On May 31 an email blast was sent to the rank and file from the Long Beach Police Officers Association (POA) headquarters announcing that Steve James, their president, will retire in October, and praised the 17 years he has been their elected president, boasting that he “became a leading voice on
Last week I encountered a man inside Smart and Final with a small dog on a retractable leash. Obviously he was not blind in need of a guide dog and that long leash was inappropriate for those of us wanting to pass through.
If you’ve paid attention these past few years, you’re aware of a lot of disagreement on our nation’s healthcare. With the enactment in 2010 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), generally referred to as Obamacare, the details of providing medical services to Americans became a federal mandate.
Boom! Boom! Boom! From the first image on the screen and the first sound coming from the speakers, Danny Boyle (director) grabs you by the throat and squeezes.
At the moment I am finalizing a new musical entitled “Convention,” which is about our great country’s Constitutional Convention in 1787. As a result, for the past few years I have been heavily involved with research about the thoughts, beliefs and principles of our Founders. (In that group I in
A comedy, wrapped in a mystery and conveyed through the metaphor of architecture: this is the would-be piece of brain candy that dramatist Amy Freed attempts to feed us with in her latest play, “The Monster Builder,” in production on the Segerstrom Stage of Costa Mesa’s South Coast Repertory Thea
Calvin is a bad boy, a very bad boy. He began life as a sample from Mars, captured by the six-member team of an international space station floating around in outer space. His actual birth is at the bottom of a petri dish in a laboratory in this space station.
“Zero Tolerance” laws and rules allow judges, bureaucrats, school principals and other officials to avoid having to make responsible decisions. And they also frequently result in stark injustices. For example, once a junior high school student went to a swap meet where he bought a sterile marij
