To live and die in l.a. articles
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What is it like to live in an L.A. hotel? Here's a glimpse
On the afternoon of Sunday, Feb. 25, I drive to West Hollywood to spend a night at a hotel. I want to imagine what it would be like to live in one. There is too much noise in my head, and I am trying to clear it. I keep picturing a clean, fresh hotel room, a kind of blank slate — a chance to start anew, step into another life. I decide to keep a time log and write a diary entry for the 19 hours I am about to spend living out this experiment. I arrive at the hotel. It is called Hotel 850 SVB, a...
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Juror #2's media diet may decide if Democracy lives or dies
The jury is chosen, the trial is underway. I deeply hope these twelve citizens can find a way to convict Donald Trump. It would mean that somehow the world has not completely, totally and permanently spun off its axis. But one juror is scaring the bejeezus out of me. — Read the rest
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L.A. student dies after safety team member allegedly does not intervene to try to prevent fight
After school on April 15, a fight broke out a couple of blocks from Washington Preparatory High School in South L.A. In a cellphone video of the incident, an adult can be heard saying off camera, just before the fight began: "Let them fight. If they want to fight, let the police [inaudible]. I’m not breaking up s—. I don’t give a f—." The adult who apparently declined to intervene was a member of the "safe passages" program designed to make sure students get to and from school unharmed,...