Monthly Archives: January 2010

Howard Zinn, whose 1980 People’s History of the United States revolutionized the studying and teaching of American History, spoke out for social justice until the day he died. It is no exaggeration to say that when we talk about influential<br> Read More »

Second in a series of reports from the 2010 Sundance Film Festival in Park City, Utah. Christian Frei’s half-humorous/half-melancholy documentary “Space Tourists” considers whether space exploration is a vital human endeavor or a wasteful material indulgence. For the romance of<br> Read More »

Imagine the classical music of German composer Robert Schumann, re-interpreted with a jazz attitude to make it contemporary. Join us today at 12:30 p.m. at the Cadillac Hotel – as we welcome the jazz quartet Schumann’s Humanns, founded in 2008<br> Read More »

Pundits like to claim California voters are anti-tax. Of course, we’ve raised various kinds of taxes at the state level — including the Prop 10 cigarette taxes in 1998, and the Prop 63 millionaire’s tax for mental health programs passed<br> Read More »

(Ed note: The media’s unfair treatment of ACORN continues, as this well-documented piece from the January 27 Huffington Post confirms.) This week, the FBI arrested 25-year old James O’Keefe and three other men, charging them with plotting to tamper with<br> Read More »