James Preston Allen

Speculative Blight

It’s an old story by Los Angeles history standards and a reoccurring one here in the port town of San…

2 years ago

Sinclair Arrested on Liberty Hill!

By the end of World War I, Los Angeles and the harbor were experiencing an economic boom and the harbor…

2 years ago

The Way of the OG-san Activist

Furutani was allied in political positions and organizationally with groups involved in ethnic power politics, he always viewed education as…

2 years ago

The Naked Truth

Yes, this idealized depiction of “David”,  the same one referenced in the Bible, is a study in human form that’s…

2 years ago

Trust — A Greater Value than Money

In Donald Trump’s 2020 state of the union speech, he derided what he cast as a drift toward “socialism” in…

2 years ago

Sign of the Times

First, is the process by which the decision was made. There was no serious outreach to the talent of the…

3 years ago

Holiday Fatigue and Parades

What I find encouraging is that amidst all of the anti-Semitic rhetoric floating around lately,  our local Jewish Chabad of…

3 years ago

Buying Elections or Not

So, it remains kind of a curiosity how one candidate can blow a small fortune to win an election and…

3 years ago

Searching for the Yellow Brick Road

There remains  a certain allure of the authenticity of the past, a reverence if you will, that attracts both artists…

3 years ago

30 Years Later The unsettled business of the 1992 Rodney King uprising

In the wake of the Watts Rebellion, city leaders thought utilizing more militarized training would make the city safer. Chief…

3 years ago