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Review: It All Comes Down to This by Karen English

Little Told L.Á. Perspective   It All Comes Down to This, a middle-grade novel by Karen English, begins with class privilege. “I saw [Mrs. Baylor hauling] herself heavily up the hill,” says 12-year-old Sophie, the narrator, looking out her den window. Sophie’s mother is interviewing housekeepers and this Black woman, Sophie can see, “resented that the …

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an antique typewriter, a sheet of paper curled in its drum, sits on a aquamarine surface, with the word "poetry" on it

Rhys Langston Podell: Three Los Angeles Poems

Rosarito Beach, April 2017 the view between hustling children, eyes up, hawking chicle while my conscious consumption says “no” between sign language and two silent tongues is a rehearsal not faltered reconnaissance, choosing the words to order, utilitarian, though friendly and my vacation is not a work day, this half-searching for convenient asada and arbitrage …

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Cynthia Alessandra Briano: Two Poems

Tlacuila, Day 38 Plague                 Someone turns the page of a map,               someone says, I can see the whole map—   It’s not like starting a wildfire, the trees grow back. These words are a special burn—eradicate. Decimate. They are a mathematical number: reduced. Depopulate. They are the prefix de-           to nullify and undo. They …

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Inside the ICU: A Nurse’s View of Covid-19 in Los Angeles

Los Angeles has been experiencing a horrific surge of coronavirus cases: a patient is dying of Covid–19 every six minutes, on average. Crematoriums are so busy they are being excused from regional air-quality standards. I asked a friend who is an ICU nurse to sit with me for an interview. I asked her everything: What …

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Tory DiPietro Sees the Light at the End of the Tunnel

Between the lingering Covid-19 pandemic, unresolved political turmoil and months of social unrest, it’s safe to say that 2020 and the first part of 2021 has not been one of the most uplifting chapters in American history. It was in this spirit of feeling the collective malaise that neon artist Tory DiPietro dreamed up her …

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Ashley Baguio: “Springtime on Spring Street”

A crisp morning in Downtown Los Angeles. February chills with sunny skies invaded my senses as we walked toward The Gerry Building. The building with rounded corners and curves on Los Angeles Street​. Guarded with security on the outside and a checklist to let you through its glass doors. LA’s house of fashion since 1946. …

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