March 2009 Archives

TTLA posted on March 21 these springtime tidings from JPL oceanographer Bill Patzert. The post happily included material from here.

Today, TTLA illustrator Richard Nielsen keeps the conversation going with a new illustration, above.

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TTLA joins the rest of the KCET.org blog crew in welcoming to the site Brian Doherty and his City of Angles political journal.

TTLA in particular looks forward to picking this public intellectual's brain for tales about tanks. Doherty, as his bio here notes, works for Reason and has had a book published by the Cato Institute.

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TTLA is fortunate enough to be acquainted with Bill Patzert.

Patzert is a research scientist in oceanography at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory. He's also a nominee for the Best Quote in Town, an easy communicator who famously coined the term, "La Nina" to describe this condition.

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In kinship with KCET.org's Juan Devis and his Web Stories series, TTLA checks in with the Urban & Environmental Policy Institute at Occidental College.

From the Institute's website, under the 'What We Believe' section: "UEPI works to achieve a just, livable, and democratic society, with a primary focus on the Los Angeles region."

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The folks over at UEPI (see this post), were kind enough to send along the advance text of a blog post that should soon be posted on this website and wiki.

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Friend and colleague Juan Devis' latest KCET.org Web Stories multimedia series collaboration comes online soon. It's about Eagle Rock.

Before TTLA talks tanks (and Eagle Rock) later today, here are a couple of links to a pair of past print stories about the northeast L.A. neighborhood.

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Reading KCET.org colleague Holly Willis' recent post, "Antenna Trees," brought to mind the ongoing work of Miekke Gerritzen and Koert Van Mensvoort, the creative Dutch duo behind the "Next Nature" philosophy.

Gerritzen and Van Mensvoort spent the 2007-2008 academic year as visionaries-in-residence of the Media Design Program at Art Center. Their culminating effort, the Biggest Visual Power Show**, made for a brainy revel at the Million Dollar Theater.

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Just like RAND and the Milken Foundation, the Sepulveda Blvd.-headquartered Reason Foundation (motto: "Free Minds and Free Markets") has also over the years produced various reports and commentaries about traffic congestion and Los Angeles.

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Barring a huge last-minute surge of Walter Moore supporters, the outcome of today's city of Los Angeles mayoral race would seem quite clear.

That wasn't always the case for the soon-to-be second-termer, Antonio Villaraigosa.

Back in spring, 2001, he of course ran and lost, to Jim Hahn.

That means its been eight years since TTLA's byliner wrote this, for the old "Secret City" column on latimes.com.

The piece was about following then candidate-Villaraigosa's campaign schedule for a day -- even on a day Villaraigosa wasn't on that trail. Twelve stops, eleven hours, one bad bowling-as-politics metaphor and 172 odometer miles later, the piece concluded, "Hey, there's always 2005."