How gays and lesbians turned to science fiction to explore themes banned on Earth; Dam Funk calls for increased fantasy; remembering artist Noah Davis and the SoCal years of Oliver Sacks
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Well before the Stonewall riots, Los Angeles was home to an early LGBT rights movement - birthed from science fiction.
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Artist Noah Davis died Saturday, the same day MOCA opened a 'storefront' featuring the first work he showed at his The Underground Museum.
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The Pasadena native says he's glad fans are rediscovering funk music as a legitimate genre and not "some Dave Chappelle, Rick James joke."
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You know Oliver Sacks as a calm neurologist and author, but Sacks had manic years in '60s SoCal, when he was a gay, body-building, motorbike-riding resident at UCLA Medical Center.
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In-depth with Steve Soboroff, the head of the Police Commission, as the LAPD prepares to roll out body cams Monday.
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A sampling of Southern California's Oktoberfest celebrations includes the weirdest spectacle you will ever see, unless you already know about Heino. Also: there will be beer.
You can see the Los Angeles soul band live this Tuesday, September 8 at the El Rey Theatre ... before they kick off an international tour.
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National Geographic photographer Aaron Huey has traveled the world for his job, but he found a book's worth of material in a place just 200 miles outside Los Angeles.
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Why am I here 18 months before the election talking with you about this? Because we have 18 months to do something to break the machine that keeps giving us insubstantial races.