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Brush Shiels, bassist with the Irish blues rock band, explains why despite two albums plus prestigious support tours with The ...
A drug addict called Princess on Los Angeles' notorious Skid Row appeared on a popular interview show covered in grim lesions ...
Thirty years ago, when the Produce Hotel fell into disrepair, a newly formed nonprofit, the Skid Row Housing Trust, acquired and rehabilitated the turn-of-the-century building, restoring the brick ...
Los Angeles’ notorious 54-block downtown Skid Row area is a no-go zone for most people. Just blocks from the city’s financial district, luxury apartments and five-star hotels, it is a ...
A block over, in Little Havana, a bata drums performance draws a crowd. This is Skid Row, Los Angeles, one of the largest and most maligned unhoused communities in a nation full of them.
For more than a century, skid row has been a community of last resort. In the early 20th century, it was the area, on the east side of downtown, where the railroad ended, depositing immigrants and ...
Skid Row is the epicenter of LA’s addiction crisis. More than 12,000 homeless meth and heroin addicts pass through here each year, with thousands living in the vast network of tent encampments ...
Chicago once was celebrated in hobo camps coast to coast as a good place to hole up for the winter, especially along a strip of West Madison Street called Skid Row, a 12-block stretch of ...
So has the notion that it’s merely homes that the unhoused need. Estela Lopez doesn’t leave her office in Skid Row much these days, but when I drop by to meet her, the first place she wants me ...
The family have been living homeless in Skid Row for the past 5 months. In the mornings, just past 7:30, dozens of children on Skid Row start making their way to school in the June gray.
LOS ANGELES (KABC) -- Sitting in a black sedan pulled over on a street in Skid Row, a kitten holds on. The beginning of his life could soon be the end. He needs medical help - fast. Taking him ...