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Articles by Emma Rault
It’s Make-or-Break Time for Walker’s Cafe Crucial Meeting on June 2
Walker's Cafe meeting, June 2. Graphic by Emma Rault. By Emma Rault, ColumnistOn June 2, the Harbor Area Planning Commission is discussing Burbank-based developer Prospect Group’s plans for a large new build on the Walker’s Cafe lot. I spearheaded the grassroots campaign that won historic landmark designation for Walker’s Cafe. It was a major community effort with over three thousand supporters. But more than four years later, we’re in danger of losing the cafe altogether.
At CSULB, Revered Indigenous Land Remains in Limbo Despite Legal Protections
Photo taken at Puvungna. Courtesy of Rebecca Robles By Emma Rault, Columnist Just off a parking lot on the Cal State Long Beach campus, two willow poles bent into an arch are a portal to a different world. A dirt path snakes through waist-high white and purple flowers to a clearing sheltered by oak and eucalyptus trees.
Opinie: Trans mensen veilig in de VS? Onlangs heb ik nog een vriend verhuisd vanuit LA naar Nederland
Gisteren las ik in de Volkskrant over de Amerikaanse transvrouw Veronica Clifford-Carlos, wiens asielaanvraag in Nederland is afgewezen en die deze beslissing nu aanvecht. Volgens de IND zou de VS voor transgender mensen een veilig land zijn – dit op basis van een beoordeling in september 2024. Als Nederlands-Amerikaanse queer vrouw heb ik al mijn hele leven veel contact met trans mensen in beide landen. Bij het lezen van deze uitspraak viel mijn mond open.
From Tuna Street to Walker’s Cafe
San Pedro Fights Back Against Demolition By Neglect By Emma Rault, community reporter “Demolition by neglect” is an existential risk to San Pedro. The term is used to describe situations when property owners allow their buildings to fall into disrepair.
Last Call at the Alhambra
Permit Woes and City’s Zoning Mistake Helped Slam Shut this Beloved Bar’s Doors By Emma Rault, Columnist The Alhambra Cocktail Lounge on 216 W. 11th St. in San Pedro’s historic Vinegar Hill neighborhood has been in business since 1936, making it one of the oldest bars in the state. The Alhambra is located in the building that — for just three brief years, from 1905 to 1908 — was San Pedro’s first City Hall. There are still stairs leading down to the old jail cell tucked away in the back.
The January 2025 Los Angeles Wildfires – What We Know - Random Lengths News
Pushing Back Against Misinformation By Emma Rault Last Tuesday, extreme weather conditions sparked what quickly grew into some of the most destructive wildfires in California history. Ripping through various communities across LA County, they have displaced thousands, killed at least 24, and caused up to $275 billion in damage.
Reviving Indigenous Boating Traditions
Moompetam Festival Marks 20th Anniversary By Emma Rault, Columnist “Our people were here for thousands of years — where you’re standing, here at the aquarium, before all of this was here,” Cindi Alvitre told a little red-haired boy and his purple-haired mom at her booth outside the Aquarium of the Pacific in Long Beach.
Why Your Rents Are So Damn High
Justice Department Sues RealPage Over AI-Powered Scheme to Hike Rents By Emma Rault, community reporter The Department of Justice and eight states, including California, are suing software company RealPage, alleging that their AI rent-setting software has inflated rents across the country. Earlier this year, Random Lengths was the first to report on the use of RealPage’s algorithm by corporate landlords in Los Angeles.
Justice Department Sues RealPage Over AI-Powered Scheme to Hike Rents
By Emma Rault, Columnist The Department of Justice or DOJ — along with eight states, including California — is suing software company RealPage, alleging that their AI rent-setting software has inflated rents across the country.
At Terminal Islanders Picnic, Growing Calls to Save Historic Tuna Street
By Emma Rault, Columnist Last month saw the 51st Terminal Islanders picnic. This yearly event, first held in 1971, is a multigenerational gathering that brings together the people who once called Terminal Island home and their descendants. This year’s picnic came not long after it came to light that the Port of Los Angeles is considering demolishing the only two surviving buildings from this community.
