...- dream of way cool behind the wheel. The reek, the jiggle, the strange encounter of flesh to flesh on the bus so alien to Los Angeles, amnesiac about its streetcar past. On weekends when my best friend Heather (now a lawyer with the L.A. city attorney’s...

... and Restaurant Employees (HERE) Local 11, the union rep- resenting housekeepers, porters, busboys, dishwashers, and food servers. Harold Meyerson, L.A. Weekly’s veteran labor commentator, reckons that LAANE “has become one of the most important forces—and surely...

... Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk by Marc Spitz and Brendan Mullen and Lexicon Devil: The Fast Times and Short Life of Darby Crash and the Germs by Mullen with Adam Parfrey and Germs drummer Bolles.9 Both books present alternating stories of Darby...

.... Joseph Rodríguez is the author of the photo-documentary title East Side Stories: Gang Life in East L.A. (Powerhouse Books, 1998). His work has been exhibited at the International Center of Photography, New York, and at the California Museum of Photography, Riverside. His photographs have appeared...

...? Alex Rivera: With a grant from the Rockefeller Foundation, I have been organizing a set of screenings — New York, Chicago, L.A. — bringing together different kinds of community leaders. About half are from trans- national...

..., 2002); and Madhava Prasad, Ideology of the Hindi Film: A Historical Construction (New Delhi: Oxford University Press, 1998). 2. With titles like “Salaam New York!” (in Time Out) and “Salaam L.A (in the Los...

... to much fanfare and media buzz on Hill and Fourth Streets. Writing in the L.A. Daily Record, the editor proclaimed that “November 30, 1925 was a truly great day in Los Angeles’ history. Your editor was among the thousands who crammed...

... during the same rampage in L.A. Unlike those cases, the prosecutions of the post–September 11 killings have received scant media attention, merely one more casualty of the Bush administration’s programmatic exclusion of dissenting voices and experiences in the wake of the terrorist attacks...

..., “Cannabis/Marijuana.” 27. Balko, “How Municipalities in St. Louis County, Mo., Profit from Poverty.” 28. Department of Justice, Investigation of the Ferguson Police Department, 4 – 5 29. Pearce, “Actors Quit L.A...

... of black America (in the form of its music) into the all-white bars and homes of L.A. and the parallel excursion of married women into the workforce and onto the dance floors that occurred while they were away at war. Through...

... . 51 Adey, Aerial Life ; Bednarek, America’s Airports ; Erie, Globalizing L.A. 52 Erlmann, “But What of the Ethnographic Ear?” 53 Gregor, “LAX Takeover.” 54 Ferguson, Missouri, home of Michael Brown and site of protests following his murder by a policeman in August...

... of a number of artists that Muñoz engaged with in “the performative collaboration between artist and writer” (101). First performed at the Kirk Douglas Theatre as part of the Radar L.A. Festival 2013, and most recently performed in February 2014 at Orange...

... the taliban at work I’m still at this Klan rally 186 Cortiñas · It’s Kinda Cold Out Here it’s kicking my ass they are trying to kill me I’m touching down in Providence Hialeah Connecticut I am bracing myself for Hispanisms I’m red eyeing it back tonight from Utah L.A...

..., a choreographed event. As performance, the hoax translates our real experience into the hyperreal. According to Jean Bau- drillard, simulation exists to lend credence to the real.19 For him, Disney- land exists only so the rest of L.A. might appear...

...), as the character in the song “Maria, Maria,” who begins her career as the Puerto Rican heroine of 10 Ortiz • On (Our) American Ground West Side Story only to find herself forty years later surviving poverty and violence on the streets of East L.A. Across at least these two...

... in L.A., and Harrison Ford and Kevin Spacey each donated $100,000 to the cause. Bang! Paul Newman warned actors to stick together, Kevin Bacon called the strike a matter of “survival,” and The Sopranos’ James Gandolfi ni complained about some employers’ “bald greed.”39 In October...

... Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral His- tory of Punk (New York: Grove, 1996); Jon Savage, England’s Dreaming: Anarchy, Sex Pistols, Punk Rock, and Beyond (New York: St. Martin’s, 2002); Marc Spitz and Brenden Mullen, We Got the Neutron Bomb: The Untold Story of L.A. Punk...

... is Moira Rachel Kenney, Mapping Gay L.A.: The Intersection of Place and Politics (Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 2001). 37. See especially Soja’s chapters, “An Introduction to the Conurbation of Greater Los...

.... 16. The title is untranslated in this collection, though in Eliot Weinberger’s most recent translation of this poem he allows for Villaurrutia’s play on words A Beautiful, Sinister Fairyland 107 with “L.A...

... the corporate- driven “Rebuild L.A.” (RLA) to the resurrection of the Black Panther Party platform for self-determination (reissued by the Los Angeles Crips). Notwithstanding this range of opinions, most commentators acknowl...