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.
A budget that kicks the state’s problems down the road – and into a pothole.
Going to the moon was our nation’s fiery and heartbreaking gesture.
The news from Orange County isn’t good.
The West as a cliché skittered across the parkway strip along South Street and moved on.
It would be hard to quantify, but the USC brand depends on the seductive qualities – real and imagined – of this place.
The past four years seem – even to Mayor Villaraigosa – to have been about something other than Los Angeles.
We’re in front of a mural. On it, in flattened, Post-Impressionist perspective, are the pleasures of ordinary people.
The question is: What do we call ourselves?
The RAND Corporation recently produced a study dealing with two concepts of interest to drivers... and moral theologians.
Freeways aren’t commodities in need of a market or “junk food†in need of restriction for our own good.
Malburg’s departure had more in common with the passing of the Doge of Venice or a Russian tsar than the regular processes of civic life.
The gray skies, in their ever-returning cycle, have been faithful in their own baleful way.