J. Mitchell Sances – California Globe

WeHo Pride Arts Festival: Taxpayer-Funded Ghost Town at the Wrong Address – Late May, Wrong City, and Zero Crowd

May 28, 2026 7:00 amMay 28, 2026 7:01 am

Leave it to the City of West Hollywood to throw a “free” Pride Arts Festival in late May—weeks before actual Pride month and host it at the Los Angeles LGBT Center’s Village at Ed Gould Plaza in Hollywood, which is...

Hollywood Elites Decry French ‘Fascism’ While France Suffers Immigration Chaos

May 27, 2026 6:30 amMay 27, 2026 6:31 am

Leave it to the caviar crowd in Hollywood to lecture the French about democracy while their own endless parade of celebrity endorsements, virtue-signaling Oscars speeches, and billionaire-funded propaganda failed spectacularly to stop Donald Trump from a landslide victory with the...

Scott Weiner’s ‘Hero’ Endorses Another: She Knows He’ll Lose

May 26, 2026 6:00 amMay 26, 2026 1:41 pm

Nancy Pelosi just delivered the ultimate San Francisco slap in the face. The 86-year-old Speaker Emerita, fresh off announcing her retirement after nearly 40 years in Congress, endorsed Supervisor Connie Chan to succeed her in California’s 11th District instead of...

Long Beach Pride Festival Canceled Amid Permit Chaos and Finger-Pointing

May 22, 2026 11:10 amMay 22, 2026 11:10 am

Long Beach, California—home to one of the state’s longest-running Pride events—saw its multi-day festival collapse in spectacular fashion this past weekend. The Long Beach Pride Festival, planned for Marina Green Park on May 16-17, 2026, under the banner “Fearless and...

Commentary: Liberal White Women Seek Masculinity in Gay Romance

May 21, 2026 8:00 amMay 21, 2026 8:01 am

Last Friday night I ducked into my usual spot in West Hollywood—a proper gay bar, the kind where the clientele is 95% dudes who actually like other dudes. No bachelorette parties, no hen-night shrieking, no rainbow-filtered Instagram tourists treating the...

SAG-AFTRA Draws a Hard Line on AI: New Contract Protects Real Actors’ Jobs and Production Authenticity

May 15, 2026 7:00 amMay 15, 2026 7:01 am

Hollywood’s biggest union just delivered a reality check to the tech-hyped dream of replacing flesh-and-blood performers with silicon simulations. In the tentative 2026 TV/Theatrical contract with the Alliance of Motion Picture and Television Producers, SAG-AFTRA negotiators secured ironclad limits on...

Rainbow Festival or Raunch Fest? East LA High School Turns Pride Into a Strip Club Matinee

May 13, 2026 12:00 pmMay 13, 2026 12:01 pm

East Los Angeles parents just got a front-row seat to the latest venture in California’s public-school experiment: turning taxpayer-funded high school campuses into after-hours drag clubs and twerking tutorials — all in the name of “inclusion.” The so-called Festival del...