Patt Morrison

You are Here: Orange County in the House at the LA Times Festival of Books

I especially like the title of a 12:30 panel at next weekend's two-day  annual Los Angeles Times Festival of Books for its helpful reminder and either existential celebration or complaint. "You are Here:  Perspectives on Life in Southern California," featuring Times columnists suggests tha ... More >>

OC Bookly at the LA Times Festival of Books

I've attended nearly all of the previous 16 years of the annual Los Angeles Times books festivals, this one again on the campus of USC. There was that one year I missed, when the bibliochild was born and some friends, fellow writers and Santa Monica Review volunteers staffed the SMR booth, ... More >>

Mi Taco es su Taco: How Mexican Food Conquered America

I finally visited the snazzy corporate offices of the OC Weekly last week, to interview my editor, Gustavo "¡Ask a Mexican!" Arellano. Despite writing for years for the county's favorite alt-weekly, I'd conducted only an email relationship with the staff and editors. I arrived in person to tape my ... More >>

OC Weekly Honored By Los Angeles Press Club

Yay, Kelly!​Last night the Los Angeles Press Club held its 53rd Annual Southern California Journalism Awards at the ornately appointed Millennium Biltmore Hotel in downtown Los Angeles. We know you have some burning questions: Did award presenter and Mary Tyler Moore Show thespian Ed Asner really ... More >>

Where to Watch Obama's State of the Union Speech

​An offshoot of the Democratic National Committee holds a State of the Union "Watch Party" tonight at a pizza parlor in the People's Republic of Irvine.Meanwhile, local Republicans are viewing President Barack Hussein Obama's speech before both houses of Congress at their neighborhood country club ... More >>

Chapman Law School Dean Needs to Read Navel Gazing!

EastmanI appeared on KOCE-TV Channel 50's Inside OC with Rick Reiff a couple of weeks ago to debate Chapman Law School Dean John Eastman on Proposition 8 and other topics on which we mostly agreed. Eastman is one of the legal minds behind the Yes on 8 arguments that will be argued tomorrow before th ... More >>

Goat Boy: Not So Dead Edition

With the global economy teetering on the brink of self-destruction, America still fighting a two-front war in Iraq and Pakistan, the LA Times about to fire the 75 people who somehow haven't been fired yet, and the Angels out of the race for the pennant, it's about time for a feel-good human int ... More >>

Re: Press Club Awards

Some highlights: - Yahoo's open bar and their token Yahootinis (basically Lemon Drop martinis with some strange medicinal aftertaste). And their nuclear ice cubes. (See photo.) - Gear from the L.A. County Coroner's Office gracing the silent auction - and becoming a major draw. - Arianna Huffington ... More >>

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This Is AirTalk gathers the eclectic radio interviews of KPCCs Larry Mantle

Diary of a Mad County

Hearts and Blinders

The propaganda war continues in Little Saigon