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Death on Terminal Island
Strangely nearly everyone agrees that Victoria Arellano seemed happy. She was locked up on Terminal Island, a place as somber as its name, but her fellow inmates remember her almost as a source of...
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Never Stop Fighting
The first raid came at five o’clock in the morning last May 17. Carlos Montes awoke to a thud. It was the sound, he soon discovered, of his front door splintering open. The sun had not yet risen, and...
View ArticleDead Reckoning
The last time I visited Owen Brown’s grave, a friend and I took the surface streets into Pasadena, driving by long rows of magnolias and neat Craftsman bungalows. As we entered Altadena and the...
View ArticleSon of Anarchy
Los Angeles is not always kind to those of us who love her. Let a few months go by without driving a familiar boulevard and you will likely find that something new has gone up and something old has...
View ArticleRailroaded
On June 22, 2005, workers in Boyle Heights began digging up the driveway of the Los Angeles County Crematory, just outside Evergreen Cemetery. The Gold Line’s Eastside Extension would emerge from...
View ArticleBefore Stonewall: How a Brutal Police Raid in 1966 at Silver Lake’s Black Cat...
This column originally appeared in the September 2013 issue of Los Angeles magazine. We’re reposting it today in light of the Supreme Court’s decision to uphold the legality of same-sex marriage: I f...
View ArticleLos Angeles Is Eating Itself
I tried to persuade myself, to be OK with it all. Nearly two years earlier I had left Los Angeles. For a while I didn’t think I was coming back, but L.A. had something on me and back I came. I washed...
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The End: What Really Happens After You Die?
You’ve made some bargains. We all have. Maybe you allow yourself a single Tommy’s burger every six months. Maybe you’ve given up meat altogether, or red meat anyway, most of the time. Maybe you’re...
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