Join us this week as we talk with Donald Spivack, former Deputy Chief of Operations and Policy for the Community Redevelopment Agency of Los Angeles, about Bunker Hill’s Grand Avenue and its multiple reinventions over the past four decades. We’ll also visit with Jon Christensen, editor of Boom, a Journal of California, to learn about the motivations that power this most California-centric publication.

Boom A Journal of California

The Raymond Chandler Map of Los Angeles by Kim Cooper and Paul Rogers.

The Royal Viking, RIP. 

Gentrification myths debunked.

When activists go gonzo.

Twelve endangered L.A. buildings to watch.

The Southwest Museum matters.

Loss of Ray Bradbury's house gets preservationists talking.

Rives Mansion in Downey is in trouble. Video of what was.

 

Monthly Sunday LAVA Salon February 2015

LAVA Forensic Science Seminar: Hot Lead and Hot Leads: Forensic Firearm / Gang Communication Analysis

 

Upcoming Bus Tours

Birth of Noir: James M. Cain’s Los Angeles

Boyle Heights & The San Gabriel Valley: The Hidden Histories of L.A.‘s Melting Pot

Route 66 Road Trip: Roadside Architecture, Citrus, Drive-Ins & Cemeteries

The Lowdown on Downtown

Wild Wild Westside

Weird West Adams

Pasadena Confidential

Hollywood!

Hotel Horrors & Main Street Vice

The Real Black Dahlia

Echo Park Book of the Dead