by Kim Cooper | Sep 5, 2020 | The Esotouric Blog
As history loving Angelenos enter our sixth trying month of shuttered archives and libraries, the Getty Research Institute just dropped a thrilling bombshell with the release of the Research Collections Viewer, an online access tool to high resolution scans of...
by Kim Cooper | Aug 10, 2020 | The Esotouric Blog
[Update: we live tweeted the contentious hearing. Scroll down to the bottom of the post to read our tweets about what happened.] We’ve just learned that the art studio at 5518 Franklin Avenue where the influential graphic artist, educator and social justice...
by Kim Cooper | Sep 10, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
Some emails have just been released in response to a public records request by government transparency blogger Adrian Riskin of MichaelKohlhaas.org. He asked Councilman Mitch O’Farrell’s office for any correspondence between the councilman’s staff and anyone with...
by Kim Cooper | Apr 29, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
UPDATED JUNE 11 – Attorney General documents obtained through public records request reveal terms of the American Cinematheque’s deal with Netflix. UPDATED MAY 29, 2020 – In a pandemic, as rioters fill the streets, Netflix quietly purchases the...
by Kim Cooper | Apr 5, 2019 | The Esotouric Blog
When Hollywood gadfly and anti-corruption activist John Walsh died in early 2019, Los Angeles City Council showed its contempt for the man by adjourning in his honor—knowing, no doubt that he had asked that this never happen, for “even in death, I would consider...
