Culture

LOS ANGELES MAGAZINE
HEARTACHES AND HARMONIES (FEATURE-1/04)

Rhino Records started small and quirky and got absorbed by a conglomerate. Can they maintain?

SHALL WE GATHER AT THE STAPLES? (FEATURE-10/2000)
Staples Center has failed to fulfill its charter to unite LA.


LA WEEKLY

CANADIAN BACON (8/9/02)
Hollywood fights back on runaway production.


ALTERNET

THE DRUG WAR GOES PRIMETIME (10/04/02)

The HBO series "The Wire" breaks new ground in both its depiction of the drug war and the racial stereotypes that accompany it.


LA CITY BEAT
LA High School Confidential ( 9/15/05)
Black-Latino tensions. Gang Warfare. Teenage rebellion. Hype. Students speak out on youth culture in L.A. schools.


PASADENA WEEKLY
MYTH OF THE BLACK IRISH (03/16/00)
What we thought we knew about the Irish--but got wrong.


IRISH HERALD
SHEDDING THE NAME OF SHAME (03/00)

Irish-America DGA President Jack Shea on why it was high time to re-name the DW Griffith award.

ONE MAN’S HERO (10/99)
Film about the St. Patrick’s Brigade falls short of satisfying.

IRISH I WAS CHICANO (04/99)
Visual artist Wayne Alaniz Healy, with both Irish and Chicano roots, explores the duality in a Los Angeles exhibition.s

AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... (03/99)
Does the current film boom in Ireland reflect Irish identity--or is it about cheap locations?

ADAMS MEETS L.A.’S MAJORITY MINORITY (12/98)
Irish political leader Gerry Adams meets Southland Latinos at a Los Angeles fund raiser.

SOME MOTHER’S COMEDY (11/98)
Fionnnula Flanagan on starring in the offbeat comedy Waking Ned Devine.

KATE MULGREW-STAR CROSSED LOVER (09/98)
Star Trek’s Captain Janeway plans far-reaching career that draws from her Celtic soul.

THE WORLD ACCORDING TO THE BARD OF ARMAGH (08/98)
Famed Irish musician Tommy Makem talks about politics, music and Ireland.

IRISH AMERICA MAGAZINE: IRISH CHICANO EXPLORES DUAL ROOTS (09/99)
Wayne Alaniz Healy is a visual artist who’s Irish and Chicano.

JACK SHEA (12/98)
The Directors Guild of America President on being Irish.

THE IRISH IN OUTER SPACE (09/98)
Irish American actors in SF epics.

DOWN BUT NOT OUT (07/98)
I Went Down is a shaggy-dog story of a film.

SWEENEY’S VISION (12/97)
Disney Channel President Anne Sweeney on how Irish traditions have informed her work.

ART OF PROTEST (09/97)
A traveling art exhibit looks at the Bloody Sunday massacre in Northern Ireland.