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Kevin Roderick is the founder, publisher and editor of LA Observed. He is a journalist and radio commentator and the author of two books about Los Angeles. Kevin created LA Observed in 2003 after ...

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Jon Christensen is a columnist at LA Observed. Jon Christensen has been an environmental journalist and science writer for more than 30 years, writing for the New York Times, Nature, High Country News ...

LA Observed columnist Bill Boyarsky retired from the Los Angeles Times after serving as national political writer, City-County Bureau chief, city editor and columnist. A former vice president of the ...

Steve Harvey is an author and the former Only in LA columnist for the Los Angeles Times. Only in LA now appears at LA Observed. Steve Harvey may be reached at [email protected]. His Twitter ...

Don Shirley writes about theater for LA Observed. He is the former longtime theater writer for the Los Angeles Times, LA Stage Times and other publications.

Iris Schneider considers herself an accomplished observer of life in Los Angeles. As a staff photographer at the L.A. Times for 27 years, and as a freelance photographer in New York and Los Angeles, ...

Deanne Stillman brakes for sand. Her latest book is the critically acclaimed "Desert Reckoning: A Town Sheriff, a Mojave Hermit, and the Biggest Manhunt in Modern California History," a Rolling Stone ...