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2005 Stories by Erin Aubry Kaplan

• Schooling the Schools

  published November 17, 2005

  Denise Ochoa says the fall semester started out unlike any other she had ever experienced at South Gate High School. A senior with... More >>

• Into the Jaws of the Demon

  published November 10, 2005

  Photo by Ted SoquiThe most arresting moment in Price Cobbs’ recently published My American Life: From Rage to Entitlement is no... More >>

• Hanging the Witness

  published November 10, 2005

  The westernmost end of world-famous Melrose Avenue is quiet and almost cloistered, its few blocks of terribly haute but homey boutiques and... More >>

• Destination: Freedom

  published November 3, 2005

  Rosa Parks couldn’t have died at a better moment. A nation atomized and nearly asphyxiated in the 21st century by political, economic... More >>

• Dressed To ’Ill

  published October 27, 2005

  With its announcement of new rules about what players may wear off court as representatives of the game, the NBA is having a Bill Cosby... More >>

• Schwarze in the Family

  published October 13, 2005

  It was a lovely party, and a rarefied occasion: Aunt Tillie’s 95th birthday. Tillie, my husband’s great-aunt, is petite, with a perfe... More >>

• Native in a Stranger’s Land

  published October 6, 2005

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• The Distant Present

  published October 6, 2005

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• Hard Lesson

  published September 29, 2005

  Just when it looked like there were no more ironies left to illuminate in the deaccreditation story of Crenshaw High School, here’s th... More >>

• Hello, Mr. Soule

  published September 15, 2005

  Stick around while the clown who is sick does the trick of disaster — Neil Young, “Mr. Soul” Afte... More >>

• Pimping the Ride

  published September 8, 2005

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• All of Me

  published September 8, 2005

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• Washed Away

  published September 8, 2005

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• Public Enemies

  published August 25, 2005

  It's become an awfully familiar sight: a group of somewhat nervous-looking bureaucrats and assorted suits facing a roomful of... More >>

• Wild Child

  published August 25, 2005

  In the darkened Casa 0101 Theater at the western edge of Boyle Heights, the tableau onstage looks homey, a fair approximation of the... More >>

• The Dirt We Stand On

  published August 11, 2005

  Photo by Kevin Scanlon Tim Watkins is president and CEO of the Watts Labor Community Action Committee. He grew up steeped in... More >>

• Compton City Limits

  published August 4, 2005

  Photo by Ted SoquiFour years ago, Compton was in a fight for its life. Omar Bradley, the self-styled gangsta mayor of the ’90s whos... More >>

• Cloud Over the Promised Land

  published July 21, 2005

  Dr. Johnetta Cole is not from Los Angeles. She never migrated here, doesn’t have a gig here, doesn’t visit once a week or commute from ... More >>

• Welcome to Inglewood — Leave Your Aspirations Behind

  published July 21, 2005

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• Bamboozled in South L.A.

  published July 14, 2005

  A long-awaited project going up on Vermont Avenue that should be cause for celebration in the community is increasingly cause for... More >>

• Act Two

  published June 30, 2005

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• The Tao of Gräu

  published June 30, 2005

  Ask longtime designer Claudia Gräu, one of the most successful doyennes of Melrose Avenue in its 1980s heyday, how she... More >>

• The New Math of High School Graduation

  published June 23, 2005

  The problems associated with big-city public schools run the gamut from A to Z, but A through G has quite a different connotation: It’... More >>

• Last Chance Is Your Best Chance

  published June 16, 2005

  Photos by Kevin ScanlonI discovered Last Chance Boutique in Culver City like so many of us discover so many things here in... More >>

• Carolina in my Mind

  published June 16, 2005

  Billy Graham Parkway. The name of the main road leading out of the Charlotte airport told me more than I wanted to know, though nothing I didn’... More >>