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Steve Lopez and a 20-year conversation with his readers

By Mike McPhate | 2 March 2020

is one of California’s legendary columnists and reporters. In his 45th year in journalism, 20 of those writing a column for the L.A. Times, Lopez’s life has merged with the fabric and lifeblood of the city he covers. The author of the best-selling…

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D.J. Waldie and the end of California exceptionalism

By Mike McPhate | 29 August 2019

D.J. Waldie, in the tradition of historians Kevin Starr and Mike Davis, contextualizes our understanding of California and Los Angeles history and explains why, especially given the issues we face today, we’re really “just like the rest of…

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2 powerful L.A. City Council members on the city’s present and future

By Mike McPhate | 22 August 2019

Paul Koretz and Marqueece Harris-Dawson represent polar opposite districts in Los Angeles. Yet the issues they face — housing, climate change, infrastructure, homelessness, and traffic — affect everyone. How they do their job, and whether or not…

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David Ulin on the joys and challenges of Los Angeles

By Mike McPhate | 24 July 2019

David Ulin, the former book editor of the L.A. Times, points out that few American cities have changed more in the past two decades than Los Angeles. The city that existed at the turn of the century has been reinvented, and the longtime social and…

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David Kipen shares five-hundred years of opinions about Los Angeles

By Mike McPhate | 8 March 2019

David Kipen, author, journalist, and cultural historian of Los Angeles has scoured libraries, archives, and private estates to assemble a kaleidoscopic view of the unique city of Los Angeles. He shares 500 years of writings in and about the city and…

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