Martin Luther King Jr.

Silver Lake's Gay Rights History...As Told By Puppets

See also: *5 Artsy Things to Do in L.A. This Week *L.A.'s Best Experimental Puppet Theater *Move Over, West Hollywood -- Silver Lake Is the True Gay Mecca *Silver Lake Has Always Been Gay, Readers Say Let's face it, puppets are cool. Automata, the non-profit experimental puppet theater and workshop ... More >>

Jackie Robinson Day: Los Angeles, the Dodgers and Major League Baseball Celebrate

It's Jackie Robinson Day, America. And it's Jackie Robinson day across America. The third Monday in January of every year we celebrate the birth of Martin Luther King, Jr. And on April 15 we remember the day Jackie Robinson became the first "Negro" player in Major League Baseball.

$100 For Your Guns, No Questions Asked, Today In South L.A., Van Nuys

If you got a gun for Christmas and you don't like guns, take it back. If you got a gun for Christmas and you're not quite sure where it came from or where it's been, turn it into the LAPD anonymously. You can do so today and, not only will cops not ask questions, they'll give you a gift card for $1 ... More >>

Ovation Awards 2012: Center Theatre Group Leads L.A. Theater Prizes Announced Last Night

Center Theatre Group, which runs the Mark Taper Forum, the Ahmanson Theatre downtown and the Kirk Dougas Theatre in Culver City, got lots of love at the 2012 Ovation Awards Monday night at downtown's Los Angeles Theatre. The company was awarded Best Season, while the Michael Arabian's staging of Wai ... More >>

10 Lessons We Learned From The Real Housewives of Beverly Hills Season Two

Via bravotv.com​It's Real Housewives of Beverly Hills reunion time! Those delicious three weeks in which Andy Cohen forces the ladies to relive every tension-filled moment from the past 18 episodes they've supposedly "grown from" or "moved past." (But inevitably just end up fighting about all ... More >>

Fela! at the Ahmanson Reviewed

The life of a Nigerian Afrobeat legend

Gay History Bill: Why Is the Los Angeles Times Spreading Sex-Ed Lies Birthed by 'Stop SB 48'?

​Hide your little boys and girls... 'cause California's scheming, sexed-up politicians are about to sneak gay porn all up in their kindergarten classrooms! Heh. That's the gist of the "Stop SB 48" campaign, which seeks to repeal a new California law requiring the contributions of LGBT-identif ... More >>

Oran Z's Black Facts and Wax Museum: A Brutally-Honest African-American History Collection in Baldwin Hills

Christopher J. LynchWax figures of Barack and Michelle Obama​ Oran Z began his quest for a wax head of Barack Obama even before the president took office. The creator and proprietor of the Pan African Black Facts and Wax Museum in South Los Angeles met resistance from his supplier, who wanted ... More >>

Will Latinos Force White Republican Don Knabe off L.A. County Board of Supes, via 'Racial Gerrymandering'?

Long Beach PostSupervisor Don Knabe, looking particularly white in the Martin Luther King Jr. parade​Is Don Knabe is on the verge of getting swallowed by L.A. County's rising Latino tide? The two minority members on the five-person L.A. County Board of Supervisors -- Gloria Molina and Mark Ri ... More >>

Mr. Fish at Robert Berman Gallery: A Cartoonist Who Wants to be a Disease

Courtesy of Mr. Fish​ It's not often you hear "amen" followed by outright laughter at art openings. But hang an army of political cartoons in a gallery and people react as if they're in a tent meeting listening to a preacher dressed in a clown suit. At least, there were plenty of amens and ch ... More >>

'Stop SB 48' Doesn't Want California Students to Know about Bayard Rustin?

