A fitting choice of words came from former teammate and catcher Mike Scioscia, who spoke with the kind of reverence reserved for legends: 'He was a one-of-a-kind talent, a tremendous pitcher with...
Reminiscences in commemorating Día de Los Muertos, a mix of humor and nostalgia celebrating family, tradition and those ever-present connections we share with loved ones beyond this world. By TONY...
Dr. Patrick Soon-Shiong's veto of the LA Times editorial board's endorsement of Kamala Harris for President has proven the biotech mogul to be more of a danger to journalism than the disease...
By TONY CASTRO Let me tell you a little story about the miracle of scoundrels. No, I’m not talking about Lazarus rising from the dead, though Kevin de León’s political comeback might be the...
Q. What made you decide to write this novel? Tony: I had forgotten about the very first column I ever wrote for the Los Angeles Herald Examiner in 1978. I think the reason I forgot about it is that...
Remembrances of a Single Mom: Burger King, Chanel No. 5, and a Lady Who Lost Her Mind. By MARY FRANCES DAVIDSON Growing up with my mom was like growing up with a movie star! She was...
By YOLANDA NAVA Many of us are recalling with delight and gratitude our dear friend and compadre Assemblyman Richard Alatorre, as we remember his amazing political career and legacy For...
J.D had that rare gift of capturing heartbreak and hope all in one breath. He could take a moment, a feeling, and turn it into something timeless. It wasn’t just music; it was emotion set to...
The Tale of a Sometime Hollywood Denizen Who Could Have Been Someone By MARY FRANCIS DAVIDSON It's 2 a.m. in 2014 and the phone in my little place east of LAX is ringing. In between the roar...
Separated by 50 years but united by Hollywood, wildfires, and the endless hum of 'the deal,' two writers share a bath in Los Angeles. On Monday I took a bath with Joan Didion. She was gracious, took...
The LA Monthly interview with actress Catherine Hicks, who portrayed Marilyn Monroe in the 1980 TV feature Marilyn: The Untold Story as well as in the Arthur Miller play After The Fall and...
I KNEW THIS DAY WOULD EVENTUALLY arrive that would require a dreaded in-person visit to the Department of Motor Vehicles — a premise that Stephen King should have considered as a theme for...
From the debut of “Magnum PI” in 1980, Hollywood has had an unrequited love affair with the Ferrari, objectifying, worshipping it and turning it into a glorified sex symbol as if it were...
For the last three years I have been a Thoreau-like hermit living amongst the Mendocino redwoods in a shack, a one-eyed cat my only companion. There, something slowly shifted in me as I slouched...
I got into show business. I met some people and got introduced to Sid and Marty Krofft. I was hired and trained by them. I became a Puppeteer. I performed a puppet show they created called “Les...
Like Fitzgerald’s “The Great Gatsby” narrator Nick Carraway, I live directly across the street from the exclusive turf of another extravagantly wealthy businessman — Rick Caruso's Palisades...
Billionaire shopping mall magnate Rick Caruso is stepping out of the political shadows with a new plan to help swing-seat Democrats retake the House in 2024. Rick Caruso may not be the last best...
IT’S AMAZING WHAT can happen when you live right off the Sunset Strip. About 15 years ago on a warm balmy December night, I was in my living room of my apartment, watching a movie on my...
AND THE GREAT LITTLE CITY IT BECAME Little did we know what our West Hollywood would look like today. High rents, luxury condos and homes and more hot spots with restaurants, shops, bars and...
Tony Castro Won for Entertainment Feature His paean to the late author Tom Wolfe's Kandy-Kolored Tangerine-Flake Streamline Baby ode to the California car culture chronicled the Ferrari...
In 1978, Los Angeles was still basking in the afterglow of its golden age. The city was a sun-drenched playground where dreams came to life—or, as I discovered on one particular day, where dreams...
Can It Be Nearly a Dozen Years Since Antonio Villaraigosa Was Mayor? The man who often gushed when recalling that London’s Guardian newspaper had called him the ‘Latino Tony Blair’ was like a...
How about Attending the Goofiest Breakfasts You’ll Ever Have Who does anything interesting on Hump Day? How about singing, exercising, telling silly jokes, having a hearty breakfast, and...
By Joan Didion THERE IS SOMETHING UNEASY IN THE LOS ANGELES air this afternoon, some unnatural stillness, some tension. What it means is that tonight a Santa Ana will begin to blow, a hot wind from...
