Santa Monica peace activist Jerry Rubin celebrates his 70th birthday and 30 years of ranting against war and other harmful pastimes with a 100-day fast, a party and a new flight for the Sweet Bird of Peace.
Native Intelligence archive
for August 2013
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Linda Deutsch, the Associated Press special correspondent in Los Angeles, talked her way into an assignment to cover the civil rights march on Aug. 29, 1963. She never looked back.
Martinez visits a dine-in theater and muses over the possibility of edible movies, Matt Damon's expertise at playing his face and large, gallon-sized cans of martinis, hoo-boy!
Take My Picture Gary Leonard is a regular Thursday feature of LA Observed.
Did Dorothy Parker really call Los Angeles "72 of suburbs in search of a city"?
Can you have fun at the Del Mar racetrack even if you can't tell a claimer from a classic? You bet.
The crowd at the memorial service for Bijan Michael Shoushtari mingled constituencies that seldom spend much time together, especially south of the 10 Freeway. African Americans and Iranians. Teachers, coaches and counselors. A rainbow of middle-class parents and kids.
Steve Harvey's personal take on things he finds (or you tell him about) in LA and beyond.
Al Martinez observes sex clubs, playing the flute and trolling among the guppies as eroticism raises its puckish head in the 'burbs.
Take My Picture Gary Leonard is a regular Thursday feature of LA Observed.
The roots of standup comedy were planted in the Catskill Mountains of New York. Such a deal.
Henry Rollins shares his views on making the world a better place at the Annenberg Space for Photography's Skylight Studio.
Martinez relates to an angry clown in a wheel chair as a circus parade of humanity flows down the Third Street Promenade.
Los Angeles has poured money, and years of thought, into the creation of Grand Park. Here are my suggestions to make it more fun to visit.
Football comes to Chavez Ravine, but it's not the NFL. It's something better and it made someone unexpectedly happy.
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McGregor's teams played in the original Olympic stadium in Greece, in the courtyard of a palace in Istanbul and in a church in Venice that was converted into a basketball arena. The French sports daily, L'Equipe, called the coach "The Merchant of Happiness."
If you see this movie, it's likely you won't be going back to Sea World anytime soon. With interactive entertainment what it is today, have zoos themselves become obsolete?
AB976 will ensure that our Malibu beaches are ours not just on paper but also in practice.
Take My Picture Gary Leonard is a regular Thursday feature at LA Observed.
KCET control room
A peek inside the TV station's Burbank studios.
Whitt's Wood Yard
Elon Musk wants to drill here at Pico and Sepulveda.
BCAM
The Broad Contemporary Art Museum at LACMA.
Mountain lion family
From Robert Martinez's trail cam in the San Gabriels.
Streetscape: Westwood
Westwood Boulevard looking north and a little bit skyward.
Sign from LA's past
Sign from an old Love's BBQ restaurant at the Valley Relics Museum in Chatsworth.
Visiting her old ballet costumes
Melissa Barak at LACMA Chagall exhibit with the artist's memorable designs.
Barnsdall Park
Under the trees.
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