Anthony Pesce

I’m officially incredibly pissed off. I faxed in my absentee ballot registration to the Sacramento County office on October 15, a full two weeks before the deadline, and only received my ballot the evening before the election. I couldn’t send it in because they needed to receive it IN SACRAMENTO by 8 p.m. Nov. 4. I live in Los Angeles. [...]

Last night we had an interesting meeting in the Daily Bruin newsroom about our election night coverage. I’m pretty excited because for the first time ever (now that I’m totally in charge) we’re going to be localizing our content. As News Editor, and now as Editor in Chief, I’ve had to battle an institutional attitude [...]

This week I had the opportunity to go to the LA River on a field trip for an urban geography course I’m taking over the summer. The topic of the class is “nature in the city” and it is focused specifically on Los Angeles. Before Tuesday I had never really heard of or seen this [...]

I went on a day trip to Venice this past Saturday and it was amazing. Apparently the entire city is sinking, and it could just be gone in as little as 15 years unless they work out some sort of engineering miracle. I thought the city was absolutely beautiful, and even though I only got [...]

I’ll have to write a much longer update when I have proper internet access… but for the moment I am stranded in London. I also have to say that Fedex is entirely to blame for this situation because they did not deliver our Eurail passes on time TWICE. Apparently a plane malfunctioned in the US [...]