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Denise Ochoa says the fall semester started out unlike any other she had ever experienced at South Gate High School. A senior with... More >>
Photo by Ted SoquiThe most arresting moment in Price Cobbs’ recently published My American Life: From Rage to Entitlement is no... More >>
The westernmost end of world-famous Melrose Avenue is quiet and almost cloistered, its few blocks of terribly haute but homey boutiques and... More >>
Rosa Parks couldn’t have died at a better moment. A nation atomized and nearly asphyxiated in the 21st century by political, economic... More >>
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 >>
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 >>
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 >>
Stick around while the clown who is sick does the trick of disaster — Neil Young, “Mr. Soul” Afte... More >>
It's become an awfully familiar sight: a group of somewhat nervous-looking bureaucrats and assorted suits facing a roomful of... More >>
In the darkened Casa 0101 Theater at the western edge of Boyle Heights, the tableau onstage looks homey, a fair approximation of the... More >>
Photo by Kevin Scanlon Tim Watkins is president and CEO of the Watts Labor Community Action Committee. He grew up steeped in... More >>
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 >>
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 >>
A long-awaited project going up on Vermont Avenue that should be cause for celebration in the community is increasingly cause for... More >>
Ask longtime designer Claudia Gräu, one of the most successful doyennes of Melrose Avenue in its 1980s heyday, how she... More >>
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 >>
Photos by Kevin ScanlonI discovered Last Chance Boutique in Culver City like so many of us discover so many things here in... More >>
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 >>
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