“After so many years of living next to our neighbors (same city/different world), we’ve decided to really move in with them, out of our America & into theirs –”

Two young reporters have moved in to a cramped home with 8 Mexican immigrants in the MacArthur Park/Westlake neighborhood of Los Angeles. Devin Browne (radio and print) and Kara Mears (photography) are undertaking an interesting and earnest experiment; to learn Spanish and figure out a way to better report on LA, a place where most residents speak Spanish.  Along the way, they’re keeping us posted with reports, photographs, charts, musings, and impromptu field reports:

Police Call-Out

(for some context, check out entry 5)

Here they are talking about their housemates’ jobs:

On Jobs

In Entry 4, Devin wonders, “What do you really think of us, what do you really think of the way we live?”

Photo Courtesy of Kara Mears

Motivation

When you move into an entryway of a house, with a group of people you don’t know at all, in area where you’re the only white people, what questions do you ask?

Disconnect

I encourage you to step into the Entryway.

Tags: Devin Browne, Kara Mears, LA, Los Angeles, MacArthur Park, The Entryway, Westlake

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