No red faces over blackface
Attentive readers will remember Julie Myers, acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE). Like many currently in the upper levels of the federal government, Myers followed the George W. Bush Path to Success: getting a job she’s unqualified for (in this case, the fed’s second largest law enforcement agency), apparently [...]

Homeland Security’s sense of fun
Accused of being a little too similar to President Bush– i.e., having gotten a job she’s unqualified for through a combination of nepotism and cronyism– Julie Myers, head of Homeland Security’s Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) division, recently provided a remarkable example of the kind of judgment she brings to her [...]

Via Fingerprints‘ website:
To celebrate the release of Bob Dylan The Other Side Of The Mirror - Live At The Newport Folk Festival 1963-1965 and the release of the soundtrack to Todd Haynes new Dylan biopic, I’m Not There, we will be having our first ever hoot-night. We are accepting entries to perform at this special [...]

The Los Angeles Times drops in on the Halloween beating story
You might have missed this, amid the remains of the fire coverage.
But on Sunday–traditionally considered a good reading day by the daily papers–the Los Angeles Times parachuted in for its own story on last year’s Halloween-night beating of three young white women by a group [...]

Scary Stories: Ramp up the Halloween festivities with 90 minutes of scary-ish stories for all ages. 6:30pm. $5.
ANGELS GATE 3601 S Gaffey St, San Pedro 90731. 310.519.0936; angelsgateart.org.

Bruce Springsteen: Springsteen’s first half of a two-night stay before he starts the inevitable tour through the campaign trail. 7:30pm.
LA SPORTS ARENA 3939 S Figueroa, Los Angeles 90037. [...]

It’s Halloween Weekend, which this year has been appropriately foreshadowed by a full moon as orange as a jack-o-lantern. (Nice touch, raging wildfires, but really, you shouldn’t have gone to such bother … no, really: Miss Manners says that tinting the moon orange with the poison smoke of destroyed human and animal habitat so [...]

Last minute costumes and fake gun shot wounds at Halloween Adventure

PHOTO by ROSHEILA ROBLES
What can Halloween Adventure do that the combined might of your abysmal credit rating, Judd Apatow, and rising movie ticket prices hasn’t quite managed to do? Easy: make you wish you were back in high school––specifically, when you were looking for work. [...]

Do you want it? Or need it? Depends.
It’s not the biggest nor the best attraction-turned-haunted-house in Southern California, but the Queen Mary’s Shipwreck Halloween Terror Fest is definitely worth your money. For starters, any excuse to board the ol’ majestic ship is reason enough for me—not to mention the boat is reportedly haunted, which makes [...]