Thank you Sutton for your column I am relieved to finally see a Daily Bruin columnist make an eloquent argument (“Patriotic war fever unjustly bars criticism,” April 18) against the current air of McCarthyism that seems to be invading our country. Read more...

Every April 24, Armenians around the world take a day to remember the genocide committed against approximately 1.5 million of their ancestors by Ottoman Turks between 1915 and 1922. Read more...

Every spring, many Jews celebrate Passover to remember their struggle for freedom from enslavement by the Egyptians. But around Passover, Jews also remember a more recent struggle for freedom, which occurred during World War II ““ the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising. Read more...

“4:20 Louis.” It was 1972 ““ what followed those words became the stuff of legends. The boys of San Rafael High School didn’t know it then, but their code, 4/20, spread throughout Marin County and is now the widespread code for the day or time to smoke marijuana. Read more...

The Day of Reckoning drew ever closer. With the help of the jittery and elusive Anarchist, my common-law wife Christy and I were getting closer to toppling Rupert Murdoch and his Inner Circle of TV executives. Read more...

Ozma “Spending Time on the Borderline” Kung Fu Records We’ve all been there, at our most angst-ridden moments when we need nothing more than the perfect power-pop melody and sweet, disturbingly heart-breaking lyrics. Read more...

Films often are products of their time, and German cinema after the fall of Nazism is a prime example. Early “rubble” films like 1946’s “The Murderers Are Among Us” unflinchingly deal with Germany’s psychological guilt over the Holocaust. Read more...