This morning Steve Lopez tells the maddening story of a mom and pop grocery store in Highland Park...
Archive - August 2008
Blogging (and Hacking) Georgia
Critics tell us the Internet takes us away from each other. While that may be partly true, it also...
Bo Taylor: The Death of a Superhero
I just received word that gang intervention leader, radio host, peace maker, and all around heroic...
South LA Charter Students Discover a Tale of 2 LA Neighborhoods
Can a group of enterprising South LA 15-year-olds (and a couple 16-year-olds) knit together a...
MONDAY’S MUST READ REPORT
Okay, Russia is bombing Georgia, (and in so doing wounding and killing grandmotherly-looking women...
Mahmoud Darwish: 1941-2008
And they asked him: Why do you sing? And he answered: I sing because I sing… And they...
Times Talks About Standards and Practices vis-a-vis Edwards Story
Right. Well, this note from LA Times National Editor Scott Kraft is suddenly a teensy bit beside...
Hamdan: Justice Will Not Be Tolerated
These are very, very dark times for American justice….and yet Wednesday there was a small...
Blogging the Absurd
While we’re on the subject of extremely smart journalism students, ZACH SIRE, one of my...
Evidence That The Sky Is Not (Completely) Falling
Now that we’ve had at least…oh…. a day or two break from the ongoing Los Angeles...