You'll remember that time I was all, Wahh Wahh Wahh I have gray hair, yes?  The first part of my plan was to tear my facial hair out by the roots with some sort of cheap chemical at-home wax something or other.  Part two included trimming my own hair so that I could wear it down, cov...

With President Barack Obama’s announcement that he will change President Bush’s policy on taxpayer funding of stem cell research that destroys embryos, expect quite a bit of media coverage. This is an area where the media have struggled to provide fair, much less accurate, reportage of t...

              Photos by Benjamin Hoste/LAist A lot of self-reflection and humility go into an anniversary tour. It takes a lot to look back at your career and say, "This album was our best album." or in other words "Let's just play the songs that people want to hea...

Earlier this week, the California Supreme Court heard arguments for and against Californians’ right to define marriage as a union of one man and one woman. There are many reports about those oral arguments and almost every account says that the justices seemed inclined to uphold the votersR...

                            Photos are by the very talented Leslie Kalohi for LAist If you find yourself on a street corner singing "Maybe God is God. Maybe the Devil is me!" like some crazed Hollywood and Highland street preacher...

My husband and I went to see Milk , the film about the first openly gay man elected to public office in California, a few months ago. We enjoyed the movie, with some exceptions, and I predicted Sean Penn would win the Oscar for best actor — he was just that transcendentally good. And the suppo...

When I called the end of tv time early this afternoon, they shut it off and asked what we should do next.  And while I would normally respond with something like, lunch followed by Play-doh, Legos or whatever is of typical interest to them, today I suggested that they make lu...

Nia-Malika Henderson had a great and illuminating piece in the Politico. Headlined “Blacks, whites hear Obama differently,” she looks at how President Barack Obama is able to speak in a manner that solidifies his support among blacks while at the same time not alienating non-blacks who s...

Photos by Leslie Kalohi/LAist The talented soul man Raphael Saadiq headlined at the House of Blues on Monday night, and I arrived determined to dance until there were holes in my shoes. His latest The Way I See It had been on repeat in my car for most of 2008. Call it neo-Motown, retro boogie, soul ...

Here's the background. Between practicing doing the Chinese splits standing on one leg, crashing while playing handball and trampoline and the gym Delaney injured her right hip socket. She has been in a lot of pain since last Tuesday night. Since then, she's done no gymnastics and I've t...