Columnist · March 3, 2025
Around the Town, by Sondi Toll Sepenuk It was a concert we wished didn’t have to happen, but we were grateful that it did. On Jan. 7, wildfires ripped through […]
Columnist · March 3, 2025
On Preservation, by Brian Curran “Skyscraper Reveals New Type of Architecture,” announced the Los Angeles Times Real Estate section in 1929 at the release of plans for a new tower […]
Columnist · January 23, 2025
As Los Angeles comes to grips with the losses, in lives, property and communities that were consumed in the catastrophic fires that broke out the second week of this year, […]
Columnist · January 23, 2025
When I moved to Los Angeles in 1985, the historic Pan-Pacific Auditorium on Beverly Boulevard in the Fairfax District was abandoned and run-down. Weeds shoved through the crumbled pavement, and […]
Columnist · January 23, 2025
There have been times, when writing this column, that I have felt more like a war correspondent than a theater critic: covering theater during the pandemic, or the invasion of […]
Columnist · January 2, 2025
The historic apartments of Greater Wilshire are having a moment. Fresh off last month’s declaration of the Clinton Manor Apartments as a Historic-Cultural Monument comes another HCM nomination for the […]
