Features on Justice For All

2010-03-11 MasterPlanning!: The Smart Panopticopolis by Tony Chavira
Back in the 18th century, British philosopher Jeremy Bentham took the general design of a military school and developed a type of building he called a Panopticon.
2010-03-10 Donuts at 2 A.M.: Bridges of Imagination by Gary Phillips
Years ago there was a TV show called My World and Welcome to It. In the show William Windom played a daydreaming cartoonist who utilized his imagination …
2010-03-04 MasterPlanning!: Countering Terrain Vague With the NFL by Tony Chavira
If Ed Roski wanted to build a stadium on his super-massive parcel in the city of Industry, he could. Easily. And no one could say anything because he owns that land.
2010-03-02 Oklahoma Dreaming: High School by Donna Schoenkopf
Last week I substituted at a local high school. I love teaching high school. The kids are just like … well, kids. With a LOT of hormones. Bratty kids. Sweet kids. Scared kids.
2010-03-01 Lost in OC: Cuba Si, Soviets No by Jim Washburn
I’m delighted to be going to Cuba, since it’s one of the few places in the world that isn’t yet thoroughly corporatized; and because I love Cuban music and culture …
2010-02-26 California Dreaming: Our Family Dreading by Rebecca Schoenkopf
When I lived ghetto-style in the LBC, our block was a delightful mélange of black, Latino, Gypsy, and the young white crack mom across the street.
2010-02-24 Donuts at 2 A.M.: The Big Weight by Gary Phillips
There were the angry tweets recently by filmmaker Kevin Smith getting kicked off a Southwest flight by a Captain Leysath for being a safety risk for being too fat.
2010-02-17 Haiti and the Southland by David Deutsch
Haiti has, for obvious reasons, been on the top of the news cycle lately. There isn’t a lot that can be said about the catastrophe that isn’t strikingly obvious.
2010-02-15 Lost in OC: The Civilizing Effect of Religion by Jim Washburn
Back in Nazi Germany, some prominent Nazis thought Christianity was just a Jewish trick, designed to make the Aryan race docile and weak with all that compassion.
2010-02-10 Donuts at 2 A.M.: Risky Business by Gary Phillips
Risk is a heck of a thing. Here I was enjoying the Super Bowl last Sunday along with 106 million others or thereabouts. As the two teams went back into the locker room …
2010-02-05 California Dreaming: I Like Blight by Rebecca Schoenkopf
Anne Bray is a lovely woman, tall and blonde and well-put-together. She is an artist, often focusing on remaking the urban landscape. The landscape she wants is pristine.
2010-02-04 MasterPlanning!: Masterplanning in India! Agra to Jaipur: The Rules of the Road by Tony Chavira
From Agra to Jaipur, the capital of Rajasthan, you notice something very peculiar about transit that rings true throughout the country: that cars don’t necessarily own the road.
2010-02-01 Lost in OC: Snakes of the Union by Jim Washburn
Whatever else one might say about the ritual of the State of the Union address, it’s at least an opportunity for the old white men of Congress to get their annual calisthenics in.
2010-01-27 Donuts at 2 A.M.: Hot Links and Pogo by Gary Phillips
For the love of God, Sam’s Club is farming out those jobs where little old ladies wearing see-through plastic gloves hand you a cheese cube on a toothpick.
2010-01-19 Oklahoma Dreaming: Give People the Games by Donna Schoenkopf
Aristotle said, “Tyrants will say, ‘Give people the games.’” This means that a tyrant will try to divert the people’s awareness of his devious plots.
2010-01-15 California Dreaming: Conversations With Other Women (About Homeless Men) by Rebecca Schoenkopf
And just like that, he goes, “I’ll take two bottles of water, orange juice no pulp, and Ruffles sour cream potato chips.”
2010-01-14 The FourStory Interview: Lorri Galloway by Jim Washburn
We started our conversation with Ms. Galloway by talking about the recent Seattle election in which voters supported, for the 20th year there, a levy to fund affordable housing.
2010-01-04 Lost in OC: Plenty of Affordable Housing on Pandora by Jim Washburn
We took my wife’s dad. He was an impressionable 15 years old when The Wizard of Oz came out 1939. He’s 85 now, and liked Avatar better.
2010-01-01 California Dreaming: All Is Quiet by Rebecca Schoenkopf
Ten years ago, I was scared to death of Y2K and its incipient lawlessness and anarchy, and so I went to San Felipe with Greg the Fireman and Annie his Special Lady.
2009-12-31 Directing Capitol Records by John Schoenkopf
Oklahoma is not Los Angeles. Hell, it’s not even Bakersfield. So much so that they’ll actually arrest you for having the gall to possess a gram of marijuana. Trust me, I know.
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