January – February 2006 Issue

Nadine says Chuck Klosterman’s low-culture manifesto will test your pop-culture knowledge.

When someone pretended to be Lissette on MySpace it caused problems at school and with her friends.

Lawyer Mark Goodman explains the rights that California students have to express themselves on Internet sites.

Selina, 16, survived giving up sweets for her New Year’s resolution.

Are we too obsessed with celebrities?

Kathryn gives thumbs up to Jonathan Safran Foer’s debut novel.

Readers write in with their thoughts on the November-December 2005 issue of L.A. Youth

Students at a recent San Fernando Valley Youth Summit, where Los Angeles Unified School District students talked about how to reduce violence on campus, had different views on whether King’s goals have been accomplished.

Our generation has grown up thinking that we are only as good as our society expects us to be. People

When a teacher read her classmates’ MySpaces, it made Selina, 16, wonder: should schools be telling us what to do when we’re online?

Last spring, when my Bible class teacher spent an entire Sunday looking at every student’s MySpace that he could find, there was an uproar the following Monday. “Oh that’s so gross, he’s so nosy. He shouldn’t have a right to do that,” girls said. …