When I started working for LA Weekly in the early '80s, the paper was almost as famous for its mistakes as for its cutting edge film reviews, lefty politics and porn ads.
Huffington Post | Hanna Ingber Win | Posted 06.21.2009 | World
The ongoing violence in Iraq has forced 4 million people to flee their homes and communities in search of safety elsewhere. About 2 million remain dis...
Michael Sigman | Posted 06.06.2009 | Home
"Revenge is a kind of wild justice; which the more man's nature runs to, the more ought law to weed it out." --Francis Bacon Late in the pre-Google ...
Michael Sigman | Posted 04.11.2009 | Living
"Psychic advisor" is one of our few growth industries. However, clients are no longer so curious about when they'll meet their soulmates; now they want to know how much money lies ahead.
Michael Sigman | Posted 02.27.2009 | Living
My earliest memory of an inspiring title was The Miracle Worker, which I loved because that "miracle" suggested an astonishing achievement against impossible odds.
Michael Sigman | Posted 12.13.2008 | Media
This election season reached new heights in Oracular nonsense, kick-started by Dick Morris' 2005 volume "Condi vs. Hillary."
New York Times | Brian Stelter | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
When some striking members of the Writers Guild of America created a series of videos depicting speechless actors in support of the writers' cause, th...
Elle | Lisa Chase | Posted 03.28.2008 | Media
"I've always thought that if I wrote a novel about Hollywood," says Nikki Finke, "it would start, '"That bitch!" the studio mogul cried, but the secre...
Michael Sigman | Posted 07.10.2009 | Media