Democratic National Committee

President Obama Cancels Trip To L.A. Due To Syria Crisis

Looks like President Obama won't be headed to Los Angeles next week after all. Obama was supposed to address the AFL-CIO convention on Monday and attend a fundraiser in Hancock Park. But the debate over an attack on Syria will keep him in Washington.Too bad, because that would have given us an oppor ... More >>

Antonio Villaraigosa's Quest for Wall Street, Washington and Wealth

Obama Coming To L.A., Still Wants Our Money Despite Election Win

Did President Obama not get the memo? The election is over. You don't need to tap L.A.'s rich people for campaign money anymore. You won. Wait, what? Ah: There are midterm congressional elections on the horizon. Democrats want to crack the alleged gridlock imposed by Republican filibusters. Friggin ... More >>

Girl Talk: Readers Argue About Henry Rollins' GOP Takedown and Steven Leigh Morris' Deep Throat Skepticism

Barack Obama Doesn't Give Antonio Villaraigosa Democratic National Committee Job

One Washington D.C. job can now be marked off the list for Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, who appears to have his eyes on a major gig in the national's capital after he leaves office on June 30, 2013. Last month, Politico columnist Alexander Burns wrote that Villaraigosa was "high on some ... More >>

Henry Rollins: The Column! Being a Local, Temporarily

[Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] We are in beautiful Olympia, Wash. My shows in Hawaii and Alaska are behind me, and a few hour ... More >>

Where NOT to Go To Dinner Tonight: President Obama Has Booked Tavern

Tavern's websitethe dining room at Tavern​ As you probably know already -- hopefully, if you're going to be in a car anywhere on the Westside later today -- President Obama is in town. Why? Why do you think: the man is fundraising in a place that has historically been very kind to him. So, the ... More >>

Eat With The President: Your $17,600 Dinner

If you want to have dinner with President Obama tonight, it'll cost you $17,600. The president, in town today (your Presidential Sigalert: Air Force One to LAX, chopper to California Science Center, flying back to DC tomorrow) to speak at fundraisers for the Democratic National Committee and for Sen ... More >>

Did Obama Live Tweet His Own Speech? No, But Everybody Else Did

This morning Twitter user @denisbaranov asked for summary of Barack Obama's speech, specifically one without subjectivity (since most of the amateur punditry concerned the "You lie" outburst from a now infamous Senator from South Carolina, Joe Wilson). ​We went straight to the L.A. Times tra ... More >>

Election '08: The Night Before Christmas

I have a special guest blogger today. His name is Justin Warfield. You may know him as the frontman and songwriter for the great band She Wants Revenge. He's a very cool guy who has an interesting and emotional take on this election. His post is below. Also, here's a link to my piece on socialism, o ... More >>

WORN OUT: Obama Chic at the Emmy Parties. Oh Yeah!

The Trickle Down Economics of the Nation's Financial Crisis

This week, the Los Angeles Business Journal explains how the trickle down economics of the country's financial crisis may hurt LA...as well as some of its wealthiest citizens. Billionaire Eli Broad, who's a major shareholder of American International Group, the insurance company that the federal gov ... More >>

Yosi Sergant and the Art of Change: The Publicist Behind Shepard Fairey's Obama Hope Posters

The facilitator talks Obama, art, the DNC and Fairey's Denver arrest

The Delegate From Sadr City

Majid Al-Bahadli more than hopes Obama can change the world

Troubadour Theater Company Spins Shakespeare Like a Copper Penny

Political clowning, from Bono to Barack

DNC '08: It's Not My Party

And I'll stay home if I want to

Blaming the Victim

Readers comment on Jamiel Shaw case

Movin' On, Chasin' Tails, Ignoring Voters

How the Dems got out-Foxed

Pay to Play

Nothing Shocking

A Goldwater Moment

It's 1964 all over again, but this time for the Democrats

IS THE DOCTOR In?

Howard Dean and the fight for the DNC's soul

The Mouth

What makes Howard Dean say those things?

Your City Council (Not) at Work

What keeps L.A.’s politicians from delivering on their progressive dreams

Code Blue

Dr. Dean must revive a very sick and unresponsive patient

Letters

Is the Doctor In?

Howard Dean and the fight for the DNC’s soul

A Goldwater Moment

It’s 1964 all over again, but this time for the Democrats

Grand Old Illusions

Exposing the secrets of an empire

Post-Convention Blues

Now that Kerry’s coronation is over, swing states look for something real

Escaping the Convention Matrix

Networks, sponsorship, faux unity and a way out of the dark

Bushless in Boston

Progressives, pawns and prawns in our cowardly democracy

Payback

Howard Dean makes a pitch for the under-30 vote

Two Americas, Two Lists

See Ralph Run

Advice for dealing with the renegade

Face of a Protester

LAPD wants to ban ski masks from demonstrators’ wardrobes

Rage and the LAPD

Ruling keeps alive protesters’ lawsuit in aftermath of Democratic Convention

Keeping the Peace

LAPD really knows how to sock it to ’em

Letters

Streetwalkin' Times Woman

Like, a Version

About That Money

The caravan moves on, but someone forgot to pay the bill

The Fashion Police

Puppet Regimes

Political-themed theater across the city

Mood Indigo

The LAPD’s big test

Free To Protest

Thanks to Judge Feess, you can say more things in more places

What Reactionaries

Don’t assume the D2K will be another Seattle

Running on Empty

George W. Bush’s plea for votes — and brain cells

Parks in Charge

Police chief has convention and council firmly under control

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