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U.S. History

  • Blogs

    May 22, 2012

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    May 5, 2012

    Cinco De Mayo Celebrates Anti-Slavery?

    There's been a lot of talk in recent years about how Cinco de Mayo isn't a big Mexican holiday, not like the 4th of July is in the United States. It's true. A just-released book from UCLA professor David Hayes-Bautista, El Cinco de Mayo: An American Tradition, argues that Cinco's prominence in Am ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 4, 2012

    Cinco de Mayo Myths Debunked, in UCLA Professor's New Book

    When Dr. David E. Hayes-Bautista says the phrase "Drinko de Mayo," he is far from bitter. He doesn't rant about how Cinco de Mayo has been subjected to brutal commercialization and stripped of its authenticity. It is, after all, difficult to really critique the Mexican beer companies for divesting t ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 19, 2012

    WonderCon's Big Hollywood Movie Panels: Did Fans Fall for the Prometheus Hype?

    Last weekend was WonderCon, the large, three-day pop culture convention organized by the same people who bring us San Diego Comic-Con every year. Normally, WonderCon takes place in San Francisco. Due to remodeling at their hometown convention center, however, this year's event moved to Anaheim. It ... More >>

  • Blogs

    March 14, 2012

    Henry Rollins: The Column! Rebelling in Sweet Home Alabama

    [Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] If you are a fan of American history, Alabama is a very interesting place. To say that a lot has ... More >>

  • Blogs

    February 8, 2012

    SeaWorld Whales Are Slaves Protected by U.S. Constitution? Federal Judge in SoCal Actually Considers It

    SeaWorld Facebook​Updated at the bottom: Case dismissed. First posted at 11:51 a.m. on Monday. You might have blown off PETA's claim that whales under the care of SeaWorld San Diego were deserving of constitutional protection barring slavery (we sure did), but a federal judge in the case toda ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 26, 2012

    Go West, Young Shutterbug

    SeaWorld Facebook​Updated at the bottom: Case dismissed. First posted at 11:51 a.m. on Monday. You might have blown off PETA's claim that whales under the care of SeaWorld San Diego were deserving of constitutional protection barring slavery (we sure did), but a federal judge in the case toda ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 26, 2011

    SeaWorld Whales Are Slaves Held in Violation of 13th Amendment, PETA Says in SoCal Lawsuit

    PETA's a FAIL on this one if you ask us.​Updated at the bottom with reaction from SeaWorld and L.A. author Earl Ofari Hutchinson. First posted at 11:27 a.m. Animal rights -- perfectly normal, perfectly healthy. Yet where does the movement go too far, surpassing even the best wishes of a life- ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 29, 2011

    Henry Rollins: The Column! Henry Speaks On His Consciousness-Expanding Trip to the Library of Congress With Ian MacKaye

    [Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Copping MP3s For 
Free Is Not Cool I have just wrapped o ... More >>

  • Calendar

    August 4, 2011

    Gospel According to First Squad

    [Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Copping MP3s For 
Free Is Not Cool I have just wrapped o ... More >>

  • Calendar

    June 30, 2011

    The Confounding Brothers

    [Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Copping MP3s For 
Free Is Not Cool I have just wrapped o ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 28, 2011

    The Real Meaning of Tricky Dick

    [Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Copping MP3s For 
Free Is Not Cool I have just wrapped o ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 21, 2011

    Hey There, Cowboy

    [Look for your weekly fix from the one and only Henry Rollins right here on West Coast Sound every Thursday, and come back tomorrow for the awesomely annotated playlist for his Saturday KCRW broadcast.] See also: Henry Rollins: The Column! Copping MP3s For 
Free Is Not Cool I have just wrapped o ... More >>

  • Film+TV

    March 17, 2011

    The First Los Angeles Spaghetti Western Festival

    A three-course feast in North Hollywood

  • News

    March 10, 2011

    How Los Angeles Covered Up the Massacre of 17 Chinese

    A three-course feast in North Hollywood

  • Blogs

    February 3, 2011

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    January 27, 2011

    The Wave's Betty Pleasant Says Villaraigosa Administration 'Rife With Anti-Black Racism'

