Louie Perez of Los Lobos has taken on a different role with “Evangelina” Credit: Nancy Ostertag/Getty Images “Evangeline, the Queen of Make-Believe” is a multimedia play with music that features songs from Louie Perez and David Hildago’s 40-year songbook. The two are the founding members of the Grammy-winning and commercially successful group Los Lobos, whose […]
How would your children, nieces, or nephews handle eating French food such as mussels, foie gras, and blue cheese for one meal? How about for an entire year? That was the challenge faced by mother and author Karen Le Billon and her family when she decided to move everyone to her husband’s hometown in northern […]
Iranian women walk past a mural depicting Iran’s supreme leader Ayatollah Ali Khamenei (L) and late revolutionary leader Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini (R). Credit: ATTA KENARE/AFP/Getty Images Negotiations with Western powers in Turkey, internal turmoil in Iran, the Stuxnet virus, harsher sanctions, tough talk from Prime Minister Netanyahu….the headlines continue. What should the West, America and […]
Airport Link testing. A Kinkisharyo-Mitsui LRV is parked on the elevated guideway that leads to SeaTac/Airport station a short distance from Tukwila International Boulevard Station. November, 2009. Kinkisharyo International was just awarded Los Angeles’ rail car contract. Credit: Oran Viriyincy/Flickr/Creative Commons Los Angeles Metro officials are awarding an $890-million rail car contract to the Japanese […]
Every aspect of our mental lives plays out in two versions: one conscious, the other unconscious. This hidden aspect, of which we are unaware, dictates our relationships, our decisions, our actions. Over the past twenty years, scientists have discovered new tools to probe our subliminal minds and uncover its secrets, leading to new understanding of […]
Traders work on the floor of the New York Stock Exchange on January 13, 2012 in New York City. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Forget whether or not the debt crisis is over—is a worse one coming? Sluggish job growth and poorer-than-expected corporate earnings still seem to be keeping market analysts on edge, with each tremor […]
Do you use your playlist to enhance a mood? Sony’s Walkman and Apple’s iPod are the two most famous gadgets that put a person’s record collection in their pocket, allowing us to walk around with our own personal life soundtrack. Author Nick Hornby’s 1995 novel “High Fidelity” and its movie adaptation elevated the practice of […]
Prices are advertised for cigarettes March 30, 2009 in New York City. Credit: Spencer Platt/Getty Images Californians will head to the ballot box in June to vote on Prop 29, which if passed, would boost taxes on a pack of cigarettes in California by $1 (it’s currently .87 cents – and $4.35 in New York). […]
When it comes to rude movie audiences, less is more. You’ve bought your sixteen-dollar tickets, dropped twenty bucks on popcorn and soda at the concession stand and got to the theater early enough to get good seats. Then, after the trailers have started, a rowdy group of people show up and sit right next to […]
Rodney King talks with Patt Morrison about his new book “The Riot Within” and his relationship to the ’92 riots. Credit: KPCC The man whose videotaped beating by police sparked the ’92 Riots talks about his 20 years since. Rodney King has struggled addiction, and has had several run-ins with the law, but keeps a […]
