Gary Dauphin

This article originally appeared in KCET Departures.

Chief among the themes emerging from the recent suite of KCET Departures is that communities change. While national imaginings of Los Angeles still depict it as a flat non-place poor in history, the local voices...

I'm not really surprised that Mel Gibson told Cal State Northridge assistant prof Alicia Estrada to f**k-off, this after teach called his Mayan blood-orgy Apocalypto racist. What does surprise me is that usually tough-minded folks, like, LA Weekly's usually spot-on Nikki Finke (or some HuffPo commenters), think Gibson...

Did anyone else notice that of the "ATT 5" (hat tip on the moniker to MyDD) -- the five Dems who crossed party lines to join the Republicans on yesterday's net neutrality vote -- three are Congressional Black Caucus members (Edolphus Towns, Albert Wynn, and...

Of his recently revealed, illegal, and impeachment-worthy authorization of extracurricular wiretaps within US territory, King George II says:

"The American people expect me to do everything in my power, under our laws and Constitution, to protect them and their civil liberties and that is exactly what I...

From the NYT:

Muriel Degauque, believed to be the first European Muslim woman to stage a suicide attack, started out life as a good Roman Catholic girl in this coal mining corner of Belgium known as the black country.

…her story supports fears among many law enforcement officials...

From the Baltimore Sun:

[Maryland] Gov. Robert L. Ehrlich Jr. said yesterday that he is angry at "revisionism" from political opponents who question a much-repeated story about Lt. Gov. Michael S. Steele being pelted with Oreos during a 2002 campaign debate in Baltimore.

Versions of the story have...