If you were as excited as I was for this year’s Oscars, then you probably read about who won after the ceremony was over. Unless, like me, you got talked into attending a viewing party. Honestly, I was there strictly for the artichoke dip and alcohol (I missed the Super Bowl this year), but I became...

Two weeks ago my Thursday started out like any other. I got to work, returned a few e-mails, created a to do list and so on and so forth. By the time lunch rolled around I was downstairs trying to figure out what to eat and spotted the latest issue of the LA Weekly. The picture on the front cover...

Photo By: Don Barletti Most of the time I can honestly say it’s great to see one’s alma mater in the press. I often look back at my days at UCSD with a ton of fond memories. I honestly feel my experiences there shaped the person I am today. In the past few weeks however, the news reports coming...

The 2010 Winter Olympics are in full force. The United States leads with 25 medals, 7 of those gold. But before you start those U-S-A chants, consider how these games were made possible. But every Olympic games comes with controversy. Vancouver taxpayers are shouldering the burden of a very expensive...

Recent polls show that the overwhelming support of President Barack Obama has started to dwindle, falling to below 50% for the first time since taking office. While some of this has to do with the growing popularity of the tea party movement, the numbers also reflect disappointment among Obama’s core...

Hundreds of protesters gathered in LA, Chicago and New York this week. They could have been raising funds for Haitians, whose country was tragically hit by a 7.8 earthquake, leaving thousands dead and many more injured and homeless. Or maybe rallying for the health care bill that so many Americans desperately...

Last year, on Dec. 25, 2009, as I was preparing Christmas dinner, I clicked on CNN and my stomach hit the ground. The headline read something like, “Detroit Bomb Plot Foiled.” Despite a number of attacks in the past, I, like so many other Americans, was shocked by this new terrorist plot. Unfortunately,...

The older I get, the more social “progress” seems less like a chronological progression toward more evolved, egalitarian principles, and instead, resembles a political two-step in which compromises zigzag between varying interests, some representing justice and equality, and others advocating entrenched...

As many pundits and journalists get their end of the year/end of the decade lists ready, there is no doubt in my mind that many will highlight the history making inauguration of President Barrack Obama. For many Americans, myself included, watching the first African American/bi-racial American become...

The holiday season is upon us and those who attended the Copenhagen climate summit last week aren’t getting what they want from the man in red. ‘Hopenhagen’ has been unwrapped and what most activists got was a whole lot of disappointment. And maybe a few hours of jail time. So much hope...