Wesley Hsu, to be-installed tonight as president of the Southern California Chinese American Lawyers’ Association, says he still remembers perfectly well the day he decided he was going to become a prosecutor. He’d been a high-achieving teen at Los Alamitos High School—he wrestled, he did the Academic Decathalon, he wrote for the school paper. He sat in the […]
Month: July 2018
Joe Goode: The Milk Bottle and the Infinite (Review)
One of Joe Goode’s fond memories of the New York art scene of the ’60s was when the great Andy Warhol invited him to dinner at “my favorite restaurant.” Goode, who was then so poor he had hitchhiked to Manhattan, was dazzled. Would it be Grenouille or maybe the Cote Basque, where Truman Capote nestled […]
Plato on the Beat
Every police-chief confirmation I’ve seen in this city has been a ceremony of anticipation. Last Friday‘s was something more: It also evoked the failed hopes in three past police chiefs — Daryl Gates, Willie Williams and Bernie Parks — and threw them onto the willing shoulders of 54-year-old William Bratton. That’s over a quarter of […]
Help Renters Be Buyers
LOS ANGELES faces an enormous rental housing crisis. Condominium conversions are taking thousands of apartment units off the market, which is driving up rents even as the number of people who can only afford to rent increases. About 12,000 rent-controlled apartments have been converted into condos or demolished in the last five years — 8,000 […]
L.A.’s vanishing vacancies
Last week’s City Council vote to double and possibly triple relocation fees that condominium developers must pay tenants before evicting them is not a real solution to Los Angeles’ condo-convers- ion crisis. The condo still gets built, and the unit is off the rental housing market in a city where 60% of the residents rent. […]
Another California Trend: Gun Ownership Isn’t Chic
It’s scarcely a decade since some Angelenos met for dates on pistol ranges. But today, even some conservative Republicans are coming around to the idea that firearms are not fashionable. For example, Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.), a presidential contender, has said that he would consider a ban on assault guns. Texas Gov. George W. Bush, […]
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