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2001 Stories by Erin Aubry Kaplan

• Man and Superwoman

  published December 27, 2001

  One of the great peeves of my adult life has been an underdeveloped understanding of the phrase giving back. Black people place a particular,... More >>

• The Feminine Mistake

  published December 13, 2001

  Several years ago a woman I met at a writers’ soiree tried to calf-rope me into saying I was a feminist. She argued that as long as I didn... More >>

• White Man With Attitude

  published November 29, 2001

  On the morning of September 11, I leave a message on the answering machine of Randy Newman‘s manager. “Is that second interview we schedul... More >>

• Staged Comebacks

  published November 22, 2001

  Photo by Anne Fishbein Director L. Kenneth Richardson is holding court. It matters little that his throne of the moment is the concrete stoop... More >>

• Where Gumshoes Fear to Tread

  published November 22, 2001

  One of the few bits of good news for black people to emerge out of the deeply regressive 1990s was Walter Mosley. Amid all the public discourse... More >>

• Perrodin Unbound

  published October 11, 2001

  Photo by Ted Soqui The last time the media took the political temperature of Compton was way back in June, after machine-boss Mayor Omar... More >>

• Working on the Fringe: A Local Runt Wows the Scots

  published October 4, 2001

  Actor Michael Phillip Edwards figured the greatest thing he would do this summer would be getting himself to Scotland to perform his one-man... More >>

• Waiving the Flag

  published October 4, 2001

  Photo by Ted Soqui Words have felt useless to me for the last couple of weeks, which is not a good place for a writer to be. Besides the fact... More >>

• Fire & Ice

  published September 6, 2001

  Like a lot of women of my age, fashion sense, marital status and middling economic strata, I have conflicted feelings about Lancome.... More >>

• A Famed Reformer Resigns

  published August 9, 2001

  Arturo Ybarra said the appearance of George McKenna III in Watts was like manna from the headquarters of Los Angeles Unified School District, a... More >>

• No More Omar

  published June 21, 2001

  Photo by Ted Soqui In anything-goes Compton politics, the fantastic has happened again: Mayor Omar Bradley has been defeated. Not only that,... More >>

• Whose Children Do We Cherish?

  published May 24, 2001

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• Elective Memory

  published May 3, 2001

  The biggest surprise of last week‘s primary election in Compton was not the fact that its uncharacteristically low-lying mayor, Omar Bradley... More >>

• Where’s Omar?

  published April 19, 2001

  A gathering Tuesday in the Compton City Council chambers of reform-minded citizens was nothing new -- in fact, it‘s been routine i... More >>

• Sleeves Like Wings

  published April 19, 2001

  The lately refunkified eastern stretch of Sunset Boulevard owes a big style debt to a small shop called Josh and He Yang Studio. Actually, the... More >>

• The King of Compton

  published April 12, 2001

  Photos by Ted SoquiI DON'T COME HERE. AS I DRIVE THROUGH COMPTON on my way to meet Mayor Omar Bradley, past faded but neat rambling houses and... More >>

• Soul Battle

  published April 5, 2001

  Back in 1996, the 9th City Council District made the papers when a tree was cut down for no particular reason. It had thrived for decades at... More >>

• Femme Mystique

  published March 29, 2001

  Dense and diverse as it is, Los Angeles is still considered by some theater intelligentsia as a bit of a rube, a city that may contain the... More >>

• A Man of Big Affairs

  published February 15, 2001

  I was formally introduced to Marcus Garvey through a small but ambitious black newsmagazine I used to write for called Accent L.A. Garvey was a... More >>