March 2012 Archives
Commentary:
Rush Limbaugh's attack against Sandra Fluke is rightfully costing the radio talk-show giant. But John and Ken's attack on Whitney Houston isn't getting nearly the response.
Arts & Culture:
Animation figures prominently this week in LA's media art scene, with a festival, feature film, and more...
Commentary:
As a person who is very proud of her Chinese heritage, I am distressed at how the same people who invented the compass could loose their bearings over greed.
LA as Subject:
We asked the members of L.A. as Subject to search through their collections for one notable map that informs our understanding of Southern California.
Commentary:
In 1996 Rep. Jerry Lewis made a budget move that prevented the National Park Service from acquiring Providence Mountains State Recreation Area, a State Parks unit now closed due to budget cuts.
Notes of a Native Daughter:
None of this would be in this long desert valley without two essentials brought from other places years ago, or months ago, or yesterday: water and workers.
Where We Are:
Nature in Los Angeles is woven into a long history of instability and human intervention. But it's all that we have.
Commentary:
We should severely limit the initiative process. If our representatives are not up to the task, we should toss them out, not try to do their jobs for them, and in the process make their jobs increasingly difficult.
Where We Are:
Some ways of looking at a poet, businessman, and pedestrian
Movie Miento:
They sing in English and Spanish. Their violin, electric guitar, little jarana guitars, and wood box percussions blend into something more than Mexican, Mexican American, or American music.
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