LA Kings and Ice Hockey culture in Southern California
After sneaking into the National Hockey League playoffs as the number eight seed in the Western Conference, the Kings have dispatched the number one seeded Vancouver Canucks in five games,…
Politics Friday: 5 stories you may have missed this week
While you were camped out in front of George Clooney’s Studio City home trying to get a glimpse of the star or Iron Man or maybe the president, Mitt Romney…
Compassion to Action: Volunteer fair this weekend
Find out about volunteer opportunities on the Westside at the Volunteer Fair being held on Saturday, May 12 from 11 am to 1pm at the Fairview Branch Library at 2101…
Why do you volunteer?
We asked our community to share stories about why volunteering is important. And we mapped some of the Los Angeles organizations where people have helped out. Please add yours and…
Last chance to catch Jonas Wood at David Kordansky Gallery
This is your last week to enjoy a dreamy collection from LA-based artist (by way of Boston) Jonas Wood. This collection evokes Southern California in its color and technique and…
A tour (virtual) through LA’s proposed football stadium
We’re still years away from having either a pro football team back in L.A. or a stadium for that “TBD” football team to play in. But what we do have…
Talking trash with ‘Garbology’ author Ed Humes
Doesn’t this look like the entrance to a spiffy housing complex? It’s actually the way in to Puente Hills dump in Whittier, aka Garbage Mountain–the nation’s largest active landfill and…
How Obama’s gay marriage support affects California
President Obama said today that he now favors allowing gay couples to marry. In an interview with ABC News’ Good Morning America, he said that his position had evolved over…
Can Big Tobacco kill Proposition 29
Proposition 29 on the June ballot would raise taxes on cigarettes by a dollar a pack. That alone would decrease smoking, and the money would go to cancer research and…
The Autry Museum’s John Gray heads to Smithsonian
John Gray, the founding president of the Autry National Center of the American West, has been tapped to lead the Smithsonian’s National Museum of American History in Washington, D.C. Gray…
Electric cars are here. Now where do they all plug-in?
Remember when we used to ask “Who killed the electric car?” Well, unless you’ve been under a Hummer the last few years, you probably know the world’s car companies are…
Newspaper by teens, for teens in peril
The crisis in the newspaper world seems to be extending to a mainstay of youth-oriented media based here in Los Angeles. LA Youth, which has published for 24 years, says…
Fracking in Baldwin Hills?
Hydraulic fracturing for natural gas has been blamed by some people for earthquakes and water contamination in Northeastern and Rocky Mountain states. It turns out that “fracking” has been used…
LA Riots vs Twitter Revolution: Social media and how we voice dissent now
Twenty years ago today, parts of Los Angeles were in cindered ruins. From South LA to West Adams to Koreatown and Hollywood, thousands of Angelenos turned on one another, and…
LA’s bag wars begin
L.A.’s city council might pass pass legislation later this month which puts puts the city on the path to banning single-use plastic bags, followed by paper bags. If it does,…
Politics Friday: 5 stories you may have missed this week
The Avengers opens today! While you were busy deciding which super hero is your favorite, Barack Obama launched a new campaign slogan and Newt Gingrich finally dropped out of the…
Miramonte teachers rally to return to their classrooms
Teachers from Miramonte Elementary School spoke out for the first time since they were transferred out of their classrooms in February, in the wake of sexual misconduct allegations involving two…
Keeping hope and the puppets alive: Bob Baker and his marionettes
The Bob Baker Marionette Theater is just west of downtown where I live. I had driven by the theater for years before I finally had the chance to go inside…
Radio amidst the riots: 20 years of ‘Which Way, LA?’
Twenty years ago this week, Warren Olney first sat down in the cramped studios of KCRW to host a town forum that would become Which Way, LA?. Riots and unrest…
May Day protests in downtown LA
Protesters in downtown Los Angeles converged on Pershing Square tonight as part of the May Day rallies that have been going on all day. Thousands of workers, students, immigration reform…
