The Lowdown is a bold cultural revival fueled by unique collaborations between world-class artists, authors, activists and other public-spirited leaders. Presenters and performers connect the dots between media, government, national security, sustainability, psychology and the arts. By confronting disinformation, promoting civic engagement and having fun in the process, we help people cope with life in America.
Saturday, October 10, 2009, 5:00-8:00 PM
THE LOWDOWN
The Warehouse Restaurant
4499 Admiralty Way
Marina del Rey, CA 90292
Featuring performances and a discussion about
The State and Future of Journalism
Hosted by JEFF NORMAN
with
Music by I SEE HAWKS IN L.A. (Full set at 5 PM)
Author PETER RICHARDSON
Journalist ROBERT SCHEER
LA Weekly founder JAY LEVIN
Comedian ED CRASNICK
Musician-satirist GARY GORDON
Drinks and appetizers available - no minimum required.
Happy hour discounts from 5 to 6!
FREE admission
Seating is first come, first served.
The evening will conclude with a book sale and signing by Peter Richardson, author of A Bomb in Every Issue: How the Short, Unruly Life of Ramparts Magazine Changed America, hosted by Book Soup.
Click here to read the LA Times book review of A Bomb in Every Issue.
Click here to read the NY Times book review of A Bomb in Every Issue.
Click here to read the NY Times book excerpt of A Bomb in Every Issue.
Valet parking only $2.75 or park free at adjacent bank or library.
Click here for directions.
“This is the music the 1960s counterculture was meant to produce in its brightest hours. The fact that it appears now some forty years later in a world arguably more hopeless is a sign of hope in itself. Despite the echoes of that lonesome whippoorwill, I See Hawks In L.A. wipes away those tears we are sometimes too blue to cry.” - Counterpoint
Given the state of investigative journalism - competition driving out printed publications in favor of online ones - the publication of Peter Richardson’s A Bomb in Every Issue couldn’t be more timely.
A Bomb in Every Issue is, surprisingly, the first book to recount the short (1962-1975) but utterly remarkable life of Ramparts magazine, which quickly became the premier leftist publication of its era. Deeply committed to the civil rights and antiwar movements, Ramparts‘ list of contributors, which includes Noam Chomsky, Robert Scheer, Cesar Chavez, Seymour Hersh, Angela Davis and Tariq Ali, forms a veritable who’s who of politics and journalism. It was in its pages that Che Guevara’s diaries and the prison diaries of Eldridge Cleaver first appeared, and it is where neo-con David Horowitz cut his teeth in journalism, before renouncing his left-wing political radicalism.
Former staffers Jann Wenner and Adam Hochschild founded Rolling Stone and Mother Jones, respectively. Ramparts‘ combination of high audacity and solid reporting deeply influenced a generation of progressive writers and remains an inspiration for investigative journalists.
Click here to read Will Investigative Reporting Survive? by Peter Richardson.
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