Mayor Mamdani has rightly been focusing on the small ball of “sewer socialism” in his first days in office. He is trying to get stuff done, like shoveling potholes at the foot of the Williamsburg Bridge and imagining walk-able streets. These actions matter to people, but the mayor is looking for a bigger pay-off. He wants — and he absolutely needs — to stir a new faith in and trust in government.

Even the most conservative estimates indicate an unprecedented amount of bloodshed in recent days.

In a letter to Clive Wilmer, Thom Gunn described the poet and critic Donald Davie – the subject of his poem “To Donald Davie in Heaven”, first published in the TLS in 1997 and then in Gunn’s final collection Boss Cupid (2000) – as a “lovable” man. Although Davie could be “crusty, intemperate, and just […]

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One of the institutions that has been in the sights (and firing line) of the US president is the Smithsonian. Among other things, the Director of the National Portrait Gallery (part of the Smithsonian) resigned under threat of the sack, there have been complaints from the White House about political bias in the displays (too […]

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A woman who lives in a Sherman Oaks apartment building is speaking out about a naked neighbor who appears to make a point of leaving his blinds open while allegedly handling himself in the buff. Michelle McClintock and her son have been forced to keep the blinds in their apartment on Riverside Drive shut because of the continually nude […]

Homicide investigators with the Los Angeles County Sheriff’s Department are asking for the public’s help in identifying the persons responsible for the death of a 24-year-old man in Bellflower 17 years ago. Vincent Bejar, a resident of Norwalk, was shot to death on Sept. 1, 2008, in the 15100 block of Eucalyptus Avenue in the City of Bellflower, according […]

The leader of a Southern California street gang was sentenced to nine years in prison for ordering the kidnapping of a woman in Riverside. Luis Ramirez, 49, of Jurupa Valley, will serve the nine-year sentence consecutively to his current life sentence in prison, the U.S. Attorney’s Office said. Ramirez was a leader of Westside Riva […]

Actor Kiefer Sutherland was arrested for allegedly assaulting a rideshare driver in Hollywood. On Jan. 12, officers with the Los Angeles Police Department responded to reports of an assault near Sunset Boulevard and Fairfax Avenue around 12:15 a.m. Following an investigation, police said Sutherland, 59, had reportedly entered a rideshare vehicle and physically assaulted the […]

Friends say an anti-ICE protester was severely injured after being shot in the face with a less-lethal munition by a federal agent during a clash outside a federal building in Santa Ana. The incident happened Friday evening after most protesters had left a demonstration sparked by outrage over the fatal shooting of Renee Good in […]

A Republican-appointed majority of Supreme Court justices appeared ready to uphold two state laws that ban transgender women and girls from participating on girls and women’s school sports teams. Though the scope of the rulings and how sweeping its implications will be both remain unclear, oral arguments on Tuesday showed there are likely at least […]