American civil rights leader Bayard Rustin​In the history of the world, gays and lesbians have figured prominently in contributing to many different societies. One such person is Bayard Rustin, an African American man the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library and Museum describes as the "the S ... More >>

Roger Guenveur Smith's Juan and John

'East Side Longos,' LBC Latino Gang, Lose 13 Members to SWAT Crackdown at 4 A.M.

rap.matters.comDon't mess with the Longos -- unless you're a cop with a search warrant​Updated after the jump: A Long Beach gang expert gives us the Longo lowdown. The East Side Longos may have been laughing after Marvin "Shy Boy'' Mercado, an ex-leader of rival gang Asian Boyz, was threatene ... More >>

Henry Rollins Column: Optimism, Lemmy and 3,000 Downloads Just For You

Maura LanahanOur eminent columnist, Mr. Henry Rollins!​[The one and only Henry Rollins contirbutes 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 Monday and make sure to tune in to He ... More >>

Rage Against The Machine To Headline Concert Fighting Arizona Immigration Law [Updated]

By Steve La Steve La(From left) Zack de la Rocha and Tom Morello of Rage Against the Machine​ Some rockers are taking on the Arizona immigration law that has stirred a lot of passionate opposition here in L.A., including boycotts of Arizona by several cities. "This is not a Latino or immig ... More >>

Fact-Checking Janice Hahn

​Today, the San Francisco Chronicle continues its efforts to fact-check political ads by examining this statement from Lieutenant Governor candidate Janice Hahn:We can send another ambitious career politician to Sacramento, or Janice Hahn - single mom, councilwoman, businesswoman, schoolteacher fo ... More >>

Janice Hahn Rolls Out TV Ad for Lt. Gov. Bid

With less than a week until the June 8th primary, Los Angeles City Councilwoman Janice Hahn has rolled out a TV ad in support of her dark horse bid to win the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor. Titled "Janice Hahn Carries on the Fight," the ad reminisces about her father -- the late ... More >>

Booty Central: Soul Train: The Hippest Trip in America

New film documents America's funkiest TV dance show

U2 at the Rose Bowl: Concert Porn for the Masses

It was cool. It was a big Happening with flashing lights, lots of color, inspiration, 100,000 people screaming along in unison, moved by the pure ... spectacle of it. If we were in North Korea, these songs would have been about the Supreme Leader and we would have all been flashing colored placards ... More >>

Bye-Bye, Bill Bratton

Top five reasons the chief is really leaving Los Angeles

Story Time: Doug Levitt's Greyhound Rolls Into Town

Doug Levitt When he began campaigning for John Kerry five years ago, Doug Levitt, a onetime London School of  Economics student and former CNN war correspondent, had no idea he was beginning a cross-country odyssey that would lead him to a thousand bus stops and town squares. At first he was th ... More >>

Abiding Joe Biden: Obama's VP Pick Exposes the Dems' Shallow Talent Pool

The senator's predictably unpredictable verbal eruptions will make a memorable campaign season

A Zillion New Neighbors

Scared by a weakening downtown, City Hall is set to obliterate zoning protections

Naked Rebellion

Vixen Kabarett

Don’t Look Down

And the opinions of others

Please Turn Out the Lights When You Go

A Lesson Before Dying and Safety

We Endorse

L.A. Weekly’s choices for June 6

Letters

Dead Director Rises Again

George Romero on zombies, politics and his own second coming

Anointing the Savior

Is Herb Wesson hoping his King-Drew role turns into more?

To Succeed, Must We Secede?

Rooms of Dissent

Police pull welcome mat on hotel workers’ protest

Give Us Back Our Damn Flag

The leftist case for patriotism

Borrowed Finery

Stripping Lessons

'I Call for a Fair Tax'

Excerpts from an editorial-board interview with Peter Camejo

Shopping While Black

What If . . .

the Ambassador Hotel could be saved as a school

Raging Gracefully

Days in the life of Sunset Hall

Free Radical

Country maverick Steve Earle vs. the Nashville machine

Dancing Through Life

Paul Kennedy 1940-2002

Visible Men

King/Drew’s Renewal

The cure for the county-run hospital is ethical, not fiscal

The Coffee Table

Our annual capitulation to last-minute, support-your-local-bookstore holiday commercialism

You Got Me, Babe

So who needs a bowling league?

Ralph Rising

What the Nader Candidacy means for Gore, the Greens, the left, and the nation

Sport of Supes

Maybe it makes sense to expand L.A.’s Board of Supervisors

A Funky Epiphany

Bitter truths from the Crack Emcee

Hall of Fame

Rumble on Rodeo

Beverly Hills meets the new labor movement