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...Different problems have cropped up in other states. Los Angeles County, for instance, sent some sample ballots overseas early, before the real ballots were even printed. Mixed in the packet voters received was a line in red print that read, "Some early mailings may not receive Official Ballot Card. If this applies to you, mark choices on Official Sample Ballot pages." Yet Sandy Mansson of Stockholm, Sweden, found it odd. "It was very strange, it was just not what you normally do," says Mansson. Paul Drugan, spokesman for the Los Angeles County Board of Elections, defends the practice. "Our first...
...Which candidate has Gerald Ford's fundamental decency? Both. Jimmy Carter's discipline? Obama. Ronald Reagan's sunny optimism? Obama. George H.W. Bush's diplomatic instincts? Both. Bill Clinton's intellectual curiosity? Obama. George W. Bush's dogged determination? Both. The score: Obama 6, McCain 3. Victoria Brago, LOS ANGELES...
...impassioned performance at times veers into the melodramatic, but it’s the lifeblood of “Changeling” and more than makes up for underdeveloped characters and a structure that feels too self-aware. As Collins, Jolie plays a single mother in 1920s Los Angeles who one day returns home to find her son missing. In an exhilarating, Oscar-worthy performance, she moves us to tears, frustration, and terror. “Changeling” moves beyond the heart-rending concept of a mother’s love for her son and soon evolves into...
...Modern Guilt” is a deliberately grainy, wacky mini-parable, and a fitting title track for an album fueled by feelings of alienation. Here’s what happens: a long-haired Beck, oddly evoking Joni Mitchell, lopes inexpressively around the streets of a black-and-white Los Angeles. But he’s not as isolated as his new urban hippie vibe might lead you to assume—a moddish Anton Chigurh look-alike is stalking him, using the classic reconnaissance techniques of popping out from behind mailboxes and cartwheeling. And what does he do when...
...largely self-congratulatory) talk among liberals about the progressive movement's success in using new technologies to harness the netroots, to use the fashionable liberal argot. But there has been less reflection about what impact the great gobs of Sorosian money will have on the movement. Michael Fleming, a Los Angeles political macher who advises Cabinet member Bohnett, worries that rank-and-file gay people - the ones who might have picked up a rock at Stonewall - are increasingly relying on billionaires to cut checks. "Where is the outrage?" he asks...