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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)
Catching up
Catching up on . . . hipster bars, Vernon's battles, and mixed messages from Time.
Many
The number of numbers
Once, a single number summed up the future. But not any more.
Questions for Deputy Mayor Beutner
Councilman Bill Rosendahl has some questions about AEG's downtown stadium proposal. Lots of questions.
Juggernaut
The 88 considered as a game of Go
Throughout the 20th century, the small and medium-size cities of Los Angeles County chose - for better or worse - to manage the future as best they could by avoiding the juggernaut of Los Angeles.
The man who would be . . .
Cardinal Mahony was the perpetual "man who would be. . ." in American Catholicism.
On the fall of the mighty
From the start, Vernon existed to shield unappealing businesses from meddling. Its existence now depends on Sacramento politics.
Stadium
The view from the stands
"Will everyone just take a deep breath and have a little faith that we're not going to lie to people?"
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Our towers
The towers loom over a dead-end street on the Watts flatland. But what do they stand for?
Stories so far
Every story - even the ones that end "They all lived happily ever after!" - dangle an implied demand for more.
Nuestro pueblo
This week, the city began a one-year "trial partnership" with the County Art Museum to manage the future of the Watts Towers, which need $5 million for further conservation efforts.
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The well brought up silt
What happened a million years ago in the middle Pleistocene is still here, if you go down deep enough.
Fantasy football
Sacramento politics is now more important to a downtown stadium than the giddy enthusiasm of Los Angeles city council members.
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