We Don’t Use Ballrooms for Reunions. We Rent the Dallas Cowboys' AT&T Stadium My parents came from families big enough to play baseball against one another — and still have players on...
WITH DEGREES FROM HARVARD AND MIT and the charismatic charm of a Bollywood star, Nithya Raman could have stepped out of Indian cinema. Instead her tenure on the Los Angeles City Council has been...
Why Is That Cross Beaming into My Bedroom? As exciting as it sounds to be ‘Living in Hollywood,’ only those of us who live here really know what it's like. One day your neighbor wins an award...
As we prepare to bid farewell to 2023, we're thrilled to reflect on another remarkable year of community impact with the Caruso Family Foundation. Founded in 1991, the Caruso Family Foundation aims...
The famous but now shuttered Lucy's El Adobe Café in Hollywood holds a special place in California pop culture but now symbolizes the demise of the Chicano Movement's once promising political...
The Boy Who Loved Lint At a preschool in town, the teachers still talk about a boy named Trey who had special powers. It wasn’t magic, though that’s what his classmates had called it. The...
AROUND 6 A.M. MONDAY, THE SOUND of drums will shatter the quiet in the plaza at the Cathedral of Our Lady of the Angels in downtown Los Angeles as Aztec dancers appear out of the darkness, braving...
On making crumbles in a time of war. I have been finding it increasingly difficult to do…well, just about anything these days. I know I’m not alone. The horror, the grief, the paralysis, the...
By TONY CASTRO ON THE MORNING OF JANUARY 20, 2009, I am about 75 yards away from where Barack Obama would soon place his hand on the Bible used by Abraham Lincoln at his 1861 inauguration and...
From the debut of “Magnum PI” in 1980, Hollywood began an unrequited love affair with the Ferrari, objectifying, worshipping it and turning it into a glorified sex symbol much as it did Marilyn...
The national tragedy of November 22, 1963, affected all of us in different ways. For me, it intensified my childhood dream of wanting to write and later of wanting to report the news. By TONY CASTRO...
Britt Ekland opened her dressing room door and grabbed my arm. She stood in the doorway clad only from the waist down, while holding her blouse close to her chest and leaving little to my...
“The wig has gone mainstream and celebrates performance, creativity,” says Rebecca Sikora known professionally as Bebe Mcphereson, a former employee of the house, who bought the business and has...
By VICKI ABELSON Burt Young...brilliant actor, gifted fine artist, devoted father and grandfather, and a gentle, loving, attentive friend. I was so blessed to meet him, thank you, Candy, and get to...
and breathtakingly close to home By EMMA CAMPBELL WEBSTER I WANTED TO TELL YOU THAT I’d made another soup, but then war broke out. I was going to tell you that I’d made it from a recipe in a...
I read about the bookseller in Long Beach that had become trapped when the shelves in his store collapsed on top of him. I didn’t need to ask which books fell on him. I already imagined that he...
"Have you ever heard of "The American Dream?'' Well, that was never for me, you can keep it. I'm 95 years old and I don't look back one bit on never trying to achieve it. I know I could have done...
Members of the 2024 Royal Court will serve as ambassadors of the Tournament of Roses, the Pasadena community, and the greater Los Angeles area, and will each receive a $7,500 educational...
How Los Angeles deals with Kevin de León and therefore with itself will show it to be either the Tinseltown viewed by its detractors — selfish and exclusive — or the city seen by its...
You would think a simple project to add a car wash in West Hollywood would be easy to see and understand. But after I went through the appeal process it was discovered that something was amiss in...
LOS ANGELES — CASA 0101 Theater will host the world premiere production tomorrow night of Founding Artistic Director Josefina Lopez’s “Queen of the Rumba, A Play With...
On Aug. 29, 1970, the National Chicano Moratorium in East Los Angeles protested the disproportionately high casualties among Latinos in Vietnam — but led to the tragic police shooting death of...
Once Jerry Brown’s hangout, Lucy’s El Adobe opens its doors to the new favorite son. By Tony Castro Columnist, Los Angeles Daily News The story appeared January 8, 2006, but it is published with...
The city’s anthem is unmistakably tongue-in-cheek. By Soumya Karlamangla Published Nov. 19, 2021Updated Nov. 26, 2021 Republished with permission of The New York Times Los Angeles hasn’t...
