Boeing Company

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Family Strife and Sexual Taboos in Machu Picchu, Texas

Family trauma drama Machu Picchu, Texas (pictured above) grabs our Pick of the Week this week. Good reviews also for Noel Coward's Fallen Angels at the Pasadena Playhouse and David Henry Hwang's Chinglish at South Coast Rep. For all New Theater Reviews, and this weekend's comprehensive listing ... More >>

El Segundo Museum of Art Opens, Bringing Smartphones Into the Gallery Experience

The new home for the El Segundo Museum of Art -- which isn't a public museum, but technically a private collection open to the public -- infills a tiny slice of downtown El Segundo's Main Street, right next to a former post office storefront, in a skinny slot that used to be a drive-through alley. T ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Jane Kaczmarek in The Snake Can

Kathryn Graf's new comedy about women slipping into middle-age, The Snake Can, is this week's pick of the week. Also a nod for Cathy Rigby reprising her decades-long performance in Peter Pan. See below for all the latest New Theater Reviews, and this week's comprehensive stage listings. Also, two s ... More >>

Theater to See in L.A. This Week, Including Dostoevsky's Notes From Underground

Nods this week for Laguna Playhouse's production of Neil Simon's Chapter Two and Dostoevsky's Notes from Underground at Zombie Joe's Underground in North Hollywood. For the latest new reviews and comprehensive stage listings, see below. Tanna Frederick and Robert Standley star in N. Richard Nash's T ... More >>

Endeavour Flyover List Includes Disneyland, Getty Museum, Universal Studios

The LAPD really thinks you're retarded. Here's your chance to prove the department wrong. You see, L.A. police officials are afraid that you'll be so wowed by the site of retired Space Shuttle Endeavour cruising above town on a 747 that you'll take your eyes off the road and crash your car Friday m ... More >>

Best New Pastry Book: The Art of the Confectioner The Dunkin' Donuts Connection

If you've ever spent too many Google hours typing "Ewald Notter," hoping to perfect your pastillage (sculptures made from a powdered sugar "dough") technique, The Art of the Confectioner is the book of your blown sugar sculpture dreams. Notter's The Art of the Confectioner is yet another pastry ... More >>

Who Replaces Jane Harman?

Hahn, Bowen and a cast of SoCal characters slug it out for Congress

A.J. Duffy's UTLA Cracks Further As Heather Kolodny Drops Los Angeles School Board Bid

A.J. Duffy's tiny pocket is full​Paranoid leaders at United Teachers Los Angeles seek anti-reform teachers to run for Los Angeles Unified School Board. That's right. They grimly resist after losing public confidence following the brilliant L.A. Times test score expose of 6,000 teachers. The Ti ... More >>

Boeing Will Cut 800 Jobs In Long Beach

fotoparceiros via Flickr​ Boeing announced Monday that they will cut 800 jobs at their Long Beach location, according to KTAL News. 550 workers will be offered positions in Oklahoma where the company is moving two of its defense projects. The C-130 Avionics Modernization program is scheduled ... More >>

Production Of Cool, All-Electric Car Coming To L.A. Area; Ed Begley Jr. Proud

It looks like production of the 2011 Tesla Model S is coming to Los Angeles County. The District Weekly in Long Beach and the Downey Patriot report that Tesla is setting up shop for the new, moderately priced sedan at a former NASA facility in Downey. "We're very close to being able to make an offi ... More >>

Summer of Tough Love: Iraqi Double Agent Remains in Limbo

Ludo Bites vs. Bastide, Runkle Wrinkles and Comments on Killers

Wrinkles in Runkle Canyon

50 Years After a Santa Susana Nuclear Accident Holds Up Land Development

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

Super Lab or Super Gaffe? Sheriff's Department descriptions of a meth lab raided at a property owned by the mayor of Bell have been contradicted by a hazmat team. L.A. TimesMichael Jackson Autopsy Planned L.A. coroner's authorities will perform an autopsy today on singer Michael Jackson, who died Th ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

I Spy A Chinese-born former Boeing employee will stand trial for economic espionage related to charges he passed on to China documents concerning the space shuttle, Delta IV missiles and Boeing's C-17 transport plane. Long Beach Press-TelegramThis Round's for You Four steel containers holding ammuni ... More >>

Morning Sixpack: A News Roundup

They Vant to Be Alone! The D.A.'s office is examining "dozens" of secrecy-obsessed county agencies accused of violating transparency and open-meeting provisions of the Brown Act. L.A. TimesIt Was the Best of Times . . . After a long profit slide, Commerce-based 99 Cents Only stores are making out li ... More >>

Is SoCal Aerospace Crashing -- Again?

In an ominous sign that Southern California's aerospace industry might be repeating the massive downsizing of the 1990s, Northrop Grumman today announced 750 layoffs, to occur within the next few months. According to the Daily Breeze, most of the terminations are expected to fall at the company's El ... More >>

Today in Photographs: February 10, 1975

When aerospace was king in L.A. Striking members of the International Association of Machinists demonstrate in the rain at the McDonnell Douglas plant in Torrance.Photo: LA Times/ UCLA Collection

Secure Borders? Try Fenced In

With $860 million spending sprees, high-tech surveillance towers that don't work and Operation Streamline show trials, it's still the same old catch-and-release game

Steve Melendrez

Furniture guy

Coming Back From Iraq

And all they want are normal jobs

The King of Kong's Rival Arcade Gamers

No quarter

Y'all Don't Come Back

Country music, aerospace manufacturing and the white working class leave town

Kicking the Buckets

Aerospace janitors strike

The Man Who Would Destroy PBS

Does Republican crusade spell bedtime for Buster?

Beggars’ Banquets

One labor struggle ends, another begins

Fighting High Rents

In L.A.? Good Luck.

Dennis Zine, City Council District 3

X-Raying Workers’ Comp

Employers gain, insurers really gain, as for workers...

The Great Race

25 cars, no drivers, racing toward Las Vegas for a $1 million prize — and the future of the U.S. military

Throw the Bums Out

Letters

Letters

All My Sons

Democrats: No More Whining

And a side order of grilled Gephardt, please

MTA Game Plan

The poor walk, so that the middle class can shrink

Failed Promise

The Concorde crash mummifies the ghost of supersonic air travel’s once-bright future

Dodging the Y2K Bullet

What bullet?

Techno Time Travel

Nova TV series uncovers secrets of Easter Island idols

The Battle in Seattle

World-class protest at trade summit may be turning point in fight against right-wing economics

'Don't Like Vanilla'

The many flavors of Central Avenue Sounds

The War Over Your Personal Privacy Is Over.
You Lost.

The top five ways the technological revolution has been a war against you

Cold War II

Kosovo’s legacy

Shore Wars

Will Long Beach bring back its breakers?

Viral Paranoia

Who's afraid of a little bug?

UCLA Study Burns Rocketdyne

Cancer rates elevated among space-lab workers

Sweetheart Deal?

Meltdown Money

Rocketdyne’s Red Glare

Giving him flack

Mark Worth's diatribe against journalists who have gone over to the "dark side" left me wondering if he isn't perhaps the one who is in the wrong profession...