Email Author Tibby Rothman

Awards

• 2010 - Maggies: The Magazine Awards of Western Publishing

  "It's War: The Prop. 8 Ruling"

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2011 Stories by Tibby Rothman

• 5 Most Influential L.A. Architectural Shifts in 2011

  published Dec 27, 2011

  What were the five most influential shifts in Los Angeles' architectural realm this yearr It turns out they're not about pretty pictures. Or at least that's the feedback we got when we took a poll t... More >>

• War Over Marina Del Rey Remake

  published November 3, 2011

  Think you're fighting a monster development next door? Wondering what sort of math lets a developer of a big retail and housing development... More >>

• Come on and Take a Wallride

  published September 22, 2011

  The art for the International Skateboard Film Festival/Los Angeles deserves props all by itself. A sunglassed skater pushes a guy crammed into a... More >>

• Farmers Field Roadside Billboard Risks

  published September 29, 2011

  A Porsche changed Jerry Wachtel's life It was sitting on a racetrack, when, as a college student, Wachtel stuck his head inside. What... More >>

• Larry Bell Gets a Restaurant, Larry's, Where the Opening was a Pacific Standard Time Reunion

  published Sep 27, 2011

  Almost all you need to know about artist Larry Bell is written on a wall at Larry's, the recently-opened restaurant that bears his name, literally, in neon lights, in Venice. But, hey, we're getting ... More >>

• Jennifer Bonner's 'Watermarks' Exhibit Floods the WUHO Gallery in Ankle-Deep Water. No Stilettos, Please!

  published Sep 16, 2011

  Sometimes art leaks. Or so architect-turned-installation artist Jennifer Bonner might tell you. For "Watermarks," an ephemeral meditation on life in the time of global warming, Bonner "flooded" W... More >>

• A Field of Billboards for Farmers Field

  published September 8, 2011

  Click here for "Farmers Field or Blade... More >>

• Stephen Yagman VS. Chemerinsky

  published September 1, 2011

  Stephen Yagman — the blustering, hated, brilliant, beloved, disbarred lawyer who won fame by regularly defeating police... More >>

• Beach Bathroom Bingo: Roesling Nakamura Terada Architects Gives Santa Monica Surfers A Privileged Place to Pee

  published Aug 19, 2011

  Crowded in your bathroom in the morningr Can't get your girl outta the showerr Try sharing sink time with millions -- and you've got the setup at the City of Santa Monica public beach bathrooms. W... More >>

• Why Brown Gave Redevelopers a Haircut

  published August 4, 2011

  Steve Barr, the ballsy, visionary, sometimes impossible founder of Green Dot Public Schools, still recalls the reaction he got... More >>

• California Redevelopment Agencies' Demise

  published June 30, 2011

  Until this week, Los Angeles' leaders had been on a mission that, due to attendant PR problems, unfolded behind closed doors:... More >>

• The Ridiculous $6,000 Toilet and 4 Much Cooler Home Objects from Dwell on Design

  published Jun 27, 2011

  Looking for a $6000 toiletr Don't worry, peeps, Kohler has you covered. And if you cased the Dwell on Design show at the Los Angeles Convention Center over the weekend, you would have seen one -- wel... More >>

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  Why Cars Suck: Daredevil Bike Riders' Death-Defying Commutes in To Live & Ride in L.A.

  published Jun 24, 2011

  Sean Martin can tell you about the moment he thought he would die. Sure, the fixed-gear cyclist who moved to L.A. in 2008 and cycles to work daily had had close calls before but one sunny day, a co... More >>

• Steve and Alex Olson, Skateboarding Father-Son Team, Hit the Paint in Venice (Video)

  published Jun 22, 2011

  If skaters in Venice, California, now have a skatepark to themselves, it's still illegal to hit the decks in Venice, Italy. But on June 6, the iconic skateboarder Steve Olson, a pro-skater since he w... More >>

• Venice vs. Santa Monica: Is the Architecture Differentr

  published May 23, 2011

  Those homeboys over at the American Institute of Architects, Los Angeles (AIA|LA) are so bad, drumming up biz for their May 15 architectural home tour called "Ve r SaMo (Venice is not Santa Monica)"... More >>

• Walk Like a Venetian

  published May 19, 2011

  Three years ago a certain city councilman traded Ed Ruscha's outdoor Venice workspace for a handful of parking spots. Let's be grateful that the... More >>

• Patrick Tighe: The Future Abodes Well

  published May 19, 2011

  On a February night in L.A., SCI-Arc, the city's uberhip architecture school, is a mob scene of an opening. Architect Patrick... More >>

• Heidi Lemmon: Chairman of the Board

  published May 19, 2011

  Heidi Lemmon was warned not to go to Nepal. It was 2005 and the country's political instability had prompted the U.S.... More >>

• Bill Gallegos: Cooling Dante's Inferno

  published May 19, 2011

  At night, the now-banned flares that once erupted from oil company smokestacks turned the industrial scape around Wilmington... More >>

• Jamie Court: Browser Beater

  published May 19, 2011

  Jamie Court is eating lunch and talking about Google. Or rather, he's speaking voluminously in a rat-a-tat of sentences about... More >>

• Good Riddance, Ray Irani

  published May 12, 2011

  Even a Beverly Hills billionaire who banks sticky black oil money faster than the goo shoots up from derricks must take a pay... More >>

• Digitally Ad-Wrapped Skyscrapers Coming to L.A.?

  published March 24, 2011

  The Los Angeles City Council is widely expected to approve a controversial precedent on March 29 when it backs a plan by a Korean... More >>

• L.A. Council District 6 Race

  published February 24, 2011

  Rich Goodman is the face of the lost generation, college graduates who will see a significant reduction in income compared... More >>