With independent expenditures totaling well over $3 million, the Los Angeles Unified school board election has become a battle of special interests — of unions, charter schools, and surprisingly, stadium operators — and the candidate winning the greatest share of that pie is Luis Sanchez in District 5. At first glance, the race seems to...
Bob Richardson took his 7-year-old daughter to the Studio Drive-In to see “Jaws” in 1975. Sitting at the bar of the Tattle Tale Room, Richardson reminisced about that night as he nursed a Budweiser in a frosted glass. “She stood on the backseat during the movie,” he said. “So she could duck behind the seat...
Lost Angeles features multimedia packages investigating the history behind some of Los Angeles’ most prominent landmarks and neighborhoods. The website seeks to visually display the intersection of the past and present in this urban landscape. Developed by the team of Karen Choi, Patrick Crawley and Piya Sinha-Roy, it was designed for its focus on photographs...
The large electric sign that rose above Clune’s Broadway once read “The Time, the Place.” Opened in 1910, Clune’s Broadway was one of the first two theatres built on Broadway in Downtown Los Angeles. The Los Angeles Times described the theatre as “handsome” and “elaborate” upon its opening. Clune’s Broadway, which was also known as...
Like most barbershops, Rudy’s Barber Shop bears a red and white cylinder on its sign. Its exterior is bold and brightly colored, a clear distinction from its burger joint neighbor. Sketched on the large panes of glass at Rudy’s storefront is the price of a haircut: to some a whopping $12, to others, a darned...
One Square Mile was a project-based class with an emphasis on hyper-local reporting. In collaboration with Culver City Patch.com, the eight reporters in the class covered one square mile made up of Fox Hills neighborhood in Culver City. The reporters’ work was featured on Culver City Patch’s website and on the website below. I designed...
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