Jason McGahan

LAPD Is Arresting Increasing Numbers of Homeless in Gentrifying Neighborhoods

Jason McGahanOctober 20, 2017

“The report lays out for all eyes to see that there is an integral relation between gentrification, development and criminalization of the poor and houseless people,” says Pete White, executive director of the L.A. Community Action Network....

He Went to Prison for Life at 17. More Than 20 Years Later, His Life Started Over

Jason McGahanOctober 18, 2017

"One of the things prison taught me," Tyree Dabney says, "was don't live your life in fear."...

Gravediggers at L.A.’s Biggest Cemetery Unionized on Friday the 13th

Jason McGahanOctober 14, 2017

There is more to a grave than digging a hole, the gravediggers say. The mechanics, welders and interment specialists at at Rose Hills Memorial Park & Mortuary voted 35 to 23 Friday to join the Cemetery Workers and Greens Attendants Union....

Welcome to L.A.'s Apocalypse. Will This Be the Worst Wildfire Season Yet?

Jason McGahanOctober 11, 2017

One terrifying fact about the Santa Ana effect in L.A.: Even though scientists can see the fire risk coming, they can't know when or where a fire will ignite....

After 135 Years, the L.A. Times Is Unionizing. What Took So Long?

Jason McGahanOctober 7, 2017

If the firing of the paper's editor in chief was meant to squash the union push, it might have had the opposite effect....

Boyle Heights Event by I Love Dick Author Canceled After Pressure From Activists

Jason McGahanOctober 5, 2017

"Defend Boyle Heights has promised to disrupt it," said Hedi El Kholti, co-editor of Semiotext(e). "In this climate of harassment and online trolling, there'd be no point trying to have a conversation between Bruce Hainley and Chris Kraus about biography, fiction and historiography,"...

Where Did Ex-L.A. School Board President Get the $26,000 He Allegedly Mishandled?

Jason McGahanSeptember 30, 2017

"Honestly," says community activist Robert D. Skeels, "there are a lot more questions than answers at this point."...

Why Did Protesters Block Traffic on the 101 This Week?

Jason McGahanSeptember 29, 2017

"I was the first guy in line and had to walk out into middle of the freeway," says protester Perry Hoberman. "The only other time I've been out of a car on the highway was with a flat tire. It's scary."...

Best Porn Theater

Jason McGahanSeptember 29, 2017

A red-tiled, flashing vestige of Hollywood's seedier, stickier past, the Tiki Theatre is the best porn theater in L.A. by default. Alas, it is the last of a dying breed to exist within the city limits. Wedged between the darkened windows of a holistic health botanica and a 99-cent discount......

Best New Bookstore

Jason McGahanSeptember 29, 2017

Other Books, Comics and Zines offers an exquisitely curated selection of new and used books with an anarcho-queer-feminist–third world–radical-indigenist edge. The sparely decorated, spacious store, sandwiched unassumingly between an El Pollo Loco and a Mexican craft-leather shop, offers bare cement floors, bare white walls, bare light bulbs and unobtrusive, comfortable......

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Jason McGahan

LAPD Is Arresting Increasing Numbers of Homeless in Gentrifying Neighborhoods

He Went to Prison for Life at 17. More Than 20 Years Later, His Life Started Over

Gravediggers at L.A.’s Biggest Cemetery Unionized on Friday the 13th

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After 135 Years, the L.A. Times Is Unionizing. What Took So Long?

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