It was a pleasure to be a part of the keynote panel at the #Petrocultures2024 conference. I got to share my work with an engaged and insightful audience, and I learned so much from the panels.
LA City Hall, 1995, with a post-Northridge earthquake “band aid” around it’s upper floors. Across the way - a KCAL satellite truck beaming (not streaming…its 1995) the ongoing OJ Simson trial from the LA County Courthouse. #losangeles#architecture#legal#photography#BlackAndWhite#tv
LA Public Health: The Los Angeles County Department of Public Health is investigating a report of hepatitis A virus infection in an employee of Whole Foods Market in Beverly Hills...
if you have to fly, fly into and out of Burbank. It’s worth whatever extra $ even with fewer flights, simply to NOT go through LAX
don’t plan a to criss-cross LA too much. It’s just so vast. Every time I go I do part of my trip on the west side, and the other part on the east. That way it makes it easy to get to places I want to go
Monterey Park has a huge density of many types of Chinese food! Tacos in East LA!
@skinnylatte I would have similar flying advice for Boston unless you plan to only use public transportation while you're there.
It's been years since I've been back there, but I always preferred to fly into Manchester, NH or Providence, RI. Leaving the airport is less stressful, they'll have the rental car you want, and the rates will be cheaper.
Whenever I flew into Boston I'd get stuck with a "free upgrade" to a gas guzzler.
“The administrators keep leaning on ‘safety’ without consulting or sharing their thinking with the Senate or wider faculty,” she said. “We do not necessarily doubt that there were safety concerns, but some question whether this series of decisions to call [#LAPD on nonviolent protesters] harmed & endangered members of campus community while also sending a message to anyone threatening the campus that those threats work.”
What I don't think you'll see in any news story is that my #USC colleagues have been occupying the halls of the administration building for two days now, trying to get disciplinary sanctions of students dropped. They've been met with stonewalling.
It's really awesome that faculty are going to the mat for students & really heartbreaking it's not moving the needle.
Admin censure is so much less than the campus community deserves & also so much less than is visible from inside.
LA City hall is always worth a visit. Not only is the building deco-porn, they have a free, rooftop viewing deck and the friendliest staff on the planet. #Archtiecture#LosAngeles
Our department statement about the shameful actions of Gene Block which put our students at risk. I have much to say about what’s been going on at #UCLA and little of it good. Block must resign.
The students at the encampment, with whom I spent a part of today, are an example of solidarity and democracy. Their right to protest on campus must be defended.
