For all its moral ambiguities, the military industrial complex has also provided a space for resistance and the assertion of rights and community for gay men and women across the U.S. but especially in California.
Less than 100 years ago, Hollywood and Highland was a rural paradise, and at its heart was the genteel Hollywood Hotel, where the idea for the Hollywood Walk of Fame was born.
Is it possible to achieve Supervisor Yaroslavsky's hope that "our county seal should be a unifying emblem that all Los Angeles residents can call their own"?
The plain photographs on view at the Grand Central Art Center aren't at all lurid or simple. In their quiet way, they move the awful into the everyday.
In the process of crafting his own California fairytale, Charles Lummis drove away those who loved him and lost touch with the reality of the ever changing city that surrounded him.