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Olga Khazan

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Pasadena Showcase House of Design

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By Sunil Rampersad It’s not often that I make the long commute to Pasadena, and even much less so to La Canada-Flintridge, but I did it last week. The reason…

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Apr 21, 2011 By Olga Khazan
 
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Coming Up This Weekend: Paul Williams House on Show, Women in Architecture, Tomorrow’s Garden

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Pasadena Showcase House of Design: This year’s Pasadena Showcase House, Paul Williams’ 1927 English Period Revival estate, will open for the public on April 17. John Bishop Green, a painting contractor, rancher…

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Apr 14, 2011 By Olga Khazan
 
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Transmedia and Entertainment Design in the “Wild, Wild West.”

Design

When Walt Disney first designed Tomorrowland for Disneyland in the early 1950s, the concept of tomorrow generated the idea of a far-off future filled with new technology and endless possibilities.…

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Apr 13, 2011 By Olga Khazan
 
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Julius Schulman and his Other Los Angeles: Book Signing and Panel

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Julius Shulman is is known for his epoch-defining black and white images of glamorously lived-in Socal Midcentury Modern houses, designed by the likes of Richard Neutra and Pierre Koenig. But…

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Apr 09, 2011 By Olga Khazan
 
Books

The Way We’ll Live Next: Near Airports?

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By Olga Khazan Of the many complaints often made about airports – the lines, the body scans, the baggage fees – one you don’t hear every day is that airports…

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Apr 06, 2011 By Olga Khazan
 
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Archi-Parties This Weekend: Disco Silencio and ForumFest

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DISCO SILENCIO (Silent Disco): “Bohemian Modern” architect Barbara Bestor is known almost as much for her pop-themed Silverlake parties as for her accessible Modern design. So her latest project, “Disco…

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Apr 01, 2011 By Olga Khazan
 
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Round-up for March 12, 2011

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Around L.A.: Cause for Creativity: The Alchemy of Grooming SMMoA (Santa Monica) 2–5pm In partnership with the Campaign for Safe Cosmetics, SMMoA presents a workshop teaching you to make your…

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Mar 12, 2011 By Olga Khazan
 
News

GOOD Throws A Party For CicLAvia

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By Olga Khazan It seems the efforts of the city’s bike advocates are slowly but surely paying off. Last week, the City Council approved a complex “bicycle master plan” that…

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Mar 08, 2011 By Olga Khazan
 
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Weekly Round-Up: CicLAvia, Tadao Ando, Rodarte and More

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Around L.A.: GOOD magazine party for CiclaVia: This Saturday, GOOD, the magazine for people who “give a damn,” is throwing a party (and fundraiser) for the bicycle advocacy group CicLAvia…

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Mar 03, 2011 By Olga Khazan
 
Scene from the bus

Scene from the Bus: Paul Williams’ Legacy in Los Angeles

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It doesn’t have to be Black History Month to appreciate Black History in Los Angeles, especially when it involves one of LA’s great architects, Paul Williams, writes Sunil Rampersad.   I asked my much…

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Mar 03, 2011 By Olga Khazan

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