You know those stickers, "I voted today," "I donated blood today"? I'd like one that proudly proclaims, "I had a colonoscopy today!" I'd wear it everywhere -- on the street, at a restaurant, at a gallery opening. I suppose I'm wearing it right now, at the global soiree that is...

On June 18, 2009, in a ceremony marked by solemnity and celebration, Germany ordained its first Jewish cantor since the Holocaust in the soaring sanctuary of the magnificently restored Rykestrasse Synagogue in Berlin.

One year later to...

I liked to say I had the coolest chiropractor in Los Angeles. A bass guitarist still active in his 60s, John Ciambotti played on hit records with Elvis Costello, Lucinda Williams, and Huey Lewis, and spent years of his life in the intimate brother- and sisterhood of the touring rock...

Coyote Grace, the up-and-coming Sonoma County-based acoustic duo, joined their Northampton, MA pal Chris Pureka for both separate and combined sets at the Hotel Cafe in Hollywood on Wednesday night.

Hailing not from our cultural capitals, but from backroad...

Emotional fans streamed toward the stage, their unabashed shout-outs of "I love you!" accompanied by cameras flashing, and no one held them back. What big stars generated all this excitement last Saturday in downtown Los Angeles?

There were in fact 60 stars...

You went to college back East, down South, or in the Midwest and whether you're five or 25 years out, now that you live in Los Angeles your relationship to that institution is virtually nonexistent--tethered by little more than a bullet point on a resume.

I grew up in...

"She said yes!" read the happy subject header on my email to friends announcing that my girlfriend Bonnie and I had become engaged on May 15, 2008, the same day the California Supreme Court handed down its historic ruling in favor of marriage equality. I'm not known for wasting time...

Tomorrow is your last chance to bid on clothing worn by Sean Penn in his Oscar-winning performance in Milk, being auctioned off to benefit the Harvey Milk High School in New York and Variety-The Children's Charity of Southern California. Like the nesting shirts in Ennis Del Mar's closet in the...