Laurie Ochoa

Election '08: The McCain in Spain Fails Mostly to Explain

Laurie Ochoa
BY MARC COOPER I'm a bit surprised by how little coverage The Great McCain-Spain Gaffe has gotten (Well, not really that surprised given the relative insularity of the American media/political complex). But anyway you cut it, you've got to be alarmed. McCain's campaign is now officially saying that in a......

Election '08: Happy Days Are Here Again!

Laurie Ochoa
BY MARC COOPER Let's see Lehman Brothers goes bust, Merrill Lynch auctions itself off to B of A, WaMu circles the drain along with countless other banks, Wall Street itself is in the balance and with it the entire global economy teeters on the abyss. Other than that... Alan Greenspan,......
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David Foster Wallace Friend John Seery Remembers the Late Writer

Laurie Ochoa
The news of David Foster Wallace's apparent suicide this weekend here in Southern California -- he was found in his Claremont home Friday night by his wife Karen Green -- has prompted tributes all over the web. One of the most unusual and intimate portraits comes from Pomona College political......
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Election '08: Taking Down Amy Goodman and Donna Brazile

Laurie Ochoa
The scene outside MSNBC's outdoor RNC studio at St. Paul's Rice Park, just outside Xcel Center. BY VANESSA SILVERTON-PEEL The 1999 World Trade Organization protests in Seattle were like the Big Bang in the evolution of modern police tactics and policies toward protesters. When the political base elements and the......
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L.A. People 2008

Laurie Ochoa
When you fall in love with a city, you fall in love with the character of the city, that hard-to-define sense of place that is sometimes revealed through architecture, cultural achievements, climate ... or by its taco trucks and $4 cupcakes. In this issue, we look at Los Angeles through......
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LA People 2007

Laurie Ochoa
Lotusland? Iowa by the Sea? 100 Suburbs in Search of a City? Los Angeles may be a beautiful place, a green, fertile basin sweeping from the ocean to the impossibly steep crags of the mountains, but the energy of this metropolis comes neither from its unspectacular port nor from a......

When the Saints Go Marching In

Laurie Ochoa
Sunday morning in New Orleans the scent of stale beer and vomit lingers over the abandoned go cups and tendrils of broken Mardi Gras beads that several orange-suited workers sweep up under the marginally vigilant eyes of a cluster of police officers. It’s the smell of success on Bourbon Street......