Spring.
Frank Ocean in Band of Outsiders.
Photographed by Scott Sternberg at the Los Angeles Times Building.
New images drop here and on our instagram (@thisisbandofoutsiders) through Sunday.
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Poet Adrienne Rich, 82, has died
Adrienne Rich, a pioneering feminist poet and essayist who challenged what she considered to be the myths of the American dream, has died. She was 82.
The recipient of such literary awards as the Yale Young Poets prize, the National Book Award, the Ruth Lilly Poetry Prize and the Dorothea Tanning Award given by the Academy of American Poets, Rich died Tuesday at her home in Santa Cruz of complications from long-term rheumatoid arthritis, said a son, Pablo Conrad.
She came of age during the social upheavals of the 1960s and ’70s and was best known as an advocate of women’s rights, which she wrote about in both her poetry and prose. But she also wrote passionate antiwar poetry and took up the causes of the marginalized and underprivileged.
Just learned about Adrienne Rich’s passing. The world has lost an incredible woman today.
UC Irvine Nobel winner F. Sherwood Rowland dies
F. Sherwood Rowland, the UC Irvine chemistry professor who warned the world that man-made chemicals could erode the ozone layer, has died. He was 84.
Rowland, known as Sherry, died Saturday at his home in Corona del Mar, the university announced. He had Parkinson’s disease.
In 1995, Rowland was one of three people awarded the Nobel Prize in chemistry for his work explaining how chlorofluorocarbons, ubiquitous substances once used in an array of products from spray deodorant to industrial solvents, could destroy the ozone layer, the protective atmospheric blanket that screens out many of the sun’s harmful ultraviolet rays.
We’ve got a fantastic MLK gallery on Framework.
Photo: The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. and his wife, Coretta, lead a march in Georgia. Credit: Associated Press
Reblogged from Los Angeles Times
A South Korean’s unwanted war legacy from Japan
In 1944, he was abducted from his village by Japanese soldiers and forced to dig tunnels at a World War II camp. In 2005, he learned he was mistakenly listed among Japan’s war dead at a Tokyo shrine.
For most of his life, Kim Hui-jong has kept what he considers a shameful secret. In 1944, as a teenager, he was abducted from his village in northern Korea by Japanese soldiers and forced to dig tunnels at a World War II military camp on the island of Saipan.
It would take him a decade of marriage to tell his wife about his past. Kim, 86, still often dreams of the battlefield shelling that severely damaged his hearing and the taunts of his captors: “You Koreans are like canned meat; we can take you anywhere and use you as we see fit.”
He always considered his Japanese enslavement, and the two years he later spent as a U.S. prisoner of war, as a lifelong humiliation. Then, in 2005, Kim received a new insult he insists he still cannot bear: For decades, the former conscript learned, he has been counted among Japan’s war dead and, because of an administrative error, his name is listed at Tokyo’s controversial Yasukuni shrine. He could no longer remain silent.
Above: Kim Hui-jong, 86, of South Korea, has been trying to get Japan to remove his name from a list of that country’s World War II dead: “I never fought for the Japanese; I was a forced laborer.” (Matt Douma, For The Times / August 15, 2011)
——-This is awful. Yes, the relationship between South Korea and Japan has always been an extremely complicated one. As the American-born daughter of two South Korean immigrants, I’ve always known that. (If you don’t believe me, ask any Korean person what they think of the Dokdo Islands.) Kim Hui-Jong’s story breaks my heart.
Clear your evening plans: The 2011 Perseid meteor shower is best seen tonight.
Photo: Mt. Pinos in California blocks out light pollution from below, offering a couple a view of the Perseids meteor showers in 2010. Credit: Don Bartletti / Los Angeles Times
Go outside. Look up.
Reblogged from Los Angeles Times
Mapping L.A. Project
Thanks to the Times, I now know exactly what neighborhood I’m in.
I never new the exact boundaries for my neighborhood in LA. And everyone has their own opinion.
I would always say, “oh yeah, i live near Mid-Wilshire, Hancock Park area…you know, Mid-City…” It’s nice to put an end to that debate. Phew. :-)
Good to know.
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In a column published Monday, Steve Lopez wrote that Southwest would offer flights from Burbank to LAX during Carmageddon. That was satire.
Now, JetBlue is offering a flyover from Long Beach to Burbank for $4. Not satire.
LOL. Ridiculous. I think it’s funny, but such a waste of fuel.
More thoughts re: Carmageddon: While I get the knee-jerk reaction to tell everyone “Get the hell outta Dodge,” I feel like there could’ve been more of a push to just stay local and maybe discover a new bar down the street, and a restaurant around the corner. It’s entirely possible to survive by walking or biking to your local businesses. It’s better for the local economy as well as the environment.
Reblogged from Los Angeles Times
L.A. Now:
From LAX, William and Catherine will head to Beverly Hills for a business event supporting U.K. Trade and Investment. Then they will attend a reception at the British Consulate-General residence in Hancock Park.
I don’t really care that they’re here, but I find that last bit of information amusing because I’ve been to a reception at the British Consulate-General’s place in Hancock Park. It was really fun, and the residence is really swanky.
I just thought about this — do the royals have last names? Literally, I have no idea what Prince William’s last name is. That’s really weird.
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