Lyndon Johnson

Five Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week, Including the Iconoclastic Urs Fischer at MOCA

This week, haunting films about cold-war America play for 15 hours straight on Alvarado and an artist sells cellphone holders that make your phone as unwieldy as one from landline days. 5. Holes in the walls Urs Fischer, the Swiss artist who stuck a fake tongue out of a hole in the New Museum's wa ... More >>

Donald Freed's Play Tomorrow Interlinks Macbeth, George W. Bush and a Theatrical Dynasty

O'Neill and Steinbeck Onstage

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

Gael Garcia Bernal Stars in No, About a Political Campaign in Pinochet's Chile

The Magic Bullet Theory

Voter Suppression Efforts Could Take Out Barack Obama This Fall

Beverly Hills PTA Releases Doomsday Video to Oppose Westside Subway

The Beverly Hills Unified School District Parent-Teacher Associations have released one heck of a doomsday video to protest a possible subway tunnel underneath the Beverly Hills High School campus. With a solemn voiceover that declares, "Methane gas, toxic chemicals, and teenagers don't mix," it r ... More >>

The Convert and The Magic Bullet Theory, Plays About Accidental Killings

Henry Rollins: The Column! Rebelling in Sweet Home Alabama

[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.] If you are a fan of American history, Alabama is a very interesting place. To say that a lot has ... More >>

Oswald: The Actual Interrogation, a Play About the Kennedy Assassination

Pictures Of Jazz Players With Presidents!

Duke Ellington and Richard Nixon spend some QT​By Sean J. O'Connell Sonny Rollins is one of the greatest living jazz musicians. Since his first recording session with trombonist J.J. Johnson in 1949, he has relentlessly dedicated himself to discovering the limits of the honking beast. This Th ... More >>

Bench Drama: Lawyers Seek News of $35 Million Managed by Judge Manny Real

U.S. District Judge Manny Real, whose appointment to the federal bench dates back to 1966, when Lyndon Johnson put him there, is the focus of a Carol J. Williams piece in today's L.A. Times. The 85-year-old Real is the cranky yet often cryptic jurist in Room 8 of the Roybal Federal Building who's su ... More >>

Today in Photographs: February 8, 1966

Peaceniks Picket Air Force One.  Demonstrators protesting the Vietnam War rally a few hundred yards from President Lyndon Johnson's plane as Johnson conferred with advisors aboard the jet. Photo: LA Times/UCLA Collection

Obama: Everyman's President?

On "Black Is the New White" by David Ehrenstein

Letters: Readers Remember Rockie

The Secret Life of Bees: Buzz Kill

Saccharine civil rights drama is all honey, no sting

Reaganomics Meets the GOP-Bolshevik State

Potemkin economy

Chunju Han-il Kwan Draws Hungry Night Crawlers With Its Budae Jjigae

Fusion reaction

Ship's Secrets, Powers Back On

The Clinton Machine Will Not Go Easily Into the Night

The battle begins

Must See Art

Rodney McMillian and Rirkrit Tiravanija

The 3 Pros and 5 Cons of John McCain

An Ambivalent Hero

Gene McCarthy and standing down a president and his war

How I Lost the War in Iraq

Bob Hertzberg Interview Transcript

The Security Party

Republicans are the party of risk. That should create an opening for Democrats

The Incidental Candidate

Kerrying doubts into the voting booth

Capture the Flag

John Kerry and the Democrats reclaim patriotism

Can Dean Win?

It’s not enough to be right

Hard Lines and Second Thoughts

Earl Morris’ Robert McNamara documentary is half in, half out of the fog

Ideologues Amok!

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

Challenging the Recall

Continuing Education

A Democrat Despite Himself

The View From the Black Tower

Lew Wasserman, 1913–2002

The Good, the Bad and the Rest of Us

Twisted Roots

Little Otik’s comedy of terrors; plus, Hart’s War

The Crash of Civilizations

12 highlights from 365 days

The Erotic Arts

The Hollywood 10-plus

L.A.’s political tone at stake in race to succeed Jackie Goldberg

W.'s Way

Talks like Clinton, thinks like Reagan

Power Ranger

DWP chief plans to hitch horses, 'pull this wagon out'

Whose Vietnam?

A.J. Langguth’s new history

Debating the Details

Why the numbers racket beats the vision thing

The Dick and Joe Show

They're civil! They're loose! They're conservative!

Aborted Takeoff

Hopes for union grounded at LAX

The Lunar Shot

The most expensive photographs ever taken

Inside/Outside the (N.Y.) Times

Max Frankel's ode to journalism

Plebicide

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

Malign Neglect

A Weekly Roundtable discussion on black L.A.