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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)
Perhaps those illuminated Caltrans signs along the freeway should be reprogrammed to read, "Get out now! While you still can!"
John D' Agata asks, "Do we read nonfiction in order to receive information or do we read it to experience art?" I do not have an answer.
Perhaps I should reintroduce myself to you ... re-declare my bona fides ... even if you've been reading these pieces from time to time.
Do the "housing products" being aimed today at Millennials make a home for their daydreaming? I don't know.
Barrier
It isn't much of stretch to find that people who are willing to use good public transit use it, and that people who are anxious about transit won't. But it's significant that an anti-transit bias persists even if the available public transit is frequen...
It was an L.A. November, and the air was for an hour still bright.
The future got older faster and faster. The early seasons of Star Trek and Dr. Who are "paleofutures" that today seem antique.
Frequent returns to the smaller museums of Long Beach and north Orange County are a prerequisite for the "accidental" pleasures found at the Grand Central Art Center and the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art in downtown Santa Ana and the Mucken...
Unless the FBI investigation details the routes by which tainted political money flows through southeast Los Angeles County, making Ron Calderon the star of Filmscam won't mean very much at all.
I spent Sunday afternoon in conversation about the making of places in Southern California. We met with a distinguished panel of experts, academics, and commentators at the Rancho Center on Bixby Hill in Long Beach.
Dr. Jane Pisano, who has led the the Natural History Museum of Los Angeles County for the past dozen years, asked me to say a few words at the start of the museum's anniversary day events on Wednesday.
Declining eyesight (but slowly, thankfully) and a distracted habit of mind have made the sounds of my pedestrian life more present than they might be for someone else.
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