Don Shirley: Pianists make history
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The Rams' return to LA has been a disaster, but a new book by Jim Hock remembers when the NFL team's relationship with the city was something special.
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The Rams' return to LA has been a disaster, but a new book by Jim Hock remembers when the NFL team's relationship with the city was something special.
The singer writes about her performance of a Bob Dylan song at the Nobel Prize ceremony.
The local homeowner group says the 24-hour coffee shop will close December 31 to make way for a new development.
Magazine goes deep in a piece that finds an autocratic, distracted leader who insults women and other staffers.
Our occasional offering of media, politics and place noted from assorted sources.
New attorney general appointed. An anchor leaves the news desk. What to do with P-45.
Councilman Jose Huizar has had enough already, tweeting "If we acquiesce to his falsehoods, we fall victim to tyrannical government."
"Your impact on this town is difficult to measure," Fox 11 anchor Steve Edwards says in a video tribute.
There's no surprise that Attorney General Kamala Harris was elected to succeed Barbara Boxer in the U.S. Senate. The news is that California voters also approved legal marijuana, kept the...
LA Times investigations afflict the powerful. LA's homeless shame. Notes on media, politics and place.
Because there's more going on than Donald Trump's get-even war on America.
It took four and a half hours and 41 players to decide, but the Dodgers' season continues.
Interesting news from downtown, sadness in Palm Springs and a bad week for Trump and his ilk. Plus much, much more.
Everywhere else the election is the main story, but here it's also about Vin Scully.
The museum holding the collection of Gary Cypres had just opened to the public in July.
Our occasional roundup on media, politics and place.
Edelman represented the Westside and the Fairfax area for 29 years and led the fight for children's services, AIDS treatment, mental health services and the arts.
The station will also air live the pre-game tributes at Vin Scully Appreciation Day on Sept. 23.
The crucial transportation link in Santa Monica reopens today after being closed for more than a year.
Long worked on "The Big News" at KNXT and was VP and news director at NBC 4.
Chefs Susan Feniger and Mary Sue Milliken have been VIPs in the LA food scene since they opened City Cafe in 1981.
Minor league baseball is leaving the city where Don Drysdale and Mike Piazza perfected their games.
Herb Wesson has received five default notices for being late with mortgage payments.
The councilman from the northeast Valley stayed less than one term.
Vice revisits the story of how designer Amy Inouye saved Chicken Boy from the landfill.
Jeff Gottlieb's lawyer represented T.J. Simers in his recent suit against the Times. Also: Another newsroom exit and confirmation of the Timers building's sale.
Veteran reporters Jason Song and Garrett Therolf are leaving, along with a recent hire from Texas, and a new education reporter comes from Florida.
He's not on the road trip and looks headed for Oklahoma City in the minor leagues.
Villaraigosa talked down speculation that he might end the week as chair of the
Democratic National Committee.
NPR announced on Monday the longtime "Morning Edition" host based here in Culver City will step down after the election.
A second veteran member of the New York Times bureau in Los Angeles is taking a buyout offer to leave the paper.
He joined the Saigon bureau of Associated Press in 1965, and has been a fixture in the LA bureau.
This is the kind of completely new development turn for Los Angeles that should get a thorough debate in the political arena but that rarely does.
New mountain lion kittens have been tagged in two litters in the Santa Susana Mountains.
Steve Greenberg's cartoon on the Central Coast plant.
The annual Los Angeles Press Club awards were handed out Sunday night. Here are the winners.
The Green Dot charter schools founder says he's in "to disrupt the political establishment and turn our city around."
California Today has news from the NYT, the LA Times and other media outlets and is written by Ian Lovett of the LA bureau.
Cunningham created the genre of street fashion photography and was featured in a 2010 documentary.
There's nothing going on, but the trick is to make it look like there is for a few days.
Onni group, based in Vancouver, has other projects in downtown and would redevelop the longtime LA Times home for offices and retail.
Cherry picking of some results that stand out from the others.
Lamb was "the consummate newspaperman in the glory days of the profession," his LAT obit begins.
It's not true that the new name for Michael Ferro's experiment in newspapering stands for Time to Recycle Old Newspaper Company.
It appears as a mea culpa from a lawyer husband divulging personal health details about his wife.
The museum's newest exhibition explores featherwork items from the era in Hawaii that predates the cultural carnage that followed the Christian missionaries.
