Franklin D. Roosevelt

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Pulitzer Finalist About the Iraq War

Lee Melville, a true gentleman and decades-long friend of our theater, died last night. Melville was a critic and editor at Drama-Logue and, most recently, L.A. Stage. More details as they come in. Christopher Shinn's drama Dying City, about a family in the wake of the Iraq War, being performed a ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including a Jacobean Incest Melodrama

The scandal surrounding a love affair between a brother and his sister forms the centerpiece of John Ford's 17th century play, 'Tis Pity She's a Whore. Archway Theatre's downtown production is this week's pick. See below for all the latest new theater reviews and comprehensive theater listings. Thi ... More >>

Theater to See This Week, Including a Riveting Police Story

L.A. Weekly critic Lovell Estell III found a police melodrama Cops and Friends of Cops to be a refreshingly unpredictable new play, and made it this week's Pick. Good reviews also for Peter Pan, presented by the Blank Theatre at Second Stage, and Falling for Make Believe, a play about the theater at ... More >>

Do Lord Remember Me

This L.A. Golf Course Was an Internment Camp. Should It Get Historic Monument Status?

L.A.'s Cultural Heritage Commission met at City Hall Thursday morning to determine whether to designate Tujunga's Verdugo Hills Golf Course a historic-cultural monument, not because it's a golf course, but because it was the site of the Tuna Canyon Detention Station, Immigration, and Naturalization ... More >>

O'Neill and Steinbeck Onstage

Reviews of A Noise Within's Grapes of Wrath and Early Plays at REDCAT

Henry Rollins: Led Zeppelin, All Powerful

[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.] Two nights ago, I was sitting in front of my speakers listening to a very clean pressing of Led ... More >>

Hyde Park on Hudson Review: Bill Murray Is Excellent as Franklin Roosevelt, But Is That Enough?

Tony Kushner Explains How He Adapted Lincoln for the Age of Obama

Tony Kushner isn't shy about politics. He's opinionated, and he stirs up controversy. In his own words, he's a "man of the left." His 1992 Tony Award-winning play Angels in America tackled AIDS at the height of its epidemic. In 2005, he co-wrote Steven Spielberg's Munich, which took heat for its po ... More >>

Noir City 2012 at the Egyptian

The people rise up against the powerful, pre-Code noir style

Everything That's Wrong With the Valley

Theater Reviews: K2, The Train Driver

Also, Venice, On Emotion, FDR and more

Celebrate Columbus Day: 8 Oz. Burger Bar Extends Happy Hours Today

If you're celebrating Columbus Day today, Govind Armstrong's Melrose Avenue burger joint 8 oz. Burger Bar will help you out. They're extending their happy hour(s) today in honor of the federal holiday, which was established in 1934 by Franklin Roosevelt. If you want to know where your postal carrier ... More >>

Today in Photographs: July 16, 1938

President Franklin Roosevelt addresses a train-stop L.A. rally to renominate and re-elect U.S. Senator Willliam G. McAdoo (center). However, McAdoo would lose the Democratic primary that August to Sheridan Downey -- an advocate of the "Ham and Eggs" scheme to end the Great Depression. Downey would a ... More >>

Today in Photographs: April 12, 1945

Angelenos hear of President Franklin Roosevelt's death.Photo: LA Daily News/LAPL CollectionClick image to enlarge

Making Those Red States Blue

Unions look to battleground states — and the South

Outliving the Bastards

Frank Wilkinson, 1914–2006

Government and Floods

A quarter-century of libertarianism is washed away in New Orleans

George Gershwin Lived Here

And Beverly Hills just let the place be torn down

Tiny Malice

John Patrick Shanley’s nuns’ story

Making Those Red States Blue

Unions look to battleground states — and the South

The Army You Have . . .

. . . Under Bush and Rumsfeld couldn’t care less if your humvee is armored with cardboard

Kerry Speaks!

Why this election is far from over

Resoluter Than Kerry

Why Democrats shouldn’t panic — yet

Sore Winners (and the Rest of Us) in George Bush’s America

A Consensus Convention

But if they’re not arguing with each other, are they still really Democrats?

The Fight for Eagle Mountain

Give Us Back Our Damn Flag

The leftist case for patriotism

George Bush and the Treacherous Country

Ideologues Amok!

Right-wing zealots and our very own DiFi destroy Medicare, adjourn for turkey

The Neocons’ War

This is supposed to burnish our reputation?

The History of America: Abridged

John Henry Redwood plays the butler to four presidents

Let’s Roll!

A hot-war president for a cold-war nation

Letters

Panic in the Year Zero

Bombs Away

Revising history in Pearl Harbor

The Last Bad Idea

Market theory demanded deregulation — but the market argued otherwise

Fear and Furs

The pomp and protests of W.’s stolen inauguration

Sacramento Scramble

State government struggles to undo its deregulation debacle

The Natural

Despite his deficiency of backbone, Bill Clinton was the greatest pol of his generation

On the Brink

W. on the verge of power, America at the edge of the abyss

The Ovations, 2000: In Mixed Companies

What Los Angeles Needs To Know About the Democrats

Can the world’s oldest continuous political party regain its majority? Its activists? Its purpose?

Big Easy Star

Alex Chilton’s song of the South

School Boss Sweepstakes

Bill and Al's Excellent Adventure

How Bill Bradley Learned to be a Principled Liberal, but not how to Campaign, and how Al Gore Learned to be a Terrific Campaigner, while Trashing his Party's Historic Principles.

A Man's World

Those Who Love Me Can Take the Train and the restored Grand Illusion

Where's the Left?

American liberalism at century's end

Plebicide

Never mind the Republican attack on Clinton. What about the Republican attack on us?

Vicissitudes of the Victor

Honor, history at stake as Filipino veterans press for recognition