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July 8, 2009
I got to Staples Center some time after the parade of Ringling Bros. elephants and just before a bikini-clad woman who held aloft a sign that said, "Go Vegetarian for the Man in the Mirror." I suppose it goes without saying that not all memorial services draw the same crowd.

June 28, 2009
Here's one of those small-world stories, the kind that shrink the world down to a village and give you a little faith in the power of goodwill.

June 26, 2009
David Vera, 18, has his young heart set on becoming a film editor or an actor. So the challenge posted on the door of his film arts class at Monroe High School in the San Fernando Valley held obvious appeal.

June 26, 2009
David Vera, 18, has his young heart set on becoming a film editor or an actor. So the challenge posted on the door of his film arts class at Monroe High School in the San Fernando Valley held obvious appeal.

June 24, 2009
Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa has had a rough enough week. First he took a beating in a poll on his performance, and then, his star tarnished, he announced he would take a rain check on a run for governor.

June 22, 2009
Of course L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa said no to a run for governor.

June 21, 2009
The nurses came and grabbed my gurney, wheeling me toward a grim date with a doctor whose specialty is one I wouldn't have chosen.

June 18, 2009
My colleague George Skelton is on a break today, and I'm a last-minute fill-in, which gives me a chance to clear a few things off my desk, beginning with the mysterious story of a missing horse.

June 16, 2009
The gun crowd has a saying: Guns don't kill; people do.

June 14, 2009
I saw the sign, looked away, then back again.



From Skid Row
Life on the Streets
Times columnist Steve Lopez reports from Skid Row.

The Soloist
Steve Lopez has chronicled the life of Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, a homeless musician with schizophrenia who sleeps each night on one of skid row's most dangerous streets.


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