Hayley Fox

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How Women Are Smashing Misogyny in the Music Business

Hayley Fox
Over the last two years, the often abysmal treatment of women in the music industry — from disenfranchisement to harassment to sexual assault — has finally received the kind of attention it deserves. In October 2014, singer-songwriter Kesha filed a lawsuit against Sony and producer Dr. Luke (Lukasz Gottwald) for......
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Why Does a Coastal Conservancy Exec Own Piles of Offshore Oil Stock?

Hayley Fox
For the head of a state environmental agency whose mission is to "protect and improve natural lands and waterways," Sam Schuchat, executive officer of the California State Coastal Conservancy, has some environmentalists concerned. That's because for years he held big investments in oil and offshore-drilling corporations, with recent estimates of......
On the final night of "Downtown Rehearsal

Musicians Say Goodbye to L.A.'s Historic Band Practice Space (VIDEO)

Hayley Fox
As the sun set over the Arts District on Sunday and a spattering of illuminated skyscrapers lit up downtown L.A., an exodus of musicians was underway. With only 48 hours left on their leases, guys in jeans and ponytails, with dirtied shirts and calloused hands, began their final load-out from......
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How Tech Nerds May Fix L.A.’s Ports (and Save the World)

Hayley Fox
The neatly dressed crowd that gathered in the Port of Los Angeles board room to talk tech, renewable energy and the environment was a far cry from the burly, rugged males you’d expect working the docks in a Disney movie. These scientists and inventors were flexing brains. More than 100......