Articles by D. J. Waldie Page 2

THIS IS THE “Land of Sunshine”? Read more

AT the end of the movie “Chinatown,” after clueless private eye Jake Gittes has doggedly run down all the false leads about water and power in Los Angeles, his partner pulls him back from Evelyn Mulwray’s bullet-shattered face as gawking Chinese bystanders crowd around, and sums up the story’s essence with the despairing line: “Forget it, Jake. Read more

In two pairs, the officers pass through the swaying rail car, crisply uniformed and armed, taking up positions that surveil the exits. Read more

HOW quixotic is Kwame Anthony Appiah, the mostly optimistic philosopher of cosmopolitanism? Read more

THAT HOLLOW laughter you hear echoing from beneath your feet is the Ghost of Mass Transit Past, stirring again like one of Ebenezer Scrooge’s unwelcome holiday visitors below the intersection of Wilshire Boulevard and Western Avenue, where the mid-city arm of the Red Line subway terminated in 1996. Read more

AUTHOR LAWRENCE Clark Powell remembered his mother arriving in Pasadena at the turn of the last century with her horticultural triumph: a geranium. Read more

Can one man envision a city whole and will that city into existence? Read more

I WALK EVERY DAY, RARELY FOR PLEASURE AND NEVER FOR EXERCISE AND without company or electronic media. Read more

Some old soldiers of the Red Army, in their odd, boxy uniforms covered with rows of cheaply made medals, are getting ready in West Hollywood for the dedication of a city- and county-sponsored memorial. Read more