J. Mitchell Sances – California Globe

Zach Bryan Wears a ‘Free Palestine’ Shirt Protesting Imaginary Silencing

October 8, 2026 6:30 amOctober 8, 2026 6:31 am

On Friday night, the first of two shows in Foxborough, country singer Zach Bryan walked onstage at Robert Kraft’s building in a sleeveless shirt that read “Free Palestine,” with a pine tree and “An Appeal to Heaven” underneath. Fan video...

Everybody’s Welcome, Until She Isn’t: West Hollywood’s Lesbian Bar Cancels a Lesbian

October 7, 2026 6:00 amOctober 7, 2026 12:57 pm

Sweetwater, West Hollywood’s new lesbian bar on bustling Santa Monica Boulevard, had agreed to host a September 9 meet-and-greet for Tanya Tsikanovsky, a lesbian running for West Hollywood City Council. The bar owner approved the flyer, and it was shared...

Hollywood Edited Out October 7 Massacre But The Protesters Brought the Footage

October 5, 2026 7:00 amOctober 5, 2026 8:11 am

On the afternoon of September 26, as the New York Film Festival gave NAZA its North American premiere inside Alice Tully Hall, Israeli Americans and other Jewish protesters stood in the rain on Broadway with a simpler demand than the one...

Big Brother Behind the Counter: The Ninth Circuit Blesses California’s Gun-Store Listening Law

September 30, 2026 7:35 pmSeptember 30, 2026 7:36 pm

There is a particular genius to California’s method of governing those pesky conservative citizens. It rarely announces the real objective. It wraps the intent in “safety,” drafts a statute thick enough to look technical, and then waits for a friendly...

Hollywood Producer Chuck Lorre Uses Charity Stage to Give a Political Sermon

September 30, 2026 8:00 amSeptember 30, 2026 8:01 am

There is a particular kind of Hollywood man who cannot accept a compliment without turning it into a monologue about his enemies. Chuck Lorre is that man. On Saturday night at Project Angel Food’s Angel Awards in Los Angeles, the...

An Editorial Board Will Not Save CNN, but a Return to Reporting Might

September 29, 2026 5:47 pmSeptember 29, 2026 5:47 pm

In a matter of weeks Paramount Skydance is expected to close its acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery and, with it, to place CBS News and CNN under a single corporate roof, at which point David Ellison will preside over the...

Newsom Discovers Governor Overreach – Right When He’s About to Leave Office

September 27, 2026 6:00 amSeptember 27, 2026 6:01 am

Governor Gavin Newsom has spent eight years treating the California Constitution as a mood board. Emergency pandemic orders, budget trailer bills, and “values” statutes have flowed from Sacramento with one consistent theme: lock in the program before the next election....