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D.J. Waldie

D. J. Waldie (2017)

D. J. Waldie is the author of "Holy Land: A Suburban Memoir" and "Where We Are Now: Notes from Los Angeles," among other books about the social history of Southern California. He is a contributing editor for the Los Angeles Times.

D. J. Waldie (2017)
Loaning Home: Unmaking an Industry that Made LA
Bill Deverell handed me a book the other day, with the recommendation that the author had put together a good story. The book is Building Home: Howard F.…
Skid Row's Tuberculosis Outbreak: 'Immiseration' Grows More Deadly
Skid Row is a "Petri dish" for cultivating human misery. That now includes a strain of tuberculosis that the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention had tagged as unique to downtown. What began as a "health crisis" has become a "moral crisis."
What Do We See When We Look at L.A.? The Swells on Wilshire Boulevard in 1936
It's summer. Ladies are lunching and window-shopping. Limousines are lined up on Wilshire Boulevard. Chauffeurs are idling in front of Perino's.
The '$2 Tour' of Lakewood: How History Shaped the City, How the City Shaped the People
A professor of Architectural History takes my hometown tour, where the everyday nearly always fails to be ironic and the quotidian does not always disappoint.
Voyager 1 Out On A Spree? NASA and JPL Aren't Sure.
For a few hours this week, we (meaning our avatar Voyager 1) might had slipped the surly bonds of the solar system. It turns out we didn't.
The Paradise Paradox: Where Have All The Wildflowers Gone?
The Sahara mustard -- a fast-growing invasive weed -- has begun to crowd out desert wildflowers. Ecologies and economies are at risk.
AEG Sale Off. Tim Leiweke Out. Mayor and City Council Dazed.
AEG is off the market, its leadership in disarray. What's to become of Farmer's Field? Only the NFL knows.
Protect and Serve
The Onion Field At 50: 'This is About the Tragedy of Police Work'
How long, like a dull echo, does a killing reverberate? For a death in an onion field in Kern County, it's been fifty years.
Winners and Losers in Tuesday's Elections
Out on the "great flat" of the Los Angeles Basin, winners and losers in dozens of city elections were tentatively adding up what their voters intended.
Into the Blue: Vermeer at the Getty
The Woman in Blue Reading a Letter isn't about letters or women. It's about the domestication of gazing and the color blue.
Boy and Nature Along Wilshire Boulevard
A question about a boulevard leads to a memory of a boy encountering some of the meanings of nature in Los Angeles.
The Natural History Museum at 100: 35 Million Stories
Bugs, bones, birds, and millions upon million more things fill the museum's collections, second only to the Smithsonian's. But there's nothing dusty about this 100-year-old archive of what was and what is Los Angeles.
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