Steve Lopez is a California native who has been a Los Angeles Times columnist since 2001. He has won more than a dozen national journalism awards and is a four-time Pulitzer finalist. Lopez is the author most recently of “Independence Day: What I Learned About Retirement, From Some Who’ve Done It and Some Who Never Will.” His book “The Soloist,” inspired by his columns on his relationship with a Juilliard-trained homeless person, was a Los Angeles Times and New York Times best-seller, winner of the PEN USA Literary Award for Non-Fiction, and the subject of a Dream Works movie by the same name. He has also written three novels and two column collections.
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At Leisure World, where they’re lining up to fight threats to Social Security, a resident has a request of Elon Musk: ‘Please fly to Mars’
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Lopez: 20 years and counting: How a chance encounter with a street musician led to a lasting bond
‘Can you believe we’ve been friends for 20 years?’ A chance encounter brought Steve Lopez and Nathaniel Ayers together — and to Disney Hall, the Hollywood Bowl and the White House.
Toothbrushes, slippers, hearing aids, walkers — all lost in the fire. Here’s how people in their 70s, 80s and 90s are starting from scratch.
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Lopez: Half a century ago, Californians saved the coast. Will Trump threats spark another uprising?
Here’s the reason all development proposals for the coast are exhaustively reviewed, with the perils of sea level rise in mind, and in the interest of protecting marine and shore habitats
Trump hammered the cost of groceries on the campaign trail, promising to lower them immediately, but that didn’t happen. Makes you want to throw eggs, but they’re too expensive.
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Lopez: Bass fires the L.A. fire chief, but her own smoldering political crisis is far from over
To columnist Steve Lopez, the firing of the Los Angeles Fire Department chief looks like an act of political desperation as much as a take-charge moment by Bass.
In West Altadena, one homeowner who lost everything says, ‘Your possessions can go poof in a second. These connections we all share — that’s what the real stuff is.’
There’s no shortage of organizations and high-profile individuals driving Southern California’s wildfire recovery. Have they lost faith in our politicians?
Structures, rather than vegetation, served as the primary fuel for spreading flames, but fire-resistant landscaping helps. It’s time to get rid of the palm trees.
L.A. erected barriers and shut down vendors on Westlake sidewalks in an effort to curtail violence. Will the city’s efforts be any diffferent than ‘cleanups’ of the past?