AltWeeklies Wire
The Fake On the Rightnew
Don’t be fooled or surprised by the tactics of the
unscrupulous who use false morality and deceit to gain
power for their own benefit.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
06-21-2011 |
Commentary
Cycle of Deceit, Part 1— Questioning Craig Huey’s Made-Up Economic “Facts”new
On May 23, Random Lengths News contacted the Craig Huey’s 36th Congressonial District campaign, seeking a Wednesday interview. The initially promising response soon turned sour. The campaign deployed one excuse after another not to sit with the paper. “There were other interviews,” “there were campaign events,” and “there were fundraising calls.” Eventually, RLN was told the interview could not be done that week, which would make it impossible to run in this issue. One thing remained constant: The strong sense that there were questions we would ask, that Craig Huey did not want to answer—that he was afraid to face. We have posted the first half of those questions on our website, for readers to see and judge.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
06-21-2011 |
Elections
Tags: Elections
Roots in the Garden of California’s Bohemianew
Charles Fletcher Lummis, L.A.’s “renaissance man” from the turn of the last century, began building El Alisal in 1897. Later, he liked to throw soirées on Saturday nights there among the sycamores on the Arroyo Seco. That is the memory people will try to recreate at El Alisal and along the arroyo when artists, poets, musicians and dancers celebrate “Charles Lummis Day” on Sunday, June 5.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
06-03-2011 |
Commentary
My Hero, Ed Asnernew
Twenty-five years ago, my mentor and hero was a city editor of television fame. The actor's name was Ed Asner and he played a city editor named Lou Grant, which was also the name of the television series.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
04-14-2011 |
Commentary
The “Opposable Thumb” Will Be Celebrated In Downtown Los Angelesnew
Whether it’s an incredible coincidence or something more, the class struggle between those who use their opposable thumbs to create wealth and those who own the means of production has come full circle.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
03-08-2011 |
Commentary
Torn From Today’s Headlinesnew
Hoyt Hilsman, a well-known screenwriter and most recently a Democratic candidate against Rep. David Dreier, R-San Dimas, has written his first novel, "Nineteen Angels," snatched right from today's headlines.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
02-28-2011 |
Commentary
Tags: Hoyt Hilsman, David Dreier
Democracy Comes Home to Wisconsinnew
Starting with about 10,000 workers and their supporters at the beginning of the week, numbers swelled to nearly 40,000 by Feb. 18, the largest protests in the state since the Vietnam War era.
Random Lengths News |
Paul Rosenberg |
02-25-2011 |
Business & Labor
The Mad Hatter's Tea Partynew
There is a simple underlying fact that seems to be missing in all of this talk about deficit spending––something that you can check out for yourselves without having to take my word for it––the federal budget has only been in balance or had a surplus 24 of the last 110 years.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
02-25-2011 |
Commentary
Photographer Phil Stern Opens His Own Gallerynew
The Phil Stern gallery in downtown Los Angeles opened its doors last week to the general public, a few days later than planned.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
02-14-2011 |
Art
Democracy On the Vergenew
I applaud the uprising in Cairo at Tahrir Square and wish them a swift victory over all those who oppose the aspirations of democracy both at home and abroad. May their spirit inspire a whole generation, if not the whole world.
Random Lengths News |
James Preston Allen |
02-11-2011 |
Commentary
Vladimir Rodzianko -- The Real Ghost Of Rasputinnew
I never was too clear from Vladimir’s many and graphic memories of his time with Makarova of the exact gossip of who was doing what to whom. But Rodzianko talked with a certain enthusiasm about Nureyev’s famed collection of cock rings and his myriad of sexual peccadilloes. The rumors of which were mostly true, Rodzianko assured me.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
01-14-2011 |
Original Work
Despairnew
I was talking to a friend about the increasing despair I had been feeling since Boryana left me. I said I was afraid it was starting to morph into a black hole that would all but consume me. “Maybe it’s not just her,” Lee said. “Maybe it’s all the bad news that’s going on,” he said.
Boek said that we had had a shadow government for decades now. “The politicians are just the fronts for them,” he said. “Obama has to know that, even if he tries to get as much for the workingman as possible.”
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
12-20-2010 |
Commentary
The Tea Party Was Foretold by Sinclair Lewis' Classic, "It Can't Happen Here"new
As the Tea Party has forced a new low in American politics, making the threat of fascism the most real it has been in decades, I am reminded of a novel Sinclair Lewis wrote about eight decades ago called "It Can't Happen Here."
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
12-10-2010 |
Commentary
The Misadventures of Ari Mendelsohnnew
This is the first chapter from the picaresque novel by noted author and journalist Lionel Rolfe, which recounts the sexual and political travails of the irascible, blacklisted title character, a reporter still harboring his besieged idealistic belief in humanity's innate goodness and America's dubious potential for good amid a reality of avarice, pragmatism, cynicism, and materialism.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe |
11-04-2010 |
Excerpts
A Blast On Broadwaynew
Bombing of the L.A. Times Anniversary.
Random Lengths News |
Lionel Rolfe, Nigey Lennon, Paul Greenstein |
09-20-2010 |
History
