameras on Monday to discuss a very personal matter: the collapse of his... More >>

• Splitsville

  published June 14, 2007

  MAYOR ANTONIO VILLARAIGOSA strode in front of a dozen cameras on Monday to discuss a very personal matter: the collapse of his... More >>

• LAX Expansion Betrayal?

  published June 14, 2007

  YOU REMEMBER HOW EVERYBODY hated that old plan for fixing up LAX? The one that went down in flames a year or two ago? The one that... More >>

• What's Smart About Smart Growth?

  published May 31, 2007

  We are not moving. We, the passengers of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority’s No. 304 bus, are not moving. The traffic signal up... More >>

• Peddling Smart Growth

  published May 31, 2007

  {mosimage} Santa Monica real estate developer Dan Palmer faced a daunting task three years ago when he... More >>

• Do As We Say, Not As We Do

  published May 31, 2007

  If any one principle provides the underpinning for smart growth, it’s density — putting multistory homes around rail stations, on bus corrido... More >>

• A Denser L.A.

  published May 31, 2007

  Click the image to download a full pdf of the mapThe... More >>

• Weiss Recall Quickly Turns Ugly

  published May 24, 2007

  Forget the Hollywood Bowl and Disney Hall. When it comes to political theater, the hot ticket in town over the past few weeks just might... More >>

• Cynthia Ruiz

  published May 10, 2007

  Nothing says Los Angeles quite like the random pieces of furniture that line our city’s dumpy and unloved boulevards. Perhaps you alread... More >>

• Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza

  published May 10, 2007

  {mosimage} Environmental attorney Jerilyn Lopez Mendoza remembers vividly the night police officers... More >>

• Reyes Rodriguez

  published May 10, 2007

  Tropico de nopal is enchanting. The slender, two-story art gallery — once the home to a printing company — has the gentle curves found in ... More >>

• Bratton's Mea Culpa Tour

  published May 10, 2007

  Last week started out so promising for Los Angeles Police Chief William Bratton. One day before scores of police officers marched into... More >>

• Tom Labonge: The Mayor of (Fire-Blackened) Griffith Park

  published May 10, 2007

  As Griffith Park burned Tuesday night, there was one politician who kept showing up on our television screens, one man who sounded deeply sad... More >>

• Urine Luck, L.A. Gangs!

  published May 3, 2007

  Imagine how confused L.A.’s gang members must be right now. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa can’t stop talking about them, making... More >>

• Power Failure

  published April 19, 2007

  YOU’D THINK FROM READING the blogs and the newspapers that Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was having his Worst Week Ever, as the wags... More >>

• Serving Two Masters

  published April 5, 2007

  When Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and the Los Angeles City Council announced plans last year for a $1... More >>

• Targeting a Weiss Guy

  published March 15, 2007

  Members of the city’s civic elite were wringing their collective hands last week, stunned over the dismal participation shown by th... More >>

• Is This the Part They Call Reform?

  published March 8, 2007

  IF ONLY THERE WERE A WAY we could freeze this moment in Los Angeles politics. Just for a year, maybe two. One day after the school board... More >>

• School Board Money Frenzy

  published March 1, 2007

  Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa is not a guy who takes no for an answer. He pushed hard for passage of... More >>

• Revolving Door

  published March 1, 2007

  Veteran San Fernando Valley pol Richard Alarcón irritated quite a few people last year by jumping into the March 6 race for the Los An... More >>

• That’s Not Permitted

  published February 22, 2007

  Huizar bought the home on La Calandria for $157,000 in 1999, just before the region’s real estate market went through the roof. Ye... More >>

• Powered by Payments

  published February 8, 2007

  FROM THE MOMENT HE WADED into the issue of public schools, Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa’s push for power at the Los Angeles Unified... More >>

• The End Of Murder

  published January 25, 2007

  CHRIS CASTELLANOS, 1988–2006The No. 18 bus ambles down Whittier Boulevard every 10 minutes on weekday mornings, letting its mostly... More >>

• Goodbye, L.A. Gangs

  published January 25, 2007

  THE POLITICAL CULTURE THAT GOVERNS ?Los Angeles is in many ways like a teenager clutching a remote control, zipping from channel to... More >>