Ed Fuentes
Ed Fuentes is a cultural journalist who has been covering the Inland Empire, the High Desert, and downtown Los Angeles for KCET since 2010. He lived in downtown Los Angeles for 13 years before moving to Las Vegas, where he covers regional art, including murals and street art, at painthisdesert.com. He tweets at @viewfromaloft.
The popular and crowded Downtown L.A. Art Walk winds down an eventful year on a slightly high note.
High-speed rail costs are expected to be soar over initial projections and be late coming into the station.
His short film, while covering what many Angelenos know about its own murals, deftly introduces the art issue to a larger audience.
The first round of motions that will revive murals in Los Angeles, allowing ordinances to be drafted, were passed by the city council on Wednesday.
"The river corridor is home to more than one million people, 390,000 housing units, 480,000 workers, 35,000 businesses, and 80 schools."
A decade-old ban of murals, which when on private property are considered commercial signs under broad city codes, is likely headed for change.
Muralists and art administrators are being invited to speak their mind, and stake their claim, in the ongoing overhaul of ordinances that block production of murals at a meeting on Wednesday.
When the nonprofit Falling Whistles began installing a wheat paste on an Arts District wall last week, the political piece calling for the end of violence in the Congo also became a demonstration project on street art culture's unwritten rules.
The original trail of California's premium wine industry is kept alive from a descendant of the Italian-Americans who passed through Los Angeles and followed the vineyards inland at the turn of the century.
When the skies over Downtown Los Angeles on Monday were a clear blue canvas, conditions were perfect for an artist who was planning to send a message to a higher level.
The hushed history of Los Angeles and the waterways that runs through it share a common experience. They were diverted and drained to a quiet trickle of a previous truth.
When drinking wine, give a toast to Los Angeles' roots as California's early winemaking region.