I love the after-work jazz series at the LA County Museum of Art on Friday nights beginning in the spring, but I haven't been there in years. I can't get there from here, here being the remote realm of the Westside. Okay, I could, but it would take idling well...

Anyone sick of the endless rhetoric about bravery and heroes that passes for political discourse these days should take a look at the real thing -- the extraordinary uprising going into its second week by the monks of Myanmar. In the pouring rain and scorching heat, they have filed in...

It's vacation primetime, and millions of wage earners are on the road in search of R&R. But for many it will be a futile quest, thanks to a big, fat killjoy stowed away on the trip: OCP, Obsessive-Compulsive Productivity, the frantic fixation to wring results from every minute of the...