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The presidential inauguration is five days away and we’re counting down with a barrel of Jim Beam and comedian
Leslie Jones’ Twitter feed. I’m
Carolina A. Miranda, arts and urban design columnist at the Los Angeles Times, and I’m here with the week’s essential culture news and vampiric biographies.
What the Williams archive may reveal
There has been a surge of interest in the life and career of Los Angeles architect
Paul R. Williams, who died in 1980 at the age of 85. Not only did he build thousands of structures around Los Angeles, indelibly shaping the city’s landscape, he also served on the city’s planning commission (in his 20s!), and was the first Black architect to be admitted to the