Skip to main content

History & Society

Support Provided By
hope-in-ventura-county
I looked down at my son and I lied. "Sometimes things are meant to die and there's nothing you can do."
The highways of L.A. remember heroes, bureaucrats, and termed out pols. Overlapping and conflicting memorials glimpsed at 65 miles an hour are an imperfect memory, but the system can't be fixed.
donaldbyrdwilliamclaxton.jpg
Music and poetry have been the ultimate mediums for expressing the wide range of human emotions since the dawn of man.
The persistence of things is part burden, part murmured dialog. Time slipping is our common condition, and we're never wholly new.
fasttimes.jpg
Two films from the 1980s defined character and social archetypes that persist to this day.
Photos of fired Los Angeles Police Department officer Christopher Dorner are seen at a press conference regarding the manhunt for Dorner. Photo: Robyn Beck/AFP/Getty Images)
What Christoper Dorner's rampage says about love and idealism.
The group of protestors who attended the ceremony at the Eastern California Museum in Independence were primarily from a local Paiute tribe, said Klusmire. | Photo: Jon Klusmire/Eastern California Museum/County of Inyo
It was officially a centennial ceremony, but to call it a celebration would have been taking it too far.
photo copy 2.jpg
L.A. installation artist Ramiro Gomez Jr. timed his latest cardboard creations with the Senate hearings on immigration policy on Capitol Hill.
cactus-heart-2-14-13-thumb-600x400-45353
I have walked the desert with other people and without other people, but I have never walked the desert by myself.
Marshall and Dorella Anderson in front of the oldest building at Irving School, Riverside. | Photo: Douglas McCulloh
There is a wedding day and then there is the rest of your married life. Richer or poorer.
Parks
South Robertson A Collection of Neighborhoods Sandwiched between Beverly Hills and Culver City, South Robertson is in many ways a gateway.Learn More
South Robertson Guru Ram Das Ashram In the late 1960s, Yogi Bhajan emigrated to Los Angeles and began promoting the lifestyle of Kundalini Yoga.Learn More
Active loading indicator