David Ferrell

Two days after the September 11 terrorist attacks, when the nation was in misery, focused on the bloodshed in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, no one was ...

DON’T LET THE RECENT unanimous “yes” vote fool you — City Hall appears to be girding for a mammoth fight over a bid by 15,000 Los Angeles residents to declare sprawling Griffith Park off-limits to hotels and restaurants. Park lovers and residents seeking to have the entire 4,218-acre park set......

PERHAPS NOWHERE IS THE CURRENT PUSH led by Los Angeles City Hall and its platoon of private lobbyists for an overbuilt, overcommercialized, re-engineered L.A. ...

EVERY POLITICIAN SHOULD BE as wonderfully clear and direct as Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa was two years ago, when he unveiled his grandiose plan to hire 1,000 n...

Only five years after U.S. warplanesrained down “shock and awe” on Iraq, decimating towns and families, a few rich Californians have figured out how to counter...

“The old L.A. Public Library burned down/that library downtown/and with it went/a large part of my/youth.” Illustration by Kyle T. Webster (Click to enl...

IT’S FREAKIN’ RARE THAT A GANG of purported Internet hackers can take on an established church and look like the good guys — but, after all, this is Hollywood,...

LIGHTS, CAMERAS, LEGAL ACTION? That's the threat facing Los Angeles' free-roaming packs of paparazzi, if City Councilman Dennis Zine has his way. ...