Maybe This Week, Maybe Next Week
16 February 2026
Disney Concert Hall, downtown Los Angeles, California Photo: Robert Gumpert 23 January 2026
Artichoke, vegetable Photo: Robert Gumpert 14 February 2026
Artichoke, vegetable Photo: Robert Gumpert 14 February 2026
The Last Bookstore in the Spring Arts Tower. 5th and Spring St. Los Angeles, California Photo: Robert Gumpert 23 January 2026
Hotel interior design, DTLA hotel. Fourth and Spring Street. Los Angeles, California Photo: Robert Gumpert 23 January 2026
Overlook plea. San Pedro, CA. near the Pt Fermin lighthouse at the foot of Gaffey Street. Photo: Robert Gumpert 20 January 2026
The Reads
Holsinger-Visions-of-Progress-catalog - Free catalog download. Makes clear the long term affects of failed reconstruction
Flipping the Switch on Democracy - Thoughts of a Bohemian
China Starts Sea Trials for Largest Electric Powered Containership - The Maritime Executive
Atossa Araxia Abrahamian on the Offshore World - Lapham’s Quarterly
More Dark Tankers Arrive at India Scrapyards as Trade Expands - Weilun Soon - gCaptain
Top Ship Recycler GMS Says It Is In Talks to Buy Venezuela-Linked Ships Seized by US - Reuters
Kentucky’s Real People Radio - BBC podcast
Can Artists Help Shape American Cities Again - Zachary Small - NYT
Headlines for our times from Sunday NYT Opinion for 15 February 2026
“The Epstein Files Are an X-Ray of How Power Works”
“You and A.I., Alone Together
“We’re on the Voyage of the Damned”
“We Have to Face What ICE Has Done to Us”
“Worries Grow About How Fast A.I. Can Move”
“Why Did I Trust Bezos?”
“Trump Is Slapping His Name on Everything. It Won’t Last”
“Where Even Death Is Undocumented”
“To Increase Birthrates, Abolish Commutes”
“Will A.I. Companions Turn Every Man Into An Island?”
“Robots Are Hired When Migrants Are Deported”
“ICE Is on a Dark Path. Congress Must Act Now.”
“Hope for American Schooling, From Three Red States”
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10 February 2026
Debbie's Bridal on W Broadway between 5th and 6th. DTLA, CA Photo: Robert Gumpert 25 January 2026
The Last Bookstore in the Spring Arts Tower. 5th and Spring St. Los Angeles, CA. Photo: Robert Gumpert 23 January 2026
Anti-Ice posters in Japan Town. Los Angeles, CA. Photo: Robert Gumpert 25 January 2026
5th and Broadway, Downtown LA., CA. Photo: Robert Gumpert
23 January 2026
Rosso di Treviso Tardivo, SF Ferry Building Saturday Farmer's Market. Photo: Robert Gumpert 31 January 2026
Some Reads, Some Podcasts
CATCHING THE TIDE: Salmon Net Fishing in Scotland by Colin McPherson - Kickstarter campaign, to published by Dewi Lewis
The Glorious Quilts of Gees Bend - Episode #67 Haptic & Hue. Podcast with notes, photos and links.
A Small Voice: Danish photographer Joachim Ladefoged
Horden: portraits of family, death, and dreams in an English mining town - MARC BASSETS ED ALCOCK - El País
The US versus human rights - Le Monde
Mandelson’s Disgrace: How Epstein Poisoned Our Politics - The Rest Is Politics (speaking of the cesspool revealed in the Epstein files of private and public leadership)
PLEASE DON’T SAY MEAN THINGS ABOUT THE AI THAT I JUST INVESTED A BILLION DOLLARS IN - FOREST ABRUZZO - McSweeney’s
Sean Sabeh, captain. MMP member, talks about sailing the world. Photo: Robert Gumpert 29 December 2025
01 February 2026
Candle light vigil for Alex Jeffrey Pretti, murdered by U.S. Border Control in Minneapolis, 24 January 2026. VA Hospital, San Francisco, California - 27 January 2026. Photo: Robert Gumpert
Having just returned from a week in Los Angeles and San Pedro doing photos from the “From the MM&P Hiring Hall project, as well as a few walk arounds in downtown LA, the next few “Maybe This Week, Maybe next Week” posts will be images from that trip.
St Vincent Court at 7th Street is really just an alley incarnation of where St. Vincent's College was in 1865. The college started by Vincentian Fathers the first in Southern California. St. In 1911 it became L.A. College, and Loyola Marymount University in 1917. As downtown L.A. has gone through many changes since 1917, so to this “court”. It now seems to be attempting a makeover as a small European style street of eateries. Photo: Robert Gumpert 25 January 2026
Once the heat of Los Angeles’ theatre and commercial district, Broadway, looking west towards 6th Street, is now a mix of trendy commercial and entertainment locations and home to many of LA’s unhoused. Downtown Los Angeles, California. Photo: Robert Gumpert 25 January 2026
Living in the shadow of the Los Angeles The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, near Little Toyko and at the edge of the Art’s District, as well as in one direction down the street from Metropolitan Detention Center and in the other, the center of the organized unhoused community. Photo: Robert Gumpert 24 January 2026
Sleeping rough in the light of ad in the window of a vacant commercial building on 7th, just west of Broadway. Downtown Los Angeles. Photo: Robert Gumpert 25 January 2026
A few articles from Dystopia
A Note From the Editors on Alex Pretti’s Passing - Patricia Jakel, MN, RN, AOCN, Stephanie Desrosiers, DNP, MSN, RN, AOCNS, BMTCN - Oncology Nursing News
How ICE Already Knows Who Minneapolis Protesters Are - Sheera Frenkel and Aaron Krolik NYT
ICE’s surveillance app is a techno-authoritarian nightmare - Moustafa Bayoumi - The Guardian
Immigration agents have new technology to identify and track people - Jude Joffe-Block - NPR
The Legal Case Against Ring’s Face Recognition Feature - MARIO TRUJILLO - Electronic Frontier Foundation
Analyzing claim ICE can use Ring doorbells as mass surveillance tools - Emery Winter - Snopes
How liberals lost the internet - by Robert Topinka - The Guardian
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