Scott Timberg

freelance journalist

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Freelance journalist and culture writer, currently writing about the creative class as part of a Salon's series, Art in Crisis; author of Culture Crash: The Killing of the Creative Class; former staffer at the Los Angeles Times

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When the recession hit in 2008, it gutted the middle class.

Culture Crash

When the recession hit in 2008, it gutted the middle class.

from Press Play with Madeleine Brand

From Santa Monica to Venice to Highland Park — and now the Arts District in downtown Los Angeles — the painters, sculptors, musicians and dancers who made those and other neighborhoods…

Could the Creative Class Be Priced Out of LA?

From Santa Monica to Venice to Highland Park — and now the Arts District in downtown Los Angeles — the painters, sculptors, musicians and dancers who made those and other neighborhoods…

from Which Way, L.A.?

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is playing up nostalgia in its ads for Sunday's Oscar Awards , "celebrate the movies in all of us."

Those Old Time Oscars

The Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences is playing up nostalgia in its ads for Sunday's Oscar Awards , "celebrate the movies in all of us."

from To the Point

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Proposition 3 would enshrine the right for same-sex couples to marry in the California constitution. It would also repeal and replace language from 2008 that says otherwise.

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A ballot initiative would expand the number of LA County supervisors and create a new executive job, in the biggest change to local governance in generations.

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An audio folk story examining the tradition of Black watermelon long-haulers, who drive to farms in the South for watermelon and sell them in Black neighborhoods around the US.

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