Tuesday, 6/6/06 is Election Day again in California. You can download a voter guide and find your polling place here. more ›

During the American Idol finale a few weeks ago, nearly 63 million votes were cast. Now while LAist knows that there were probably 63 voters who called Taylor Hicks' or Katherine McPhee’s numbers a million times each, it still makes us mull over ways to get people just as excited about doing their civic duty and vote for the lawmakers, who are supposedly looking out for our best interests locally as well as in Sacramento and Washington, D.C. more ›

streets of the city - West Magazine in the LA Times turns its attention to the overlooked hippie film Cisco Pike. Buried at the time of its release, never released on video, the movie is now out on DVD; the paper says it's worth a look. It follows Gene Hackman, Kris Kristofferson, Karen Black and Harry Dean Stanton through the streets of 1970 Los Angeles. more ›

a debate falls in the forest Steve Westly and Phil Angelides tusseled in their final debate yesterday in San Francisco; they'll face off in the June 6 Democratic Primary. They're both pro-environment, pro-choice and anti-Arnold. In case you missed it, you can listen: the whole thing is archived at KPCC. more ›

so you wanna be a rock-n-roll star Sherman Oaks' own Katharine McPhee sailed through the latest "American Idol" round. The 22-year old wowed viewers with her rendition of the abysmal "Against All Odds" by Phil Collins. more ›