Month August 2002

Two excellent websites                 LAOkay.com has 10,000+ links of things to do and places of see in L.A. Recently it started an architecture section, which has been growing fast. Many photos, detailed information, and maps – featuring adobes, Victorians, Frank Lloyd…

LA Examiner presents their California Quarter design!

Canadian Op-ed on the dangerous lunacy of an Iraq war This is from a long-term, friendly ally. And not unlike what much of Europe is saying.  Y’know, it occurs to me, Dubya has become so dangerously belligerent and irrational that – maybe…

Real Hip Hop MINISTER PAUL SCOTT, DAVEY D’S NEWSLETTER Unfortunately, despite all our hip talk and politikin’, to borrow from the Last Poets, “Nigga’s Are Still Scared of Revolution” in 2002.  This is especially evident in the world of Hip…

California prisons The California Three Strikes and You’re Out law is one of the harshest, if not the harshest, in the nation.  Under Three Strikes, a third felony conviction can, and often does, mean life without parole no time off for good…