Category Archive: Los Angeles

Retail California: Shopping Centers, Malls, and Creating a New Consumerism

[Editor’s note: This article first appeared on April 4, 2013 for the Intersections column at KCET Departures. Part […]

Retail California: Cars, Drive-In Markets, and Consumers

[Editor’s note: This article first appeared on March 7, 2013 for the Intersections column at KCET Departures. Part […]

Home on the California Range: Ranch Housing in Postwar America

[Editor’s note: This is the second of ToM’s two part series on vernacular housing. The first, on the […]

Bungling Across America: The Bungalow in Southern California and Beyond

[Editor’s note: This is part I of ToM’s two part series on pre and post WWII  vernacular architecture. […]

Retail California: Ralphs, the Big Lebowski, and Shaping the American Shopping Experience

[Editor’s note: This article originally ran on March 21, 2013 under the Intersections column for KCET Departures. It […]

Los Angeles F.C.: Soccer, Globalization, and Ethnicity

One year ago this month, Major League Soccer (MLS) opened its 18th season with a cacophonous and exciting […]

Toni Margarita Plummer: Writing Her Way Home in The Bolero of Andi Rowe

With hardly any traffic, she was soon at the Santa Anita exit. She drove over the bridge bordered […]

Archiving Memories of El Monte in a Transnational Space

[Editor’s note: This article originally appeared in the Intersections column of KCET Departures on July 25, 2013. Next […]