October 2011 Archives
Commentary:
The City of Indio is holding off on signing a long-term contract with the promoter of the long-running Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival after the adjacent city of La Quinta asked for environmental review of the six-day festival.
Movie Miento:
"For so many years we have so many English learners who are long term, and they're not kids who were born in Mexico, they're kids who were born here."
Arts & Culture:
A new book co-written by a UCLA neuropsychiatrist and a parenting specialist grounds smart, useful childrearing strategies in brain science to offer a terrific guide for parents.
Where We Are:
Although it isn't exactly night.
Commentary:
Labor unions and those sympathetic to their cause typically turn out in much larger numbers for November elections, as compared to June elections. A pending ballot measure, which likely would have appeared on the June 2012 ballot, restricts the ability of labor unions to raise campaign funds from members.
Where We Are:
Mid-century L.A. was the subject of an almost forgotten photographer.
LA as Subject:
Budget cuts signed into law by Governor Jerry Brown threaten the closure of a state park honoring one of Brown's predecessors: the last governor of Mexican Alta California, Pío de Jesus Pico.
Commentary:
Faulkner had a point--the past is never the past, especially when it's about race and reconciliation.
Arts & Culture:
This week's media arts scene features the beginning of several large events, including Filmforum's 24-show screening series dedicated to experimental filmmaking in Los Angeles, as well as UCLA's excellent series, LA Rebellion: Creating a New Black Cinema.
Commentary:
Debuting this week is a new television series called "American Horror Story." The premise is simple: family moves into haunted mansion. The family is your typically cast prime time show, all white. If Asians had been cast, it would be a completely different show altogether.
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