Making A Neighborhood
Making A Neighborhood, J.T. the L.A. Storyteller, Ali Rachel PearlA newsletter devoted to highlighting what makes a neighborhood. Subscribe for photo essays, interviews, and long-form storytelling about everything from gentrification to the untold story of that one neighbor who grows fruit from Central America.
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From L.A. to Minneapolis, Don't Let the Bastards Grind You Down
Standing by in Virgil Village. June 2025.
In this NY Times article, which discusses the “tipping point” for public sentiment against ICE, Kurt Streeter argues that what finally broke the wider public’s trust in the agency was the unprovoke...
What to do Before the Disaster Strikes
It’s been one year since Altadena burned to the ground. One year since an electric tower sparked in a dry canyon during a rainless season and destroyed what tens of thousands of people knew as their life. If you drive east or west along the...
To Gustavo "Kaboom" Robles: Los Angeles Fresh Forever
Gustavo’s brother Donald, just in front of the vigil set up for him at the 4100 Bar. September 8th, 2025.
How does one even begin to describe a star as large as that of Gustavo Adolfo “Kaboom” Robles? In the early hours of Saturday, Septem...
Despite their lawlessness, our justice is still just around the way
Our new postcard for Español speakers in East Hollywood, Virgil Village, Los Feliz and Silver Lake. Quien Es Tu Vecindario is a nonprofit and mutual aid network founded in 2020.
For the record, there should be nothing surprising about a co...
Damaged irreversibly, but still not yet lost
Two men make their way on opposite sides along Virgil avenue in Los Angeles. Spring 2015.
In Redlining, Gentrification, and Housing, we told the story of the internment camps our neighbors from J-Flats were placed in, and how their contemp...
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A weekly newsletter devoted to highlighting what makes a neighborhood. Subscribe for photo essays, interviews, & longform storytelling about everything from gentrification to the untold story of that one neighbor who grows fruit from Central America.
Has published essays, poetry, and more for L.A. since 2014; the places he calls home include East Hollywood, Koreatown, Echo Park, Historic Filipinotown and more of central Los Angeles.
Writer, teacher, & community organizer in Los Angeles.
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