While it is not a given that there will be another P.S.T. initiative, Ms. Marrow said, they certainly will discuss it in the coming months. “If we want to get new people exposed to art, it might take a while to do it.”
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• With tensions in the newsroom continuing to rise, The Los Angeles Times is expected today to appoint Jim Kirk, a veteran journalist and former editor and publisher of The Chicago Sun-Times, as its next editor in chief. [The New York Times]
• “Baby not breathing,” the caller told the 911 operator. The former dean of the medical school at the University of Southern California is now declining requests from local investigators about the sudden death of an infant. [The Los Angeles Times]
• The 20-year-old man who is accused of killing a former classmate, a 19-year-old student at University of Pennsylvania, is a member of an extremist group and an avowed neo-Nazi. [Pro Publica]
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• Oaxacalifornia: a place with Zapotec Indian dress, along with Doc Martens and the Dodgers. Hector Tobar writes of the “diaspora renaissance,” the rising cultural expression and influence of immigrants now living in the United States. [The New York Times]
• Nearly two years ago, Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles said of homelessness: “This could be the year that we bring the numbers down.” But it wasn’t. Now at least one official says they responded too slowly to crisis on the streets. [The Los Angeles Times]
• A homeless man was nearly killed after San Diego city workers accidentally scooped him off the sidewalk and placed him inside a garbage truck. The man’s screams and frantic arm-waving stopped the team from powering the hydraulic trash compactor. [The San Diego Union Tribune]
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• Perhaps the biggest winner in this season of Hollywood award ceremonies? Liberal politics. One professor attempts to understand exactly how and why Hollywood is so left. [The New York Times]
• Dennis Peron, who helped usher in legal medical marijuana in California and created the first public cannabis dispensary in the country, died Saturday afternoon. He was 71. [The San Francisco Chronicle]
• Shark attacks on the West Coast nearly doubled this year, with nine attacks on humans in 2017, according to some researchers. Most of the unprovoked attacks happened in Southern California, often with kayakers. [The Sacramento Bee]
• One of the world’s oldest gorillas, Vila, died Thursday at the San Diego Zoo Safari Park, just months after she turned 60. [The San Diego Union Tribune]
And Finally ...
As the annual homeless count began in Los Angeles last week, we asked for impressions from volunteers who took to the streets to participate. Here’s what one participant, Margaret Ecker, a retired nurse, shared:
“To be peering into the dark, looking for a person, trying to imagine, as we had been told to do, where we would look for a place to rest if we were homeless… it’s a surprising experience of intimacy. What if we had agreed to peer into every well-lit living room, counting how many people were seated around the living room table or what the kids are watching on TV.
But we were trying to peer into lives very different from our own. Exercising imagination to do that brought the whole thing much closer than walking past it, or signing a petition, or serving at a soup kitchen. Once, driving down Melrose, we had been so focused on the darker corners that we almost bumped into the most obvious version of homelessness — a young man dancing down the sidewalk, talking to the air, face and hands grimy with dirt.”
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California Today is edited by Julie Bloom, who grew up in Los Angeles and graduated from U.C. Berkeley.
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