Peter Richardson

I found Last Call: The Final Chapter of F. Scott Fitzgerald at one of the local video stores and watched it last night. I loved Neve Campb...

A few months ago, I mentioned my telephone conversation with Frances Kroll Ring, who knew Carey McWilliams and served as F. Scott Fitgerald...

Last night PBS aired "A Sad Flower in the Sand," a documentary about John Fante and Ask the Dust . What a pleasure to come upon. ...

A few months ago, PoliPointPress published Jeff Cohen's Cable News Confidential , which describes Jeff's years at CNN, Fox, and MSNB...

Just heard an NPR piece about the City of Los Angeles returning water rights to the Owens Valley--only one century after the Great Water Cap...

Today is the 65th anniversary of the Pearl Harbor attack--the day President Roosevelt said would live in infamy. But another infamy followed...

I just finished reading The People's Machine: Arnold Schwarzenegger and the Rise of Blockbuster Democracy by Joe Mathews. It's a so...

My daughters and I saw Bobby yesterday here in Palm Desert. It has a few things going for it, including a kind of Altmanesque structure an...

You can learn a lot about American political history by studying three Californians who hit the national scene at about the same time: Earl ...

I heard Ralph Steadman on "Fresh Air" last night; his illustrations famously appeared with Hunter S. Thompson's writings. But ...