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Topic Archive: South of Downtown
Erika Schickel chatted up Bo Diddley on a plane to New Mexico. She was ten and headed for sleep-away camp. Denise Hamilton loved Pest Control...
Posted June 3, 2008 06:14 PM
Business and tribal interests located far from the open Inglewood-Compton area Senate district have spent more than $715,000 in independent expenditures to elect ex-assemblyman Rod...
Posted May 23, 2008 09:20 AM
Officials at the California Science Center in Exposition Park are reportedly miffed about an email from a top doctor at the UCLA Medical School, putting...
Posted May 20, 2008 09:22 AM
Vandals even got the tires on the local tow trucks, forcing delays in the Auto Club's response the next morning. Residents in several neighborhoods discovered...
Posted May 13, 2008 10:25 AM
There are four weeks weeks and change left until the June 3 primary showdown to decide who inherits the black seat on the Los Angeles...
Posted May 1, 2008 02:35 PM
Our blogger-columnist Bill Boyarsky covered a march Downtown on Friday by 700-1,000 janitors and renters of the slum housing around MacArthur Park. It got him...
Posted April 29, 2008 03:55 PM
Betty Pleasant, the Wave's Soulvine columnist, has been hammering away that there is a racial aspect to the gang murders sweeping South Los Angeles and...
Posted March 27, 2008 09:25 AM
As we suggested yesterday in Payback time. Became official at 11 am....
Posted March 20, 2008 11:56 AM
Chief William Bratton has scheduled an 11 am press conference tomorrow with State Sen. Mark Ridley-Thomas, the candidate for county Supervisor. They don't officially label...
Posted March 19, 2008 03:32 PM
Her years in Los Angeles taught Nancy Rommelmann, an ex-New Yorker, that no one is more provincial than New Yorkers. So she isn't surprised that...
Posted March 6, 2008 12:50 PM
Murray was in the Assembly for four terms, ran a slate mailer in South L.A. with Mervyn Dymally and spawned ex-legislator Kevin Murray. Willard's name...
Posted February 26, 2008 12:55 PM
San Pedro's best-known Greek restaurant has been targeted by Marie Callender's, and the Community Redevelopment Agency and the local councilwoman sound excited. "If it works...
Posted February 18, 2008 10:42 AM
The bad run continues for founders of Southern California's fast-food icons. Yancey, who died Jan. 26 at age 96, and a partner reportedly used scrap...
Posted February 2, 2008 03:22 PM
Jill Leovy hinted in this month's profile of her in Los Angeles that she would stop writing the Times' homicide blog in the new year....
Posted January 2, 2008 12:37 AM
Question: Where will Mayor Villaraigosa and Chief Bratton drag the media to announce the 2007 crime stats? AKA, a "historic reduction in homicides and violent...
Posted January 1, 2008 02:59 PM
Jasmyne Cannick found one at the Baldwin Hills Crenshaw mall....
Posted December 10, 2007 08:10 PM
Long weekend equals time to catch up on some L.A. blog reading. Here's a few; may be more later: Jasmyne Cannick drove down Crenshaw this...
Posted November 23, 2007 11:04 PM
Gus Hawkins was elected to the California legislature in 1934 [editor's note: !] and almost three decades later he became the first African American from...
Posted November 12, 2007 04:12 PM
South Los Angeles has a crying need for social workers who want to stay and work in the community. Betty Pleasant's Soul Vine column in...
Posted June 14, 2007 11:31 PM
The suspect was reaching for his waistband as he exited a disturbance at a South Los Angeles Masonic lodge early this morning, the sergeant who...
Posted January 10, 2007 12:48 PM
Jill Leovy covers homicide and the police for the L.A. Times, often in South Los Angeles. She writes today at Salon.com that the recent uptick...
Posted December 14, 2006 11:31 AM
In Sunday's LAT, West magazine staff writer Lynell George revisits the large swath of traditional Los Angeles neighborhoods that came to be lumped together as...
Posted October 8, 2006 01:41 PM
At yesterday's Angelides and Villaraigosa rally in South Los Angeles, I sat for a time with Pilar Marrero, the political columnist and Features Editor for...
Posted September 6, 2006 01:20 PM
Media and blog coverage of the South Central Community Garden mostly celebrates a story line of plucky, poor South L.A. residents banding together in agrarian...
Posted March 14, 2006 10:56 PM
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