Los Angeles
Let There Be Butterflies
The homes of Surfridge may be gone, but new residents are thriving: blue butterflies.
Our Neighborhood Ghost Town
Nearby Surfridge is LMU’s connection to a forgotten part of L.A.’s past.
Psalm For Our Lady Queen of the Angels
Dana Gioia, poet and former chairman of the National Endowment for the Arts, recites his poem about Los Angeles, an homage to “the restless, the hungry, the stubborn, the scarred” who built the city of his birth.
L.A.’s Guardian Angels
If L.A. politics has shifted toward the progressive end of the spectrum in recent decades, Catholic organizations and activists have played major roles in the process.
Aspects of Loss in Los Angeles
D.J. Waldie writes about loss, a place where, for many migrants, loss comes with the territory.
Conversation with D.J. Waldie
D.J. Waldie is a cultural historian, memoirist and translator.
River Cats
For decades, cats have been reclaiming the L.A. River — cat faces painted onto the covers of storm drains.
Ribbons of Division
L.A.’s freeways, symbols of the high cost of affluence, have both joined communities and atomized neighborhoods.
Marks of the City
An L.A. muralist ponders the shifting views about graffiti and street art.