February 2012 Archives
Commentary:
Goodbye budget deficits; hello surplus funds? I could "like" that.
If Facebook's IPO has done anything for Sacramento in the short term, it is give legislators and lobbyists something (more) to argue about. Where is the Facebook button for "not a shocker"?
Around SoCal:
In the first-ever case of its kind a court will hear that SeaWorld is violating the 13th Amendment to the U.S. Constitution by holding whales in captivity.
Weather:
Most precipitation is expected in Ventura and Santa Barbara counties.
Where We Are:
Four billion in loans that cities hope to collect from defunct redevelopment agencies is only part of the trouble.
Commentary:
Don Cornelius was a steward of black pride who knew more than most of us that song and dance wasn't just entertainment, it was a revolution. That the revolution happened in L.A. made it all the better for me.
Arts & Culture:
L.A. media art reimagines the past this week with several events designed to rethink earlier films and genres, and it looks to the future with large-scale multimedia projects filled with bombast and intrigue.
Movie Miento:
The only way I can even get close to defining the Latino zeitgeist is to go back to all the people I've interviewed in the last 11 years as a daily reporter in L.A. Here are some of them.
Commentary:
As a first generation Chinese American, he's a real fighter. He's been through homelessness, crime and self-mutilation, later becoming an artist and filmmaker assimilated in his culture.
LA as Subject:
Modern Los Angeles is a city without a center. In its early years, however, L.A. was built around a well-defined center, the Plaza, which remained its political, social, and commercial heart even as it grew from a Spanish colonial outpost into a booming Yankee city.
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