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- 1From:Journal of the History of Sexuality (Vol. 31, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedIn late 1992 the Los Angeles Gay and Lesbian Police Advisory Task Force (hereafter the Task Force) unveiled a victory more than fifteen years in the making: the publication of a gay, lesbian, and bisexual (GLB) awareness...
- 2From:School Library Journal (Vol. 61, Issue 8)AS POST-RECESSION BUDGET WOES HAVE EXTENDED DEBATES about the relevance of school libraries, their plight has been most dramatic in California. What does it take to save a city's school libraries? This snapshot of three...
- 3From:Architecture (Vol. 89, Issue 12)Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art has named Brooke Hodge, Assistant Dean of Arts Programs at GSD, its curator of architecture and design....
- 4From:World Literature Today (Vol. 89, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedWALKING DOWN Hollywood Boulevard, it's hard to imagine anything less than a frantic lifestyle for Los Angeles, but nestled amid the wannabe actors and elaborate movie sets are some surprising but altogether welcome...
- 5From:Public Utilities Fortnightly (Vol. 131, Issue 7)The 1992 Los Angeles riots presented the Dept of Water and Power with a crisis from which many valuable lessons were learned about emergency management. Communication is of primary importance, to reassure the public via...
- 6From:The FBI Law Enforcement Bulletin (Vol. 61, Issue 6)Graffiti is a good indicator of gang activity in a given area. It reflects the activities of street gangs, and if left unchecked, it can breed crime, erode community confidence and lower property values. Los Angeles, CA,...
- 7From:Architecture (Vol. 89, Issue 2)Hardy Holzman Pfeiffer Associates (HHPA) is working on the renovation of Griffith Observatory in Los Angeles, made famous by the James Dean classic Rebel Without a Cause....
- 8From:School Library Journal (Vol. 49, Issue 5)The $142 million in budget cuts proposed by the Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) will slash library hours in half at 469 elementary schools and reduce overall per-pupil spending by $50 a year. According to...
- 9From:NACLA Report on the Americas (Vol. 42, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedON MAY 1, 2007, THOUSANDS OF LOS Angeles residents took to the streets to reprise the massive immigrant rights march that captured the nation's attention a year earlier. The day began with a peaceful march of about...
- 10From:Migraciones Internacionales (Vol. 2, Issue 1) Peer-ReviewedRESUMEN Este ensayo analiza la participacion de la fuerza de trabajo inmigrante mexicana en la manufactura del vestido de Los Angeles. Se estudia su composicion por sexo, estado de origen, perfil socioeconomico,...
- 11From:American Journalism Review (Vol. 20, Issue 8) Peer-ReviewedNewspapers often play important roles in civil community affairs. Critics believe they sometimes become too involved. Debates regarding a controversial donation by the Los Angeles Daily News have elicited evaluation of...
- 12From:Architecture (Vol. 87, Issue 4)Snippets of wisdom, in the form of quotations from noted mathematicians, hang from the ceiling in Mathematica, the exhibition Charles and Ray Eames designed for Los Angeles's California Museum of Science and Industry in...
- 13From:American Libraries (Vol. 21, Issue 11)USC and Los Angeles PL vie for newspaper "morgue" At the once-meeting offices of the now-defunt Los Angeles Herald Examiner, dust has settled on some 150 battered file cabinets. The files are filled with stiff brown...
- 14From:Omni (Vol. 17, Issue 2) Peer-ReviewedCSI is a branch of the Crossroads School for Arts & Sciences, and it offers a summer program that gives students responsibility for learning and projects. A group of middle and high school students recently built a...
- 15From:Five Points: A Journal of Literature and Art (Vol. 18, Issue 1)I have taken a seat in a garden of open sky, hedged with ficus and bougainvillea, the bristling red flowers of bottlebrush, and a couple of lemon and lime trees from one of many forgotten orchards. The December...
- 16From:Southern Economic Journal (Vol. 78, Issue 3) Peer-ReviewedSome education reformers have proposed breaking up large urban school districts, thereby moving to a more efficient scale, increasing school choices, and promoting school competition. This article tests whether...
- 17From:American Libraries (Vol. 50, Issue 6)As senior librarian of the Will and Ariel Durant branch of Los Angeles Public Library, I have been at ground zero for the types of security issues Kelly Clark describes in his op-ed ("Keep Library Workers Safe," AL...
- 18From:American Libraries (Vol. 52, Issue 1-2)ALA's Nominating Committee annually nominates candidates from among the general membership for members-at-large of Council. Individuals not selected by the Nominating Committee were eligible to run for office by petition...
- 19From:Principal Leadership (Vol. 21, Issue 6)For many school districts around the country, student academic success is the highest priority, second only to student safety. The Los Angeles Unified School District (LAUSD) invested many fiscal and human resources into...
- 20From:The Architectural Review (Vol. 209, Issue 1249)Made for the same basic cost as a conventional building, this school in a Los Angeles suburb provides a stimulating model for institutional architecture that is both experimental and civic. In outer suburbia east of...