Now that Water Reed Middle School in North Hollywood unexpectedly and mistakenly has become part of the debate about John McCain (read the background on this story here), principal Donna Tobin posts a statement on the school's blog: more ›

Justin Bailey, an Iraqi war veteran, who suffered from a drug addiction problem in an attempt to self-medicate, to displace from his mind the horrors of fighting overseas, was one of the far too many incidents of the Sepulveda VA Hospital negligence. I spoke with Bailey's best friend, Dmitris Rentzis, who provided me with the KNBC footage about Justin's story, his preventable death, and his experience in dealing with the hospital subsequent to Justin's... more ›

Have you ever gone to a play and felt like your whole life could change? It might sound dramatic, but this is the theater after all, so maybe this kind of grandstanding and overwhelming support can be justified. , which opened this past weekend for the second year in a row at the Powerhouse Theater is Santa Monica is just such a production and being billed as "more timely than ever." Created by the Los Angele Theatre Ensemble under the direction of Tom Burmester, Wounded is a collaboratively conceived play researched and written by members of the ensemble. It is based on true accounts of soldiers returning from Iraq and Afghanistan and set in the Fischer House rehabilitation home at the Walter Reed Army Medical Center in Washington DC. It is easy to connect with one of the of the four main characters, they all have something in them that we have in us. more ›

- The #1 downtown landowner, and major contributer of Mayor Tony's sure has a curious history of allegedly doing some horrible things - LA Weekly - Homelessness up in Downtown! - LA Times - Verizon's "Unlimited" EVDO plan is actually 5 Gigs a month - Cybernet - Keith Richards is now flipflopping on his snorting of coke laced with dad story - MTV - Britney to KFed "You’re the biggest mistake I’ve ever made,... more ›

Yesterday on doorsteps of homes in Studio City came flyers telling people to vote in today's Studio City Neighborhood Council (SCNC) election. Yesterday in the e-mail boxes of many Valley residents was an e-mail telling them to vote tomorrow. If you know anything about Neighborhood Councils... Actually, let's rephrase that. If you don't know anything about Neighborhood Councils and these elections, there is a good reason to that: outreach is hard. So one would think... more ›