Here's an alternative idea to spending $100 million on traffic improvements at Universal City.
 
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Nothing is more powerful than an idea whose time has come, says a leader of SoCal Transit Advocates.
 
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Freezing police hiring would be like closing all the stores at The Grove to save money on electricity, says the former president of the Los Angeles Police Commission.
 
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A member of the police commission says the Boy Scouts must choose between discrimination on the basis of sexual orientation and religion, or giving up the LAPD Explorer program.
 
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News of the forthcoming film about Coco Chanel met me with a familiar, however generally repressed twinge of discomfort.
 
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More than anything, Larry wanted us to enjoy our time with him - in person, in a theater, in front of a television.
 
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A journalism professor protests erectile dysfunction ads in the Times' sports section.
 
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As the scheduled speaker at my high school graduation, I, too, was told at the last minute that I wouldn't be able to deliver my message.
 
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The music festival in the San Fernando Valley suburbs—two months before Woodstock—was an impractical concept, poorly executed and misunderstood by naive public officials, police and citizens. But for the thousands who partied, it's still a fun memory.
 
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Steve Whitmore remembers his father, the actor James Whitmore, as a proud and patriotic Marine who believed in gun control, the American Civil Liberties Union and the election of Barack Obama.
 
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It's a good habit, this ritual of going to the polls and seeing our neighbors.
 
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She used to think the practice of staying seated for movie credits was a phenomenon of L.A. being a company town. For her, she just likes a few minutes of darkness to ruminate on the film. Or, as with "Atonement," to collect all the little pieces strewn over a two-hour trail of tears and outrage.
 
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