    L.A. Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa​The Los Angeles Wave's Betty Pleasant, a longtime columnist who knows how to shake things up, dropped one of her signature bombs last night, charging that Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's administration is "rife with anti-Black racism." Pleasant wrote ... More >>

  • Blogs

    October 8, 2010

    Q & A With Chris Kimball of Cook's Illustrated: Jello, Calf Brain Appetizers His New Book

    J. GarbeeKimball, Unseasonably Sans Bow Tie At Fig At The Fairmont, Santa Monica​When you have lunch with Chris Kimball, otherwise known as the Executive Chef of America's Test Kitchen, you expect a little analysis. No, a lot of analysis. After all, the man has managed to transform the rather ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 30, 2010

    BUT WHAT ABOUT THE CHERRY TREE?

    J. GarbeeKimball, Unseasonably Sans Bow Tie At Fig At The Fairmont, Santa Monica​When you have lunch with Chris Kimball, otherwise known as the Executive Chef of America's Test Kitchen, you expect a little analysis. No, a lot of analysis. After all, the man has managed to transform the rather ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 15, 2010

    WE HEART MANNY

    J. GarbeeKimball, Unseasonably Sans Bow Tie At Fig At The Fairmont, Santa Monica​When you have lunch with Chris Kimball, otherwise known as the Executive Chef of America's Test Kitchen, you expect a little analysis. No, a lot of analysis. After all, the man has managed to transform the rather ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 8, 2010

    WHAT'S NEXT, THE IRAQI HORROR SHOW?

    J. GarbeeKimball, Unseasonably Sans Bow Tie At Fig At The Fairmont, Santa Monica​When you have lunch with Chris Kimball, otherwise known as the Executive Chef of America's Test Kitchen, you expect a little analysis. No, a lot of analysis. After all, the man has managed to transform the rather ... More >>

  • Calendar

    July 1, 2010

    BBQ, Brews and Red, White and Blues at the Queen Mary

    J. GarbeeKimball, Unseasonably Sans Bow Tie At Fig At The Fairmont, Santa Monica​When you have lunch with Chris Kimball, otherwise known as the Executive Chef of America's Test Kitchen, you expect a little analysis. No, a lot of analysis. After all, the man has managed to transform the rather ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 22, 2010

    HEY PULITZER COMMITTEE — BITE ME!

    J. GarbeeKimball, Unseasonably Sans Bow Tie At Fig At The Fairmont, Santa Monica​When you have lunch with Chris Kimball, otherwise known as the Executive Chef of America's Test Kitchen, you expect a little analysis. No, a lot of analysis. After all, the man has managed to transform the rather ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 22, 2010

    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 >>

  • Blogs

    April 6, 2010

    Armed Robbery at Pink's Hot Dogs: How Much Do You Think Was In That Tip Jar?

    Flickr user Kristin Tsafos ​ Breaking News: Despite gastrointestinal evidence indicating otherwise, the chili dog is not invincible. According a Los Angeles Times report, Pink's Hot Dogs was robbed at 3:35 yesterday morning. Thankfully no injuries were reported, presumably no customers were a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 5, 2010

    HONESTLY, GABE, YOU LOOK DASHING IN THAT HAT

    Flickr user Kristin Tsafos ​ Breaking News: Despite gastrointestinal evidence indicating otherwise, the chili dog is not invincible. According a Los Angeles Times report, Pink's Hot Dogs was robbed at 3:35 yesterday morning. Thankfully no injuries were reported, presumably no customers were a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 28, 2010

    FREEDOM'S JUST ANOTHER WORD FOR YOUR CONSIDERATION ACADEMY VOTERS

    Flickr user Kristin Tsafos ​ Breaking News: Despite gastrointestinal evidence indicating otherwise, the chili dog is not invincible. According a Los Angeles Times report, Pink's Hot Dogs was robbed at 3:35 yesterday morning. Thankfully no injuries were reported, presumably no customers were a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    October 1, 2009

