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The Long Beach Freeway has become the country's most important -- although clogged -- economic artery, in the vascular system of American capitalism.
At the end of January we had the great opportunity to help the students of the Los Angeles River School prepare for the Placemaking Design Competition.
Our number one focus is to help the El Monte community by building a dog park. Now it doesn't sound like much but it takes quite a bit of doing.
Being how multicultural Southern California is, we can probably consider Chinese New Year to be everyone's New Year as well.
However you know when a Los Angeles neighborhood has turned "cool," has Highland Park crossed into that territory with its mix of vinyl retail with typewriter repair, and gluten-free bacon donuts with fluorescent-lit old-fashioneds?
Often trees go unnoticed. But sometimes they stop you in your tracks.
African-Americans faced discrimination in the Civilian Conservation Corps, an agency that helped develop the infrastructure of the Angeles National Forest in the 1930s.
Black History should be one for the books, but as I learned a long time ago, it isn't.
The first months of 2014 brought news of Metro art and tours, murals not seen to the general public in decades, an exhibit that has some cholo graffiti scare the locals, and Big Horn sheep have a personal crusade to bring awareness in the Sierra Nevadas.
Los Angeles is in the midst of a reinvention of sorts: from sprawl to community development, from car dependence to transit orientation, from rising inequality to a growing commitment to equity and inclusion.
This week L.A. Letters celebrates the important public murals of Richard Wyatt with extra close attention paid to his eighty-foot long mural in the East Portal at Union Station.