David Futch

As head of special archives and collections at CSUN's Oviatt Library

Ellen Jarosz Holds the Keys to the Nation's Biggest Sex Archives

David Futch
One of the 54 fascinating Angelenos featured in L.A. Weekly's People Issue 2015. What's a nice, Wisconsin-bred librarian like Ellen Jarosz doing in a place like this? Keeping an eye on a major academic jewel on the California State University Northridge campus: one of the most extensive accumulations of videos,......
Carol Kaye outside her home in the Antelope Valley; Credit: Sally Stewart

Carol Kaye Is the Greatest Bass Player You Probably Never Heard Of

David Futch
Quick. Name a woman who has done more for rock & roll than Carol Kaye. Bet you can’t. The bass on “These Boots Are Made for Walkin',” “California Girls,” “The Beat Goes On,” themes to Mission Impossible and Batman — are all gifts from Kaye, who spent the greater part of......
Carol Kaye

8 Classic Songs Featuring Carol Kaye

David Futch
Here are just some of the many hits on which Kaye played parts she either invented or improved upon. On most of these, she played bass, unless otherwise noted. “Feelin’ Alright” - Joe Cocker No one who ever saw Cocker perform can forget his frenetic gyrations while playing air guitar......
Credit: Illustration by Noah Patrick Pfarr

Will Hyperloop Technologies Make Downtown L.A. a Silicon River?

David Futch
A company aiming to whoosh people from Los Angeles to San Francisco in 30 minutes via pneumatic tube is being hush-hush about what's under way at its new digs in an Arts District warehouse next to the Los Angeles River. But there's little doubt that Hyperloop Technologies' arrival in the......

Can Hyperloop Actually Be Built?

David Futch
The next big deal — or debate — in the transportation field isn't a Jetsons-style flying car, high-speed train or monorail. It's the Hyperloop, a 19th-century mailroom technology with a 21st-century twist. Instead of sucking documents through a pneumatic tube from the basement mailroom up to the executive suite, SpaceX......

Local Techie Invents App That Decodes L.A.'s Baffling Parking Signs

David Futch
Computer techie/consultant/aspiring actor Michael Brouillet, 32, moved to Los Angeles four years ago from San Antonio and didn't quite understand how this city rolls. In his first 18 months, parking enforcement officers welcomed him with $1,500 in parking tickets and late penalties. Brouillet (pronounced as in crème brulee), says, "Los......