D.J. Waldie
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.
In a seeming paradox, the Los Angeles region has been near the top in urbanization for a long time.
Jan Perry's embarrassing "auto da fe" illustrates why the city council needs radical change.
Some in the national media see Mayor Villaraigosa's political "resurrection." In Los Angeles, the signs are less clear.
Nature in Los Angeles is woven into a long history of instability and human intervention. But it's all that we have.
Some ways of looking at a poet, businessman, and pedestrian