Books
Getting a read on the city with Edward W. Soja’s ‘My Los Angeles’
March 28, 2014
Edward W. Soja, a fixture of the L.A. School of urban studies, engagingly writes for a wider audience in ‘My Los Angeles: From Urban Restructuring to Regional Urbanization.’
California
The furry animals that visit Richard Soja’s back yard at night don’t come on little domestic cat feet--they come on big, feral paws, and they dig up his vegetable garden, deposit feces in the ground and along his fence, and set up a caterwaul that keeps him up nights, he claims.
April 20, 1989
Politics
SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA has become richer and more powerful than most nations.
Aug. 21, 1988
Science & Medicine
Did you learn in school the phrase “Ontogeny recapitulates Phylogeny”?
Dec. 13, 1996
Earnings: Study’s findings in Southland run counter to national trend. Lag is most apparent among Mexican Americans.
May 11, 1997
Television
The words “Orange County” and “hip” have been paired so rarely, except as an oxymoron, that even those who recognize the region’s impact on music, fashion and extreme sports in recent years will be jolted to hear the county described as “possibly the hippest spot on the planet” in the VH1 news special “Orange County: American Hip Factory.”
March 25, 2002
Business
Telecom: Debt of more than $12 billion drags down builder of massive fiber-optic network.
Jan. 29, 2002
Study: Mexican Americans and, to a lesser extent, blacks have lost ground since 1959, CSUN professors say.
Music
Coachella and Stagecoach may not be returning until 2022, but from Rolling Loud to BottleRock to Desert Daze, the 2021 festival season is in full swing.
May 28, 2021