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Michael Dukakis

  • Blogs

    September 28, 2010

    Meg Whitman And Jerry Brown First Debate Smackdown; Their Goal: Don't Say Anything Stoopid

    ​As Jerry Brown and Meg Whitman debate for the first time tonight at 6 on ABC 7 in Los Angeles, advisers are no doubt deep in fear, hoping their candidates avoid: 1)Saying something stupid that can be used in an advertisement, ala, Gerald Ford's gaffe in a 1976 debate that Poland wasn't under th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 22, 2010

    ACLU Backs Prop. 19, The Pot Initiative

    ​ California's three ACLU affiliates announced today they are backing Prop 19, the statewide initiative to legalize pot for those 21 and older. The measure will be on the ballot in November. "Enforcement of marijuana prohibition consumes a great deal of California's law enforcement and cour ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    October 2, 2008

    Movie Reviews: An American Carol, Beverly Hills Chihuahua, Flash of Genius

    Also, Blindness, Still Life, How to Lose Friends and Alienate People and more

  • Blogs

    June 23, 2008

    LAFF 2008: Boogeymen are coming to get'cha!

    No, not this guy. But he makes a better visual than the “stars” of the two documentaries I’m about to discuss. One is BOOGIE MAN, a story about the life and influence of the late Republican campaign manager Lee Atwater. The other features the closest thing to a real-life bogeyman, an honest-to ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 19, 2008

    Macbeth

    No, not this guy. But he makes a better visual than the “stars” of the two documentaries I’m about to discuss. One is BOOGIE MAN, a story about the life and influence of the late Republican campaign manager Lee Atwater. The other features the closest thing to a real-life bogeyman, an honest-to ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    June 19, 2008

    Los Angeles Film Festival Guide 2008

    No, not this guy. But he makes a better visual than the “stars” of the two documentaries I’m about to discuss. One is BOOGIE MAN, a story about the life and influence of the late Republican campaign manager Lee Atwater. The other features the closest thing to a real-life bogeyman, an honest-to ... More >>

  • Stage

    June 19, 2008

    Theater Reviews: Sanctuary, Alexandros

    Also, Lucia Mad, In Heat, A Thousand Words, and more

  • News

    May 25, 2006

    Rise of the Machines

    Pretty Boy and the Nerd try to bring down the Terminator, while the Democratic Party searches for its soul

  • News

    May 19, 2005

    New Mayor, New City

    Antonio can remake the city as he pleases well, sort of

  • News

    April 7, 2005

    Running Like Bushes

    The Hahn campaign is modeled on Karl Roves and Lee Atwaters greatest hits

  • News

    February 24, 2005

    Hunter Without the Fear or Loathing

    Thompson defies expectations during a pilgrimage to Woody Creek

  • News

    September 30, 2004

    Dont You Know Theres a War On?

    Best Performance by John Kerry

  • Columns

    September 23, 2004

    Kitty Galore

    The Bush Dynasty and media hypocrites

  • News

    September 9, 2004

    Democratic Doldrums

    How John Kerry has emerged from them before, and how he can do it again

  • Columns

    September 2, 2004

    The Shadow of His Smile

    Kerry, we hardly know ye

  • News

    August 26, 2004

    Pimps and Wimps

    Swift boats and briar patches

  • News

    August 5, 2004

    Tempest From a Teapot

    For MoveOns Wes Boyd and Joan Blades, politics begins and ends at home

  • News

    February 26, 2004

    Two Sides of JFK

    The arrival of the reckless and cautious John Kerry

  • News

    October 30, 2003

    The Fahntahstic Transition

    Arnolds embrace of the right and the left is not that strange

  • News

    September 4, 2003

    The Doctor is In

    Rolling with people-powered Howard Dean from the highs and lows of spring to the triumphs of summer

  • News

    July 10, 2003

    Turning to a Newspaperman for Ethics

    And assorted other City Council maneuvers

  • News

    June 26, 2003

    Start Packing, Gray

    The White House gets into the act to dump the governor

  • News

    November 7, 2002

    Fair Pay

    Inside the battle for a living wage in Santa Monica

  • News

    September 12, 2002

    Letters

    Inside the battle for a living wage in Santa Monica

  • News

    August 22, 2002

    Move Over, Mike Dukakis

    Democrats clamber onto the tank on Iraq

  • News

    August 22, 2002

    The Fictional Candidate

    Bumbling Bill Simon could provoke Democratic sweep

  • Columns

    February 28, 2002

    Visible Men

    Bumbling Bill Simon could provoke Democratic sweep

  • News

    February 7, 2002

    Reforming Riordan

    High time for change in California

  • News

    November 8, 2001

    See Riordan Run

    The ex-mayor lines up his team for the governors race

  • Film+TV

    November 1, 2001

    Childhoods End

    Whats eating Donnie Darko

  • News

    June 14, 2001

    The Era of Bad Feelings

    Jim Hahn sets a city against itself, and comes out on top

  • News

    March 29, 2001

    Crunch Time

    The race to succeed Richard Riordan and to reshape Los Angeles comes down to the wire

  • News

    February 1, 2001

    The Natural

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

  • News

    December 28, 2000

    Forget Those Supremes!

    Here comes the Democratic majority (both nationally and in L.A.)

  • News

    November 23, 2000

    Who Crowned George?

    On the centrality of cows to W.s plurality and the GOPs prospects

  • News

    November 2, 2000

    Panic Time

    The days, and the electoral votes, dwindle down

  • News

    October 26, 2000

    A Man and His Message

    Governments not the problem; its Gore (but not as much as before)

  • News

    October 19, 2000

    Masters of Deceit

    Behind Santa Monicas breathtakingly bogus living-wage initiative

  • News

    August 31, 2000

    Working-Class Hero, Sort of

    Why the New Al Gore sounds like a populist

  • News

    July 6, 2000

    Ralph Rising

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

  • News

    November 4, 1999

    The Old New Guy

    Howard Miller brings history and baggage to his new job at L.A. Unified

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