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David Rees

David Rees' Book How to Sharpen Pencils: Emotional Memoir Meets Writing Implement Maintenance Guide

David Rees, best known for his comic strip Get Your War On, is all over town this week promoting his new book, How to Sharpen Pencils: A Practical & Theoretical Treatise on the Artisanal Craft of Pencil Sharpening for Writers, Artists, Contractors, Flange Turners, Anglesmiths & Civil Servants. Bette ... More >>

Kim Kardashian Boycott: It's On

America, the strange. As the middle class shrinks like wet sand under a hot sun, we continue to be fascinated by the good life. Are we living vicariously or holding on to that '80s pipe dream of upward mobility? Last month the Census Bureau reported that, by new measures, including spending power, ... More >>

Alameda Swap Meet: The Joy of Cowboy Hats, Huitlacoche Cow Heads

G. SnyderYup, that's a whole cow head​ To describe the soon-to-be-unincorporated City of Vernon, located a few exits southeast of downtown, as an industrial wasteland might serve as an understatement. Most of the landscape is a collection of sprawling warehouses, massive scrapyards and factori ... More >>

New Los Angeles Population Figures Prove That We're No. 2

​The U.S. Census Bureau's latest big-city population data was released Tuesday and once again ... we're number two. In July, 2009, the latest month for which data was available, the city of L.A. had 3,831,868 residents, making it second only to the city of New York (8,391,881) in population si ... More >>

Census' Least Counted Areas In L.A. Identified

​The California Community Foundation on Wednesday identified Los Angeles' least-counted areas in the 2010 U.S. Census and stated that, for the first time, early data means that outreach can give those communities a second shot at being represented.

Following Pimp-'N'-Ho Sting, Community Group Closes Its Doors

​Acorn, the controversial community service group caught up in an right-wing video sting that targeted its offices in Los Angeles and elsewhere last year, announced this week that it's closing up shop, with all its offices scheduled to shut their doors by April 1. And no, it doesn't seem to be ... More >>

Queer Town: Equality California Pushes State to Collect Gay Data

With the 2010 U.S. Census soon underway, it's always been a sticking point with us that the gay community has been barely, if at all, counted. People are asked about their race on the short, census questionnaire, for example, but there's nothing about sexual orientation.EQCAEquality California Exec ... More >>

White Children Now A Minority In California, States Report (UPDATED)

​(UPDATED with Valley stats after the jump). Don't tell the produces of The Hills or any of the other youth-oriented television shows that seem to portray people of color as background noise in California, but for the Golden State's under-18 population whites are now a minority. This accordin ... More >>

Census Kick Starts In Los Angeles; New York Gets Bigger Census Rig

U.S. CensusA trailer in full bloom.​As the 2010 U.S. Census head count kicked off in Los Angeles this week, we were disappointed to learn that New York hosted a bigger traveling rig than what L.A. is getting. First New York claims it sees twice as many international tourists as the City of Ang ... More >>

Mayor V. Gets Body Scanned; Oversized Ego Detected

Mayor V.​Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa toured LAX's security systems Tuesday and he even reportedly went through a full-body scanner designed to detect concealed bombs, weapons or contraband. A U.S. Transportation Security Administration official pulled the mayor aside when his scan showed he was ... More >>

State Citizen Redistricting Commission Opens To Applicants

​A state commission empowered with redrawing California senate and assembly district boundaries opened up to applications from everyday citizens Tuesday. Under Prop. 11, passed last year, power for redistricting shifts from the legislature to a 14-member commission that will ultimately be chos ... More >>

Cheap Mexican Labor? Marry a Teenage Mexicana

​A state commission empowered with redrawing California senate and assembly district boundaries opened up to applications from everyday citizens Tuesday. Under Prop. 11, passed last year, power for redistricting shifts from the legislature to a 14-member commission that will ultimately be chos ... More >>

Laid-back, Uneducated, Macho-Obsessed

​A state commission empowered with redrawing California senate and assembly district boundaries opened up to applications from everyday citizens Tuesday. Under Prop. 11, passed last year, power for redistricting shifts from the legislature to a 14-member commission that will ultimately be chos ... More >>

Save Water: Deport the Wetbacks

And other Know Nothing fallacies

Proposition 11: The Most Misunderstood

The League of Women Voters, Common Cause and AARP seek change in Sacramento

Doomscraper? Here Comes Hollywood's First-Ever Mega-Skyscraper

A community thrown into shadow and vistas of the Hollywood sign could be destroyed

That's Wack

California’s legislature approves 1,000 new laws annually. Insert laugh track here

Young at Heart

Future: Last chance for our theater

A Flawed Democracy

Federal election monitors note a few problems in L.A.’s election last week

The Forgotten Woman

Revelations from a plus-size life

Bicoastal

Middle-classlessness, viewed from L.A. and D.C.

Footnotes

Middle-classlessness, viewed from L.A. and D.C.

Drug War Index

Middle-classlessness, viewed from L.A. and D.C.

Three’s a Crowd

Hahn, Soboroff and Villaraigosa race for the runoff

Crunch Time

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

404, Host Not Found

The end of the Web as we know it

Who Crowned George?

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

Public Health

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

DOG GONE IT ALL

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