LA Cowboy

The appellation cowboy is often used - but rarely earned. One of the last local representatives of the old style breed is Steve Tellam of R...

Read Kevin Roderick's post above on just some of the reasons why the Los Angeles Times layoff of Steve Hymon is unimaginable. What he d...

But I'm having a hard time figuring out what language the script was so... badly.... translated from. My guess is one of the more obscu...

The final line-up for BOXeight's fifth season of fashion shows once again at the Historic Los Angeles Theatre - this Friday, Saturday an...

I realize this is my FIFTH post about an error in the LA Times this weekend - but - seriously - I had no choice! They made me do it! Even t...

With the 'ID the neighborhoods project' going on at the LAT - how can a man be killed in Downtown in one sentence - and then also k...

In the above linked story, a family accuses the Army of covering up their daughter's murder by saying it was a suicide, and they present...

In today's Los Angeles Times, Steve Harvey does his usual excellent job on the re-opening of the historic Cole's bar/restaurant in t...

There has been a battle for up in the Owen's Valley Inyo County over - what else? - water rights. But instead of the local residents fi...

New York Times art critic Roberta Smith indulges in the guilty pleasures of 18th and 19th Century American naive painting - and then bemoans...

CultureGrrl blogger, Lee Rosenbaum, has an exclusive interview with former MOCA Director, Jeremy Strick reachable by the above link. The co...

After earlier saying that Prop B was going to win, the Times' last update before everyone at the paper went to sleep was before the ...

The neighborhood councils of Los Angeles and the people of Los Angeles have defeated the lies and deceit and the money of the local power st...

The above link has the Los Angeles Times editorial against the phony solar energy measure that's on today LA City ballot along with othe...

Now that the state of California is tens of billions of dollar in debt - and the situation for the next two years looks even... worse.... th...

With the underhanded way Measure B - the fraudulent 'solar power' ballot measure (which exists only to payback to union bosses for c...

Even if you're not a science freak - these 13 mysteries... about how little we know about ourselves and the world we live in.... is pre...

First, the good news. One of the most crime ridden, dangerous, gang run housing projects may be demolished and replaced with a mixed income...

I had heard the odd word about this project, but I had no idea it was of this scale- or this close to a public opening. Below is post by Sa...

When you compare attendance figures of LA's two major contemporary and comprehensive art museums with their counterparts in New York and...

According to WWW.GlobeSt.Com, Jack Kyser predicts Downtown Los Angeles will be one of the first areas of the nation to come out of the curr...

First. the above link goes to Nikke Finke's blog to show I am not alone in feeling the show was a failure And I finally realized why I ...

This is not a TV show. This is the biggest mass suicide since Johnstown.

After years of complaints from local bloggers - myself included - about the inability of the Los Angeles Times to get the names of our city...

What is happening today in Russia is only the beginning of their crisis - and ours. This is the best summary I have yet seen.

Normally, I only read the financial news in Pravda - but once I followed the cat's eyes photos - I discovered the fascinating world of P...

It's a far cry from.... http://icanhascheezburger.com/ - but the Russian paper of record now features a link to photos of cat's eyes...

The Edwardian Ball Descends on Downtown LA for the First Time Following SF’s 9th Annual Weekend-Long Celebration (Jan. 23 - 25) At Tower The...

How hard can it be for the Los Angeles Times to take a Thomas Guide, talk to some people who know something about this city - and then mark ...

At the CD 9 Quimby Fees Committee meeting today, it was announced that the parking lots on the east side of Spring Street between the El Dor...

It's only fitting that the first person to report today that activists gathered together by the neighborhood councils, under the leaders...

COAGULA Art Journal has just become the first - that I know of - art magazine to completely abandon dead tree distribution - for the 100% di...

Anyone who lives in Los Angeles - or anywhere, for that matter - and who cares about literature is, of course, a regular reader of Mark Sar...

While people in Los Angles debate whether or not even the handful of theaters on Los Angeles' Broadway can be reborn as legitimate Broad...

I just received a press release for the demonstration of how the auction will work at next months sale of close to half of the units at the ...

When Mary McNamara was unexpectedly 'demoted' from the book review section to reviewing... TV shows.... it seemed that a great writi...

Both photos are reminiscent of Rubens at his most exuberant heights with their management of controlled chaos. And even by the exceptionall...

I didn't know he had been ill the past six months so his passing was a real shock. The above link goes to the LAT' obit. More late...

Los Angeles's two biggest banking institutions collapsed this past year - leaving us with only City National Bank from the once many loc...

In a political year in which almost every rule was broken - including the myth that Americans were too racist to elect a black man president...