Posts by Nathan Walpow

2010-03-17 Cuba Update: No Blogging
Politics intrude.
2010-03-11 FourStory Gets Facebookized
Can Twitter be far behind?
2010-03-10 Hybrid Madness: The Blogging T-Shirt Merchant
Clothe your body and save the world.
2010-02-22 Cuba Update: Travel Babe in the Woods
He’s a real nowhere man.
2010-02-06 FourStory Goes to Cuba
The whole damn kit and kaboodle of us.
2010-02-04 Washburn to Receive Lifetime Achievement Award … No, Seriously
And he plays guitar upside-down.
2010-01-28 Howard Zinn, 1922-2010
It’s the end of the world as we know it.
2010-01-25 Better Transit Design Through Slime Mold
The Blob was just looking for a job.
2010-01-21 Only 59 Senators! The Sky Is Falling!
And where was the Republican outrage about Brown’s nude pics?
2010-01-12 Modernest: Like FourStory for the Home
I’m going to try the vietnamese lemongrass green beans and tofu.
2010-01-05 Culver City: Red-Light Camera Trap
The city fiddles while Walpow burns.
2009-12-10 Gary Phillips Interview: Admits Community Activism!
And calls Walpow a potentate.
2009-11-23 Bicycle Cop Dave Creators Speak
Actually, they type stuff on the computer, but you know what we mean.
2009-10-26 Bicycle Cop Dave! Crime-Solving Kids! Socially Responsible Video! Rebecca Rocks the Times!
A bunch of stuff you ought to know about.
2009-10-19 Bicycle Cop Dave Wheels Our Way
We follow Dave’s quixotic day taking us into various environs of downtown Los Angeles.
2009-10-09 Gustavomania!
Like the illegitimate spawn of “Frère Jacques” and Jewish wedding music.
2009-09-14 Art You Should See: Tom McKinley Redux
Colors that seem real and not-real simultaneously.
2009-09-11 Interior Designers: Get Greener on TV
Do the planet a favor; have your mother call and say you look a little thin.
2009-09-09 Ten Principles for Fixing the Mortgage and Slashing Foreclosures
With video of the president of the National Housing Council, wearing a cool flannel shirt.
2009-09-03 No Affordable Feet for You
Here’s a GOOD story for you to read.
2009-08-20 Eiler’s Crossing & House of Blue Lights: Art by Jorg Dubin
A couple of pieces by the subject of FourStory’s first video interview.
2009-08-11 He Would Have Gotten Off Except for the Fireworks
There’s a blow-up joke here somewhere …
2009-08-07 CashCall Takes Usury to New Heights
You end up paying back four times what you get.
2009-08-06 FourStory Takes the Week Off
Because it’s too hot and sweaty to do anything else.
2009-08-04 Exclusive Michael Jackson Funeral Photos
No, we’re not kidding. Just what the title says.
2009-07-31 Washburn Dominates the Internets!
Our musical guru ruminates on O.C. music and curates album covers
2009-07-28 We Really Think You Should Go to James P. Scott’s New Art Exhibition
Dramatic paintings examine what it is to live, work and navigate around Los Angeles.
2009-07-24 FTC Targets Deceptive Foreclosure Rescue Companies
Cracking down on the slimeballs.
2009-07-13 My World Is Coming Down Around Me
Is it possible TJ’s isn’t perfect?
2009-07-10 Let’s Go Live in a Fuselage
The paneling might not suit all tastes, but I kinda like it.
2009-07-09 Toy Tree: Art by Robbie Miller
Underneath, Astroturf, at least in spirit.
2009-07-08 BigDog: A Robot for All Seasons
Just in case you think the Terminator is science fiction.
2009-07-04 Today’s WTF Moment
Yet another sign of the upcoming apocalypse.
2009-06-15 Neighborhood: Art by Darlene Campbell
Her paintings, which average 9 by 12 inches, provide us with a glimpse of our future.
2009-05-26 Dream Home: Art by Anthony Discenza
We find ourselves exposed to ever-greater amounts of visual stimuli.
2009-05-23 FourStory Gets Kindled
Hot stuff for you early adopters out there.
2009-05-14 Art You Should See: Tom McKinley
Houses and skies tell the story.
2009-05-13 John Shannon and The Year of Five Liberations
He’s back and FourStory’s got him.
