Category Archives: Responses

Responses: How will we live tomorrow?

How will we live tomorrow? “My first thought is, as a species we’re going to go away in evolutionary terms. I don’t know what we’ll become; maybe a computer. It’s okay, its part of the evolutionary chain. I like 2001, … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Joe Colesium, Los Angeles, CA

I acknowledge pretty much everyone I encounter on my bike. When I receive a gesture in reply, I sometimes stop and strike a conversation. Riding through USC, college students scuttling to class ignored my nods. South of campus, in front … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Lisa Arangua, Los Angeles Department of Public Health, Los Angeles, CA

“I go through tangents once in a while, so stay with me.” Lisa Arangua tossed that comment my way while I was scribbling and grasping for coherent threads in our conversation at her downtown LA office. Lisa speaks in quick, … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Caroline Bringenberg, Silver Lake, CA

Caroline Bringenberg and her boyfriend Sean met as students at Occidental College. They are in what Caroline calls, ‘the sophomore year of life’, two years removed from undergraduate life. The couple shares a one-bedroom apartment in a small complex of … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Insurance Brokers, Eagle Rock, CA

When I think of insurance I think of middle-aged white guys in off-the-rack suits that have consumed too many Rotary luncheons. Their necks bulge over the collars of their crisp white shirts. Their wrists puff out from beneath their cuffs. … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Meisha Rainman, Development Director, The Unusual Suspects, Los Angeles, CA

I get the impression there are only two kinds of people in LA: people who want to be in the entertainment industry, and people who have left the entertainment industry. I suppose there are actually people who are in the … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Nick Williams The Unusual Suspects, Los Angeles, CA

The Unusual Suspects provides an opportunity for rehabilitation through theater. The group moves theater beyond art imitating life. For The Unusual Suspects, art promotes life. It is the generative force that pushes young people off the track of poverty and … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Diane Haithman and Alan Feldstein, Los Angeles, CA

One of the clearest indicators of personal well-being is how much a person controls his or her own fate. Too many obligations and too few opportunities wear a body down. Too much freedom makes people disconnected, maybe reckless. There is … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Angelika and Cord Christensen, Thousand Oaks, CA

Angelika Christensen is in the sandwich generation. Just as her two boys were finished home schooling, her father developed brain cancer. He died a year and half ago. Now Angelika’s focus is administering her father’s estate and relocating her 74-year-old … Continue reading

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Profile Response: Robert Roebuck, Project Manager, Santa Barbara Public Works, Santa Barbara CA

This is not California’s first prolonged drought. Back in the late 1980’s, drought prompted the citizens of Santa Barbara to approve and construct a desalinization plant. By the time the design/build plant opened in 1992, conservation measures had slashed the … Continue reading

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