Native Intelligence archive
for October 2007

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Billy Martin, Joe Torre, and the desert

"Holy cow! That thing is headed for Barstow!"

If ever he should leave us

Robert “Bob” Goulet is a classic Robert “Bob.” He has an extremely deep voice that would be missed if ever Bob should leave us.

Happy birthday, Red Hen Press

Thirteen years and still going strong

Hasta la vista So Cal wildlife

*Media ignores another kind of loss (with updates, including animal casualty count for Griffith Park fire)

Lights Out LA?

VIDEO: 2.2 million participated in Sydney. Did the lights go out in Los Angeles?

Edward Gorey and Edgar Allen Poe, soulmates of the abbatoir

As Halloween approaches, my thoughts turn from the merely morbid to the macabre, so I’m dreadfully sorry that a previous...

Mysteries Solved ... Part XXIV

Why is America fat? Mystery solved.

Health care showdown in CA--Over what?

The governor and the Democrats are duking it out over how, exactly, to deny Americans the basic right to affordable health care that other developed countries in the world (all of them, actually) guarantee.

Observing an L.A. photographer

The just opened exhibit "Julius Shulman's Los Angeles" at the LAPL's Getty Gallery is a love letter (albeit a complex one) from Shulman to the city he has called home since 1920.

In appreciation of newsprint

The Stanley Cup section is the first fun effort by the Times that I've thought to save since the elaborate array of candiate portraits it published during the California Recall in '03.

RIP Tawn Mastrey, the voice of KNAC

I don't know how I could have gotten through a certain part of my life without KNAC, the late, great...

A local in the window?

A good book (well written and attractively packaged) really does sell itself, if you talk to the right person.

Rat runner!

You're such a 'rat runner' and you don't even know it.

The bloodletting of 'Our Times'

All Hiller has to do is walk LA's hipper streets to see why the RedEye wouldn't work here.

Are LA homeowners too timid?

FSBO stats suggest NYC is more DIY than LA.
KCET control room
kcet-rehearsal-control.jpgA peek inside the TV station's Burbank studios.
Whitt's Wood Yard
whitts-wood-yard.jpgElon Musk wants to drill here at Pico and Sepulveda.
BCAM
bcam-stairs.jpgThe Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA.
David Hockney at LACMA
hockney-arrives-lacma.jpgThe artist arrives to open his latest exhibit.
Mountain lion family
mountain-lion-family-martinez.jpgFrom Robert Martinez's trail cam in the San Gabriels.
The power of 'pluribus' plays
Allegiance-9-(1).jpgDon Shirley on theater in LA
Macy's winds down
mannequin-graveyard-macys.jpgThe store in Westside Pavilion has closed down.
Streetscape: Westwood
westwood-sky-lao.jpgWestwood Boulevard looking north and a little bit skyward.
Streetscape: East LA
la-luz-del-mundo.jpg Iglesia La Luz del Mundo, East 1st Street.
Sign from LA's past
loves-bbq-valley-relics.jpg Sign from an old Love's BBQ restaurant at the Valley Relics Museum in Chatsworth.
Visiting her old ballet costumes
melissa-barak-cost-iris.jpg Melissa Barak at LACMA Chagall exhibit with the artist's memorable designs.
Engine Co. 17
engine-co-17-side.jpg Inside the long-closed Arts District fire station on Santa Fe Avenue.
Wilshire Grand Center lobby
wilshire-grand-lobby-wall.jpg Visitors check out the wall-mounted sculpture by artist Do Ho Suh.
Barnsdall Park
barnsdall-park-trees.jpg Under the trees.
Inside Hollyhock House
hollyhock-columns.jpgPhoto taking was allowed for one weekend. So we did.
Streetscape: Lincoln Heights
el-milagro-market.jpgProductos Mexicanos at El Milagro Market on Avenue 18.
June 6, 1968
rfk-hearse-wide-lapl.jpgThe body of Robert F. Kennedy leaves Good Samaritan hospital. More pics
Streetscape: DTLA
spring-street-bike-lane.jpgSpring Street bike lane.
Palm weeds of Santa Susana
santa-susana-palm-weeds.jpgOak trees, sandstone ridges and fan palms? Ugh. More
Streetscape: West LA
405-at-smblvd.jpg405 North at Santa Monica Boulevard.
Hills turning brown
grman1.jpgThe hills above Gorman.
Arcana Books
arcana-books.jpgIn the Helms Bakery complex in Culver City.
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