Ronald Reagan

Tony Kushner's A Bright Room Called Day Gets a Revival

Watch L.A. Grow With This Time-Lapse Map

In 1984 Los Angeles hosted the Olympics, Ronald Reagan was president and crack and AIDS were just starting to do damage. So much has changed since then, from the gentrification of Echo Park and downtown to the development of an actual subway system, that it seems like eons ago. Google, with the hel ... More >>

Happy Birthday, Ronald

Ronald Reagan's Blood Coming Back Home to Southern California

Reagan Blood is destined to become the name of a hipster electronic act headed for next year's Coachella. It is not, however, something that is going to be sold this week at auction. The British auction house that had put a vial of what it said was genuine blood from the 40th president up for bidd ... More >>

Ronald Reagan's Conservative Blood for Sale

A vial of freedom-loving blood said to have belonged to late President Ronald Reagan was put up for auction this week, and the Simi Valley-based Ronald Reagan Presidential Foundation (host of his library) was none too happy. While the anti-communist blood was said to have been legally obtained by a ... More >>

Five Artsy Things to Do This Week, Including 'Anti-Rock' Band Destroy All Monsters and Charles Garabedian's Pseudo-Biblical Painting

With the exception of a panel of artists talking economics, this week's recommendations are all old-school, exhibitions and performances of artists working before Watergate. 5. Highbrow Comedy Guy de Cointet is one of those stuff-of-myth artists: He grew up in Paris, was friendly with Yves St. Laur ... More >>

The 5 Most Hilarious Republican Attempts To Co-opt Rock Songs

​The problem with being a Conservative, besides the fact that you spend all your time trying to ruin things for everyone else, is that, let's face it, you're really square. You probably have a million sexual hang-ups, you're always 50 years too late to claim credit for any social movements tha ... More >>

Measure M, Marijuana: Election Results

​L.A. voters are on their way to approving a 5% tax on marijuana sales at the city's dispensaries. With 40% of precincts counted, Measure M is passing by a margin of 62-38.Theoretically, this could bring in $10 million in revenue. Realistically, it's likely to face a legal challenge from the dispe ... More >>

Top 10 Songs About Presidents (in Honor of Presidents Day)

Remember Clinton and the sax?​ Monarchs, political authority figures, and presidents have been inspiring pissed-off punk rock anthems or passionate, pleased glorification--whether subtle or direct--since human beings could pick up an instrument and pluck or pound out a feeling. And given our ... More >>

Ronald Reagan's 100th Birthday Cake: $10,000 and 400 Pounds Worth of Chocolate Eagles and Licorice Jelly Beans (for a Dead Guy)

Jennifer Bjorklund via NBC Los Angeles​Ronald Reagan, actor turned California governor turned U.S. president, sure had a way of getting the American people, or at least the crazy rich kind, to love him. The charismatic ex-POTUS may not have his own national holiday yet, but national holidays p ... More >>

Ronald Reagan Library New Year's Eve Celebration

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Green Beans: Happy National Jelly Bean Day

Sure, it's Earth Day. We know. Go watch An Inconvenient Truth for the zillionth time, then turn off the lights and eat something unbearably good for you by candlelight. And then start in on the jelly beans. Because not only is today Earth Day, but it's also National Jelly Bean Day. Which is kind of ... More >>

Reagan Grandson's Arrest Compared To That of Henry Louis Gates Jr.

Papa Michael Reagan.​After his son was arrested outside his San Fernando Valley home, Michael Reagan, himself the son of late President Ronald Reagan, compared his progeny's arrest to that of black Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. outside his own home in July. "Where is the American Ci ... More >>

Today in Photographs: July 26, 1967

​It's not what you think. According to the original caption: "Gov. Ronald Reagan is initiated into the Breakfast Club on Riverside Drive in Los Angeles. His hand is dipped in sunny-side-up eggs as he rides a wooden horse blindfolded."LA Herald-Examiner/LAPL

National Ice Cream Month Is the Sweetest Cash Cow, Plus Reservoir's Ice Cream Sliders

During his term in office, President Ronald Reagan recognized that Americans love ice cream, and that the ice cream industry generated billions of dollars in annual sales and provided jobs for thousands of citizens. So, in 1984, he declared July to be National Ice Cream month and the third Sunday i ... More >>

Today in Photographs: January 23, 1947

Ronald Reagan poses with organizers of the "What Brotherhood Means to Me" essay contest.  (Photo: Kay Norton/LAPL Collection)

The Man in the Mirrored Sunglasses: From El Salvador to D.C.'s Oliver North Hearings, the Weekly Far From Home

Dances with detached strangers

It's Going to Take a Whole Lot More Than a Democratic Majority to Save Us

Hope, not faith

Lies and Legends: Jay Sefton's The Most Mediocre Story Never Told

Absolutely Reagan Heaven: Westlake Village Inn

Inside the hotel suite where you awake to morning in America

The Storyteller

Ed Meese on the Gipper and Gitmo

70 Million and Counting

The clash of politics and morality in The Age of AIDS

Corrected Legacies

The Getty Villa, the Reagan Library

The 1st Mr. Fish cartoon

This is my very first cartoon, drawn when I was a teenager and not yet buying my own underwear, cheese or gasoline.  Note the signing of my name with an old typewriter, an act of pretension meant to indicate to my audience that I should be taken more as a writer and a social philosopher than as ... More >>

The Gipper’s Ghost

The Vanishing

My Ronald Reagan encounter

X Ray Vision

Two generations of L.A. rockers on the meaning of punk, then and now

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

Gip and Gipperer

57 Ways To Say Goodbye

Reagan Without Tears

Let’s not forget what the Gipper did to America

The Gipper

Death Valley Days

Local Boy Makes Good

How Ronald Reagan, a hometown embarrassment, became a world-class embarrassment

Bye Bye, Bonzo

Reagan was double-dealing long before Iran-contra

Lying in State

This bier’s for you, Gipper

Preying on the Seal

The ACLU takes on the county’s cross

Reagan Without Tears

Let’s not forget what the Gipper did to America

Aborting Abortion Rights — Then and Now

New details from Blackmun’s papers show how 1992 begets 2004

No New Taxes

Except on students

The Killing Years

Death in El Salvador, bloody hands in Washington

Next Big Thing: Looking for That Song

Less Than Zero

The new age of intolerance

Star Wars Wars

The Best of Sitegeist

Luxury SUV Comes to Complete Stop

Star Wars Wars

Polls, Pols and Propositions

Twenty years of political coverage

Permanent Twilight

Our wicked, wicked ways

Lies To Get You Out of the House