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2008 Stories by Erica Zora Wrightson

• Extreme Inner-city Arts Makeover

  published November 20, 2008

  It is a hot fall morning on Skid Row. Supply trucks hog the streets, their emergency lights blinking dimly in the bright... More >>

• Best Writer's Block Party: 826LA East

  published October 2, 2008

  The Echo Park Time Travel Mart on Sunset Boulevard is not what it seems. A sign across the otherwise unremarkable building... More >>

• Best Hippie Holdover: Saban Free Clinic

  published October 2, 2008

  For those fortunate enough to have health-care coverage or be able to afford it in a city where a cupcake costs as much as a gallon of gas,... More >>

• Best Beach: Point Dume

  published October 2, 2008

  Often mistaken for the phonetic spelling (doom), which perhaps accounts for the fortunately sparse population of beachgoers, the beach at... More >>

• Best Classical Gas: The Jazz Bakery

  published October 2, 2008

  Compared with New York City, which teems with jazz clubs and musicians, L.A. is relatively dry. Luckily, the City of Angels’ few serious... More >>

• Lucent Dossier Turns Acrobatics into Erotics

  published September 25, 2008

  Deep in the dungeonesque belly of the first private power plant in downtown Los Angeles, the Lucent Dossier Vaudeville Cirque members prance... More >>

• Art School or LAUSD Folly?

  published September 4, 2008

  WITHOUT A NAME, A PRINCIPAL, a teaching staff or even a curriculum plan for delivering an arts-and-academics education to... More >>

• Dorothy Garcia and Tom Harding

  published May 15, 2008

  “It’s a radical little city in its own conservative way,” says Dorothy Garcia, commenting on the Pasadena... More >>

• J. Michael Walker

  published May 15, 2008

  Getting a tour of Los Angeles with J. Michael Walker, you won’t be following a map of the stars’... More >>

• Women's Art Takes to the Streets

  published March 27, 2008

  “Please watch out for trees, we don’t want any decapitations or pinecone incidents,” says Kathy Garcia,... More >>

• StoryCorps' Oral Historians

  published February 7, 2008

  "If I die tomorrow, or in one year, you won't know I grew up in Guatemala, or that my family disappeared," says Leo Archila,... More >>