Sunday Funday in Los Angeles with Jessica Alba
When Jessica Alba reminisces about her Sundays as a child, the first things that come to mind are sleeping in and having Sunday dinner with…
Shakespeare at New Swan Theater, Pink Martini among L.A. culture
Hello and welcome to another edition of the Essential Arts Newsletter, a place where we deliver you the best arts and culture news and events…
The week’s bestselling books, Aug. 25
The Southern California Independent Bookstore Bestsellers list for Sunday, Aug. 25, 2024, including hardcover and paperback fiction and nonfiction. Source link
‘RuPaul’s Drag Race’ winner tells own story in spectacular ‘Velour’
Rappelling on a giant pink boa that has descended from the heavens, the drag artist known as Sasha Velour makes a flying entrance worthy of…
Ron Kaye, Valley advocate and Daily News editor, dies at 83
Ron Kaye, a longtime Los Angeles Daily News editor known for civically inspired muckraking and boosting the San Fernando Valley — including a failed bid…
Pro skateboarder and photographer Ed Templeton on photographing youth culture in Southern California
This story is part of Image’s August issue, Lineage, about intergenerational conversations and how they shape us. I turned pro in 1990. I was 18…
‘Rob Peace’ review: Flattens out complexity of a true story
Statistics about the social mobility of Black lives don’t always do justice to what it looks like up close for one person. That’s where movies…
‘Skincare’ review: A neurotic Hollywood facialist is stalked
Director Austin Peters makes his narrative feature debut with “Skincare,” a slice of nasty L.A. noir set within the beauty industry, starring Elizabeth Banks as…
‘Chimp Crazy’ review: A disturbing argument against primate ownership
One of the first television shows I can remember seeing was “The Hathaways,” an early ‘60s sitcom, starring Peggy Cass and Jack Weston, about a…
Whether delusional or confused, Trump is unfit for the White House
SACRAMENTO — Who except a deranged person would concoct a story about being in a scary helicopter emergency landing with a guy who wasn’t even there?If…
Intuit Dome, the Dude, ‘Lords of Dogtown’ and the best L.A. culture
Arlene Mejorado’s “Caricias” series on view at Metro’s Hollywood/Highland station. (Metro Art (Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority)) Hello and welcome to a new edition…
Can AI dream up a more sustainable Los Angeles?
“Tell them stories. They need the truth. You must tell them true stories, and everything will be well.”So says the ghost of an old woman…
In Moon Unit Zappa’s memoir, fame and family trauma collide
Book Review Earth to Moon By Moon Unit ZappaDey Street Books: 368 pages, $29.99If you buy books linked on our site, The Times may earn…
Don’t worry, it was only the second-hottest month ever
Great news: July 2024 was not the hottest July in recorded history.Indeed, last month was a whole 0.04 degrees cooler than July 2023. It was,…
Horrifying true story behind abandoned theme park – deaths, smuggling and clown ghosts
Spreepark, in Berlin, is an abandoned amusement park which once attracted millions of people a year fell into decline following the fall of communism in…
Willie Brown wasn’t on helicopter ride with Trump. Here’s who was
Ever since Donald Trump said Thursday that Willie Brown had bashed Vice President Kamala Harris years ago during a scary helicopter ride together, the former…
Is L.A. too ugly to host the Olympics? You can be a part of saving it
If you overlook the polluted Seine, Paris looks so pretty on TV, so quintessentially Parisian, that it raises the question: How will Los Angeles compare…
As California broils, Montana doubles down on coal
Most of the country is phasing out coal power. Montana is trying something different.The state’s largest electric utility, NorthWestern Energy, was already planning to acquire…
‘Mr. Throwback’ review: Stephen Curry latest title is actor
Stephen Curry, the basketball player, is all over television this week — or, to be specific, all over Peacock. There are the Olympic Games, of…
Activists, celebrities urge Dodgers to dump Big Oil advertiser
What do Emmy Award-winning actor Kyra Sedgwick, the Rainforest Action Network, the Doors’ former drummer John Densmore, acclaimed climate activist Bill McKibben and “Anchorman” director…