For the last year, the City of L.A. has been developing an aggressive master plan for our notorious 51-mile Grand Sewer. Imagine turning L.A.'s ultimate symbol of Everything Gone Wrong into a long greenway.
Native Intelligence archive
for September 2006
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The Chateau Marmont on the Sunset Strip ranks high on my children’s list of cool L.A. literary sites. It’s not...
First day of classes yesterday at UCLA and the place was packed. I've been doing some research on campus, learning...
"Getty Underground" is an in-house art show of work by museum employees — from curators to receptionists. They do it every two years, but only staffers and selected visitors ever get to see it.
(Written in American Airlines security waiting line at LAX) Here I sit, watching X-rays of your suitcase for six twenty-five...
So I went to the Lion's Club flea market in Malibu yesterday and the tiara I've been rendezvousing with for...
Okay, okay. I haven’t contributed anything to these electronic pages for weeks. Truth be told I’ve been editing my latest...
Sometimes you have to face your fears. That’s why I took my bad old self down to Vroman’s in Pasadena...
This is a great time to be living in California. With less than two months before the election, we’re about...
Reading the strange Internet saga of Lonelygirl15, I was immediately struck by how closely the real-life story resembled a major plot thread in William Gibson’s latest novel "Pattern Recognition."
Tonight, trying to decide whether to watch the start of the ABC docudrama or the end of the Manning Brothers...
Ever since I lived in New Mexico, I have admired tarantulas. They have shape and heft and maybe it's all...
For once I can recommend a fact-based melodrama that doesn’t have to dip into cornball fiction. The film is called...
As someone who writes often about nature in Los Angeles, I have a few favorite spots where I like to...
My daughter ran into the house the other night screaming that there was a tarantula on an outside window near...
In 1938, my then fifteen year old mother and her mother fled Vienna a step ahead of the Nazis, and...
As editor of a short story anthology called “Los Angeles Noir” that’s due out in April 2007, I’ve been forced...
KCET control room
A peek inside the TV station's Burbank studios.
Whitt's Wood Yard
Elon Musk wants to drill here at Pico and Sepulveda.
BCAM
The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA.
David Hockney at LACMA
The artist arrives to open his latest exhibit.
Mountain lion family
From Robert Martinez's trail cam in the San Gabriels.
Macy's winds down
The store in Westside Pavilion has closed down.
Streetscape: Westwood
Westwood Boulevard looking north and a little bit skyward.
Streetscape: East LA
Iglesia La Luz del Mundo, East 1st Street.
Sign from LA's past
Sign from an old Love's BBQ restaurant at the Valley Relics Museum in Chatsworth.
Visiting her old ballet costumes
Melissa Barak at LACMA Chagall exhibit with the artist's memorable designs.
Wilshire Grand Center lobby
Visitors check out the wall-mounted sculpture by artist Do Ho Suh.
Barnsdall Park
Under the trees.
Streetscape: Lincoln Heights
Productos Mexicanos at El Milagro Market on Avenue 18.
Streetscape: DTLA
Spring Street bike lane.
Streetscape: West LA
405 North at Santa Monica Boulevard.
Hills turning brown
The hills above Gorman.
Arcana Books
In the Helms Bakery complex in Culver City.
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