Welcome to impeachment week, in which we grow increasingly concerned about the fate of our fragile republic but also the aesthetics of Sen. Ted Cruz’s haircut. I’m
Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, here with your weekly dose of culture news and hamburger dispatches:
Artistic legacies
Shortly after abandoning her religious vows in 1968,
Corita Kent produced a series of 29 prints called “Heroes and Sheroes” that honored political and civil rights figures she admired. The prints mark a moment of departure, when Kent is increasingly appropriating images from mass media and, unshackled from the Catholic Church, her critiques of the powerful become more overt.
Homelessness
LA s Program To House Homeless Residents In Empty Hotel Rooms Gets A Boost In Federal Aid
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February 11, 2021 5:45 PM
Julie Mariane gathers her belongings in a motel room last April while getting ready to be transferred to a room in a Venice Beach hotel. (Apu Gomes / AFP via Getty Images)
The city of L.A. is extending Project Roomkey, the program to house those experiencing homelessness in hotels, after a boost in federal aid.
Under Project Roomkey, L.A. would pay for those rooms up front, and then receive a 75% reimbursement from FEMA. Then late last month, President Biden signed an executive order to reimburse cities for 100% of the costs.
The Sheriff s Department says it got the utility s permission last month to create a helipad near Villanueva s home for his security; SoCalGas says it had turned down a request last summer.