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A Geek's Guide to Electric Cars

SLIDESHOW: A guide to some of the electric cars coming to market this year and next.

Compton's Mayor on the Politics and Culture of Richland Farms

Once a policeman in Compton and now the Mayor, Eric J. Perrodin has seen the city and its agricultural neighborhood through many changes.

The Great Wall with Hector and Bea

The Great Wall mural was part of a summer job program that helped keep troubled teens off the streets and help teach them responsibility. The mural…

What we lost

The American Institute of Architects California Council, in the current edition of ArcCA, tries to find a place for both loss and faith.

No More Love Letters from the Legislature: A California Court Tells the Legislature to Stop Writing Official Ballot Measure Language

A California court rules that the Legislature cannot write its own ballot measure language. Say goodbye to ballot language that sounds more like an advertisement than a summary.

Audience and performers inhabit a prison simulation | Photo by Anne Maike Mertnes

State of Incarceration: California Prisons Examined in Performance Art

California prisons have faced over-crowding for the past 20 years. The U.S. Supreme Court is now discussing the constitutionality of these conditions. In…

Pierpont Beach in Ventura County | Photo via State of CA

Step Back

No longer are coastal engineers convinced that the best protection against the Pacific's tidal energy is to bring in the heavy armor. Where once they built seawalls, erected jetties, and laid down riprap, certain that these technologies would repulse w...

Artist Brett Goldstone: River Gates

Artist Brett Goldstone talking about using the Los Angeles River for inspiration and as a canvas for art installations and experiences.

Communities enjoy the Los Angeles River in EARTH FOCUS episode "Transforming the Los Angeles River." Image courtesy of PBS SoCal.

Looking Back: L.A. River Stories

The Departures team collected stories from Elysian Valley residents about their experiences as a child with the Los Angeles River.

The Los Angeles State Historic Park

The Los Angeles State Historic Park was once an industrial brown field. After much debate among real estate developers, community activists, and artists, the land is now available for public use and awaits transformation into a state park.

Mia Lehrer: Urban Growth and the L.A. River

Mia Lehrer sees urban planning as a tool to improve environmental and social issues and the L.A. River is the perfect opportunity to exercise this vision.

Native Flora

Ecologist Ellen Mackey describes the various native species found in an alluvial sagebrush ecosystem, once common to flood plains like the Tujunga Wash and the Los Angeles River basin, but are now rare in California.

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