Steve Lopez

More Obscene: Sky High Vagina or Trusting Mercury Insurance?

Jamie Court | Posted 11.09.2009 | Business

Read More: Absolut Mango Vagina, Mercury Insurance, Steve Lopez, Business News
Jamie Court

Mercury Insurance pressured CBS Outdoors to pull down Consumer Watchdog's billboard mid-contract, but a few blocks away there remains a 10-story-high Absolut Mango advertisement presenting a va-jay-jay.

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Showing Up for "The Soloist"

Carol Smaldino | Posted 07.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Joe Write, Colonialism, Steve Lopez, The Soloist, Carol Smaldino, Homelessness, US Poverty, Schizophrenia, Racism, Jamie Foxx, Accountability, Robert Downey Jr, Compassion, Entertainment News
Carol Smaldino

This is a film that can be so moving in stunningly powerful ways that it may be tempting to avoid watching it.

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Soloists Everywhere Making a Difference

Sarah Newman | Posted 06.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Mental Illness, Sarah's Social Action Snapshot, Steve Lopez, The Soloist, Homelessness, Takepart, Robert Downey, Jamie Foxx, Jr., Nathaniel Anthony Ayers, Entertainment News
Sarah Newman

Our commitment will make a difference in changing the landscape of our society so that all homeless people and those with mental illness are treated as our equals and nothing less.

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Joe Wright's The Soloist Exploits the Skid Row Community

Linda Milazzo | Posted 06.11.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: LA Times, Ben Hong, Safer City Inititiative, The Soloist, Steve Lopez, Poverty, Los Angeles Community Action Network, Incarceration, LA CAN, Jiulliard School of Performing Arts, Jaywalking, Downtown Los Angeles, Atonement, Los Angeles, Lamp Community, Mental Illness, Casey Huran, Skid Row, Homelessness, Federico Fellini, Gary Foster, Lawlessness, Los Angeles Times, Pride and Prejudice, Joe Wright, Nathaniel Ayers, Gentrification, Sci, Entertainment News
Linda Milazzo

Instead of telling the tales of the homeless, the film portrayed them as a Fellini-esque monolith -- a tainted Gomorrah teeming with decadence and dereliction.

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The Soloist Chases an L.A. That Isn't There

Sharon Waxman | Posted 06.03.2009 | Media

Read More: Steve Lopez, The Soloist, L.A. Times, Sharon Waxman, LA Times, Newspapers, Death of Newspapers, Newspaper Industry, Media News
Sharon Waxman

Once upon a time it fell to the local newspaper to remind me that I was part of an urban landscape, the second largest in the nation. But it started to lose me several years back.

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