Celeste Fremon

Photos by Anne Fishbein It is a question of strength, of unshed tears, of being trampled under, and always, always, remembering you are human. —Jimmy Santiago Baca, “Oppression” In the first days after Luis bails himself out, no one wants to think about what will happen if criminal charges are......

Photos by Anne Fishbein After six months behind bars, Luis Aguilar is desperate to bail himself out. “Frances and the kids need me,” he says. He needs them too, of course. The combined touchstones of wife, kids and job have a distinctly beneficial effect on his psyche. Without them, his......

Photos by Anne Fishbein Death is voracious, it swallows all the living. Life is voracious, it swallows all the dead. —Jane Hirshfield, “Poem With Two Endings” This is part of a yearlong series focusing on the Aguilar family — Luis, Frances and their children — of East Los Angeles. In......

Photos by Anne Fishbein Jack, how much pain is there in the world? I think there’s only one kind, and we all keep moving around it in circles. —Sherman Alexie, Little Big Man What mending there is occurs in small acts. —Louise Erdrich, “Francine’s Room” After the birth of her......

Photos by Anne Fishbein This is the story of the new world, revealed . . . It can be broken into the smallest chips of bone and tears. It can be put back together with sunrise and flint. —Joy Harjo, “The Everlasting” State of the Family: This yearlong series focuses......

Meet the Aguilars. Inside their home on César Chávez Avenue, and outside on the streets, their lives unfold in surprising, yet all too common ways for hundreds of thousands of people in Los Angeles. A yearlong series will record their struggles, challenges and triumphs. (Photographs by Anne Fishbein) I am......

Photo by Slobodan Dimitrov L.A. Police Chief William Bratton has a fast mouth and an ego the size of Wyoming. He has also racked up some genuine accomplishments since taking the helm of one of the most troubled police departments in America on October 28, 2002. Now he’s overdue for......

The waves of flame raging from Ventura to San Diego counties have been fed primarily by a bad-luck combination of high winds and an abundance of natural fuels. Yet, according to various state and local officials, the magnitude of California’s deadliest wildfire season in half a century may have been......

Shortly before 2 p.m. Wednesday — just as this issue of the Weekly describing the joys of the Santa Monica Farmers Market was going to print — the market became the scene of carnage.  The catastrophe — which eerily resembled the site of an airline disaster — was caused by......

Last week the L.A. City Attorney’s Office filed a new gang injunction targeting 31 members of the Rolling 60s Crips, a South Los Angeles gang that has allegedly been responsible for more than 30 murders between 2001 and 2002. The injunction is the city’s 17th to date — and it’s......