While the political establishment sought new and different ways to explain the gifts a Sen. Ted Kennedy endorsement brings to the Barack Obama's campaign, the Time Magazine's and the Salon's missed one key endorsement the winner of South Carolina's Democratic Primary received Monday: Shepard Fairey. Fairey, the acclaimed poster artist and illustrator whose Obey Giant posters have plastered billboards and electrical boxes from Santa Monica to Highland Park, focused on Obama's progressivism in his endorsement.......

James Jean signing at Gallery Nucleus....

After graduating high school outside of Chicago, most peers of mine got jobs as lifeguards at the beach, day camp leaders or book worms at Borders. For me, I went straight back to the place I was so excited to leave... to be a janitor for the summer. My high school was not just any public school, it was New Trier, a well tax-funded North Shore suburban institution, standing four stories high (five if......

Happy Father's Day! For those of you who have dads, are dads, or know dads, this one's for you, from all of us at the Gothamist network. It was a week of bizarre, embarassing headlines at DCist. The trial of the local administrative law judge who sued his cleaners for $54 million over a pair of missing pants left everyone shaking their heads. Then the capital city was nearly brought to its knees, twice, by......

Not a TOTAL lie, as Irve Lewis "Scooter" Libby, Jr. actually was found not guilty of one of the 5 charges leveled against him. FoxNews.com has regressed from the "fair and balanced" schtick to an even more ridiculous "We report. You Decide." Now that's pretty commanding when spoken by apes. Anyway, for those of you keeping score at home, the Libby trial has gone the Martha Stewart route, as in, he lost, although he......

LAist isnt a political blog. Probably because LA cares as little for petty things like politics as it does for sports. Life here has enough of both. But LAist does love bloggers and one of our favorites is Andrew Sullivan who blogs "The Daily Dish" for Time Magazine. A few times a year he gets flown to LA to appear on Bill Maher's HBO show "Real Time" and he's always an insightful and intelligent......

Mayor Villaraigosa seems to get more national interest with each passing week. He hasn't even been in office a year and we know we've talked about him being in the minds of the entire USA (and the world) more times than we care to go search through the archives to find. Yesterday, Time Magazine asked him about last week's protests and the state of Immigration law in the country. The quotable Mayor: I've never......

Okay, so this has nothing to do with LA but we find it highly amusing. Time Magazine has the exclusive interview with funny man Dave Chappelle who wants to set the record straight: The first thing Chappelle wants is to dispel rumors—that he's got a drug problem, that he's checked into a mental institution in Durban—that have been flying around the U.S. for the past week. He says he is staying with a friend,......