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You March That Way, You’ll Live This Way
1955. Once upon a time, my father’s family lived on the South Side of Chicago. Grandpa Harry and Grandma Fanny had their little house on 88th and Clyde, a squat brick home built in 1950 with a back porch and a spotless kitchen. Uncle Paul, Aunt Frances and Barry lived on Luella, not far from Grandpa…
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Beauty in Banality
The Drawings of Martinet and Texereau Zoé Textereau (b.1986) and Pauline Martinet (b.1987) are two artists from Paris, France whose oeuvre is composed of graphite drawings of many places they have visited, among them Los Angeles. I found their work on Instagram. Their architectural drawings of Los Angeles find beauty in banality. Perhaps because there are…
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Pandemic Innovations.
With the pandemic locking the world down until a cure is found, Los Angeles is again leading the way to find out how to do business and stay safe. Here are some new innovations which are startling in their modernity and imaginativeness: To keep patrons safe, many restaurants are now offering service directly to your…
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Only Yesterday
In 1931, two years into the Great Depression, Frederick Lewis Allen published his history of the 1920s, “Only Yesterday” covering the period from the end of WWI until the market crash, in October 1929, that plunged the world into poverty. The American economy would not revive until war and destruction obliterated Europe and engulfed Asia, and after…
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The Nervous Hour
Later in the year, if we are feeling better, or if we are alive, we may look back on March 11, 2020 as one of a number of dark days in a time of never-ending calamities. Today, as the Coronavirus was declared a pandemic, and the stock market crashed yet again, and the slow-motion, fast…
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