Native Intelligence: September 2014 archive

Gentrification of Grand Central Market

Iris Schneider | September 29, 2014 10:33 AM

As the market's owner shifts to attract more upscale downtowners, lower-end vendors and their customers lose out.

Why I love LA and the Bay Area

Jon Christensen and Mark Gold | September 28, 2014 5:40 PM

In an interview with the Northern California magazine Bay Nature, Jon Christensen has the pleasure of talking about why he loves the Bay Area and LA.

Imagine there's no 99-seat plan (apologies to John Lennon)

Don Shirley | September 25, 2014 12:53 AM

The minimum wage discussion has spread into the realm of Los Angeles theater, where many actors and actors are paid far less than even the current minimum. Questions are being raised about the future of the 99-Seat Theater Plan, formerly known as Equity Waiver.

Honoring James Hahn

Gary Leonard | September 25, 2014 12:22 AM

Take My Picture Gary Leonard is a weekly feature of LA Observed.

A blow dry, a brew and a bosom

Ellen Alperstein | September 24, 2014 11:29 AM

The Sit Still salon appeals to a certain consumer market.

Admiring the unproduced written word

Iris Schneider | September 22, 2014 1:02 AM

More than 300 fans of the written word, Hollywood-style, packed the Ricardo Montalban Theater on Vine Street Saturday night for the latest performance presented by The Blacklist.

A telling "Traviata" opens LA Opera season

Donna Perlmutter | September 21, 2014 9:50 PM

Verdi's "La Traviata" can withstand almost anything. It's nearly indestructible, and sometimes irresistible.

On safari at the L.A. Zoo

Ellen Alperstein | September 21, 2014 5:15 PM

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Members of the L.A. Zoo Safari Society needn't trek to Africa to pet an Angolan python.

Altered landscapes offer hope in the Anthropocene

Jon Christensen and Mark Gold | September 21, 2014 3:06 PM

Two California lakes: the Salton Sea, a festering manmade disaster in the desert, and Tulare Lake, a phantom lake, dried up by agriculture in the southern San Joaquin Valley. Not the first places one might expect to find hope in the Anthropocene.

Chapter 12. Botanica

Jenny Burman | September 21, 2014 11:46 AM

It's a separate misfortune to attract harm to other people, and Marisol knew it, but she had made her decision.

Walking a lonesome road

Al Martinez | September 18, 2014 9:59 PM

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Martinez walks a lonely road once crowded with friends and colleagues such as John Wiebusch. Time has diminished the crowd and left only shards of memory.

Bookworm

Gary Leonard | September 18, 2014 8:36 AM

Take My Picture Gary Leonard appears weekly at LA Observed.

Where's the LA in CTG? Not in the new season

Don Shirley | September 15, 2014 12:42 AM

CTG's website vowed to produce programming that "reflects and informs our own community" through "stories inspired on our own streets." But that language was removed two years ago.

A field guide to the future former birds of LA

Jon Christensen and Mark Gold | September 14, 2014 3:33 PM

This weekend the Allen's Hummingbirds sparred around our feeders in Venice as usual. It's a sight likely to become more rare and perhaps even vanish in the future. The Allen's Hummingbird is climate endangered. Something is going out of the air in LA.

Toughing it out: Naked and not afraid

Al Martinez | September 11, 2014 8:56 PM

Nudity in the wilderness is television's latest obsession and Martinez' mission to wonder if there really is anything behind those blurred camera spots meant to conceal the secret genitalia.Who knows? Keep your eyes on the spots. He is.

The mayor's endorsement

Gary Leonard | September 11, 2014 8:32 AM

Take My Picture Gary Leonard is regular weekly feature of LA Observed.

Chapter 11. The Curse is Renewed

Jenny Burman | September 11, 2014 3:12 AM

Caleb felt himself watched as he departed, unwelcome.

Overheard: Denver International Airport

Ellen Alperstein | September 6, 2014 6:46 PM

When in Rome...

The plastic bag ban epic

Jon Christensen and Mark Gold | September 6, 2014 5:53 PM

Our efforts have shown the world that Californians can live without plastic bags. Can we do the same for styrofoam cups, snack packaging, sporks, straws, and bottle caps? For the sake of our rivers and oceans, we need to. Now. It shouldn't take another decade.

A snake in the grass, and elsewhere

Al Martinez | September 5, 2014 8:21 AM

Martinez warns of snakes in the otherwise peaceful suburbs of Thousand Oaks, while remembering his own experience with a baby rattler that looked very much like a weed.

LA's 233rd birthday

Gary Leonard | September 4, 2014 2:47 PM

Take My Picture Gary Leonard is a regular weekly feature of LA Observed.

Chapter 10. Here Comes Jim Dandy

Jenny Burman | September 3, 2014 8:13 PM

What natural right did he have to know her name?

Untrammeled thoughts on wilderness, land, water, and civil rights at 50

Jon Christensen and Mark Gold | September 2, 2014 8:06 PM

There are a lot of reasons to reconnect the dots between the Civil Rights Act, the Wilderness Act, and the Land and Water Conservation Fund, which all turn 50 this year. The arc of the history in which these three pieces of legislation represented signal turning points is long and still unfinished.

Native Intelligence archivefor September 2014

Native Intelligence archive
for September 2014