Jenny Burman, a longtime resident of Echo Park, writes the Chicken Corner blog for LA Observed. She has written for the LA Weekly, the Daily News, Tin House magazine and Black Clock. A believer in honoring the past without fearing the future, she serves on the board of the Echo Park Historical Society. She has an M.F.A. in fiction from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Email
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| How is it that until about a week ago I'd never heard of the surrealist photographer Francesca Woodman? We even went to the same school.
| Seventeen years after the Rams and Raiders left town, neither team is better off. Now both are threatening to move back.
Parents have won partial restoration of federal poverty funds for 23 schools in the San Fernando Valley and the Westside. Many of the schools are in middle class neighborhoods but have substantial numbers of poor students.
