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The former LA Times food editor donated upwards of 500 cookbooks to the Long Beach Public Library. But it wasn't easy.
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The former LA Times food editor donated upwards of 500 cookbooks to the Long Beach Public Library. But it wasn't easy.
Spotlight won the Oscar for best picture and the Film Independent Spirit Award for best feature, with a standing ovation for the Boston Globe reporters.
The Los Angeles Times is experimenting with this Sunday's print Calendar section — that is the day of the Academy Awards ceremony and TV show. The cover images of...
Downtown to Santa Monica (or back) by train for the first time since 1953.
Journalistic objectivity be damned, he's hoping "Spotlight" wins all six Oscars it is up for.
A deputy from the OC Register and a tech editor from the Bay Area are added. Plus: A new column in Sports.
There is too much wallowing in LA history by local media and blogs, but the regular maps feature from Los Angeles Magazine doesn't count.
Jack Griffin lasted less than three weeks under the new largest shareholder of Tribune Publishing, which is no less screwed up than the previous Chicago overlords of the LA Times.
Competing ballot measures on housing in LA. Rising crime rates. Winter heat is back. And much more.
"David got bored with Los Angeles a long time ago,” says Tina Brown.
Rogers grew up in the Hollywood PR business and launched his own firm, The Rogers Group, in 1978.
The former LA Times book editor takes over for the retired Malcolm Margolin.
Gov. Jerry Brown wants the state to spend $176 million on cleanup of lead contamination.
His #EmergingUS seeks to raise $1 million in 60 days in a new partnership with Beacon.
This is weird in an only-in-LA kind of way, given that he was fired from the Times just last year.
Channel 11's longtime weathercaster and host showed up over the weekend and will be around for awhile.
He is at home in Mar Vista and "gravely ill," his successor, Mike Bonin, announced on Facebook.
The organizers blame lack of a mature market for art fairs in Los Angeles.
The New Yorker goes deep on Levin's network of sources and the payments made for private info on celebrities.
The "news and enterprise hub" will become the nerve center of the newsroom, geared to chasing the top news of the day for the web.
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.
The in-fighting between owners was "bloody and bitter," says ESPN the Magazine in a long takeout.
The story doesn't include any reports of traffic problems, but some LAT headlines are becoming more about hype than truth.
A relief well has allowed SoCal Gas to stop the uncontrolled release of odorized natural gas, but the utility describes the stoppage as temporary pending a final seal over the well leaking since October.
Big science news today from Caltech and other institutions: Ripples in the fabric of spacetime directly observed.
The LA Times covers the political rift at the commission like a huge outrage story.
All other news: secondary.
The president has fundraisers in Hancock Park and a taping in Burbank for the Ellen DeGeneres Show.
Plea deal with federal prosecutors would cap prison time for Lee Baca at under a year, reports say.
O'Donnell, 47, pushed Gov. Brown to sign California's new right-to-die act, which won't take effect until later this year.
The Belmont Shore booksellers have been in business together for 23 years in different locations.
Evening host Jim Svejda does one-hour interviews with all the Oscar-nominated composers every night this week.
Catching up to a week's worth of media moves and hires, political notes and a whole lot more.
If you enjoy spotting LA locations in Hollywood movies, you'll like this.
Allison Wisk has been deputy politics editor at the Dallas Morning News and has a J.D. degree. Also: New reporter in Sacramento.
For the first time, the weekly will have Orange County ownership. LA Weekly remains part of Voice Media Group.
It's a bit of a stretch, but why not? The spider and the singer both dress in black.
Time for the Broadway theater and entertainment district to be a year-round draw, says longtime activist Hillsman Wright.
"Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley and the Politics of Race" runs Thursday night at 8 p.m. on PBS SoCal.
Carl Marziali is the former VP for media and public relations at USC.
Laura Greanias, former city editor of the LA Daily News, will now run the site for NYC nonprofit The Seventy Four.
After losing badly in his try to join the LA City Council, Davis is now on the media side of the presidential campaigns.
Jessica Garrison and Ken Bensinger of Buzzfeed News both came from the LA Times.
Trump's first test with actual voters falls short. Not a great result for Hillary Clinton either.
California's Secretary of State put his family in a Burbank hotel about six weeks ago.
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.
