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Today the LA Weekly reports that beloved, above-reproach labor leader Miguel Contreras, who dropped dead unexpectedly at the age of 52 last year, happened to do so at a South…

For 5 years after the September 11th attacks, the Federal Education Department shared student aid application information with the FBI. Under the program, called Project Strikeback, the Education Department received…

This week Ron Hogan adds a little levity to the ongoing hotties of publishing debate with a Writer’s Digest piece called Does This Book Jacket Make Me Look Fat? Technically,…

Some people have asked what SXSW Interactive was like, and frankly, it wasn’t what I expected. As is clear in this little piece that the LA Times printed today.

So tonight Paul Auster hit LA in conversation with the David Ulin. Sounds like the only thing we got that San Francisco didn’t get came from Ulin, who said it…

Pinky’s Paperhaus is in the sidebar of the LA Times blogging article. While falling into the "arts" category would have been, um, more intellectual (Mark is there, of course), I’ll…