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Steve Harvey's Only in LA column originated in the Los Angeles Times and now appears occasionally at LA Observed.

Take My Picture Gary Leonard runs each week at LA Observed.

Take My Picture Gary Leonard runs weekly at LA Observed.

" I can look back and see how amazing it was," the LA choreographer says of dancing in "The Firebird" with the New York City Ballet.

Failing to plan is planning to fail. Don't hurry home. Be grateful you made the effort.

Political activist and comedian Dick Gregory died on August 19 at age 84.

There was the solar eclipse, and there's the Dodgers having the most fun season since 1974.

A subscriber's wish list for the new L.A. Times regime.

Take My Picture Gary Leonard runs each week at LA Observed.

Don Shirley wonders how Donald Trump's white power allies would feel about the casting of black actors as Washington and Jefferson. He also writes that "Hamilton" is no "kumbaya version of how happy we'll all be if we can just get along."

Take My Picture Gary Leonard is a weekly feature of LA Observed.

Will the real Tchaikovsky please stand up? The one who wrote transcendent music that stormed the heavens.

Seeing professional boxing live for the first time affirms that it embraces the best, the worst and the goofiest of humankind.

Take My Picture Gary Leonard runs weekly at LA Observed.

Take My Picture Gary Leonard runs weekly at LA Observed.

Take My Picture Gary Leonard runs weekly at LA Observed.

In dark times, is the role of the artist to expose? To comment, to criticize, to amuse? Since last fall, it's been all of the above onstage in Los Angeles.

Take My Picture Gary Leonard runs weekly at LA Observed.

Take My Picture Gary Leonard appears weekly at LA Observed.

I didn't want to be less acquainted with "Hamilton" than so many other people who also haven't seen it. So I embarked on a pre-"Hamilton" syllabus.

John Rabe prepares his final "Off-Ramp" show for KPCC.

Yuja Wang is that singular pianist. Plus Bartok and Schubert, and choreographer Matthew Bourne

Take My Picture Gary Leonard runs every week at LA Observed

When it's hotter than hell, everyone needs a savior.

Nextdoor.com baits us, like Facebook and Twitter do, into indulging the lesser angels of our nature.

I was delighted when my old Rhino Records boss, Harold Bronson, recently published "My British Invasion," his personal paean to an era some of us never stopped loving.

Las Vegas artists created a life-size lowrider pinata — based on the iconic Gypsy Rose, a 1964 Impala — for an upcoming exhibition at the Petersen Automotive Museum.

Take My Picture Gary Leonard runs weekly at LA Observed.

Traffic is light in the eastern suburbs of Joshua Tree, population 7,400-ish.

"Today there are very few photographers. But there are a lot of people with cameras."