Roman Polanski’s “Chinatown” remains perhaps the quintessential neo-noir. Set in the 1930s, the movie depicts Los Angeles and […]
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In episode four of the much maligned season two of True Detective, writer Nic Pizzolatto made an odd […]
“Law And Order Monte Boys Style” is the title of a chapter in one of the more recent […]
In a recent study examining the efficacy of light rail (LRT) and modern bus rapid transit (BRT), University […]
[For more on Compton and its complex demographic change see an earlier ToM piece, “Compton as the Bellwether […]
I do not know for a fact that Lizzy Grant, the canny songwriter behind Lana Del Rey, secretly […]
“So we moved here to El Monte, and I remember all the neighbors were white,” recalled Gloria Arellanes […]
(This post is part of our ongoing attempt to “live-blog” our participation in community-based history in South El […]