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No Resy, no cash, no sign out front: an under the radar restaurant comes to Los Angeles from Provincetown. nytimes.com/2025/04/16/din…

Great news here for journalism New editor at Minnesota Star Tribune has St. Paul roots – Twin Cities. Kathleen Hennessey is the best twincities.com/2025/04/22/kat…

🚨🚨Just in time for summer: the paperback edition of “I Don’t Want to Go Home,” one of Rolling Stone’s best music books of 2024, comes out June 3! And we’ll be celebrating with a party at the Transparent Clinch Gallery Gallery! I’ll be doing a hybrid reading/musical performance on Sunday,

California has a long history of overcoming catastrophe -- natural and otherwise. Can it do it again in this era of Trump? W/ comments from 3 former governors: Jerry Brown, Pete Wilson and Gray Davis. nytimes.com/2025/05/11/us/…

Thank you Alan. Hard to resist reposting this.

Los Angeles was devastated by wildfires. It faces a $1 billion budget deficit. It does not have a friend in the White House. Will this city be able to pull off its most ambitious spectacle in decades: the 2028 summer games? w/ Jesus Jiménez nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/…

Scaled-back plans for Los Angeles Olympics: -No Olympic Village; athletes housed in UCLA dorms -No beach volleyball in Santa Monica -Canoe slalom will take place...in Oklahoma -Car-free Olympics idea rolled back Adam Nagourney Jesus Jiménez: nytimes.com/2025/05/28/us/…

Poignant Desi Arnaz bio spotlights drive and showbiz innovations of Lucy's comic foil latimes.com/entertainment-…

Joni Ernst appears to be a Sufjan Stevens fan. youtube.com/watch?v=FbbSzY…

The risks of a blue state governor trying to work with Trump: A case study this weekend with Gavin Newsom. nytimes.com/2025/06/08/us/…

Mike Johnson says (jokes, one assumes) that Gov. Gavin Newsom should be tarred and feathered. nytimes.com/live/2025/06/1…

"With his bristling attacks on Trump, Newsom may have positioned himself as the leader of the very resistance he once eschewed." Our analysis of Newsom's emergence as the Democrats' top foil to Trump. W/Laurel Rosenhall nytimes.com/2025/06/11/us/…

The nation is entering an extraordinary tense and dark period. “The biggest source of chaos is the president himself. Rather than acting as a force to try to bring some kind of reconciliation, calm and stability, he is fueling the fires.” nytimes.com/2025/06/13/us/…

And we’ve fixed the grammatical error in the headline, for everyone asking. Sorry!

Epic final line to this terrifying piece.

Exactly 10 years ago, President Trump declared that Mexicans are “bringing drugs, they're bringing crime. They're rapists. And some, I assume, are good people.” US born Latinos were questioned about their citizenship in east Los Angeles. One is still in federal detention.

The New York Times calls Kevin Sack's MOTHER EMANUEL a masterpiece! Read their full review of MOTHER EMANUEL, a profound story of courage and grace, at the link! nytimes.com/2025/06/01/boo…

A Jimmy Breslin homage here from Shawn McCreesh nytimes.com/2025/06/19/us/…

The Question Dividing New Yorkers: Is the City Sinking or Bouncing Back? by john leland and 𝚍𝚘𝚍𝚊𝚒 𝚜𝚝𝚎𝚠𝚊𝚛𝚝: nytimes.com/2025/06/21/nyr…

"What differences do you see btwn Andrew and Mario?" Jerry Brown: "I couldn’t tell you the difference. Ok, there is a difference. Does Andrew quote Thomas Aquinas or Pierre Teilhard de Chardin?" Snap. Quite a Brown interview w Sasha Issenberg politi.co/4enqp5S via POLITICO