Alicia Partnoy knows political persecution. The deceptively quaint title of her 1986 memoir The Little School belies the horrors she experienced. The “school” was what her tormentors nicknamed a house for detainees on a military base in Argentina. It was there that Partnoy, after she was seized by army troops at age 21, was held for more than three months while blindfolded and subjected to mock executions.

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This densely populated, multi-ethnic swath of Los Angeles is one of five areas across the country designated in January by President Barack Obama as a "promise zone", favored for investments to create jobs and alleviate poverty.
But gentrification already taking root there may prove a test for the plan, which taps existing federal funds for job training, affordable housing and public safety. Some urban planning experts warn that it may hike rents and displace the poor rather than create prosperous working class neighborhoods.

Two rival Democratic congressmen are proving that similar politics does not guarantee amity in a hard-fought California race on the edge of Hollywood that has at times resembled reality television more than a congressional campaign.

Kenneth Anger, a leading figure in underground cinema who brought homoeroticism to the screen in the celebrated short films “Fireworks” and “Scorpio Rising” and whose techniques influenced filmmakers such as Martin Scorsese and David Lynch, has died.

Leonard Cohen, rock music's man of letters whose songs fused religious imagery with themes of redemption and sexual desire, earning him critical and popular acclaim, has died at age 82, a statement on his Facebook page said.

The 1956 Norms restaurant location received another mark of distinction on Thursday when the Los Angeles Cultural Heritage Commission voted 5-0 to recommend designating it as a cultural monument to be preserved, officials said.

Everyone agrees there’s nothing about the architecture that makes poet Charles Bukowski’s former Hollywood apartment stand out.
At 5124 De Longpre Ave., it’s just a small, stucco structure. On a recent day, a lone shoe sat on the trash-strewn, cracked pavement fronting the low-slung home. A small chimney streaked with grime stands beside a tree, and everything is fenced off and boarded up.
But it was here – before his glory days – that Bukowski lived for most of the 1960s, trudging off daily t...