Laura Vena
Laura Vena is a writer, artist, curator and translator whose work has appeared in Bombay Gin, Super Arrow, Tarpaulin Sky, In Posse Review, The Dirty Fabulous, Antennae and elsewhere. She a Contributing Editor at Entropy and and a Guest Editor for Recurrent Novels, Jaded Ibis Press. Laura lives alongside and wanders the San Gabriel River.
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Locals venture beyond the mall food court to find a budding food scene
In the 50 years since the Watts Rebellion and given recent social unrest foddered by racial and socio-economic disparities, what has changed in our local…
Fifty years ago this week, Watts exploded with violence. The scenario sounds uncomfortably familiar in today's environment of racially fueled police abuse and racial tension. What sparked the uprising in 1965 was a physical altercation while a white po...
Built in 1939, the Whittier Narrow's Nature Center has served as a natural oasis for locals, but recent controversial plans seek to transform it into an ambitious educational center.