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Design
fromtherealdeal.com
1 week ago

How Frank Gehry went from Dirty Harry to Pritzker Prize

Frank Gehry shepherded a transformational plan to upgrade the Los Angeles River and left a global architectural legacy including the Walt Disney Concert Hall.
fromSPIN
1 week ago

Luke Spiller Brings Us 'the Christmas Song Nobody Asked for' (But Needed)

Luke Spiller has had a year of "achievements." He mentions the term twice during our conversation. Once in connection with his group the Struts, who celebrated the 10-year anniversary of their debut album, Everybody Wants, with a major tour. And once when speaking about his debut solo album, Love Will Probably Kill Me Before Cigarettes and Wine. He's capping 2026 with "An Evening With the Struts" at the Grammy Museum on December 8-which is sold out.
Music
fromwww.npr.org
3 weeks ago

A guerrilla gardener installed a pop-up wetland in the LA River. Here's how and why

But when Doug Rosenberg came upon a shopping cart tipped over in the river's shallow waters back in 2020, he saw the potential to meet nature halfway. "It had begun to bloom some greenery around it, and there was a great blue heron perched on the cart, hunting in this little spot," Rosenberg recalled. "That was when it clicked for me that any 3D geometry at all in that river channel will trap sediment, will begin a micro-bloom of ecosystem."
Environment
fromLos Angeles Times
1 month ago

Melanie Winter, who fought for embracing nature along the Los Angeles River, dies

"She was a voice for nature and a voice for the river," said Rita Kampalath, L.A. County's chief sustainability officer and a longtime friend of Winter's. "She had such strength of her convictions, and she was so clear-eyed in the vision that she wanted to push forward. And I think that inspired a lot of people."
Environment
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