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Los Angeles After the Apocalypse
The work of David Maisel is haunting in its stark simplicity, despite and because of its expansive breadth of focus. Yet while many of his projects have taken a bird's-eye view of their subject matter, few have seemed as hopelessly desolate as Oblivion. Los Angeles is stripped to its bare bones and burnt to cinder under Maisel's photographic eye – a megalopolis suddenly seen in post-apocalyptic monochrome.
Continue reading...The Deadly Gangs Of El Salvador
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Mara Savatrucha, or MS-13, is one the most notorious gangs in the world. Yet MS-13 and other gangs such as Calle 18 originated just decades ago among the Salvadorian immigrant community of Los Angeles. Soon the US authorities began deporting gang members back to El Salvador, exporting LA gang culture to a country rife with weapons from civil war and sparking an explosion in vicious gang-related crime.
Continue reading...Columbian Mammoth Found in Downtown L.A.
Monday, March 2, 2009
On February 18, 2009, the George C. Page Museum announced the discovery of 16 new fossil deposits under a parking lot owned by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art that is adjacent to the La Brae Tar Pits. The most exciting animal among these new deposits is Zed, a large male Columbian Mammoth. Zed's body and 10' tusks miraculously escaped predators and his skeleton is nearly complete. Find out other amazing facts about Zed.
Continue reading...Being Environmental Just Got Sexy
Wednesday, November 12, 2008
We’ve all become familiar with the fair trade ethos with our food buying, but one person is trying to bring the same values to a very different part of the retail industry. Sam Roddick’s Coco de Mer is a sex shop with an environmentally friendly ethos, selling everything from corsets to clitoris creams.
Continue reading...250 Megawatts of Solar Power Coming to California
Friday, March 28, 2008
Southern California Edison, the main utility company for an area including San Diego and Los Angeles, announced Thursday that they plan to spend $875 Million to power over 162,000 homes. Image from Capital I on Flickr At least when the rest of us have succumbed to the resource wars, [...]
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Wednesday, July 1, 2009
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