In the magazines

Kevin Roderick • October 15 2008 11:11 PM

Cover Dave Gardetta studies the Santa Ana winds in the November issue of Los Angeles: "A town known for extremes deserves a contrary wind, and L.A.�s Santa Anas bestow a season of disaster while also polishing the most harmonic of days. They are the Eastside�s revenge on the Westside..." Anne Taylor Fleming has a piece on L.A. not being the easiest place for a woman to get older and Sharon Waxman reports on the Anand Jon trial. Those and some others are online, ~~but I can't find a Table of Contents~~...There IS a ToC online, so I found a story by Steve Oney on Craig Raywood — a con man who bills himself as one of the world�s preeminent interior designers — that's in two parts and sounds pretty juicy.

Cover Los Angeles history in the Hollywood at Home issue of Architectural Digest: looks inside Howard Hughes' former home in Hancock Park, John Wayne's since-demolished spread in Encino, and the Julia Morgan-designed Hollywood Studio Club for young actresses, open from 1926-1975. There's also an appreciation of Downtown's Bradbury Building by author Michael Connelly, as well as a feature on Diane Keaton's Beverly Hills home. ToC

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A union gumshoe

As newspapers and television pull back from investigative reporting, foundations and other organizations are beginning to fill the void. One of the most interesting is Accountable California, a project of Local 721 of the Service Employees International Union.

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Thinking more about buying less.

Signs of Saturday: No dumping

This drains to the ocean.