Joseph Shuldiner

On behalf of the commissioners, staff and residents of the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), I congratulate our executive director, Joseph Shuldiner, on his White House nomination to the position of assistant secretary for public and Indian housing in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Shuldiner was instrumental in transforming a troubled agency into a role model for large public housing authorities during his three-year tenure in Los Angeles.

Downtown L.A.'s Grand Central Market is undergoing a major overhaul intended to catapult the landmark community marketplace into a new food-retail age. The nearly 100-year-old open-air market on Broadway near 3rd Street houses more than 40 food stalls, which will be updated to reflect a changing downtown and the next generation of vendors while staying true to its legacy, planners say. Owner Adele Yellin, president of the real estate development company...

Downtown Los Angeles' Grand Central Market is undergoing a major overhaul intended to catapult the landmark community marketplace into a new food retail age. The nearly 100-year-old market on Broadway near 3rd Street houses more than 40 food stalls, which will be updated to reflect a changing downtown and the next generation of vendors while staying true to its legacy, planners say. Owner Adele Yellin, president of the real estate development...

Downtown Los Angeles' Grand Central Market is undergoing a major overhaul intended to catapult the landmark community marketplace into a new food retail age. The nearly 100-year-old market on Broadway near 3rd Street houses more than 40 food stalls, which will be updated to reflect a changing downtown and the next generation of vendors while staying true to its legacy, planners say. Owner Adele Yellin, president of the real estate development...

Downtown L.A.'s Grand Central Market is undergoing a major overhaul intended to catapult the landmark community marketplace into a new food-retail age. The nearly 100-year-old open-air market on Broadway near 3rd Street houses more than 40 food stalls, which will be updated to reflect a changing downtown and the next generation of vendors while staying true to its legacy, planners say. Owner Adele Yellin, president of the real estate development company...

Ending a yearlong search, Mayor Tom Bradley and housing officials Friday announced the selection of New York City's chief operating officer of public housing to run Los Angeles' 21 scattered and troubled housing projects. Joseph Shuldiner, 45, who takes on the $135,000-a-year job as director of the Los Angeles Housing Authority in May, will leave a massive agency of 15,000 employees that provides housing to 600,000 poor tenants.

It kind of makes sense when you think about it, but I was still taken aback by the announcement that the launch party for Joseph Shuldiner's new cookbook "Pure Vegan" will be held at Lindy & Grundy . That, of course, is a butcher shop, albeit of a very particular type. Anyway, the party is Aug. 19 from 6 to 9 p.m. It will be very interesting to see what is served. And will the meat cases be full or empty? This is not the time to proselytize, girls. Shuldiner is the founder of the Institute of Domestic Technology, a kind of new-age, back-to-the-roots home ec department.

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The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development has authorized funding for a community center in the San Fernando Gardens housing development in Pacoima, Los Angeles City Councilman Ernani Bernardi's office announced Thursday. The balance of the project's $941,000 cost is being funded through loans and grants from the Community Development Department and money from the councilman's discretionary fund.

Four students are standing over a hot stove in the creamery of the Institute of Domestic Technology on a late-October Sunday at the Zane Grey Estate in Altadena. Each one is manning a hand-cranked Whirley-Pop popcorn popper filled not with popcorn but green coffee beans from Costa Rica. The raw coffee beans turn golden, then brown, then start to expand and crackle. A moment or two later, as the beans sizzle: "You hear that? That's second crack!" says instructor Ian Riley, explaining the point at which the coffee's woody cell walls fracture and its sugars continue to caramelize.

On behalf of the commissioners, staff and residents of the Housing Authority of the City of Los Angeles (HACLA), I congratulate our executive director, Joseph Shuldiner, on his White House nomination to the position of assistant secretary for public and Indian housing in the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development. Shuldiner was instrumental in transforming a troubled agency into a role model for large public housing authorities during his three-year tenure in Los Angeles.

Ending a yearlong search, Mayor Tom Bradley and housing officials Friday announced the selection of New York City's chief operating officer of public housing to run Los Angeles' 21 scattered and troubled housing projects. Joseph Shuldiner, 45, who takes on the $135,000-a-year job as director of the Los Angeles Housing Authority in May, will leave a massive agency of 15,000 employees that provides housing to 600,000 poor tenants.

Looking to learn some do-it-yourself skills for holiday gift giving this year? The Institute of Domestic Technology has a one-day food-crafting class Saturday focusing on homemade gifts for the holidays at the Zane Grey Estate in Altadena. A repeat of the class will take place at the Greystone Mansion in Beverly Hills on Dec. 8.  From 10 a.m. to 4 p.m., instructors Kevin West and Joseph Shuldiner will teach a smorgasbord of useful skills for making a variety of D.I.Y. gifts.

The art of Joseph Shuldiner proves that sometimes the best form does follow function. He created his first translucent lighting sculptures when he needed lamps himself. "I had moved into a house where there were no fixtures, so I took one of my sculptures and stuck a bulb in it." At first glance, the sculptures are reminiscent of world-renowned Isamu Noguchi's paper lights. But Shuldiner credits other inspirational sources as well, namely the 1919 silent film "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari."