Deborah Vankin

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ANOTHER CITY: WRITING FROM LOS ANGELES | Edited by DAVID L. ULIN | City Lights | 273 pages | $17 paperback Thirty-seven different local writers, including Aimee Bender, Gerald Locklin, Jervey Tervalon and the Weekly’s Judith Lewis, contribute stories from their own private corners of Los Angeles: from what drew......

A Bad Day for Democracy

The heavy double doors to Los Feliz‘s Parish Hall -- a polling place in Tuesday’s City Council election -- were wide open, but hardly anyone was inside. Election volunteers Antonia Uzan and Cathy Giangreco sat alone in the auditorium, hunkered over a 4-inch black-and-white TV with scratchy reception, awaiting voters......

Is Anybody Listening?

The first time Lisa Ferguson broadcast live on Kill Radio, she froze. ”Are we on the air?“ she asked Greg Bishop, who had just wrapped his own show, Radio Mysterioso. ”Yes.“ ”Can I say anything I want?“ she pressed. ”Yes,“ he replied. ”You can say ’kill the president‘ if you......