Mark Cromer

Photo by Ted Soqui It’s not even 9 o’clock, and I am already starting to gloat. A crisp L.A. morning has dawned, and I’m on Metrolink’s train No. 313, barreling out of El Monte and making a beeline for Cal State, just minutes away. From my seat on the train’s......

Leave us alone and we will destroy ourselves.-Bill Margold,testifying to the Meese Commission, 1985 On the TV screen, sweating, entangled bodies heave and thrust before a backdrop of blue tinsel. The cameras bob and weave with no particular point and the lighting shifts without warning as three or four women......

It’s a blustery day in December, and it feels good to enter the shadowy calm of Union Station, heralded by urban planners in 1939 as America’s "last great train station," and later revamped as the hub of mass transit in Los Angeles. But it’s a matter of minutes before we......