The Los Angeles Business Journal's annual exercise of estimating net worth has again tabbed Patrick Soon-Shiong as number one. Here are the top 10.
Wednesday's staff party is cancelled because the Times could not, or did not, secure the room in its own building.
$1 billion effort with the Republican National Committee kicks off here May 25.
A 2008 LA Weekly piece by Christine Pelisek named the serial killer responsible for murdering perhaps dozens of South Los Angeles women.
Ernest Wilson will return to the faculty at USC Annenberg. Martin Smith leaving Orange Coast. Donna Wares leaving the Register. And more.
We have a very beautiful state here. Absolutely beautiful.
Old friend of LA Observed Steve Greenberg offers up this take on Ted Cruz and his new running mate.
Ferro might be the illegitimate offspring of Sam Zell and former Freedom Communications CEO Aaron Kushner.
KPCC posted a little while ago that Julian, the station's longtime morning host, has died of brain cancer.
In his final game, Bryant scores the most in the NBA this season and the most ever in a farewell. He ends 20 years as a Laker at #3 all-time in points.
Ricardo DeAratanha was charged Tuesday with misdemeanor resisting, obstructing or delaying a peace officer when he was confronted during the Nancy Reagan funeral in Simi Valley.
The first liberal 4-1 majority looks almost certain after this year's elections.
Hennessy spent 27 years as the staff columnist at the Long Beach Press-Telegram, and another six years writing occasional pieces.
Dodgers official photographer Jon SooHoo begins to chronicle the final season.
Longtime TV reporter Scott Collins will be TV editor, and Michael Schneider joins Penske Media. Plus more.
She remains at Caltech and will work more on the effects of climate change and global warming.
For better worse, the hottest corner of the downtown Arts District boom now has a giant international art destination.
The documentary opens Friday in Los Angeles and New York.
Moves announced today are follow ups to the buyouts last year in which something like 90 senior staffers left the paper.
"I’m hurting and I’m sad and mad...I’m beginning to feel the city isn’t good for me anymore," Gigi Graciette vents.
Los Angeles needs a mayor whose goal isn't climbing the ladder to the next office, Mitchell Schwartz says.
Oscar reporters had to demand access to the ceremony after corporate suits took the LAT's passes. Also: could Davan Maharaj add publisher to his title?
Spotlight won the Oscar for best picture and the Film Independent Spirit Award for best feature, with a standing ovation for the Boston Globe reporters.
The Los Angeles Times is experimenting with this Sunday's print Calendar section — that is the day of the Academy Awards ceremony and TV show. The cover images of...
There is too much wallowing in LA history by local media and blogs, but the regular maps feature from Los Angeles Magazine doesn't count.
"David got bored with Los Angeles a long time ago,” says Tina Brown.
His #EmergingUS seeks to raise $1 million in 60 days in a new partnership with Beacon.
This is weird in an only-in-LA kind of way, given that he was fired from the Times just last year.
The "news and enterprise hub" will become the nerve center of the newsroom, geared to chasing the top news of the day for the web.
Big science news today from Caltech and other institutions: Ripples in the fabric of spacetime directly observed.
The LA Times covers the political rift at the commission like a huge outrage story.
All other news: secondary.
Catching up to a week's worth of media moves and hires, political notes and a whole lot more.
For the first time, the weekly will have Orange County ownership. LA Weekly remains part of Voice Media Group.
It's a bit of a stretch, but why not? The spider and the singer both dress in black.
"Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley and the Politics of Race" runs Thursday night at 8 p.m. on PBS SoCal.
Laura Greanias, former city editor of the LA Daily News, will now run the site for NYC nonprofit The Seventy Four.
After losing badly in his try to join the LA City Council, Davis is now on the media side of the presidential campaigns.
Trump's first test with actual voters falls short. Not a great result for Hillary Clinton either.
At the VA campus off Wilshire Boulevard, damaged birds and veterans are getting over their PTSD.
For an exhibition on menswear fashion through the years, a zoot suit seemed essential to include.
Just in time, perhaps, because rail ridership is dropping in Los Angeles, not rising.
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...
I love the California history behind this story of fruits and nuts.
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.
"If the wellhead fails," says a physical sciences professor, "It will be a horrible, horrible problem."
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.
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...
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.
LA's closest ski area doesn't make snow so it's all about the weather.
New at LA Observed
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.
