Get the Full Tour of Studio Shamshiri’s Los Angeles Office Architectural Digest The Los Angeles offices of Studio Shamshiri are a marvel of vaulted spaces, curvilinear geometries, and warm, residential flourishes. Source: “Los Angeles” – Google News
Blog: Removal of disputed Los Angeles school mural put on hold – Fox News
FILE – In this Dec. 13, 2018 file photo, a mural by artist Beau Stanton of actress Ava Gardner is displayed at the Robert F. Kennedy Community Schools complex school in Los Angeles. Artist Shepard Fairey will insist that one of his murals be removed from the Los Angeles school if officials follow through on […]
Blog: UC Irvine professor gets security escort after saying on Twitter that a colleague was harassing her
“They were taken into a seminar room and, with one exception (a coward who jumped out the window instead of facing the killer’s humiliating charges), were killed with a sawed off shotgun,” Symanski writes in the memoir, describing part of his novel. “Nearly an entire academic department was eliminated.” Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times
Blog: Sonoma County to pay $3 million to family of boy who was toting fake gun when he was killed by deputy
The lawsuit, filed in federal court in San Francisco, alleged that Sonoma County Sheriff’s Deputy Erick Gelhaus acted unreasonably when he shot Andy Lopez, an eighth-grader, in a residential neighborhood. The lawsuit called the Oct. 22 shooting, which sparked protests and rallies in Sonoma County, “a senseless and unwarranted act of police abuse.” Source: latimes.com […]
Blog: India tries to build a world-class city from scratch, and looks to Singapore for help
In 2014, Andhra Pradesh was split into two, and Hyderabad became the capital of the new state, Telangana. Naidu, who had been voted out of office as chief minister a decade earlier, returned as chief minister of the new, smaller Andhra Pradesh, bereft of its largest city – and his crown jewel. Source: latimes.com – […]
Blog: Author Alice Walker under fire for endorsing book by ‘anti-Semitic conspiracy theorist’
"The Color Purple" author Alice Walker last week endorsed a book by a British conspiracy theorist frequently accused of anti-Semitism, and literary observers are speaking out on social media. Walker, the Pulitzer Prize-winning novelist, poet and activist, was interviewed for the New York Times… Source: latimes.com – Los Angeles Times