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Column: Antisemitism is not new — certainly not in Los Angeles
LA Times via Yahoo News· 5 months agoMuseum of Tolerance visitors watch a video in March 2023. (Christina House / Los Angeles Times) A...
The Ultimate L.A. Bookshelf: Nonfiction
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoThe 14 most essential works of nonfiction include histories by Kevin Starr, Carey McWilliams, Reyner Banham and, ruling them all, Mike Davis' 'City of...
Century-old postcards capture the early years of San Francisco's Chinatown
Business Insider via Yahoo News· 5 months agoIn the face of anti-immigration laws and a devastating earthquake, Chinese immigrants built an...
The key to Mike Davis' brilliance: He never fit in
LA Times via Yahoo News· 2 years agoMike Davis, who died Tuesday, was both a towering public intellectual and — crucially — a perpetual outsider and dissident, writes his co-author, Jon...
What if LAX were literally anywhere else? It could have been
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoWe still have lots of airfields, but gone from the landscape are the runways — near Griffith Park,...
How the deluge of 1938 changed Los Angeles — and its river
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoYou think this year's rains were bad? The floods of 1938 were so epic they led to a massive...
Real estate, transit, oil — how early L.A. built fortunes and bred scoundrels
LA Times via Yahoo News· 10 months agoTake L.A. oilman C.C. Julian, who oversold oil stock and left people destitute and dead. Or Simon...
At Richard J. Riordan's book club, nearly 30 years of Proust, wine and friends
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoOn his nightstand the day I asked to see it: "The White Nile" by Alan Moorehead, a book about...
Patt Morrison: Don't let anybody diss L.A.'s reading habits. This was and is a bookstore boomtown
LA Times via Yahoo News· 7 months agoIn bookstores' L.A. heyday, shops were as ubiquitous as a certain coffee chain is today. But we're...
Patt Morrison: The naked truth about L.A.'s swanky private clubs
LA Times via Yahoo News· 1 year agoAn L.A. Times exposé — and in one instance, Gloria Allred quite literally exposing sex discrimination — led the Jonathan Club, the California Club, the Friars Club and others to become less exclusive, if not less expensive.