Why Disney’s Bob Iger is trying to avoid the culture wars
Bob Iger wants out of the culture wars.Walt Disney Co. and its chief executive have made a sharp pivot since doubling down on diversity and…
Inside Hollywood Forever cemetery’s new high-rise mausoleum
Hollywood Forever Cemetery, the resting place of Rudolph Valentino, Judy Garland, Alfred Hitchcock, Cecil B. DeMille and other Hollywood royalty — not to mention contemporary…
Trump’s deportations on a collision course with California’s economy
This country has always had a hypocritical relationship with the undocumented workers who keep America’s agricultural, construction and hospitality industries humming.On one hand, we simply…
‘Queer Eye’ newbie Jeremiah Brent cries a lot but he is so productive
“I’m never going to survive this show,” Jeremiah Brent, the new member of “Queer Eye,” declares early into this season, wiping back tears.Brent joined the…
Lizzo was ‘blindsided’ by sexual harassment lawsuits, she says
Lizzo is getting frank about how a landmark year in her career has turned into one of its most fraught.The “About Damn Time” hitmaker was…
Germans mourn five people killed, 200 injured in Christmas market attack | Crime News
A memorial service takes place in the cathedral of Magdeburg, a city shaken by the deadly incident.Germans have gathered in Magdeburg to mourn the victims…
At least 13 people killed in Nigeria stampedes at charity events | News
At least 10 killed in the capital, Abuja, and three killed in the town of Okija during charity distributions.At least 13 people, including four children,…
At least 32 people killed as bus and truck collide in Brazil | Transport News
Passenger bus collides with truck near town of Lajinha in southeastern state of Minas Gerais, fire officials say.At least 32 people have been killed when…
Plans to transform an iconic San Francisco highway into a park ignite recall furor
SAN FRANCISCO — On a recent Sunday on the far edge of the Outer Sunset, a cozy oceanfront neighborhood with rows of pastel bungalows, hundreds of…
Eight women. Five spots. Who’s in?
Salaries of $500,000 and up are a “dime a dozen”? Makes me think the good folks at Kraft Heinz are being a little stingy with…
How fighting housing nearly bankrupted one of America’s richest towns
PORTOLA VALLEY, Calif. — On a Sunday afternoon a few years ago, about a dozen neighbors held a meeting with Craig Hughes, who was then the…
‘Nickel Boys’ review: Paean to lives of reform-school kids
The 2012 discovery of a mass unmarked grave on the grounds of the Florida School for Boys was the sort of headline that short-circuits the…
Meet the queer Gen Z women giving billiards a rebrand in L.A.
In the summer of 2023, Alix Max, new to town with a cigarette in their mouth, was shooting pool on the patio of 4100 Bar…
RaMell Ross took a radical approach to get inside ‘Nickel Boys’
Cinema’s most transcendent promise is that it can put us in another person’s shoes. But what if a film could take that further and allow…
Petra Nemcova recalls deadly Thailand tsunami 20 years later
Two decades after a devastating tsunami swept across Southeast Asia, Petra Nemcova is recalling what, and who, helped her survive the storm.The Czech-born supermodel spoke…
‘Laid’s’ Stephanie Hsu and Zosia Mamet on their rom-com friendship
In Peacock’s new comedy “Laid,” the term “body count” suddenly becomes all too literal. When Ruby (Stephanie Hsu) finds out that her exes and former…
After an oil spill, he took a vow of silence. Today he preaches kindness
Before watching “Planetwalker,” a short documentary released this month by L.A. Times Studios and Bloomberg Green Docs, I had never heard of John Francis. When…
Japanese city to name and shame people who break trash rules
For the uninitiated, sorting one's rubbish can be a convoluted process in Japan - a country that boasts one of the world's strictest waste disposal…
These are the 9 coolest dog parks in Southern California — fur real!
A well-designed dog park offers plenty of opportunities for pups and people alike when it comes to exercising, chatting and sniffing. (OK, maybe that last…
More evidence that RFK Jr. would be a disastrous health secretary
Polio came for 5-year-old Lynn Lane when she was visiting her grandmother in rural Indiana. Suddenly, her arms and legs became weak, and by the…