“The challenge of figuring out a workable business model as production and personnel costs rise while old revenue streams dry up is bad enough. But the quagmire is made worse by the question of what audiences want in an age of abundant at-home entertainment options…” @charlesmcnulty.bsky.social

No Kings, West Hollywood. Citizens standing for sanity.

Oof. This whole story. Wish someone paid me 3 mil a year to fail upwards. washingtonian.com/2026/03/19/w...

The Dow is 5000 points from its record high. The markets are finally realizing the obvious about mismanagement.

Hackers connected to the Iranian government accessed FBI Director Kash Patel’s personal email and posted materials — including photos and documents — taken from his account, a person familiar with the breach confirmed to CNN. https://cnn.it/3Q4X9Za

"Kim's Convenience" at the Ahmanson. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Yikes, here's a HUGE story that it seems not enough folks are reporting on yet. Drone swarms of unknown origin this month apparently attacked an important Air Force base—"the first time a US airbase was temporarily put out of operation in wartime, something that never happened even in World War II."

This should be an impeachable offense. I understand that we’re way past any of that, but that shouldn’t stop us from naming it.

L.A. Metro approves major rail route expansion into West Hollywood after last-minute deal

Framing once again is in service of normalizing the abnormal out of fear of seeming biased.

Gulf states are major fertilizer producers, and the war with Iran has triggered a 25% price hike just as struggling U.S. farmers are planting corn. n.pr/4d6lW8X

The U.S. and Israel must now achieve decisive gains to avoid a strategic loss, but Iran must simply endure, Nancy Youssef and Missy Ryan report.

As a reminder: Flynn pleaded guilty in the first Trump term; was pardoned by Trump; he sued for politically motivated prosecution; and now Trump II admin settled and agreed to pay him an undisclosed sum of taxpayer $$$

A thousand NYU contingent faculty went on strike Monday and today they have a real contract with real security in one of the most expensive places on earth

TSA lines were long at airports across the U.S. on Tuesday amid staffing shortages, but passengers at Bush Intercontinental Airport in Houston waited more than four hours to pass through checkpoints and similar wait times were expected on Wednesday.

Jack Smith gathered evidence that Trump took top secret documents during his first term that specifically related to his worldwide business interests — and investigators considered this a likely motive for Trump concealing them at his Florida club, according to newly released case records.

I've been waiting for "Fairview" to come to L.A. Rogue Machine answered the call. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Breaking WaPo: A top deputy to U.S. Attorney Jeanine Pirro acknowledged in a closed-door hearing this month that the Justice Department did not have evidence of wrongdoing in its criminal investigation of the Federal Reserve over the cost of its building renovations, according to court proceedings.

Massive TSA chaos at NYC’s LaGuardia Airport today — endless lines, missed flights, pure frustration. Not an accident: Republicans are blocking Democratic bills to fund TSA while ICE negotiations continue. Travelers are suffering because the GOP won’t pass “clean” TSA pay. ✈️😡

How can this go on for another 3 years?

Trump's plan to send ICE to the airports makes it clear that ICE isn't really an immigration enforcement force. It's Trump's personal Gestapo, his goon squad ready to act out the dictator's fever dreams, no matter how reckless and stupid.

He shames this country and its people every day.

Breaking on MS NOW: Robert Mueller, who served as special counsel in the investigation into Russia's interference in the 2016 election, died on Friday, according to two people familiar with the matter. He was 81.

Just days ago, Witkoff told us on @cnbc.com that Putin said he WASN'T sharing intel and that we had to "take him at his word."

biden total spend on ukraine: $180 billion the pentagon just asked for $200 billion for war in iran.

The Economist: “Although President Donald Trump says he has ‘destroyed 100% of Iran’s military capability,’ the 0% that remains is playing havoc with the global economy.”

De Niro: It doesn’t matter if you’re a Democrat, a Republican, or an Independent—no one, no one voted for new wars. No one voted for higher prices at the pump. No one voted for higher prices in grocery stores, and no one voted for government-masked thugs shooting down our citizens in the streets.

I've interviewed more than a dozen hydrologists and climatologists across the West the past 10 days. A sense of panic is starting to set in. Wildfires and water shortages will start mounting this summer. Adverse impacts are expected from not only this heat wave, but the historically warm winter.

This should have us all out in the streets.

The SAVE Act would block millions of eligible voters. This is voter suppression, not security. Tell your senators: Vote NO to protect our democracy!

We really, really don't need to invite deadly childhood plagues back www.propublica.org/article/rfk-...

“Lofty and pragmatic in equal measure, these leaders are reconstituting Los Angeles’ theater culture, fighting for the survival of nonprofit theater in America and shaping the future possibility of the art form, here and beyond.” @charlesmcnulty.bsky.social in @latimes.com #TheaterSKY

This is the quintessence of narcissistic sociopathy. And just plain stupidity. From @anneapplebaum.bsky.social:

The US is attacking Iran. Russia is helping Iran target US forces. For all we know Russia is co-responsible for the deaths of US soldiers. And yet Trump has made Russia the main winner of the war thus far by lifting oil sanctions. I can’t think of anything like this.

I sat down separately with Danny Feldman, Tarell Alvin McCraney and Snehal Desai to hear directly from them on how they're meeting the challenges of this difficult moment for nonprofit theater. I left impressed by their determination to find paths forward. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

I sat down separately with Danny Feldman, Tarell Alvin McCraney and Snehal Desai to hear directly from them on how they're meeting the challenges of this difficult moment for nonprofit theater. I left impressed by their determination to find paths forward. www.latimes.com/entertainmen...

Harris accused Altman of being the “Goebbels of the Trump administration.” But on Tuesday, Harris said by email: “It was late and I had a few too many martinis so I misspoke when I said Goebbels… I should’ve said Friedrich Flick.”

NEW: A federal judge has ruled that the Trump admin's wind-down of operations at the U.S. Agency for Global Media — Voice of America's parent company — is unlawful and ordered the agency to bring more than 1,000 employees back to work.

what a shocker... Bari Weiss is a failure: variety.com/2026/tv/news...

Russia Is Sharing Satellite Imagery and Drone Technology With Iran www.wsj.com/world/russia...

Iran “posed no imminent threat to our nation, and it is clear that we started this war due to pressure from Israel & its powerful American lobby," says top counterterrorism official Joe Kent who resigned today, saying he couldn't support Trump's Iran war. www.latimes.com/world-nation...

From "Brigadoon" to "Riverdance" to Bruce Springsteen to Lily Allen, here's what we're most looking forward to this spring in the Los Angeles area arts scene.

Trump counter-terrorism chief quits over Iran war, blaming Israel

"the speed with which US democracy is being dismantled is unprecedented in modern history." www.theguardian.com/world/commen...

This a a brutal admission -coming from the Trump White House- that Iran is calling the shots right now. Wow. www.politico.com/news/2026/03... @politico.com

'Dragon Mama,' part two of Sara Porkalob's epic Filipina American family saga, reels us in for more

I loved the dark absurdist spontaneity of "It Was Just an Accident." And I just plunged right into the novelistic depths of "The Secret Agent." Both were cinematic works through and through, but they had literary distinction as well.