    BEST STEVE

    Flickr user Kristin Tsafos ​ Breaking News: Despite gastrointestinal evidence indicating otherwise, the chili dog is not invincible. According a Los Angeles Times report, Pink's Hot Dogs was robbed at 3:35 yesterday morning. Thankfully no injuries were reported, presumably no customers were a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    September 3, 2009

    Eat What Thomas Jefferson Just Ate: Huntington Library Lecture and Cooking Class

    Thomas Jefferson, after Charles Willson Peale. Source: The Huntington Library​Thomas Jefferson is well known for his penchant for wine (he planted one of the first American vineyards at Monticello). But did you know he was also a reverent consumer of beer, English muffins, and ice cream? Museu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    August 25, 2009

    A Tale of Two High School Reunions

    L.A. blogger Ron Kaye sets aside the city's political wars to offer a somewhat bittersweet account of his Cleveland high school's 50th reunion. The piece begins with Kaye furtively noting the social terrain at the hotel in which "some 300 elderly people" were gathered: "There was no line at the bar. ... More >>

  • Calendar

    May 14, 2009

    The Crucible

    L.A. blogger Ron Kaye sets aside the city's political wars to offer a somewhat bittersweet account of his Cleveland high school's 50th reunion. The piece begins with Kaye furtively noting the social terrain at the hotel in which "some 300 elderly people" were gathered: "There was no line at the bar. ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 22, 2009

    Battle Hymn

    L.A. blogger Ron Kaye sets aside the city's political wars to offer a somewhat bittersweet account of his Cleveland high school's 50th reunion. The piece begins with Kaye furtively noting the social terrain at the hotel in which "some 300 elderly people" were gathered: "There was no line at the bar. ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 25, 2008

    43 Plays for 43 Presidents

    L.A. blogger Ron Kaye sets aside the city's political wars to offer a somewhat bittersweet account of his Cleveland high school's 50th reunion. The piece begins with Kaye furtively noting the social terrain at the hotel in which "some 300 elderly people" were gathered: "There was no line at the bar. ... More >>

  • News

    April 10, 2008

    General Petraeus: Designated Manure Spreader

    Pie charts, benchmarks, "phased" redeployment; 30,000 wounded, 5,000 dead

  • Film+TV

    March 13, 2008

    John Adams: America's Middleman

    HBO's patriot gamesmanship

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    1776

    HBO's patriot gamesmanship

  • Calendar

    January 10, 2008

    At the River I Stand

    HBO's patriot gamesmanship

  • Art+Books

    August 9, 2007

    Helen of Inglewood

    Revisiting Lundeberg’s History of Transportation

  • Stage

    January 4, 2007

    Music and Readings From Jefferson's Library

    Revisiting Lundeberg’s History of Transportation

  • LA Life

    November 16, 2006

    ¡Ask a Mexican!

    Special Tres-Question Edition

  • Calendar

    January 19, 2006

    Art Pick: Abo Ovo, Tue., Feb. 7

    Special Tres-Question Edition

  • News

    September 8, 2005

    Government and Floods

    A quarter-century of libertarianism is washed away in New Orleans

  • Stage

    November 11, 2004

    The End of America, One More Time

    Paradise lost in John Guare’s Lydie Breeze

  • News

    July 1, 2004

    Of Patriots and Scandals

    What would George Washington do?

  • Columns

    October 31, 2002

    Revisionism Revisited

    The Civil War and Ours

  • News

    June 13, 2002

    The View From the Black Tower

    Lew Wasserman, 1913–2002

  • Calendar

    March 21, 2002

    Baptized in Fire

    On the exigencies and excuses of black history

  • Film+TV

    January 18, 2001

    All That Ken Burns

    Jazz ain’t got that swing

  • Stage

    June 18, 1998

    Mr. Booth Goes to Washington

    An actor prepares for hell

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