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One is a longtime activist more accustomed to marching on the protest front than glad-handing at a fund-raiser; the other a U.S. congressman... More >>
When Dallas-based Digital Convergence ushered in a new era of bar-code scanners with its cat-shaped gadget, the CueCat, the first question on... More >>
Toward the end of Karyn Kusama’s Girlfight, as the film‘s tough young female boxer dukes it out against a male opponent in a battle that cou... More >>
Beginning in Europe before the Middle Ages, the semi-nomadic tribes of Siberia and Lapland discovered that their native reindeeer had a... More >>
Rebecca Solnit‘s Wanderlust: A History of Walking belongs to a genre of literature that in the late 20th century moved from the rarefie... More >>
Alli Starr has this fond memory of her life as an activist: In Seattle last December, she arrived at the intersection of Fourth and... More >>
In 1998, it finally happened: After nearly five years of dominating headlines, magazine covers and airtime, the Internet got dull. The utopian... More >>
“I like your attitude,” says the young man handing out contributor-information cards at the door of El Rey theater, where mayoral candida... More >>
I once knew an Italian mAN who, while sojourning in Minnesota as a college professor, would stand and stare out of his front window on Saturday... More >>
A few years ago, Marisela Norte was trying to convince a young high school girl that her life was worth writing about. “I told her, ’You do... More >>
Here’s a little experiment: Get out your college copy of Moby-Dick, sit yourself down in a crowded restaurant, open the book to a pag... More >>
On the road back to Los Angeles from Joshua Tree, a few miles past Old Woman Springs Road near the quake-rattled town of Landers, stands a... More >>
Photo by Anne Fishbein A month from now, Susannah Grant will have two of her screenplays in movie theaters. One, Erin Brockovich, is... More >>
Crossing the border into Tijuana is, predictably, jarring. Southern Californians who visit here mostly shrug off the car graveyards that litter... More >>
Photo by Greg Weiner"DID YOU READ THE JOURNALIST AND THE Murderer?" Jane Campion asks a few minutes into our conversation, invoking... More >>
On December 31, the Los Angeles Free-Net discontinues its text-based Internet service, the $20-per-year e-mail and limited-access information... More >>
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