The plan is apparently to freshen things up a bit and reopen on December 1, according to Eater LA.

This author event from LA Talks Live comes with an extra treat: a pre-talk performance on the temple's renovated organ.

Santa Ana winds coming. Garcetti going to New York for the weekend. Geraldine Knatz out at the port. Gov. Brown signs drivers license bill for illegal immigrants. Nikki Finke takes another hiatus. LA Times Calendar moves. And more.

The Life photographer took the most remembered image of Robert Kennedy in a pool of blood on the floor of the Ambassador Hotel pantry on June 5, 1968.

Superior Court Judge Kathleen Kennedy said she will sentence Rizzo to a minimum of 10 years and a maximum of 12 years in state prison.

Britain's Times Higher Education magazine has put Caltech in Pasadena at the very top of its list of the best universities in the world for the third year in a row.

Photographers (mostly) wait outside the Stanley Mosk courthouse in downtown Los Angeles for the verdict clearing Anschutz Entertainment Group of liability in the death of Michael Jackson.

"I wasn’t making a declaration. I guess it was misconstrued," Vin Scully says of KPCC report. Why does it feel that something deeper is going on. Plus: Vinnie rips John McCain.

After starting in Chicago, Don Cornelius migrated "Soul Train" to Los Angeles and national syndication. This clip with the theme from "Shaft" is from Oct. 1971.

The Bucket at 4541 Eagle Rock Boulevard was small but lively, says Eagle Rock Patch. Lost its lease.

The Los Angeles jury ruled that AEG did retain the services of Dr. Conrad Murray to take care of Michael Jackson, but also ruled that Murray was a competent physician.

The ex-chief of staff to mayors Antonio Villaraigosa and Richard Riordan talks about not getting late-night calls from City Hall anymore, her last traffic ticket and the dearth of women at the City Council horseshoe. Plus Alice Walton too.

KPCC reports that in a recent interview, Scully said that he's leaning toward retirement after the 2014 baseball season. He will turn 86 next month.

Tom Clancy dead at 66. Revenge porn now illegal in California. Santa Monica crash probe suspended by government shutdown. Dealing with Starbucks stakeholders. This week's Southern California bestsellers. Praise for LAT quake fault stories. Steve Lopez on Grand Central Market. A THR freelancer sues. Plus more.

The video is a bit graphic, but I wouldn't say gory. Your mileage may vary.

Layoffs and retirements have left no one on staff to repair woodwinds. More than 2,600 broken instruments of all kinds sit on shelves, KPCC says in a story.

Old-timey Los Angeles lawyer Joseph Scott appears to be holding a presser for phantom cameras outside the Stanley Mosk courthouse in downtown Los Angeles. It's actually the sticks set...

County workers to rally. City appeals ruling on unlicensed driver impounds. Councilman says daughter has leukemia. Baca pitches for nutritional supplements. LAPD testing electric motorcycles. Glenn Greenwald to be on Reddit. A valet parker who diagnoses car troubles. Plus more.

Only one holdover from the Villaraigosa planning commission — plus two key Wendy Greuel backers in the last election and some more Garcetti contributors.

The quarterly magazine from UC Press devotes its entire fall issue to water, the aqueduct from the Sierra Nevada and the Mulholland legacy. The issue will be a keeper for anyone with an ounce of water geekdom in them, and for many others who just like LA's layered backstories.

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Fifty years ago, the death of boxer Davey Moore after a match at Dodger Stadium was a big story in Los Angeles. His opponent, Sugar Ramos, traveled from Mexico City to Ohio for a statue unveiling recently.

Mark Benjamin and his son Luke were on board the Cessna Citation that crashed and burned Sunday evening at Santa Monica Airport, according to Morley Builders, the longtime Southern California construction company.

County workers to rally downtown. Grand Avenue project teetering. Garcetti petition pushes an LA River alternative. The mayor admits voting for stuff he didn't understand. Tom LaBonge to turn 60. Is LA a bike town? LAPD's Special Order 7. SoCal book awards and more.

The Dodgers don't look like the best team in the National League playoffs, but they did reel off a 42-8 record and have shown they can get hot and romp.

Fire officials called the crash and fire "unsurvivable" for people on the plane, but they have not said how many crew and passengers, if any, were on board. The Cessna Citation business jet came from Hailey, Idaho, near Sun Valley, and can carry eight.

Historian Michael Beschloss posted this image to Twitter and said it was Venice in 1947. It looks to actually be in Santa Monica. Inside: UCLA under construction around 1928.

The Wheel Inn truck stop beside Interstate 10 has abruptly closed. The giant dinosaurs remain, though their future might be uncertain.