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Another big-city mayor, Antonio Villaraigosa of Los Angeles, could shake up the already crowded Democratic field as early as this spring. Villaraigosa, 56, is expected to easily win a second term on March 3. After that, an aide told TIME, he can turn his attention to whether he will run for governor. "He has said on the record that he doesn't know yet, but when he decides, he'll do what's best for the people of California," the aide said. (See the 25 most influential Hispanics in America...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: California's Big Race to Succeed Schwarzenegger | 2/16/2009 | See Source »

Long, long ago, in a very different economy, there were people called shopaholics. They wielded credit cards and wore shoes so ugly that they came to be considered beautiful. A few of these creatures can still be found toting small dogs in Los Angeles or being led around New York City by Tom Cruise, but their ranks are presumably diminishing at the same rate as your...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Confessions of a Shopaholic: Relic of an Economy Past | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

Because Jackman lives in New York City, the writers flew from Los Angeles to work out of a room at the Mandarin Oriental hotel. I was expecting to join an enormous gathering of the greatest comedy writers in the world, who would mock me with cutting barbs about my relative youth and handsomeness. Instead, there were three dudes eating Gummi Bears from the minibar. Two of them weren't even Jewish. The third was a 27-year-old who makes Web videos and got the job when he was pitching a movie idea to Jackman's company--an idea...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: I Wrote the Oscars! | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...number of these longtime fans now accuse Fairey of selling out as they feel less and less a part of a unique phenomenon. Over the course of the last 20 years, Fairey’s experiment has grown into Obey—a large company based out of Los Angeles that comprises a clothing line and a design studio. The clothing line has become more mainstream (it’s being sold locally in Urban Outfitters), and his design studio, Studio Number One, has contributed to advertising campaigns for Saks Fifth Avenue and Toyota. For these disenfranchised fans, Obey...

Author: By Anna K. Barnet and Joshua J. Kearney, CRIMSON STAFF WRITERS | Title: Shepard Fairey and the Obedience Paradox | 2/12/2009 | See Source »

...business partners, started Ticketmaster in 1976, which sold its first tickets the following year for an event at the University of New Mexico. In 1981, the company opened its first overseas operations and in 1982, a new CEO named Fred Rosen took over the company. Rosen, who told the Los Angeles Times in 1985 that his competitors were "asleep at the switch," was an aggressive businessman and proud of it. He was so good at dominating the ticket industry (and consequently became practically the only game in town) that Pearl Jam rebelled in 1994 with a campaign known as "TicketBastard...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Ticketmaster | 2/11/2009 | See Source »

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