Shohei Ohtani can avoid toilet on Dodger bus ride with a good story
Shohei Ohtani is a two-way player, a two-time American League MVP and a superstar with a rabid fan base. He’s got to have some good…
I’ll cover Taylor and Travis’ love story at Super Bowl LVIII
Within seconds of the Kansas City Chiefs clinching the AFC Championship last month, I frantically messaged my editors a very important question: Can I cover…
Hate the storm? Start getting serious about climate change
You know how oil and gas pollution is supposed to bring not only hotter heat waves, drier droughts and bigger wildfires, but also more intense…
‘Past Lives’ writer-director Celine Song has found her future
One night in 2018, at a bar in the East Village, Celine Song fell through a career-altering hole in the space-time continuum. Song, the director…
‘Her own life story is the story of the truth of Australia’: Prominent Australians pay tribute to Dr Lowitja O’Donoghue
In short: Eminent Australians have today united in sympathy to pay their respects to Dr Lowitja O'Donoghue.The celebrated Indigenous leader died over the weekend at the age of…
How Netflix’s ‘Griselda’ captures ’70s cocaine excess
It’s been a week! When I’m not obsessing over the Nicki Minaj-Megan Thee Stallion feud (I’m Team Megan), I’m knee-deep in narco novelas. I’m Carolina…
Dodgers legend, Senate candidate Steve Garvey’s child alleges ‘abandonment’
The nickname “Mr. Clean” has lingered since the height of Steve Garvey’s fame as a sweet-swinging first baseman for the Dodgers and Padres, as much…
Biden’s solar plan sounds scary. But it beats climate change
A single federal agency oversees nearly a quarter-billion acres of public lands — and those acres could play a key role in fighting climate change…
In ‘Quixote Nuevo,’ Octavio Solis adapts ‘Don Quixote’ for the stage
Octavio Solis had taken on an impossible task. Could he, the mighty Mexican American playwright from El Paso who had conquered stages across the country,…
Karen Bass faces a climate test as she chooses DWP’s next leader
Los Angeles Mayor Karen Bass has just over a month to choose the city’s next clean-energy leader. With the L.A. Department of Water and Power’s…
Lionel Richie on the story behind ‘We Are the World’
As he took in a recent screening of a new documentary on the making of “We Are the World,” Lionel Richie found himself — even…
The 10 best movies we saw at the 2024 Sundance Film Festival
An image from the documentary “Daughters.” (Sundance Institute) Executive produced by Kerry Washington, “Daughters” culminates with an emotional father-daughter dance inside a Washington, D.C., jail.…
Movies ‘Settlers,’ ‘White on White’ tackle art and colonialism
It’s been a devastating week at the Los Angeles Times, with the layoffs of countless colleagues. That is going to mean some changes around here.…
BBC The Traitors' Harry Clark angers fans as he says he's 'never needed money' despite sob story
The Traitors winner Harry Clark admitted he 'never needed the prize money' despite previously saying he and his family couldn't afford to go out for…
How do you mend a broken heart?
My talented colleague Todd Martens spent much of the past year living — and reporting — this story on the science of heartbreak, how it…
Uganda’s first Oscar-nominated film tells story of Bobi Wine persecution | Arts and Culture
Kampala, Uganda – This January, when Bobi Wine learned that the film documenting his 2021 Ugandan presidential bid had been nominated for an Academy Award, he…
The lithium revolution has arrived at California’s Salton Sea
I’m finally convinced: California’s Imperial Valley will be a major player in the clean energy transition. After a dozen years of engineering, permitting and financing,…
It’s OK if your body wobbles, jiggles, dimples, and rolls – mine does too, social media doesn’t show the full story
SOCIAL media isn't always real and one fitness influencer is here to prove it. She reminded her viewers that posing and lighting was everything in…
The week’s bestselling books, Jan. 28
Hardcover fiction 1. The Fury by Alex Michaelides (Celadon Books: $29) A murder upends a reclusive ex-movie star’s trip to a private Greek island. 2.…
Jeffrey Wright on his first Oscar nod for ‘American Fiction’
Long a stalwart supporting player and something of an actor’s actor, Jeffrey Wright received his first Oscar nomination on Tuesday for his lead performance in…