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Get to Know D.J. Waldie

Every week we feature one of the region's many fascinating and first-rate blogs. Up today is D.J. Waldie of Where We Are, who focuses on space and place in Los Angeles.

Horizon Institute Fellow's X-Mas Tree Opine

Former Los Angeles Times staffer Jocelyn Y. Stewart writes this commentary in Monday's newspaper, about a near-centenarian's opposition to Christmas trees in private homes.

Who is the Outsider?

Both candidates are trying to portray their opponent as an "insider" for forces not in tune with the district's needs and identity.

Angelinos Honor World AIDS Day

Los Angeles is among ten cities celebrating the day in civic-style. San Fransisco will light its Coit Tower and City Hall while LA's Central Library and the pylons at the airport will turn crimson.

Los Angeles is an Auto Show

Yeah, the L.A. Auto Show is back. But isn't there a certain redundancy to our fair city hosting it?

Get to Know Ophelia Chong

Welcome back to 'Better Know a SoCal Blogger" on KCET.org, where we feature our city's plethora of fascinating and first-rate blogs. This week we are speaking with KCET's own Ophelia Chong, a blogger who blends her love of art and technology into a sh...

Downtown Sees Crime Drop

Crime in downtown L.A. continues to drop--a little--from its 2007 highs, with the credit going to downtown businesses and the police's emphasis on "quality of life" enforcement.

Immersive and Expanded Cinema

Cindy Keefer from the Center for Visual Music will present a lecture and screening on the expanded and immersive cinema projects of Oskar Fischinger and Jordan Belson...

Democracy, Terrorism, Comic Books, and RAND

Dossa Kaye's lively remarks, and her and her colleagues, "More Freedom, Less Terror?" remain as timely as ever. That's particularly given the content of President Obama's Afghanistan speech and the debate that counterinsurgency / surge / withdrawal str...

Is Middle Eastern Democracy Flowering?

"The effect of, of the Iraq War has been very negative in terms of moving forward with political reform in this region." - RAND's Dalia Dassa Kaye

Can Governments Become More Democratic?

So, will these governments in the region take it to a second point, be able to enact these kinds of reforms without being overturned? Absolutely, they already started to do it.

Meeting Comic Book Makers in Jordan

"He was severely wounded, he still has a scar on his neck. So the way this guy dealt with it was he started to give talks in high schools and other places about trying to improve, intercultural understanding and relations"

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