Jill Stewart

Democratic Debate Love Fest – So Far

The only thing that really stands out about the debate in Hollywood between Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama is that the softball questions and heavy focus on their strongest policy issues simply provided a long free ad for both candidates. And while it's pleasant to watch, it can't be good......

Julius Shulman

Julius Shulman, the great-grandfather of American architectural photography, has been at the top of his craft for so long that, when asked his earliest memory of photographing great architecture, he can’t decide: construction of the Los Angeles Union Passenger Terminal in the 1930s — or wait! — what about when......
(Photo by Kevin Scanlon)

Maria Suarez

On a recent night in an aging office tower in the Wilshire District, Maria Suarez stands before a group of Latino men, all felons under court order to receive sex-offender counseling from the nonprofit center About Face. Suarez is beautiful, with black sparkling eyes and high cheekbones, her shining black......

Planaria Price and Murray Burns

Each weekday, Planaria Price rises in the predawn dark of her Victorian mansion, flips on a circa 1887 chandelier, then dresses and drives to nearby Evans Adult Community School on Sunset Boulevard, where she opens her early-morning class to an endless river of adults trying to learn English. Her husband,......
(Photo by Kevin Scanlon)

Scott Kaufer

{mosimage} Hanging on a wall in his immense old office on the Paramount lot is a 1972 photo of a much younger Scott Kaufer interviewing Groucho Marx for The Harvard Crimson. The shot of the young reporter and the old actor grabs your attention — but so does a dry-erase......
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Freed Sex Slave Caught in Legal Bind

{mosimage}When Congress created laws mandating deportation of any noncitizen convicted of murder, it almost certainly did not have in mind the unique case of Maria Suarez, who made her way to Los Angeles from her Michoacán village when she was just 16, only to be enslaved two weeks later as......

Pot of Gold

PROPOSITION R WAS APPROVED by Los Angeles voters to soften term limits for the Los Angeles City Council, whose members placed the measure on the ballot last year after a hurried and controversial vote. But the money pot the council created for itself via Prop. R went virtually unreported by......