Europe Bearing Us Financial Ill Will “The idea that markets are always right was a mad idea,” French President Nicolas Sarkozy said of our troubles. Though many European countries have been quick to come to our aid, The Economist, an English publication, no less, has pulled no punches with the characterizations it’s made of the [...]
Add Comment Consider for a minute the presidential personal-life narrative that is the big news in Paris this week.
French President Nicolas Sarkozy got a very quiet divorce on Thursday. He met his now-former wife Cecilia, a one-time model, when they were both married to other people. They had an affair, then divorced from their spouses and [...]
It was flashback 1968 last weekend, all protesters and cops in Los Angeles and Paris. In both cities, anti-immigrant forces got busy kicking ass. Here in LA they dispatched women and children and journalists. In France they gassed all of the people under 40 who opposed Sarkozy’s election as (an anti-immigrant) president.
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The election in France this weekend is shaping up to be a real Bush/Gore-style cliffhanger and with the same kind of major long-term consequences. Look around the cities of France today and you see a country that is multicolored, multicultural and increasingly Muslim, full of African and Asian and Middle Eastern spice and style. Music [...]
Sarko the Terrible will probably win in France. So maybe then they’ll begin talking about the race problem.
Money 101: Tara Graham breaks down the current economic crisis, complete with history and analysis for your addled eyes (and pocketbooks).
Brian Frank went to the McCain-Palin rally in Carson and lived to tell about it.
For gay couples, neither candidate in Thursday’s VP debate offered anything remotely resembling change. Tara Graham takes them to task.
Mark Evitt takes a hard look at the recent Village Voice firings and the state of print media in general.
Ryan Barrett takes you through her own person Spin Room on last week’s Vice-Presidential debate.
Tara Graham hits you with the week in gossip. Catch up on the brain candy.
Emily Henry takes a look at the new import HBO sketch-comedy series Little Britain USA
Missed your dose of gossip last week? Tara Graham rounds up all of the juicy tidbits. (Spoiler: Clay Aiken is gay)
Confused by the pro-corn syrup commercials you’ve been seeing lately? You’re not alone. Mark Evitt breaks it down for you.
Samantha Page previews the Hullaboo fundraising fest for the Silverlake Conservatory of Music
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.
More on the epic Wyclef performance from Chris Nelson, including a sick photo gallery and descriptions of the electric vibe at the event.
Torey Van Oot gets ex-Fugee Wyclef Jean to share his thoughts on courting the Latino vote for Obama.
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