Larry Wilson
L.A. Daily News
Pasadena, CA, United States
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Recent articles by Larry:
Why are there so few homeless people in Western Europe?
I recall one panhandler in Ireland. → Read More
When will the GOP open its eyes to the climate?
You can’t camouflage the danger by owning the libs. → Read More
RIP John Kennedy, who so loved Pasadena and its politics
He understood the city. → Read More
LAX: You can get to the world, but you can’t go home again – San Bernardino Sun
Rise up, suitcase schleppers. → Read More
Virtual City Council meetings are virtually no meetings at all
‘Ya catch that council meeting on the Zoom last night?’ → Read More
Resolved: Stop being a crackpot on China
You have to love being called a crackpot by Jerry Brown. I mean, I have to love it. To savor the irony. During his two terms, totaling 16 years, in office as California’s governor, it was Brown him… → Read More
Here in northern Spain, it’s a lot like home, tree-wise
That’s why the plein-air painters of old Laguna and Pasadena were known as the Eucalyptus School. → Read More
Catching a Sierra trout from prison
A week in the Manzanar jail. → Read More
Let’s build housing at the supermarket after all – San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Couple of weeks ago, in this space, I commented on the superb SoCal housing-supply forensic work done by Josh Albrektson, MD of South Pasadena — radiologist by night, City Hall annoyer by day. The dashing doc was profiled in the excellent piece by staffer Jeff Collins about how many of our no doubt mostly beloved, mostly truth-telling city halls across the hundreds of municipalities among which… → Read More
The razing of Cal Poly Pomona’s great CLA into the dystopian sky – San Gabriel Valley Tribune
A (formerly) soaring Mayan pyramid of our own. → Read More
Contrary to the Founders’ intentions, guns run the American game – Orange County Register
And yet here we are, living and then dying under a clearly sham version of what they truly meant. → Read More
Celebrating a century of Pasadena’s University Club
An entirely in-depth history of everything in Pasadena. → Read More
As reasons for optimism disappear
Over ceviche and margaritas at a family lunch last Saturday, the conversation turning, as conversations will, to the rise of authoritarian leaders around the world, and thus to to the rebirth of the Ferdinand Marcos dynasty in the Philippines, my cousin reminded me that Marcos’ lover Dovie Breams Villagran used to live across the street from her. “Wait — not the shoe one,” was my highly informed… → Read More
The legacy of Mary Donnelly-Crocker: So many Young & Healthy kids – San Gabriel Valley Tribune
Hard to figure, nevertheless true: It was 11 years ago last month that I had a lunch and a visit with Mary Donnelly-Crocker at her offices on the campus of my old alma mater, John Muir High School, and then referred to her in this space as “the longtime” executive director of Young & Healthy. If she was longtime in 2011, what does that make her in 2022? About to happily retire, that’s what,… → Read More
We are the problem in California’s housing shortage – San Bernardino Sun
Everything everyone — by which I mean the wrong ones, the NIMBYs — says about housing in Southern California is always wrong. A favorite trope, loved by letter-to-the-editor writers, who just make things up — sorry, letter-writers, whose gemlike prose I edit and publish every day — is that the coming of more and more multi-family housing to our megalopolis is nuts because we are in a drought and… → Read More
Cherishing on-fire memories of the late Rev. George Regas
A passion for living your most compassionate life. → Read More
A timeless pattern language to live in
I was reading a book review the other day — an essay on poetry, by Elisa Gabbert, as it happens — and came across the name of someone I once knew, a fabulously eccentric cult figure of the old school. She writes of him: “The architect Christopher Alexander thought big plate glass windows were a mistake, because ‘they alienate us from the view’: ‘The smaller the windows are, and the smaller the… → Read More
Pasadena’s shaky Central Library, plus: ‘Minx’ and the Crown City
Sweeping San Gabriel Valley views. → Read More
The news biz and the threat of the lies
The liars with a purpose, with ends, who don’t care about the means. → Read More
ASU eats UC’s lunch with new downtown LA campus – San Gabriel Valley Tribune
The old college try. → Read More