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...conference’s program is “Wallflowers and Femmes Fatales: Dancing Gender and Politics,” billed as “lecture and demonstration” by Marta Elena Savigliano, a professor in the Department of World Arts and Culture at the University of California, Los Angeles. Savigliano will utilize a troupe of dancers in her discussion of Latin American gender politics.Incorporating American and Argentinean scholars from both the humanities and social sciences, panel discussions will address “Tango as Politics” and “Tango as a Cultural Form...
Holmes, who is currently staying with her brother in Los Angeles, said she has been monitoring Web sites and police logs for word of her home’s condition. She added that a couple of hundred homes in her hometown of Running Spring have been affected by the flames...
...Santa Ana winds begin cold, gathering power and mass in the high desert between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. Air pressure pushes the winds up and over the San Gabriel Mountains, westward toward the Pacific Ocean, until gravity takes hold. The air becomes compressed as it drops, growing hotter and dryer, stripping moisture from the ground, accelerating - sometimes past 100 m.p.h. (160 km/h) - as it squeezes through Southern California's many canyons...
...This week the people of Southern California may have reached that edge. "We're in a state of shock right now," says Dr. Zab Mosenifar, director of the Cedars-Sinai Women's Guild Pulmonary Disease Institute in Los Angeles, who was preparing for an influx of smoke-inhalation victims at his hospital. "This is beyond thinking." Beginning overnight on Oct. 20, unusually fierce Santa Ana winds stoked fires that quickly burst into life throughout a dry, hot landscape. By midweek, more than 20 separate blazes formed pockets of fire running from the Mexican border north to Simi Valley outside Los...
...situation was worsened by a relatively wet winter in 2004-05, which let trees and scrub grow densely, followed by extremely dry weather since, which turned the vegetation to still more fuel. In fact, this past year has seen the worst drought in Los Angeles' recorded history. Adding to the tinder were those Santa Ana winds, which strike regularly in the autumn but rarely with the power of the past week. "They usually come in small, medium and large," says Bill Patzert, a climatologist with NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. "These were Godzilla winds...