by Kim Cooper | Aug 31, 2023 | The Esotouric Blog
Something worrying has been happening in the City of Santa Ana: bureaucrats, rushing to spend a $9.3 Million critical maintenance and infrastructure grant from the California State Library “Building Forward” program before the March 31, 2026 completion deadline and...
by Kim Cooper | May 14, 2023 | The Esotouric Blog
This week, Los Angeles City Councilmember Eunisses Hernandez introduced a motion acknowledging that the proposed redevelopment of the Lincoln Heights Jail into a “maker’s district” is not actually happening. Her idea for the massive, derelict...
by Kim Cooper | May 12, 2023 | The Esotouric Blog
The following is a guest post from Kevin Trujillo Miller, about what he saw last night at Central Library during ALOUD’s program, Surviving Homelessness & Foster Care: A conversation with author David Ambroz and Mayor Karen Bass. Well, as the saying goes,...
by Kim Cooper | Mar 29, 2023 | The Esotouric Blog
History doesn’t repeat, but in Los Angeles sometimes it rhymes something fierce. In the first verse, we’ve got Chicago émigré Raymond Chandler, the early 20th century downtown oil man who suppressed his literary ambitions while rising in the business world...
by Kim Cooper | Mar 9, 2023 | The Esotouric Blog
This investigation is published on the 29th anniversary of Charles Bukowski’s death. In 2007, while writing our tour of Bukowski’s Los Angeles, we spotted a Craigslist ad that listed the writer’s longtime home in the 1920s bungalow court at 5124 De Longpre...
