Beloved Sci-Fi Author Octavia Butler’s Gravesite Survived Los Angeles Fire
In Parable of the Sower, a fire-ravaged California endures a climate change future that is now reality. In the 1993 ...
André 3000 And Others Have Dropped Unreleased Music As Part Of A Compilation Album For LA Wildfire Relief
The music world has stepped up for Los Angeles wildfire relief in a number of ways, and now 100 or so more have chipped in, ...
Jacqueline Woodson on the dichotomy of today and MLK Day: ‘Nothing we’re living in is new’
Award-winning writer and author Jacqueline Woodson on how artists and creators should show up today and any day after.
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Amy Goodman and Denis Moynihan | In scorched LA, the burning truth of Octavia Butler’s sci-fi
The devastating fires burning Los Angeles stand as a monumental example of nature’s profoundly destructive potential when ...
For historically Black Altadena, the combined wildfire loss of generational wealth and personal heirlooms is indescribable
For many African Americans who built their lives and businesses in historically Black communities like Altadena, the combined ...
What We Lost in the Fires
Hollywood pays tribute to the irreplaceable artifacts and cultural touchstones that were destroyed, from the ‘Wizard of Oz’ ...
The L.A. authors who predicted these fires and the books to help us understand them
Octavia E. Butler and Mike Davis are just some of the Angelenos whose books can help us understand L.A.'s fires, plus Kristin ...
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Octavia Butler predicted fire disaster in Los Angeles in 1993 book 'Parable of the Sower'
Since the fires began, Butler's works have been cited for anticipating a world - and, particularly, a Los Angeles - wracked ...
The Eerie Prescience of Octavia Butler's 'Parable of the Sower'
As wildfires ravaged parts of Los Angeles, readers said the science fiction writer predicted this in her 1993 work and its ...
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Leaving Records’ New LA Wildfire Relief Benefit Comp Features Unreleased Tracks From André 3000, Julia Holter, & More
Here’s another mammoth effort to raise funds for those impacted by the fires raging in Los Angeles. The LA-based experimental label Leaving Records has released a compilation today called Staying: ...
As California Burns, ‘Octavia Tried to Tell Us’ Has New Meaning
The phrase, which gained momentum in 2020, has resurfaced, in part because it can seem like Octavia Butler was more than a ...
Wildfires set Los Angeles's memories ablaze
I have friends who lost houses. I have family who were burned out of their home. Los Angeles has lost churches, synagogues, ...