U.S. Senate

Antonio Villaraigosa's Quest for Wall Street, Washington and Wealth

Antonio Villaraigosa for Governor? What Voters Need to Know About the 11 percent Mayor

We were away from L.A. a few days and came back to see numerous articles about Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa wanting the job of California governor. Yahoo! News even made a strange case for why Villaraigosa could run for president. That news isn't surprising -- Villaraigosa always has big ... More >>

California's $100B Bullet Train 'Not Feasible' at This Time, Says Peer Review Group for the High-Speed Rail (Surprise, Surprise)

The Bullet Train: Even more expensive a pipe dream than the L.A. mayor's "Subway to the Sea."​How many more warnings will it take for starry-eyed California politicians to realize the voter-approved $100 billion Bullet Train is a budget disaster waiting to implode? On top of skepticism from t ... 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 >>

California Election Results: Statewide Democrats Fend Off Republican Wave, Barack Obama Should Study Golden State for 2012

Colin Young-WolffPresident Barack Obama at USC​On a night when the Republican party took over the House of Representatives and made things tight in the U.S. Senate, Democratic President Barack Obama should study what California Democrats did right in their statewide races, fending off possibl ... More >>

Is This Thing Over? Brown Whipping Whitman In California Governor's Race

Ted SoquiMeg Whitman could lose this thing via the Latino vote.​It looks like Meg Whitman's undocumented maid might lose the former eBay chief California's governorship. The latest poll from USC College and the Los Angeles Times had Attorney General Jerry Brown beating Whitman 52 to 39 percent ... More >>

Carly Fiorina Vs. Barbara Boxer

Running as a flat-out conservative, is Carly crazy, or crazy like a fox?

City of Bell Corruption

The people yell over the smell in the hell that is Bell

Bold Prediction: Mickey Kaus Will Poll in the High Single Digits

Mickey Kaus sets expectations low​The polls are open as of 7 a.m. Sometime before they close, at 8 p.m., lay down a bet on how Venice-based blogger Mickey Kaus will fare in his anti-campaign for U.S. Senate. Kaus told Calbuzz that if he gets 3% of the vote, it will be a historic repudiation of Ba ... More >>

Conservative Radio Talkers John And Ken Endorse Mickey Kaus

​Mega-blogger and candidate for U.S. Senate Mickey Kaus announced over the weekend that conservative talk-show hosts John and Ken have endorsed him in the Democratic primary Tuesday. Kaus, who is critical of illegal immigration and the stranglehold unions have on his party, said he's not surpr ... More >>

Lieutenant Governor of Paper Clips

Janice Hahn, a product of the L.A. City Council, hopes to be a heartbeat away from governor of California

California's Big Whiff on Education-Reform Money

What the hell led to the "Race to the Top" rejection from Obama?

Mickey Kaus' Blog Has New Home

​Journalist and pundit Mickey Kaus officially moved his well-read blog from Slate to his own, independently hosted URL, kausfiles.com, after filing to run in the Democratic primary against U.S. Sen. Barbara Boxer. He had stated that he wanted to tap into his sizable audience and use his blog ... More >>

Kaus Pulls 'Files' From Slate, Goes Indie

Courtesy of Stephen KausMickey Kaus.​Indicating the seriousness of his spirit in waging a Quixotic campaign for U.S. Senate against incumbent Barbara Boxer, mega-blogger Mickey Kaus announced Thursday that he's moving his blog away from Slate and hosting it himself in order to drive more traff ... More >>

In U.S. Senate Race, Kaus Really Files

​Venice-based journalist and mega-blogger Mickey Kaus on Friday filed papers to run for the U.S. Senate against Democratic incumbent Barbara Boxer. We reported at the beginning of the month about his intention to run. Via this post, Kaus listed some of the stances that would differentiate him ... More >>

CORRECTED: Mickey Kaus Takes Out Papers For U.S. Senate Run

Mickey Kaus.​Pioneering political blogger Mickey Kaus took out papers filed to run for U.S. Senate in California, he told LA Weekly. The Venice resident said he'll run this year against Barbara Boxer for her seat. He said he took out filed papers at with the Los Angeles County Registrar of Vot ... More >>

Queer Town: Ted Kennedy, Champion of Gay Rights, Has Died

U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy, a longtime champion of gay rights, died Tuesday in Hyannis Port, Massachusetts. He had been battling a malignant brain tumor for the past year. U.S. Senator Ted Kennedy​Kennedy was the brother of President John F. Kennedy and former U.S. Attorney General and Senator Rober ... More >>

Theater Reviews: Cymbeline, Oleanna, The Little Foxes

Also, School House Rock Live! Too, Stranger and more

Stage Raw: Love Water

At your fingertips, the current COMPREHENSIVE THEATER LISTINGS; Also, see this week's  THEATER FEATURE on the principal creators of the Wooster Group's La DidoneNEW REVIEW LOVE WATER photo by Dan Bonnell In a drainage pipe near a park and a ditch that might be a space-alien breeding ground, ... More >>

Schwarzenegger's Lost Year

The Austrian Oak is beaten by a bureaucracy he swore he'd change

Janet Napolitano = Homeland Futility

Governor Napolitano's sorry service in Arizona makes her a terrible choice for Homeland Security secretary

Frank Zappa's Joe's Garage Gets Its Premiere 29 Years On

Rock opera, like its revered creator, was ahead of its time

Kramer Versus Weekly: Molding the News?

How Low Can They Go?

As elected reps’ salaries soar, minimum-wage hike stays in limbo

Mr. Big Ideas

Antonio Villaraigosa

A Prayer Denied

Tensions over youth and money tear asunder a Hollywood church

Shame. Shame. Shame.

But can Democrats fill the vacuum?

Government and Floods

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

Servicing Their Country

Women on the rack, from Sacramento to Istanbul

Censor Alert

Congress considers controls for cable TV and the Internet

Dirty Little Secrets

Bush’s Homeland Security czar Mike Chertoff and his days in New Jersey

A New Umpire

Reforming the state’s three-strikes law

The Wordsmith

Lu Haas, 1917–2004

Letters

Sí, Se Puede!

L.A.’s new Freedom Riders take their quest for immigrant equality on the road

Coughing Up a Plan

Clean-air strategy falls short

Young Man Blues

To be a real player, the Green Party must harness its youthful passions

The Unhappy Warrior

Gray Davis: The rise of America’s most calculating politician

Wyatt Earp and the Witchfinder General

What They Want

The Left Responds: Fear and Hope

Shadow Summit

The show of support along the U.S.-Mexico border

Rampant Illegitimacy!

Down among teens. Up among presidential candidates.

Where Money Didn’t Talk

In Santa Monica at least, the good guys won

Puppet Regimes

Political-themed theater across the city

Being Ron Unz

The Genius Son of a Welfare Mother, He Made a Fortune in Computers. Now He's Spending it Trying to Reshape the World

Odd Man Out

The odyssey of Tom Hayden

Top Secret!

Development hell on the Web

The Last Roll Call

The cop funeral as civic pageant

From Liberty Hill to the Living Wage

A brief history of Progressive Los Angeles