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I've often noticed that many environmentally inclined people dislike deserts. Sometimes it's as benign as a matter of personal preference for where to spend outdoor time. Sometimes it's an actual dismissal of the land's value. Allan Savory takes it eve...
Jesus Salas Personal Map
Maps have not always been simple representations of reality but a tool used to conceptualize and organize space. This is true for the Youth Voices producers who focused on their personal experiences, memories and relationships to create their community...
Los Angeles as drawn by William Rich Hutton in July 1847. Courtesy of the Title Insurance and Trust, and C.C. Pierce Photography Collection, USC Libraries.
The Los Angeles sketched by William Rich Hutton in July 1847 is virtually unrecognizable today.
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Black L.A. could certainly use change. Maybe we're not thinking big enough.
AEG is off the market, its leadership in disarray. What's to become of Farmer's Field? Only the NFL knows.
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Levi Fonz Ponce doesn't want to change the world. He just wants to change his street.
Photo by a L.A. Leadership Academy student producer
Youth Voices student were given disposable film cameras to photograph the river.
The mild climate of Pasadena offered respite from the harsh winters of the Midwest.
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With art, creativity and support, students are able to harness new opportunities and see a new future for themselves.
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The Goldhirsh Foundation has embarked on an initiative to build a blueprint for the future Los Angeles.
Mark Cleavenger's right sleeve after the incident. | Photo: Mark Cleavenger
We are a strange and sometimes beautiful species.
Photo: Douglas McCulloh
The Nova, primer-gray like raincloud, was an icon that everyone wanted to see, to honor the owner who would never finish restoring it. Officer Crain was sitting in the passenger seat of his patrol car 32 days ago when he was shot and killed by former ...
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