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Kevin Roderick launched LA Observed in 2003 and is the site's editor and publisher. His bio is here. Website | Email Most of his 10,000 entries have been written for his editor's blog. Browse or ...

LA Observed columnist Bill Boyarsky retired from the Los Angeles Times after serving as national political writer, City-County Bureau chief, city editor and columnist. A former vice president of the ...

Gary Leonard has been photographing Los Angeles for 40 years. He first made a name by chronicling the city's punk clubs and nightlife. He's centered mostly in Downtown now, and has a gallery called ...

Iris Schneider considers herself an accomplished observer of life in Los Angeles. As a staff photographer at the L.A. Times for 27 years, and as a freelance photographer in New York and Los Angeles, ...

Judy Graeme is the arts editor for LA Observed. A photographer, she graduated from the Rhode Island School of Design and has shot news, features and fashion for Time, the New York Times, the Los ...

John Schwada has been a politics-government and investigative reporter for Fox 11 News, the Los Angeles Times and the L.A. Herald Examiner for three decades. His journalism DNA can also be found in ...

Jenny Burman contributes the new Los Angeles novel, Veronica Street, to LA Observed. She previously created the long-running Chicken Corner blog999 for the site. Burman has an M.F.A. in fiction from ...

Veronique de Turenne is a writer, photographer, and a serial mobile home remodeler. She is the founding editor of LA Now, the LA Times' breaking news blog, was the book critic for NPR's news show, ...

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