In the thriller Buying Time written by a friend of mine, attorney and mystery writer Pamela Samuels Young, a disbarred lawyer named Waverly Sloan goes…
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A few weeks ago, as New Yorkers (well, tourists) rang in the New Year at Times Square, an unusual thing happened: no one got arrested….
On January 10th, the Police Protective League, the union that represents police officers at the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD), announced that they had hired…
Part I In 1987 me, Gary and his father, Dikes, moved from Gary’s boyhood home in South L.A. on Flower near Slauson to the house…
In the aftermath of the murder of Michael Brown I wrote about Ferguson, a catharsis of feeling, a mourning for another life taken, a way to…
While I haven’t seen Selma yet, I intend to. Though given I’ll probably see it at the movie theater multiplex in the Crenshaw mall for…
When you have a plot of land, land that your ancestors sacrificed to acquire and maintain –– that’s something you just can’t ignore.
I can never forgive Al Davis for destroying the Oakland-Alameda County Coliseum Complex –– once a beautiful baseball venue
Going through old boxes I just found the plans to the house my parents built. My dad called it the Nautilus house, I never knew…
According to a new report by the Homes for All Campaign of Right to the City, the United States is in a new phase of…
Gilda’s Gaming Adventure continues… Today I planned to share my experience with the 1970 board game, SMOG. But that’s not going to happen. For two…
Jackie Cornejo, announcing the backer rewards at the launch party for our Big Water Kickstarter campaign. Click on the photo to see how we did.
Growing up, I fantasized on a daily basis about moving out. I wanted to be my own person, never have to share a room, and…
In his 1942 short story “Runaround” visionary sci-fi writer Isaac Asimov introduced his Three Laws of Robotics: 1. A robot may not injure a human…
Today’s epic scale, inter-twined problems of climate change and inequality demand that we mobilize unprecedented reservoirs of human creativity and collaboration in the spirit of…
The sideman. The old retainer. The assistant. The staffer. The aide-de-camp. Finally the task I’d been putting off for decades has been undertaken. For the…
Growing up in a protective working class family meant rarely venturing far from my parents. Eating out at restaurants occurred about once a year, I…
If you want to go fast, go alone. If you want to go far, go together. In Chicago today, there is a lot of discussion…
I help teach a university class on the historical and cultural geographies of London, leading an hourly discussion a week based around someone else’s lectures….