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Proposition 34 Election Results: Death Penalty Repeal Goes Down in Defeat

California voters chose not to repeal the death penalty, Proposition 34. Los Angeles County voters actually voted to end the death penalty, backing Proposition 34 by a wide margin of 1,191,545. or 54.04 percent Yes, to 1,013,477, or 45.96 percent No. But the local vote was not nearly enough to ov ... More >>

Proposition 34: Campaign to Repeal the Death Penalty is Gaining Traction According to Poll

Good news today for supporters of Proposition 34, the initiative that would end executions in California and see the sentences of the state's 725 death row inmates automatically commuted to life in prison without the possibility of parole. According to a Field Poll released this morning, for first ... More >>

Belarus Free Theatre, Free Speech and Thought Control

BFT’s Natalya Kolyada, and Tim Crouch’s The Author

Tonight: The xx, Warpaint, Tommy Keene, Dntel, the Airborne Toxic Event

Timothy NorrisThe xx​Our favorite first reaction to the music of The xx came from an obviously hopeless romantic we stood with at a South by Southwest show who deadpanned, "I don't know, I think I like my x's with o's." But that's tangential to the big news of the day -- the black-dressed thr ... More >>

Badlands: From Ground Zero of the Immigration Crisis Along the Mexican Border

LAPD Police Union Blasts Rule Limiting Cops' Use Of Tasers

​The union representing rank-and-file Los Angeles Police Department cops on Wednesday decried a U.S. district court ruling that severely limits officers' use of Tasers to subdue suspects. The decision, states the Los Angeles Police Protective League, "has us scratching our heads in disbelief. ... More >>

Johnny Cash, Joe Strummer, Antonino D'Ambrosio and Shepard Fairey at Subliminal Projects: Bitter Tears, Fury, and Politics

By Barbara Celis Art is the antidote. This timeless truth became clear once again on Saturday night when Subliminal Projects, the Echo Park art gallery owned by Shepard Fairey, hosted a politically- and musically-charged event that celebrated artists as activists and art as a way to agitate conscio ... More >>

Native Not Envisioned

On the Road to Burma

Globetrotting with Ozomatli, unlikely U.S. diplomats

How Many Secret Policeman's Balls Are There?

Scott Baio, Nanci Griffith, Secret Policeman’s Ball and Other Signs of Aging

What to do in L.A., June 5-11

The Secret Is Out

Post-Coachella Recovery at Shadowscene, Linda Perry's Evening With Women

The Ding Bat Show (Starring Clown College Alumni)

Tasering Kids: Better Than Ritalin?

Today Hawthorne police begin investigating an incident in which an officer Tasered a 12-year-old school boy, according to the L.A. Times. The story, citing descriptions of the boy as violent and autistic, says that the cop was called to Hawthorne Middle School last September to quell the youth, who ... More >>

Theater of Paralysis: Donald Margulies' Time Stands Still

Who says our larger theaters are overrun with liberalism?

New Postal Service Record in the 21st Century? Perhaps, Perhaps Not

We keep waiting and waiting, the indie-geek version of hair-metal freaks wondering about Chinese Democracy, for the follow-up to the great first Postal Service album. Every once in a while a little tidbit of news will come from either singer Ben Gibbard or producer (and LA native) Jimmy Tamborello ... More >>

Fashion Victim: Anand Jon

Will celebrity designer be in stripes for the rest of his life?

Seeking the Rage: Among the Protesters at the Democratic National Convention

The group Recreate '68 tries to ignite the passion of another generation

Election '08: Not Quite Recreating '68

I made my way to Civic Center Park, near the state capitol building in Denver, around midday on Tuesday, hoping to find signs of dissident life to add a bit of hot blood to what had been so far a rather anemic Democratic National Convention. It was the morning after a confrontation between police an ... More >>

Lovely Bastards

Morrissey, Art Brut and the proper way to nick from John Lennon

Malibu Bad Neighbor

A dictator in training buys his way in, as politically active superstars stay mum

Tanks for the Message

Today Echo Park’s Clothing of the American Mind is monitoring the vote

Blood From Stones

The diamond cartel's campaign against Leo's upcoming movie gets dirty

Get Naked for Gaia or Go Clean a Stream

Hoopla's Earth Day Edition

Dr. Story

Pardon U.S.

Just Deserters?

Soldiers are singing 'O Canada.' Is it the beginning of a Vietnam-like trend?

Teaching Torture

Congress quietly keeps School of the Americas alive

Give Pies a Chance

Agent Provocateur

The Torture Files

Iraqi detainees allege mistreatment and abuse

Torture-Lite

The Back Story

Liberation, occupation or hell?

Dream States: The War of All Mothers

Iraq: Telling the Left From the Right

American leftists woefully ignore their Iraqi counterparts

Tough Roe to Hoe

Who will fight the next battle for choice?

View From Parker Center

A one-on-one with Police Chief Bill Bratton

The Man Who Would Be King

L.A. dreamer longs to sit on the throne in Equatorial Guinea

Pelosi’s Problems

The San Francisco Democrat carries baggage of money and special interests

Letters

Liberation Politics

Mexico’s long-imprisoned general is released from jail

Urine Trouble Now

Edited by Kateri Butler

Global Stench

Come to Tijuana to experience globalization

A Death in Texas

An 'ordinary' execution gets completely out of hand

Breaking Ranks

A Mexican officer defects, seeks asylum in U.S.

Letters

Shooting Off Sparks

Weapons of Mass Distraction

U.S. arms dealing leads Project Censored’s list of the Top 10 underreported stories of 1997

Myanmar's Friend at City Hall?