Christine Pelisek

Two neighborhood groups have sued the California Science Center over its plans to build a parking structure on land that museum officials had previously set aside for a park. The 2,100-space, $23 million structure would be located adjacent to the main entrance of the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in Exposition......

Eight years ago, UCLA geography major Derrick Hindery had no particularly high expectations when he enrolled in a dull-sounding course called “Global Environment and Development.” But he ended up meeting an inspiring professor who could stir up students with his talks on world problems. “I basically decided I wanted to......

It’s Tuesday night at the darkly intimate Backstage Cafe in Beverly Hills, and promoter Punkin Pie is in a panic. What if too few musicians drop by for her all-night jam fest? ”Could you please not smoke in here?“ she snaps at a lanky blond UCLA student. The embarrassed lad......

Photo by Aldo Mauro Twenty-six-year-old Sujon Guha’s death in 1993 nearly cost UCLA’s esteemed Neuropsychiatric Institute Hospital its accreditation. Now, details of what might have gone wrong during his four-day stay at the teaching hospital are emerging for the first time in Los Angeles County Superior Court. The coroner’s report......

Photo by Robert HaleTHIS WEEKEND, MORE THAN 200,000 revelers are expected to throng Sunset Boulevard near the terminus of Santa Monica Boulevard for the 19th annual edition of a community street festival. But increasingly in recent years, local residents and merchants have come to regard the street fair as more......

Illustration by TL Ary It is three o’clock on a Sunday afternoon and 105° and the air so thick with smog that the dusty palm trees loom up with a sudden and rather attractive mystery. I have been playing in the sprinklers with the baby and I get in the......

Photo by Debra DiPaolo At the Wattles Mansion, L.A. Cultural Monument No. 579, located at the western terminus of Franklin Street in Hollywood, cracks in the foundation below the pillars riddle the entryway, while the inside ceilings and walls show obvious signs of water damage. Out back, a sandbag berm......