Pop + Politics staff-writer and video-guru Marissa Monroy recently spent a great deal of time getting to know the inner-workings of a local after-school program for the underprivileged, underfunded, and all-around underestimated children of Southcentral L.A.
Its name is A Place Called Home.
Although we have had her piece featured in the In Depth sidebar for a [...]
Add Comment LAX can search your laptop, no reason needed
By hanna ingber win, April 22, 2008 7:55 pm in the daily feedA U.S. federal appeals court ruled yesterday that customs officers can search your laptop at the airport for absolutely no reason. No need for suspicious activity. You don’t even have to make a bomb joke (see below). Even if you look and act as innocent as a child, your laptop, cell phone and Blackberry are [...]
Read LAX can search your laptop, no reason needed »Here’s a link to Tim Robbins’s speech last week to the National Association of Broadcasters (audio here). Hilarious and daring but perhaps a tad misdirected.
“I’m here to tell you that we don’t need to look at the car crash,” he pleaded. “We don’t need to live off the pain and humiliation of the [...]
As the chorus for the Weezer song of the same name coursed through my brain, I sat there reading the massive, 7,200+ word lead piece for the New York Times Sunday edition that exposes a calculated, covert PR-blitz by the Pentagon using retired military talking heads to advance their agenda on various cable news networks.
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Mark Evitt discusses this week’s resurgence of the good old liberal media bias at the RNC.
Tricia Romano has yet to find Bigfoot, alien life, or The Lochness Monster, but she did speak with a gay Republican.
Missed some of our DNC coverage? We corral every last post for you here, plus a heads-up on forthcoming RNC coverage.
Chapters 2 and 3 of P+P founder Farai Chideya’s book “Trust” now available; mash it up as you please under a Creative Commons license.
Tricia Romano remembers the failed mayoral bid of Mark Green.
Chris Nelson weighs in on Obama’s candidacy, the punditry poison, and the speech from Invesco Field.
Max Zimbert interviews some political heavyweights on the Dem’s chances in Ohio and Iowa.
The P+P crew gives a Cribs-style walk-through of their sick DNC digs.
Torey Van Oot gets ex-Fugee Wyclef Jean to share his thoughts on courting the Latino vote for Obama.
Brooke-Sidney Gavins gets RZA of the Wu-Tang to open up about the DNC and the election.
Previously on Lost…the musical version. Mark Evitt tells you how to feed your Lost addiction.
Gabrielle Chua knows who Chris Berz is. Do you? (hint: 18-year-old hip-hopper with old-school flair)
If you’ve ever been de-friended on Facebook, you can certainly identify with the depths of despair Chris Nelson experiences…
Tara Graham breaks down the new documentary “American Teen” and laments why it gets trounced at the box office by a bunny.
Britney, Russell Brand, and the elephant in the room. 
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