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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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 …
Los Angeles icon Mike Sonksen, professor, poet, historian, and journalist, has inspired countless people, especially young writers who he has come across over the years teaching high school and college classes, and at open mics all over the city. Cultural Daily has been a proud partner in working with Mike to publish his curated columns …
Los angeles Odyssey Canta me, Sing to me, Nuestra Señora, la Reina, de los Angeles, Of that free way of twists and turns Linking el valle de San Gabriel With the city of Angeles. For you stand watch above our living room door, And are with us on the ground of thistles and thorns While …
Last Friday, I asked the gardener to cut back all the ivy in my front yard. It was getting too thick. When that happens, rats love setting up housekeeping in its folds. The gardener did a very good job, and told me he only saw one rat jump out and take off in the direction …
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 …
a note on the poem. A couple of years ago, I watched this movie for the first time, Taipei Story (1985). The movie is gorgeous and sad. We follow two former schoolmates who consider leaving for America as they run out of options in a rapidly Westernizing and modernizing Taipei. In one particular scene, a …
A few words about my latest art film — 1.5 minutes in length. The film is posted below. Nearly 15 years ago while driving to my Los Feliz apartment, I spied an old lamppost on Hollywood Blvd. with a bunch of plastic bags caught in it, blowing wildly. Back home, I grabbed my video camera …
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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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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Jack Reads Pronto Professore from Rick Meghiddo on Vimeo. January 2021. At the beginning of a new post-pandemic and post-Trump era, we are framed between the barbarian actions on January 6 and a new beginning on January 20. The world’s main agenda needs to focus on healing and growth. Furthermore, we need to reinvent …
On My Way to J-Town 1. At San Pedro & Second He walks toward me, right down the center of this crowded street, daring drivers who swerve out of his way. I am stopped at the signal. He rushes toward me, glaring hard as he removes his wool cap to slap my hood. He’s …
Waiting Again, Los Angeles We wait and we wait and we wait. Patiently. Lovingly. Anguished. We wait for our schools to be safe, For our streets to be cleaned, For our vecindades to have jobs, For our families to walk through these spaces without being criminalized. And we wait for newcomers to stop leering at …
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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. …
Abandoned LA is a strangely inviting place. Architecture is on full display. Roads function as they were meant to, getting you from point A to B without obstacle, as sparsely populated as the miniature highways of GM’s 1939 Worlds of Tomorrow exhibit. Ah, this is how it’s supposed to work! Everyone is friendly. It’s as …
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