Don Shirley: Pianists make history
Iris Schneider on Annie Leibovitz
Nick Johnson likes hiking so why not do the whole Santa Monica Mountains. Alone. Starting at night on P-22's turf.
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Nick Johnson likes hiking so why not do the whole Santa Monica Mountains. Alone. Starting at night on P-22's turf.
The windows are covered, cones block the driveway and the We Never Close sign has gone dark.
Maya Lau comes to the LAT from Baton Rouge, where she covered crime and investigations.
One candidate who might have had a chance against Eric Garcetti cites "our nightmare of a national election" in getting out of the 2017 race.
Standards editor says explain the term because many readers don't know that "It’s a racist, far-right fringe movement that embraces an ideology of white nationalism and is anti-immigrant, anti-Semitic and anti-feminist."
what it means:
The Washington Post editor known for the film "Spotlight" doesn't scare easily.
Eliminating P-45 won't solve the problem of livestock and pets being killed, the National Park Service explains.
Our semi-regular column of media and politics notes, with other news and observations.
It's the Presidential Media of Freedom for Vin Scully and 20 others. Watch the call from the White House.
Ifill died of cancer complications. Co-anchor Judy Woodruff gave viewers the news on "PBS News Hour," where Ifill was managing editor.
Cohen's official Facebook page announced his passing without details.
Franklin Pierce won with the help of early LA figures like the Californio Andres Pico.
Queuing to vote across LA, Trump's last stand, and why the sports department hates election night.
The legendary guerrilla cliff art was painted in one night by a young mother hanging from ropes. She's still around and should be more famous.
Not a joke: the exhibition is sponsored by Western Exterminator.
I believe that's Sarah Parvini at left, then Priya Krishnakumar, Alexandra Manzano, Marcus Yam and Paloma Esquivel. Photo posted to Twitter by Los Angeles Times editor-in-chief and publisher Davan Maharaj....
First time the f-word got in print since 1998, the paper says. The explainer is less revealing about the Trump tapes landing on Saturday's page 10.
Owen was shot and killed answering a home burglary call in Lancaster.
Weekly newspaper has chronicled the downtown boom all the way along.
Streetscape: Spotted on Tuesday.
Pulitzer winner joins masthead as the top arts and entertainment editor.
The former Dodger strikes a blow for the ages for his friend Jose Fernandez.
From his home on Rockingham Avenue in Brentwood, where he and his wife Betty hosted countless salons and strategy meetings, Stanley Sheinbaum played a key role in LA and world events.
Hillary Clinton's pneumonia takes her out of California to start the week. Inside the gentrification of Grand Central Market. More media, politics and place.
New editorial director for Zocalo. The California Today newsletter. Trump drops media blacklist. And more.
El Big Happy, Wall Street, DTLA Flower District. LA Observed's occasional column of media notes and more. At the top "Taco trucks are like palm trees here. Part of the...
A popular spot with Valley motor officers is one door over from a notorious crime location.
A very big City Hall payout. Tail O' the Pup returns. Trump will find a new LA Times correspondent in Mexico. And more.
Joe Hicks, the co-founder of Community Advocates Inc. and a long-time media commentator on race and columnist in Los Angeles, died Sunday.
Juan Gabriel, Tronc, gentrification and of course Clinton and Trump are in the news, plus job moves and random notes.
Halpert reported for all three network stations in LA and hosted "KNBC News Conference."
The French-born chef built a national empire after his two hit Los Angeles eateries.
The LA bureau of the New York Times is down to one news reporter, one Hollywood reporter and film reviewer Manohla Dargis plus bureau chief Adam Nagourney.
Historian Michael Beschloss has an active Twitter presence and posted this stylized map to the sights of the 1932 Los Angeles Olympic Games.
After grand jury indictment, the former lawman could get 20 years but probably wouldn't.
Mike Bresnahan goes to TWC Sportsnet and Tania Ganguli joins the LA Times from ESPN.com.
The Secretary of State gave Joe Shammas a certificate saying he finished second to Rep. Tony Cardenas. Then he took it away.
Longtime LA investigative reporter Karen Foshay rolls out her first series for KCRW, a five-parter on the treatment of workers in LA restaurants.
Homeland Security agents demanded that Maria Abi-Habib, who covers the Middle East, surrender her cellphones. She details the encounter on Facebook.
Six months for his crimes is not enough, U.S. District Court Judge Percy Anderson rules.
Gary Cypres' shrine to sports history (mostly baseball) is right up there with Eli Broad's Grand Avenue temple of art as proof of one man's passion.
See was "the defining voice for a certain kind of California experience in the mid-’70s and 1980s."
Michael Cieply, the longtime anchor of New York Times Hollywood coverage in the Los Angeles bureau, is joining Deadline as the executive editor.
Numbers are up enough on the newly lengthened Expo Line to stop the decline in rail ridership.
