Detroit has cars. Chicago has slaughterhouses. New Orleans has jazz. We have orange groves. Had. For a hundred years, the Bothwell family’s orange grove in Tarzana stood at…
Read more Patt Morrison: Where have all the orange groves gone?Ugly? You have no idea. Every nasty little private thing a marriage could churn up, every infidelity, every insult and threat, every drunken episode and squandered paycheck, every…
Read more Patt Morrison: California settled no-fault divorce decades ago. Why is it back in the news?Some acquaintances from Ireland were in town, and we were having lunch in their 20th-floor downtown hotel suite. I was being an armchair tour guide — out the…
Read more Patt Morrison: Is that graffiti or art? How L.A. draws the linesCognitive dissonance, SoCal style: The calendar says it’s November, but the sky swears it’s April, maybe even July. It’s Thanksgiving. And for a hundred years and more, pilgrims…
Read more Patt Morrison: What gives L.A. that Thanksgiving feeling? It certainly isn’t the weather
