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.
Who wouldn’t want to own the Los Angeles Times? The Chandlers didn't, although three generations of Chandlers had run it.
I have always wondered how place matters in the shaping of a mind. Is our grand City Hall getting to the Mayor's head?
Today’s news is wildfires. Tornadoes, flood, and earthquake can’t be far behind
The experience, in retrospect, wasn’t much different from the experience of “new media.â€
Perennially facing one catastrophe or another, the Watts Towers might be the perfect metaphor of Los Angeles.
What we do not want is a mingling and hybridization of our geographies.
Sam Zell of the LA Times tells his friends, "Somebody stopped the music."
The annual Iowa Picnic in Long Beach in the 1920s drew an estimated 150,000. Dates and locations have changed. And, inevitably, the attendance is different, too
This place is the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, in front of the museum’s recent acquisition: Manuel de Arellano's 1691 "Virgin of Guadalupe".
Californians forget that the California Dream doesn’t come with a moral compass.
A venal, fragile, and fictitious state budget was adopted on Friday by a frightened state legislature.