Tag: Hills

BURNTSIENNA FIELD RESEARCH — ‘Come as You Are’, Derrick Adams (at Gagosian Beverly Hills)

Ed. note — Exhibition openings in Los Angeles, for the creative professional-set, tend to be a bit like the university yard (or commons) — a space to catch up with old colleagues and friends, make new acquantences, size everyone up and check everyone out (specifically : Fashion. capital ...

City of the Seven Hills

Bayrampasa was the biggest and most complicated bus station I saw during my 15 months of traveling. I got off the bus completely disoriented. Istanbul made me nervous, even before I stepped foot in Turkey. A city almost as big as Mexico City, with more than 20 million inhabitants, but with a di...

A Contrast In Hiking Hills

It has been a long time since I have had a good hike, especially a hike where I am free from the constrictions of clothing. These hikes are called free hikes. The image above was from my last free hike in Mexico, a trek that had us overlooking the village of San Pancho. It was the second hike in ...

Clarence Thomas Must Resign

I was a kid when Anita Hill testified in front of Congress. Hill recounted her time in the same office as Clarence Thomas. Hill accused Thomas of sexual assault and abusive behavior. No one believed Hill. Clarence Thomas was given a judgeship on the Supreme Court. Fast forward thirty years later ...

It’s time to retire the North Hills Indian (Open Letter)

We write in the midst of the Movement for Black Lives, and in solidarity with those who strive for a world free of all racism. These times demand that allies to the causes of diversity, equity, and inclusion take stock of our actions, or inactions, and reconcile them as best we can. For us, that mea...

Copper ‘in Them Thar Hills’ — Part I

In the mid-1860s, a group of local men -among them Pablo Briones, William Ewing, U. M. Gordon, Charles Lauff, Edward Nelson, and William Miller- incorporated the Union Copper Mining Company. Mining operations started there in 1863, about the same time that mining began at Pike County Gulch, just sou...