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At the VA campus off Wilshire Boulevard, damaged birds and veterans are getting over their PTSD.
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At the VA campus off Wilshire Boulevard, damaged birds and veterans are getting over their PTSD.
The American snowboarder who we like at LA Observed added Sunday to her legacy as the woman with the most X Games medals.
For an exhibition on menswear fashion through the years, a zoot suit seemed essential to include.
In this map, it's the mountains and the relationship of the ranges and rivers that make it special.
Warren Olney's nightly KCRW show about Los Angeles news ends tonight. Plus items from all over.
Steve Barr in photo by Kris Krug on Flickr via LA Weekly. Add Green Dot Charter Schools founder Steve Barr to the menu of candidates that might run against Mayor...
New series about Los Angeles and history hosted by Nathan Masters is a co-production with the USC Libraries.
Miller is in his 43rd season, second to Vin Scully among local play-by-play guys.
Civi lawsuit blames SoCal Gas for the three-month methane leak in Aliso Canyon
He's a Democratic strategist and environmentalist and a neighbor of the mayor's in Windsor Square.
Just in time, perhaps, because rail ridership is dropping in Los Angeles, not rising.
There could be a train to the Inglewood stadium but the current earliest date is 2035.
They have been talking about it so long, the neighborhoods on both sides have changed.
The proprietors of Traveler's Bookcase on West 3rd Street announced to customers via email that they are in the process of shutting down. The closing clearance sale begins today and...
Some details are getting out about the federal criminal investigation that seems to involve City Councilwoman Nury Martinez and her staff. City Hall reporter David Zahniser reports in the LA...
Former LA City Councilman state lawmaker Richard Alarcon and his wife have already served their sentences in a case about where they officially lived for voting purposes.
I love the California history behind this story of fruits and nuts.
Aides for elected officials get to go where news cameras can't. But the Gas Co. got Sherman to take the videos down.
A bike ferry across Marina del Rey? A pedestrian entrance to Dodger Stadium? Might work!
Rivers are high, snow pack is deep and new storms are coming. Los Angeles, however, remains one of the driest places in the state.
"From the moment I got my first pair of hockey skates at five years old, I got the living shit kicked out of me every single day." No one intervened.
Not many top bands with more certifiable Los Angeles roots than the Eagles, who met Linda Ronstadt at the Troubadour, became her band and with her blessing went out and dominated the 1970s.
Developments at Porter Ranch. Penske buys Indiewire. Univision buys the Onion. A fake Politico reporter. Local finalists for the National Book Critics Circle. And much more.
"If the wellhead fails," says a physical sciences professor, "It will be a horrible, horrible problem."
Majestic Yosemite Hotel and Half Dome Village just don't sound like Yosemite. Fix it.
All the nominated actors are white and two are from Spotlight: Rachel McAdams and Mark Ruffalo.
A male and a female were born in the western Santa Monicas in November or December.
She has been the section's writer and, for now, is the only staffer remaining. "Her job will go beyond the printed word to explore ideas, film, art and society," the memo says.
The sidewalk on Prosser Avenue in Rancho Park has been a trip-and-fall waiting to happen since at least 2012. We have the pictures.
Wendy Greuel with Bill Clinton at Langer's Deli during the 2013 mayoral campaign. Photo: Gary Leonard. Eric Garcetti and Wendy Greuel were City Hall allies, and I believe friends, before...
They are hiring. LAist is also looking for an editor-in-chief, and another former LA blogger-in-chief is in the news.
The Semidi segment of the subduction zone in the Aleutian Islands points right at us and is "too quiet."
Warren Olney will remain as host and executive producer of "To the Point" and add a weekly interview segment during the NPR news.
Selected items from the media, our in box and other LA Observed sources.
The writer of On the Public Record.com sat down with Peter H. King of the LA Times after seven years of anonymity.
You too can be an overnight success after 20 years, says the writer on the new Fox show "Bordertown."
Roger Vargo spotted this undressed Rolls-Royce today beside the railroad tracks near City Terrace.
The Wall Street Journal features Clifford V. Johnson, the USC theoretical physicist who is also a blogger and an adviser on plausible plot twists.
It's the first time the LAPD chief has recommended charges in the killing of an unarmed suspect.
When the first storms thrown our way by El Niño were bearing down last week, the Los Angeles-based staff writer for the New Yorker, Dana Goodyear, went out and gave...
Bowie's social media accounts posted tonight that the musician and actor has died after an 18-month fight with cancer.
Popular LA deejay Gene Weed signs off one of the top music stations of its time. The next day, KFWB went all news.
New season of the award-winning series debuts on Jan. 27 with Val Zavala back as anchor and EP.
Chad Terhune and Russ Mitchell are the latest former Times journalists at the expanding nonprofit.
Next for Porter Ranch, Year 30 of the homeless crisis, a busy week for the LAFD and more.
Michael Hamilburg was the book agent for Jim Morrison, Jackie Robinson, Vincent Bugliosi and many other writers — as well as a number of Los Angeles journalists through the years....
LA's closest ski area doesn't make snow so it's all about the weather.
His career included work with David Alfaro Siqueiros, illustrating for "Sleeping Beauty" and "Fantastic Voyage," and murals for Disneyland and other Disney parks.
Griffith Park mountain lion is over the mange and up to 123 pounds. Still no mate, however.
Three stops including San Gabriel and at the Jim Henson studios on La Brea Avenue in Hollywood.
Managing editor will run the Neighborhood Integrity Initiative in LA. Also: what the LA Times wants in its next California politics editor.
Several state agencies are ordered to take a role in getting SoCal Gas to stop the methane venting above Aliso Canyon.
Once LA's rock powerhouse, after going all-news the station promised "you give us 22 minutes, we'll give you the world."
Judge William A. MacLaughlin apparently didn't get to finish his thought when he vacated part of the $7.1 million award against the LA Times on Monday.
The Chronicle of Higher Education piles on the praise, saying there's now "an LARB style" of reviewing.
This is the first time since LA's National Football League teams left town that things have actually gotten this far.
The LA Times remains on the hook for $5 million, even though the judge found there was no evidence that the sports columnist was forced out.
Only five hours for supper, but it's enough time for the hard-core Musso's types to run in for a martini and a steak.
Flick survived the attack on journalists covering Jonestown that killed Rep. Leo Ryan in 1978 and helped to start "Entertainment Tonight."
It's true. Once again I have tweaked the look of the LA Observed front page for the new year. Details inside.
Notes and news items that amassed during the holiday break around here.
Clinton fundraises in LA
Jim Henson Studios on La Brea became a presidential campaign stop on Thursday.
Brown declares disaster area
The natural gas leak above Porter Ranch now qualifies for various government actions. Story
Performing arts with cheer
Donna Perlmutter closes out 2015 with productions downtown and on the Westside.