After 3,304 morning newsletters since 2007, he's off to start a new media company with partners from Politico.
LA journalist and author Michael Krikorian has posted a nice piece on encountering an interesting fellow in the gas pumps at the 76 station just above the Santa Monica Freeway.
It's Kathryn Barger and Darrell Park in the 5th district.
People see what he backs as a politician, but they don’t see what he’s willing to fight for, says Los Angeles Magazine.
Coming, goings, awards and Donald Trump. Plus that LAT photographer pleads no contest and gets community service.
Offices and retail in the older buildings, while it looks like the 1970s corporate side will be razed for apartments.
Magdi Hanna never saw a jukebox growing up in Egypt. Now he is one of the last to repair the icons of 20th century America.
President Obama and his family spent Fathers Day weekend in Yosemite Valley and appeared to be appropriately blown away.
La Opinión says the Sunday scene of families, horses and bands is like a rural Mexican village.
A demand to see the books. A shareholder lawsuit. Open derision at the corporate name change and strategy for the future.
Big sale starts today then the Brand Boulevard shop will move online.
A managing editor is out, Muhammad Ali coverage, Tronc reactions, a wedding and more.
The managing editor for digital strategy lasted just over a year.
Before it was a boulevard and a suburban community, Van Nuys was a name from LA's past that people should know.
Another phase in the remake of San Pedro's waterfront had the wraps taken off.
Train service returns to the beach city for the first time since 1953, though the old Red Cars were dead long before that.
The managing editor of KCET Artbound writes for Los Angeles Magazine, did segments for KPCC's New Music Today feature and was a producer for NPR's "News and Notes" back in the day.
Correspondent Lee Cowan went out on rounds along Pico Boulevard with Gold for a piece pegged to the documentary, "City of Gold."
Liberte Chan says it was her co-anchor's joke when she was handed a cardigan sweater to wear over her sparkly black dress.
Clinton appears on News Conference, former LA Times lawyer Karlene Goller joins CalMatters, and more.
Bob Hope has been a dumb name for an airport for 12 years. So they are going with Hollywood Burbank (again.)
The state's population is officially nudging 40 million and Los Angeles has gone over four million.
Henry Chu is the trade's new European Bureau Chief. He took the LAT buyout last fall.
Larry Mantle on his friend Steve Julian. New post for Nicco Mele. The Broad gets a category on tonight's "Jeopardy." And a lot more.
900 or so friends gathered Sunday night at the Wilshire Ebell.
Assemblyman Roger Hernandez is accused of domestic abuse by his wife, a Baldwin Park City Council member.
Son of the former Assembly speaker got out of prison Sunday thanks to act by then-governor Arnold Schwarzenegger.
The publisher says the money-losing, 103-year-old journal of LA's Japanese American community will have to close this year unless something changes.
Lost LA's Nathan Masters curates a look at the urban carnage wrought by construction of the Hollywood Freeway in the 1950s.
He breaks the news at a Town Hall lunch meeting then takes it to Twitter.
Jaweed Kaleem covered religion for HuffPo, where he had been for five years.
Digital First Media acts to rebrand in SoCal after judge OK's sale of Register and Press-Enterprise.
He wins in the nonfiction category for book about the heroin epidemic in middle-class America.
TMZ says the crime lab found no DNA, hair or any other potential evidence.
The former LA County coroner will return on an interim basis to keep things running.
An unusual open letter from McDonnell says "these cases slice across all socio-economic and racial lines."
Downtown to Santa Monica (or back) by train for the first time since 1953.
In an unexplained reversal, the state attorney general's office says it is reviewing the LA sheriff's department's handling of the substitute teacher.
Plea deal with federal prosecutors would cap prison time for Lee Baca at under a year, reports say.
Evening host Jim Svejda does one-hour interviews with all the Oscar-nominated composers every night this week.
If you enjoy spotting LA locations in Hollywood movies, you'll like this.
Jessica Garrison and Ken Bensinger of Buzzfeed News both came from the LA Times.
California's Secretary of State put his family in a Burbank hotel about six weeks ago.
In this map, it's the mountains and the relationship of the ranges and rivers that make it special.
New series about Los Angeles and history hosted by Nathan Masters is a co-production with the USC Libraries.
He's a Democratic strategist and environmentalist and a neighbor of the mayor's in Windsor Square.
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...
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.
You too can be an overnight success after 20 years, says the writer on the new Fox show "Bordertown."
The Wall Street Journal features Clifford V. Johnson, the USC theoretical physicist who is also a blogger and an adviser on plausible plot twists.
Popular LA deejay Gene Weed signs off one of the top music stations of its time. The next day, KFWB went all news.
Next for Porter Ranch, Year 30 of the homeless crisis, a busy week for the LAFD and more.
Griffith Park mountain lion is over the mange and up to 123 pounds. Still no mate, however.
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.
