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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)
Metropolitan diary
It takes good luck and the kindness of strangers to ride the bus in Los Angeles.
Money, Money, Money
The L.A. rich got a whole lot richer in 2010, according to the Los Angeles Business Journal.
He'll take Manhattan
If only L.A. were New York, all our inconvenient problems would be solved.
Gridded
Steel boundaries
Torrance is building a fence along Western Avenue that divides more than the highway. History is to blame.
Retrospective in brown
You should go and see what Dr. Gumbiner put in his 20,000-square-foot former roller skating rink in Long Beach.
Ungovernable
Another fine mess
We put our trust in an amiable, photogenic man with a wide, white smile and impossible promises.
Not good enough
L.A. transit received high marks in two categories of a recent report, based on averages and abstractions.
The white cranes of West Hollywood
Even etched in stone, memories are fleeting.
Signs and wonders
Places get to be real places by many means. Naming things is one way.
Laps of luxury
Los Angeles isn't alone in subsidizing development, but it's a whole lot more generous with your money.
Ten years later. A day later.
Letting the dead bury the dead
Faking history for profit
The city and Olvera Street merchants are mutually dependent on a paternalistic business model hardly changed in 80 years.
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