California's reputation is greener than Kermit the Frog. But that verdant veneer hides a dirty secret. Despite a governor who considers himself a climate leader, we're still the third biggest oil-producing state in America.

In this exhibition, Kota Ezawa shows an animated film as well as a series of light boxes, each of them displaying a deliberately stylized recreation of the stolen work. A quarter of a century later, the mystery of what happened to the works remains unsolved.

Crossing the U.S. border into another country to purchase a child for sex carries with it serious, automatic federal penalties. So why, why, why do we not treat this crime the same way for our children here at home?

Patricia Zohn

Into the Schindler House, sacred to modernist architecture, came Brennan Gerard and Ryan Kelly and the LA Dance Project. The choreography, organized around the theme of time, the clock and domesticity is wholly analogous to the original architectural concept, since Schindler based the house on a "pinwheel" plan. "Everyone has an internal clock," says Kelly. "What does 12 feel like to you?"

With a new year brings a new festival season. The Gem and Jam Festival in Tuscon, Arizona will be once again offering a Los Angeles pre-party on Friday, January 15th.

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No clearer indications of a public policy system that has clearly left the rails are the systematic poisoning of the water supply in Flint, Michigan and the natural gas leakage currently sickening residents in Porter Ranch in California.

Compare the example of California's reformed political system with the dysfunction in Washington and in many other states. California demonstrates that total victory over the opposing political party or ideology is not only unrealistic, but it is undesirable.