On October 27, 1964, Ronald Reagan, in an attempt to right a flagging Barry Goldwater campaign, stepped up […]
Category Archive: Los Angeles
In her review of 2015’s The Last Love Song, Tracy Daugherty’s biography of famed writer Joan Didion, Meghan […]
Carey McWilliams once called Louis Adamic Los Angeles’ greatest “prophet, sociologist and historian” of the 1920s. Adamic loved […]
When we talk about advances in civil and gay rights, we often talk in terms of famous firsts: […]
“[T]he idea that movies and stars inspire people from the world’s pockets of desperate poverty to undertake treacherous […]
The 1965 World Series would prove groundbreaking. It marked the first time that two professional baseball teams from […]
Nearly one year ago last may, Manny Pacquiao and Floyd “Money” Mayweather Jr. battled 12 rounds in what was […]
When I heard that Paul Thomas Anderson would be translating a Thomas Pynchon novel for the the screen, […]