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...
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...
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...
By Morgan Riddle
I CANNOT BELIEVE THAT our young city is almost 40 years old. It began with a vision and a strong spirit of activism that carried protection for renters and seniors Founded in 1984 on...
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...
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...
"I was born in Milwaukee in 1939 which makes me a World War Two baby. I love books and I spend most of the day reading. My parents made me read all the time. I fell in love with books. I had a set...
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...
The Richard Alatorre I knew, the Richard Alatorre who said he had to change the world — and to a great degree, he did just that… that Richard Alatorre dramatically altered the...
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...
BY GEOFF BOUCHER, MAY 11, 2008 Republished with permission of the Los Angeles Times. RANDY NEWMAN HAS MADE a career out of melodic skepticism and deadpan rhythm, but he sounded genuinely...