TRANSLATOR'S PICK - Emma Rault’s Choice: Tofik Dibi and Ananda Serné
Every month, a translator of Dutch into English gives literary tips by answering two questions: which translated book by a Flemish or Dutch author should everyone read? And, which book absolutely deserves an English translation? To get publishers excited, an excerpt has already been translated.
A Bad Creature That Likes Getting Worse
We Had to Remove This Post by Hanna Bervoets, translated by Emma Rault Harper, 144 pp., $17.99 Little Eyes by Samanta Schweblin, translated by Megan McDowell Riverhead Books, 256 pages, $17 A DOORWAY OR A RIVER, a bad relationship or an act of violence you can’t look away from, a pet that’s also a stalker: The new subgenre of “social media novels” has found all kinds of metaphors for the experience of online communication. Some of these metaphors reassure as much as they unsettle.
A Different Way of Being Dutch
I left my native country at sixteen, clutching at the first opportunity to escape. The Netherlands, I felt certain, couldn’t be home. I grew up in a small town where I felt all eyes were on me; I was queer and possessed of a book-won vocabulary that alienated my peers and was met with open hostility. I need to get out — out of Holland, where I’m rotting away. I accepted funding from the Dutch government to study literature in Cologne, Germany.
A New Psychological Thriller Explores the Grim Underbelly of Life as a Social Media Moderator
WE HAD TO REMOVE THIS POST, by Hanna Bervoets, translated by Emma Rault Hanna Bervoets’s slim, potent new novel, “We Had to Remove This Post,” appears at first to be the story of a tech workplace gone terribly awry, but it quickly shape-shifts into something more surprising and enigmatic. Widely acclaimed in the Netherlands, Bervoets is the author of nine books and was recently awarded the Frans Kellendonk Prize for her body of work.
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Mind the Gap
Elizabeth Bishop and Alice Methfessel in the early 1970s. Courtesy Archives and Special Collections, Vassar College Library. About a month after Dori and I first meet, fourteen months before we’ll get married on the lawn outside the Santa Barbara courthouse, Facebook’s algorithm—with its remarkable ability to be on-topic and completely off-base at the same time—suggests a listicle of the “most uncomfortable age gaps in cinema” as something I might be interested in.
I Think About Britney’s British Accent in This 2012 Song a Lot
Photo: will.i.am/YouTube I Think About This a Lot is a series dedicated to private memes: images, videos, and other random trivia we are doomed to play forever on loop in our minds. Whenever I need to replenish my sense of wonder about the world, I return to will.i.am’s 2012 song “Scream & Shout,” featuring Britney Spears at her most wonderfully befuddling: as a wannabe Englishwoman.
Los Angeles Review of Books
APRIL 16, 2020 A POLICE HELICOPTER throws blades of light into our living room. We’re distracting ourselves from the pandemic by watching the finale of a British crime show. On the TV, the police officer gets completely freaked out — shaking and tearful as he calls for backup — because he’s just realized one of the characters has a gun. Suddenly, I’m really emotional. It feels so far away — a world where people are that unused to violence, where despair and anger don’t turn lethal in seconds.
The Archive of Alternate Ending by Lindsey Drager -- Lambda Literary
Author: Emma Rault May 4, 2019 A queer Grimm Brother and a gay writer in 1980s New York; astronomer Edmond Halley’s clairvoyant niece and a lesbian artist in an early-twentieth-century mental asylum; Hansel and Gretel lost in the forest and twin space probes hurtling through the universe; a dancer disowned by his parents for his sexuality and his folklore-scholar sister.
The Witchy Feminism of Modern Music Videos
The image of the witch runs deep in feminist and female-centered art. Right now, a potent and fascinating shift is happening in the use of this witchy imagery in pop music. It's a shift that was typified by Beyoncé's surprise release of the music video for her song "Formation" last month. There are heavy spiritual overtones to several of her personas in the video. In some scenes, she speaks like a visionary from beneath the brim of her black hat.
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