What volunteering as a Los Angeles County poll worker taught me about politics
When I used to complain about the divisions in American politics, my son Henry often suggested that I do something…
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'Taking Venice': how Robert Rauschenberg surprised the Biennale
The Venice Biennale may have lost much of its singular luster, now that hundreds of periodic surveys of new international…
Opinion: Criminalizing homelessness is unacceptable. But unconstitutional?
On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court heard arguments over whether a small Oregon city can cite and prosecute homeless people…
Fix homelessness? That's not the purpose of L.A.'s anti-camping law
To the editor: The Times editorial board, Los Angeles Councilwoman Katy Yaroslavsky and Los Angeles County Supervisor Lindsey Horvath, mistakenly…
LAPD arrests man suspected of assaulting two children in Santa Monica and Venice
A man suspected of hitting a 6-year-old girl in Santa Monica was arrested Thursday in Venice on suspicion of assaulting…
How to have the best Sunday in Los Angeles, according to MC Lyte
What first brought MC Lyte to Los Angeles? The historic New York blizzard of 1996. “I always said I wasn't…
How to live Los Angeles like a poet
I was walking through Venice with poet Tom Laichas when he showed me a hard-to-describe object sticking out from the…