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.
Long Beach isn’t Detroit. And every city is suffering now in its own way.
I just got my TAP card to ride Metro.
Sam Maloof lived and worked hardly a dozen miles from where he was born.
The election of Mayor Villaraigosa in 2005 should have been more heroic.
Every Memorial Day, we go out to the park and honor our dead.
Not California’s defeated electorate. Not the state’s defeated governor. Nor the legislature, perennially defeated by its collective incompetence, its made-to-fail political culture.
Cities are about to be run over by a state government bankrupt of ideas.
Are Los Angeles' neighborhood councils the walking civic dead?
The housing crisis had thousands of starting places on hundreds of streets of dreams.
This is another in an occasional series about places in L.A. This place is a roadside shrine.
The local never delivers much, except enough of what you need to live.
The girl always screaming. Someone always DOA.