2009-05-08 Workforce Housing, 17th Century Style
Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.
2009-05-08 Short Walking Movies by Don Livoni
The use of photographs distills cinema’s appeal and its impossibility.
2009-05-04 Brave New Sanctuary: Art by Michelle Wasson
Many of these homes are born of utopian idealism or naiveté.
2009-04-29 Así es mi Pueblo: Art by Sandow Birk
Frequent themes include inner city violence, graffiti, various political issues, travel …
2009-04-14 Why Ellen DeGeneres is Like Son of Sam
And other ridiculous crap from the loyal opposition
2009-04-09 A Visit to MSBNC.com
Ridiculous, sublime, and everything in between.
2009-03-07 Idiot Of The Week: Rush Limbaugh
The vote was unanimous.
2009-03-04 Why So Many Election Days?
The turnout might be better if there was more stuff to vote for.
2009-03-02 Next to “Self-Congratulation” in the Dictionary …
Visitation? Like when you visit your Uncle Louie in prison?
2009-02-23 Idiot Of The Week: Senator Jim Bunning
What a difference forty-five years can make.
2009-02-21 Idiot Of The Week: Me
In a world filled with idiots, this idiot can’t find one.
2009-02-20 One of Them’s “Historic South-Central Los Angeles”
You gotta live where you gotta, gotta live.
2009-02-18 Repubs: Blame George Soros for the Tsuris
Yet 40% of the country insists on voting for these yahoos.
2009-02-16 Democracy in Action in My Living Room
They came, they ate, they met the candidate.
2009-02-14 Idiot Of The Week: King of the Ice Dodoes
The sheriff said it was idiotic, and that’s good enough for me.
2009-02-12 Woodhaven, Land of My Yout
You might believe you were in Small Town U.S.A. if it weren’t for the El rumbling by overhead.
2009-02-11 Boozled, Bam- and Bean-
Who does he think he is, Andy Rooney?
2009-02-05 Idiot Of The Week: Tom Daschle
Do they come home from long days in the Senate or wherever and sit down with TurboTax?
2009-01-30 Idiot Of The Week: The Whittier Breeder
Oh, hell, six are such fun, what’s eight more?
2009-01-29 Sure Don’t Feel Like No Depression
Your editor looks out from his bubble and sees hunky-doriness.
2008-12-12 Housing the Homeless, One Guilty Liberal at a Time
It takes a village, people, and don’t you forget it.
2008-12-05 WALL-E WALL-E Oxen Free
We must bury the planet in trash in order to save it from being buried in trash.
2008-12-03 L.A. Live: Not of This Earth
It’s like an alien came to L.A. and interviewed an architecture student on his roommate’s acid.
2008-11-30 The Gold Line Sneaks Eastward
According to the Times, its extension to the Eastside is seen as a mixed blessing
2008-11-24 Public Works as Therapy for the Economy
Bill Boyarsky says speed the subway, and all that other Prop 1A and Measure R stuff.
2008-11-21 A Brief History of Great Big Things on Top of the Hollywood Freeway
The past is prologue, and the future is, uh, epilogue.
2008-11-19 Today Is World Toilet Day
Send your toilet a greeting card.
2008-11-13 Housing Advocates Like the Election Results
Once a community organizer …
2008-11-13 Take a Walk: The Art of City Building
An opportunity to hear about a mixed-income case study.
2008-11-12 What, No Randy’s Donuts?
Not little boxes, not made out of ticky-tacky.
2008-11-05 Yippee! 1A and R Pass
Transit gets going in the state and L.A. County.
2008-11-04 VOTE, DAMMIT!!!
Or else you don’t get to gripe.
2008-10-30 It’s Measure R Day at the Los Angeles Times
The road sage and the architecture critic weigh in.
2008-10-28 The Presidential Election: What About Housing?
The mortgage mess became an everything mess; then housing went into hiding.
2008-10-23 Truth-Squadding the New Measure R Ads
Nothing blatantly false, but not the epitome of truth either.
2008-10-15 As If BP’s Not Enough, Now I’ve Got OCED Too
Afflictions physical and emotional torment your faithful editor.
2008-10-15 Welcome to the New FourStory
Release 2.0 hits the streets.
2008-10-13 L.A. Times Endorses Measure R
Half-cent sales tax increase will get us back on the road.