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We should severely limit the initiative process. If our representatives are not up to the task, we should toss them out, not try to do their jobs for them, and in the process make their jobs increasingly difficult.
Some ways of looking at a poet, businessman, and pedestrian
They sing in English and Spanish. Their violin, electric guitar, little jarana guitars, and wood box percussions blend into something more than Mexican, Mexican American, or American music.
The normally bureaucratic process of redrawing city council lines has been a knock-down, drag-out fight amongst the three black council members -- and black constituents stand to be the big losers.
Los Angeles offers a rich subject for artistic inquiry, evidenced this week by several permutations of the city in film, video, drawing, urban planning and provocative discussion.
My fridge is my diary. It records where I have been and hopefully where I will travel one day.
The popular assumption is that deserts are hot places, but they are defined by dryness, not temperature. For example, Antarctica is a desert.
After largely unsuccessful trips to the courthouse, a GOP-based group called Fairness and Accountability in Redistricting (FAIR) submitted enough signatures to get their state senate map killing measure on the November 2012 ballot.
Imagine it is late August, and 120 degrees, and you have to climb the hundred feet of ladder to cut each heavy bunch of dates with a knife fashioned out of steel and lower the bunch on a hook to a man waiting at the bottom. Now imagine that you have t...
Losing my cousin this week has been like losing a part of me -- and of L.A. history