Off the Wall…Street Stocks everywhere seem to be suffering Humpty Dumpty’s fate. On Thursday, the Dow Jones plummeted a stunning near 700 points, and Friday brought a sharp descent to both European and Asian markets. Here’s hoping this October 29th doesn’t resemble the one the world saw in ‘29.
The Economist’s Verdict: Too Little Too Late…Yup, [...]

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“No one cares more about the environment than oil companies,” said Steven Colbert on The Colbert Report last night. Check out his sketch that poked fun at the expiration of the offshore drilling ban. Colbert tells the audience: “A lot of people talk about loving the earth. But how many of them actually penetrate it?” [...]

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Possible Elder Abuse Very troubling news from Calabasas, CA have reached our ears, eyes and screens. Those inhabiting an expensive assisted living home in the area directly north of Los Angeles may have been suffering flagrant abuses at the hands of those most responsible for caring for them. The LA County Sheriff’s Department has been [...]

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Deb Stokol has a bevvy of bountiful recommendations on where to break your fast in Los Angeles.

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Deborah Stokol’s Secret Series explores Los Angeles’s most sublime beaches.

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Last night, the grassroots organization, MoveOn.org had nationwide, “Yes We Can!” parties all across the country. In an attempt to bond with my fellow common man, I watched Barack Obama’s acceptance speech at V Lounge in Santa Monica. I settled on V Lounge because, is there anything more “LA” than attending a political event at [...]

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Brian Frank discusses the politics of fatness in America in the context of recent anti-Big Fat legislation here in L.A.

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CNN is reporting that Los Angeles just had a medium-sized earthquake at 5.8 on the Richter Scale. Located about 30 miles east of downtown L.A, it was about 7 miles deep, which means that the quake feels stronger and cause more damage. Over at the P+P home office in  Santa Monica, our wooden one-story apartment [...]

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It’s no secret that the black church is more outspoken than say, my regular Sunday Catholic church service. I suppose we should give credit to the Rev. Wright controversy for that heightened realization (although I gather most people presumed this long before that YouTube clip hit every media outlet this side of the Milky [...]

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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 [...]

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Keyboard be damned! Your signature deserves the best scrawling machinery the world has to offer.

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If Thursday night’s debate was a movie, it would be American Gangster: you’re super excited for it, everything points to carnage and death and fantastic-ness, you’re pretty sure you have a classic on your hands. You got two stars at the top of their game set to duke it out on screen. But what d’ya [...]

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Obama H.Q. in L.A.: small, crowded, jammin and a hybrid of the past and the future.

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Message to Hillary: the General’s on a book tour that has nothing to do with his book!

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The Jena 6 are attracting attention all over the country. Thousands of people rallied in Jena, Louisiana, (pop: 3,000) this morning in support of the six African American students charged for beating up a white student last December. Read about it here.
And here in Los Angeles, crowds came out all over the city. One of [...]

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