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Interview with Christoph Gielen, Creator of Ciphers: Decoding the Growth Machine
Artist Christoph Gielen has created a work of art that we consider to be both beautiful, terrifying, and hugely important. The book Ciphers: Decoding the Growth Machine collects his photographic...
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This is the Racist Card that Got a Man Arrested at the L.A. City Council
The Los Angeles Sentinel reports on the arrest last week of one Wayne Spindler, an attorney from Encino, who has regularly attended L.A. City Council meetings and verbally harassed council people of...
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Community of artists gather to save El Sereno’s Eastside Café
As the grand city of Los Angeles continues to grow, changes and effects can be seen rippling through the outer edges of the city. Smaller communities such as Boyle Heights, Compton, and El Sereno have...
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Introducing Feedback Sunday: Open Mic Activism
Since President Trump’s inauguration, millions have taken the streets in protest of his agenda of war, racism and attacks on the poor. Even before he took office, people were looking for an outlet to...
View ArticleTurmoil in Los Angeles Media: The L.A. Taco Guide
Where can a news consumer in L.A. go these days for trustworthy, up-to-date, and comprehensive news and cultural coverage that matters to local residents? The answer contains fewer and fewer options...
View ArticleWendy Carrillo, Salvadoran Immigrant, Wins Race to Rep the Eastside in...
Former radio host Wendy Carrillo won a special election on Tuesday (Dec. 5) to represent Northeast and East Los Angeles in the California Assembly, capping a long grassroots journey by the...
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L.A. Media Update: A Weekly ‘Funeral’ Meets New Editor
Someone in the first-floor window above the protest on Friday outside the LA Weekly’s Westside offices felt the need to put up a sign to clarify to those gathered below. “FYI We Are Not LA Weekly,”...
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Photo Gallery: Los Angeles Stands Up For TPS, Immigrants Rights
Hundreds of people marched and protested in downtown Los Angeles on Saturday against the Jan. 8 decision by the Trump administration to end Temporary Protected Status for just under 200,000 Salvadorans...
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In Los Angeles, TPS Is a Gathering Storm
A crowd in the hundreds gathered at La Placita Olvera on Saturday to oppose the Trump administration’s recent decision to terminate a temporary residency program for 200,000 Salvadorans living in the...
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Mixed Emojis: Voices from the Los Angeles Women’s March 2018
Carmen Martinez switched back and forth from elevating her voice with a megaphone to listening thoughtfully to stories that began circulating among a group that had splintered away from the mass of...
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Eat, Drink and Support the Dream Act at ‘Dinners for DACA’
Lovers of good food and activism will be able to experience their worlds collide next week at SameSide’s 7th session of Dinners For DACA. For $35, socially conscious diners who stand up for America’s...
View ArticleInto Action ~ Recap Video
INTO ACTION was a large scale pop-up art exhibition, cultural gathering and community organizing hub in Los Angeles that culminated over MLK weekend in Los Angeles. The event featured hundreds of...
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Misconduct Claims Leave Big Chunks of L.A. County Without Representation
As a wave of sexual misconduct allegations continues to hit Hollywood, politics and beyond, an overlapping area of Los Angeles County has been left without political representation in Sacramento as a...
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Why Locals in Historic Filipinotown Are Bracing For Gentrification
Arturo Garcia says he felt like a stranger when he first moved to Historic Filipinotown some 20 years ago. Garcia migrated from Manila — more than 7,000 miles away from Los Angeles — but he says the...
View ArticleLos Angeles Ordered to Stop Enforcing Gang Injunctions
A federal court has ordered the city of Los Angeles to stop enforcing most of its remaining gang injunctions, marking the end of the controversial practice that critics long called unconstitutional....
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‘Dolores’ Film Seeks to Re-Think Labor Leader Dolores Huerta — Again
There is an incredible moment of archival footage in the documentary Dolores, in which a television interviewer asks labor leader Dolores Huerta what she would do, thinking as an ‘average woman,’ if...
View ArticleL.A. Weekly Launches Online Campaign Against ‘Bullies’ Calling for Boycott
The embattled LA Weekly management is fighting back against what they are calling lies, harassment, and “bullying” by a group leading a boycott against the paper’s new owners. On Monday the Weekly...
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The L.A. Taco Interview ~ Brian Calle, Publisher of L.A. Weekly, Answers Critics
To hear Brian Calle describe it, he is saving the LA Weekly, not killing it. A self-described ‘right-leaning’ former opinion editor for L.A.’s suburban newspaper network (including flagship paper...
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I Was Retained By the New Owners of the L.A. Weekly, And It Sucked
First Person Perspective “Once the new owners get in here, first things first. We’re getting you full time,” Mat Cooperstein, the then-Publisher at LA Weekly said to me following a October 2017 staff...
View ArticleArtwashing Fight Takes Twist With Gallery’s Offer to ‘Ceremonially’ Close in...
A gallery owner in the Boyle Heights community has offered the “ceremonial closing” of a space to anti-gentrification activists who have been focusing their energies on pressuring art galleries in the...
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