Black Keys Concert Turns Into Ticket Mayhem
The Black Keys perform live during the 2014 Turn Blue tour at the United Center in Chicago.Daniel DeSlover/ZUMA Last night the Black Keys performed at the Wiltern Theater in LA and there was a problem: fans who bought tickets from third-party vendors like StubHub were turned away. There was massive pointing of fingers over this,…
Consensus Grows that Ukraine Scandal Is Impeachable Offense
Kevin Dietsch/CNP via ZUMA Wire Calls for impeachment grew louder Friday evening as new details regarding President Trump’s discussions with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky came to light. “This is impeachable now,” congressional expert and historian Norm Ornstein tweeted Friday evening. “Right now.” According to multiple news reports, President Trump has attempted to coerce the president of…
Farmers and Ranchers Know What Climate Change Feels Like. They Just Wrote Congress Demanding Action.
Farmer Leah Penniman is one of a coalition of 10,000 farmers and ranchers who sent a letter to Congress in support of a Green New Deal resolution.Jamel Mosely-Mel A coalition that unites farmers and ranchers behind the Green New Deal hopes to set a new tone for how the agriculture sector relates to policy solutions…
Michael Jang Offers a Fresh Look at a Retro California
It took 40 years for Michael Jang’s photography career to take off, and to tell you the truth, he’s thrilled. “This delayed gratification thing? It couldn’t be any better,” Jang says in the kitchen of his house, which is filled with framed prints for his first retrospective show. The prints of various sizes are neatly wrapped in…
How Burning More Wood Could Fight California’s Wildfires
Justin Sullivan/Getty This story was originally published by Grist and is shared here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. Slim pine trunks stacked in a mound loomed over my head, curving around me in a partial circle like a dam built by Brontosaurus-sized beavers. I’d followed a long unmarked dirt road earlier this year to see it: One…
What “Promise” Did Trump Make to Ukraine?
Cheriss May/NurPhoto via ZUMA Press The Wall Street Journal reports today that President Trump asked the Ukrainian president “about eight times” in a single phone call to investigate Joe Biden’s son. This was obviously something Trump was pretty obsessed with. However, the Journal report also says this: Mr. Trump didn’t mention a provision of foreign…