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A tribute to poet/writer Wanda Coleman, who died last week, via a recent tale of urban distress that was her metier. But distress was not the heart of Coleman's work. Possibility was.
It isn't much of stretch to find that people who are willing to use good public transit use it, and that people who are anxious about transit won't. But it's significant that an anti-transit bias persists even if the available public transit is frequen...
A piece elsewhere on the geology of the Santa Monica Mountains inadvertently offers the latest example of a favorite geographical myth: that mountain ranges mostly don't point east-west.
Yesterday was the 50th anniversary of the March on Washington -- and despite some memorable words from notable figures in the capitol, it was a day in L.A. like any other.
Such memories might seem small and inconsequential, but anyone who has traveled knows they are not inconsequential at all.
I'm not - to myself - an authentic Angeleño. But my status as a tourist in the country of wheels does allow me to be dispassionate about those who are drivers.
The state's public health agency has proposed a maximum safe level of the drinking water contaminant made famous by the movie Erin Brockovich, and if they're enacted, some drinking water providers in the desert are going to have to work to clean up the...
A half century after the March on Washington and King's galvanizing speech about American possibility, we have not realized nearly enough of it. Lost in the mists of time, but still very alive, is the crisis of black employment.
When I closed my eyes to the animal-shaped clouds I could hear wing beats and the zipper-quick whine of a passing bee. Little things, but perhaps not so little.
There are dangerous places in the California desert. You don't want to get within striking range of a Mojave green. When there's a thunderstorm you don't want to be in a slot canyon. And you definitely don't want to get in between Assemblyman Tim Donne...