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Month: February 2025
Off-Ramp® | Marc Haefele: Getty Villa Exhibit on Classical Design
Marc Haefele reviews a new Getty Villa exhibit on the 18th century introduction of ancient Greek and Roman architecture and design into the modern world. KPCC 8-30-08 […]
Off-Ramp® | Marc Haefele: How 2001: The Novel Got Away From Doubleday
Marc Haefele remembers how, as a former editor at Doubleday, his publisher passed on his recommendation to sign Arthur C. Clarke for the novel, 2001: A Space Odyssey. KPCC 3-22-08 […]
The Man Who Can Bring Pro Football Back to L.A
What you most miss in the continuing debate over bringing football back to Los Angeles is any hint that anyone, apart from potential investors, really cares whether it returns. To return pro football to Los Angeles, and make it stay here, you need more than glib accounting. You need someone with the kind of charisma […]
A Diesel-Powered Intrusion
To hard-core environmentalists, it was as though John Muir had suggested clear-cutting Sequoia National Forest. “We have confidence that, given past history, the auto industry will rise to the challenge and we will have light-duty diesel in California.” This was Alan Lloyd, longtime electric-car champion and president of the California Air Resources Board, recently declaring […]
The Politics of Downtown Survival–It’s Silly Season
A woman best known to TV news viewers for her frog-suited protests against wetland development has attacked the ecological record of the major backer of the proposed downtown sports arena. Representatives of an inner-city Sierra Club chapter asked, more seriously, why the arena backers didn’t foresee the project’s effects on the surrounding poor neighborhoods. And […]
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 Source: L.A.’s vanishing vacancies – Los Angeles Times […]
A ‘green’ industrial belt should run through it
An idea to create jobs along the L.A. River deserves a public hearing. Source: A ‘green’ industrial belt should run through it – Los Angeles Times […]
The Great Charter Awakening Sneaks Up on City Hall
The July 4 holiday being what it is, Los Angeles won’t get to use its new City Charter, which kicks in Saturday, until July 5. Source: The Great Charter Awakening Sneaks Up on City Hall – Los Angeles Times […]
Solis Challenges the Democrats’ Seniority System
U.S. Rep. Matthew G. “Marty” Martinez (D-Monterey Park) isn’t famous for his sagacity or much else. Source: Solis Challenges the Democrats’ Seniority System – Los Angeles Times […]