Email Author Erin Aubry Kaplan

2003 Stories by Erin Aubry Kaplan

• Hahn Me Down

  published December 11, 2003

  When county Supervisor Kenneth Hahn died in 1997, after five years of retirement preceded by 40 years in office, it was hard to imagine Los... More >>

• Bay City Blues

  published December 11, 2003

  Photo by Ted Soqui It was my father who first told me Compton was not a good place to go after dark. That was about 20 years ago, but he was... More >>

• Heart Less

  published December 4, 2003

  When Tenet Healthcare Corp. bought Inglewood’s two major hospitals — Daniel Freeman Memorial and Centinela — in 2001, local health advoca... More >>

• Note Worthy

  published November 20, 2003

  Photo by Debra DiPaolo In the narrowing scheme of social events that still require thank-you notes, weddings remain the Olympic challenge. I... More >>

• Playing to Lose

  published October 30, 2003

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• High Stakes, Mixed Message

  published October 16, 2003

  Eighteen-year-old Princeton Alexander, outfitted in a hooded sweatshirt and loose jeans, cast his vote on Tuesday for only the second time in... More >>

• E. Raymond Brown, Ghetto Fabulist

  published October 9, 2003

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• Old School

  published September 25, 2003

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• Crown Jewel

  published September 18, 2003

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• The Point of Being Different

  published September 18, 2003

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• Behind the American History Curtain

  published September 4, 2003

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• Race to the Finish

  published August 21, 2003

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• Quiet Riot

  published August 14, 2003

  Two weeks ago I wrote that the media covering the recent criminal trial of Jeremy Morse artificially toned down any comparisons between... More >>

• Still Dressed Up With Someplace To Go

  published August 7, 2003

  Illustration by Shino AriharaOne recent Saturday night, my friend Bernice invited me to accompany her to a birthday party for Ma Bessie, a... More >>

• The People Rest? Not Likely

  published July 31, 2003

  The culminating day of the Jeremy Morse trial was, in the words of a relatively modern blues saying, déjà vu all over again. Throughout the t... More >>

• Crenshaw by Any Other Name

  published July 10, 2003

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• The Whole Half-Truth

  published June 12, 2003

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• The (Minor) Agony on the Ecstasy

  published May 29, 2003

  Prior to April, I had never taken a cruise. But I had always wanted to. I liked the sheer indolence of the word — rhymes with ooz... More >>

• The 10th District's Negro Problem

  published May 22, 2003

  Illustration by Shino Arihara I first met Martin Ludlow in 1986, when he moved to L.A. from Ohio and roomed with his childhood friend, whom I... More >>

• Death of a Bondsman

  published May 15, 2003

  Illustration by Shino Arihara Sometimes you can pick and choose funerals, almost like weddings, based on rapidly calculated fallout — firs... More >>

• Tough Act to Follow

  published May 1, 2003

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• Department of Homegirl Security

  published May 1, 2003

  Illustration by Shino Arihara When I was in my middle teens and beginning to feel some oats as a critical thinker, I divided the world into... More >>

• Domestic Violence

  published April 17, 2003

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• A War of Their Own

  published April 10, 2003

  The downtown rally last Friday looked every inch like a student anti-war protest that has grown more common in the last month — cheers... More >>

• Admission to the Feast

  published April 3, 2003

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