Martin Luther King Jr.

Will Cardinal Roger Mahony Face Charges for Sex Abuse Cover Up? SNAP says Yes

On the front page of this morning's Los Angeles Times, the paper notes that several legal experts suspect Cardinal Roger Mahony will not face criminal charges for covering up clergy sex abuse due to the statute of limitations. One advocacy group says those experts have it wrong. "We aren't police, ... More >>

Byron Adams, Bill Rosendahl, Stevie St. John and L.A. Gay Equality Warriors Stunned, Thrilled by Obama 2013 Inaugural Promise

From revered gay UC Riverside professor and brilliant classical composer Byron Adams to Spectrum L.A. gay blog editor Stevie St. John, prominent Los Angeles-area lifelong fighters for equality were stunned by President Obama's surprise inaugural promise to bring full, unprecedented human rights to g ... More >>

Six Short Plays by Black Women, at Katselas Theatre Company

10 Groundbreaking Celebrity and Music Photographers

Right now, there are at least three music-themed photo exhibits going on in L.A., and a few celebrity-themed ones, too. Peter Fetterman Gallery is showing "Forever Young: The Art of Music Photography" through September 8, while Kana Manglapus Projects is exhibiting "Factory 77" through September 10, ... More >>

A Guide to L.A.'s Jewish Street Art

Most Angelenos wouldn't associate Jews with spray paint and wheat-paste, but what about murals? Twenty years ago, before the city began a war on street art and pushed murals and graffiti underground, targeting artists with lawsuits and jail time, the city's diverse communities embraced a flourishing ... More >>

Ginuwine's "Pony": Why This Song Sucks

[Editor's note: Why This Song Sucks determines why particular tracks blow using science. It appears on West Coast Sound every Wednesday.] Song: Ginuwine's "Pony" History: "Pony" came out in 1996. It was the first single Ginuwine released. It may have revolutionized the way guys behave around women ... More >>

Angela Davis Says Black People Have a Responsibility to Support the DREAM Act

Angela Davis, former Black Panther, is the go-to commentator on any protest or political uprising these days. (And, apparently, the go-to stencil for "street artists" designing nostalgic protest fliers.) So why hasn't anyone asked her how she feels about the DREAM Act -- the national push to grant ... More >>

L.A. Woman Was the Doors' Bluesy Masterpiece, and Jim Morrison's Kiss-Off to L.A.

Seminar, Maple and Vine and The Mountaintop in New York

All-Star Game Boycott Over Arizona's Immigration Law? Maybe Not ...

MLBHey now, you're All-Star.​Update: We told you so. Latinos are really great at boycotts. As long as they don't involve beer (we're looking at you, Coors), strip clubs or sports. (But grapes -- absolutely). Therefore we don't have high hopes for the great All-Star game boycott of 2011. The ... More >>

Henry Rollins! The Column: Listening to Ramones in Tehran

Timothy Norris​[The one and only Henry Rollins contributes a weekly column and far-reaching reportage to the music section of the LA Weekly. Look for your weekly Henry Rollins fix right here on West Coast Sound every Wednesday and make sure to tune in to Henry's KCRW radio show every Saturday ... More >>

'Trenta' Will Soon Be Ours: Starbucks Unleashes 31 Oz. Iced Coffee Cup On California This Feb. 1

Rage time.​When your L.A. freeway (read: parking lot) commute hasn't even reached the 30-minute mark and the straw in your iced coffee is already bottoming into a chorus of slurps a la Mary Louise Parker, Starbucks knows exactly what's going through your head, because Starbucks knows you bette ... More >>

Comics From the Other Side: Fringe Team Signs at Meltdown

Comic book fans and science fiction lovers - the two are not mutually exclusive by any means, but in spite of the broad cross-over appeal between the two, it's pretty nifty when a sci-fi title throws up props to comic book history. Meltdown Comics hosted a signing and silent auction for Fox's Fring ... More >>

Julian Romero, L.A. Homicide No. 163: Man Found Fatally Shot Inside Car in South Los Angeles

​A man who was found fatally shot outside a white van near downtown Los Angeles July 23 has been identified as 25-year-old Julian Romero. Romero was shot about 9:30 p.m. Friday in Broadway Place and 40th Place. He was later found dead in his car in the 3700 block of Woodlawn Avenue, between Je ... More >>

Willy Leventhal: Civil Rights Shortstop

MAKE US LAUGH FUNNY BOY!

Brick’s Picks: Tubman Interpreted

More Cop Files Found In The Open

The new Los Angeles Police Department touted by Chief William Bratton as he leaves office this month seems a lot like the old one, at least if you peek down hallways and through back doors. On Tuesday the police union released a photo it says show complaint files with names, serial numbers and locat ... More >>

Supervisors Pay $3M to MLK Hospital Victim's Survivors

It was a tragedy that shocked Los Angeles but not, apparently, the night shift employees of Martin Luther King Jr.-Harbor Medical Center, where Edith Rodriguez died in May, 2007. Today Los Angeles County is paying for their negligence as the Board of Supervisors agreed to pay $3 million to t ... More >>

Guns N' Roses: Why Chinese Democracy's Fine Print Is Way More Fun Than the Record

Amuse your delusion

LAFF 2008: Hell to the Yeah

I guess LAFF doesn’t want me to talk about how the premieres go, since my tickets for them have ended up being in overflow houses far away from the actual red carpet and celebrities, so if you want to know what Guillermo del Toro may or may not have said to introduce HELLBOY II, I can’t help ... More >>

The Ambassador Forty Years After RFK

I drove by the Ambassador last night inadvertently, trying to find some way to shave a couple of minutes off of my commute. The last bit of the hotel's signage faces south-west and caught the setting sun. On the radio, commentators talked about the historic nature of Barack Obama's win of the Democ ... More >>

Yvonne Burke's Crumbling Kingdom

She was hailed as a black pioneer and hero. Did she sell out?

The O-boomers

Even hardened veterans of the '60s have to hand it to Obama

Green Party, RIP

McKinney’s shenanigans sent the party further into irrelevance

Theater Reviews: Wicked, Trying, Monsieur Chopin

Weekend Theater Reviews

Including Distracted, Sam Shepard’s Seduced, The Serpent and more

Film Reviews: Black Snake Moan, Wild Hogs and more

Also this week's pick, Encounter Point

This Is Iran, Too

Writing on the Walls

Judy Baca

LA Weekly Insiders - Test Page

Rockie Horoscope

Seven Days Till a Better You in 2006!

An Ambivalent Hero

Gene McCarthy and standing down a president and his war

Wrecking Ball Blues

August Wilson’s Radio Golf

Meet Me at the Salton Sea

Waves of Sympathy

Breathing While Black

Confessions of a 'post-Negro'

Manic Monday

Raging against the Establishment

Crenshaw by Any Other Name

Joe, We Hardly Knew Ye

The fear -- and loathing -- of a black hat

The L.A. 53

The Next Cold War

On the need to create a diplomatic, economic, political, cultural — and military — approach

Three’s a Crowd

Hahn, Soboroff and Villaraigosa race for the runoff

The King of Compton

Mayor Omar Bradley and his reign of chaos

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner?

The American Nightmare and Hannibal

Scavenger Hunt

Moseying through some of “California” at the County Museum

25 Years of Dick

L.A. on $7.37 a Day

One woman's life on General Relief

Wholly L.A.

Desegregating our diverse houses of worship