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Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner wants to streamline L.A.'s planning process through "simultaneous processing," developers still complain that getting something built in L.A. can take twice as long as in other cities, and will even if Beutner gets his way.
Are the new development guidelines more of the same, with little real impact, or are they something else?
Joel Tauber's three-channel sculptural video installation opens at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects this week.
Maybe I am a bit of a hippie, a bit of a foodie and a bit of a yuppie. But in a lot of ways, I'm still just that kid hungry to taste what this city has to offer.
Trish Ploehn loses her job as head of L.A. County's Department of Children and Family Services (DCFS) because of the agency's troubles--but settles into another county job at over a quarter million a year salary.
Not all angry shouts are inevitably strangled for reasons of decorum. Some are painted over.
Downtown giant AEG plans to either get a downtown football stadium moving, or give up, within months. But experts doubt whether that plan will guarantee anything good for downtown's economic health as a whole.
I tend to be a skeptical optimist, particularly in a city with a long history of connivance with developers when there's money to be made (and spread around).
Gerry Fialka is LA's tireless advocate for alternative media, especially as it's rendered using the PXL 2000 toy video camera, celebrated in the 20th iteration of the PXL This festival.
There's a lot of video screening around town this week, from the low-tech, low-res Pixelvision delights at the PXL This fest to the latest digital experiments that comprise the quarterly Flux screening at the Hammer Museum.
Yesterday, 1,440 persons were buried in the "potter's field" at the Los Angeles County Crematorium Cemetery.