Eli Broad

LAUSD School Board District 4 Election: Absentee Ballot Results Show Steve Zimmer Leading Kate Anderson

With just under 24,000 absentee ballots counted by the city clerk, incumbent Steve Zimmer has a significant 16-point lead over challenger Kate Anderson. Zimmer has tried as best he can to hold the middle ground between the teachers union and the reformers. But middle grounds are hard to come by in ... More >>

Who Will Buy the Los Angeles Times?

Why do so many rich men want to buy it? And how did it get to this point anyway?

Grand Park's New 'Membrane Pool,' a Watery Playpen for Kids, Dogs and Billionaires

Fountains can be found almost everywhere in downtown Los Angeles. The Department of Water and Power fortress has a sizable moat with eight sparkling backlit blasts. The pool in front of the public library has a lizard skeleton coming up for air. Even the Bunker Hill steps have a trickle of water mo ... More >>

$109,000 Salaries to 'Redevelop' The Ghetto? L.A. Leaders Abandon Overpaid City Agency

Despite its whining about Gov. Jerry Brown's successful move to wipe California's local redevelopment agencies off the face of the earth, City Hall wants nothing to do with the remnants of its own "CRA." No life vests here. The City Council just voted 9-3 to just let the thing die instead of becom ... More >>

Catching Up With Grandmaster B

WTF: L.A. Community Redevelopment Agency Loses Track of $1.7 Million, Blames Governor

Of $27 million that the L.A. Community Development Agency was supposed to collect from property owners in blighted areas and redistribute into the community, City Controller Wendy Greuel says she can't find $1.7 million. So. Did public employees at the agency (and their friends on the City Council) ... More >>

Outing Lemon Teachers at LAUSD

33,000 teachers, now always stamped "satisfactory," might finally get graded

L.A. City Council Moves Toward $8.4 Million Tax Giveaway to Mutual Fund Investors Yet Vows Allegiance to Occupy?

yunguyen666​The L.A. City Council is a fairly liberal bunch. It voted last month, for example, to support the Occupy L.A. movement, which holds the bailed-out, tax-loophole-rich banks and investment houses of Wall Street responsible for the Great Recession and its aftermath. But strangely the ... More >>

Occupy L.A.'s City Hall Damage Bill Downgraded to $120,000: Arguments Made For End of Occupation

Ed CarrascoIn this photo, you can almost hear the damage being done to City Hall.​The Occupation of Los Angeles is costing you, the taxpayer, money. And while it was just revealed today that a city firefighter got $77,000 in overtime, vacation and bonus pay, city parks honcho Jon Kirk Mukri wa ... More >>

Occupy L.A: As City Debates Cost of Occupation, Port Spends Nearly $200,000 on Party

Moet & ChandonDrink up, City Hall.​As the skies of tolerance for Occupy L.A. are getting gloomy (both Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa and city Councilman Bill Rosendahl have expressed that there are limits to how long demonstrators can camp out next to City Hall), our own tolerance for bullshit gro ... More >>

Eli Broad: Blame My Wife

Pacific Standard Time: Celebrating the Freaks and Weirdos of L.A. Art

Broad Museum Construction Cam: Watch L.A. Blow $52M on Billionaire's Parking Garage, in Real Time!

Slow is beautiful.​GOD, you must be wondering. WHY CAN'T THE BROAD MUSEUM BE DONE ALREADY, so I can get my FREAKING INTELLECT ON? Well, young connoisseur of finer things, we regret to inform you that construction on Eli Broad's much-anticipated downtown palace won't be completed until an unfo ... More >>

Why Brown Gave Redevelopers a Haircut

California Redevelopment Agencies' Demise

Lindy & Grundy: Now Open Thoughts on Whole Animal Performance Art

A. ScattergoodLindy & Grundy, now open​ Nine months after we originally wrote about them, after a well-publicized cross-country road trip, many butchery demos, profiles in Food & Wine and Bon Appétit and the Los Angeles Times, countless Eater updates, Facebook posts, some 5,200 tweets (from t ... More >>

What Recession? SoCal's Richest People Measure Their Money In Billions

​Even though the recession allegedly ended in June, 2009, times are still tough. Soup is a staple. Souplantation a luxury. Soup kitchens -- a necessity. But the big wheels keep on turnin'. And the ballers, they keep on ballin'. Southern California's wealthiest people aren't at the tippy top of ... More >>

Deputy Mayor Austin Beutner Being Floated As Possible L.A. Mayoral Candidate

​With little political or policy background businessman Austin Beutner has gotten some plum leadership assignments within the administration of Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa, including interim chief of the powerful Department of Water and Power. His name is now being floated as a poss ... More >>

Live in L.A.: At the movies with Isaac Brock, Band of Horses, Angus & Julia Stone, Peter Himmelman, the Airborne Toxic Event

​Think of it as an indie rocker with extra butter. Modest Mouse main man Isaac Brock is in town tonight to perform a short set after a screening of a documentary to which he (along with James Mercer, Jack Johnson and others) contributed music. The film is "180º South," which retraces a 1968 t ... More >>

50 'Wealthiest Angelenos' Worth $93 Billion

Patrick Soon-Shiong.​The Los Angeles Business Journal's annual list of 50 "Wealthiest Angelenos" hits the streets this week and, despite the economic doldrums hitting the Angel City elite, their net worth is up 14 percent to $93 billion. That's more than the worth of billionaires in some Weste ... More >>

One-Buck Eli

Beverly Hills In 'Bidding War' With Santa Monica Over Broad Museum

The Broad FoundationEli and Edythe Broad.​While we told you recently that Santa Monica was reported to be close to wrapping up a deal to have Eli Broad's much anticipated museum open in the beach-side city, Beverly Hills is saying not fast: The Beverly Hills City Council is considering buying ... More >>

Santa Monica Closing Deal For Broad Museum, According To Report

The Broad FoundationEli and Edythe Broad.​The city of Santa Monica is wrapping up a deal to bring billionaire Eli Broad's long-planned contemporary art museum to the seaside town, city officials told the Santa Monica Daily Press. The location would be a 2.5-acre, city-owned lot near the Civic ... More >>

L.A. Billionaires Still Throw Millions at Bill Clinton

Former president Bill Clinton hasn't lost the golden touch when it comes to raising big money in Los Angeles.Former U.S. President Bill Clinton​In 2009, The William J. Clinton Foundation, the former president's non-profit group that fights everything from global climate change to HIV/AIDS, raked i ... More >>

MOCA's New Installation: An Unemployment Line

The news that Los Angeles' Museum of Contemporary Art was sacking 20 percent of its staff came in the middle of a day that seemed to be raining pink slips -- first the 300 announced layoffs at the L.A. Times, as well as 500 chainwide dismissals at newspapers owned by the A.H. Belo Corp., which inclu ... More >>

Los Angeles Median Home Value: $380,000

Amazing story in this week's Los Angeles Business Journal, which has been beating the hell out of the Los Angeles Times in reporting on all the billionaires in L.A. who have lost vast sums — including Kirk Kerkorian, Sumner Restore, Eli Broad — or those whose companies have vanished or might get ... More >>

Billionaire Eli Broad's Fat Check to Long Beach Unified

In a reminder that it's pure fallacy when teachers and pols claim that tough, urban schools filled with poor kids cannot produce high grades and academic achievement, the tough, urban Long Beach Unified School District was today named one of four finalists for "most improved" urban schools in the n ... More >>

The All-About-Me Mayor: Antonio Villaraigosa's Frenetic Self-Promotion

Hours of travel, fund-raising and PR leave little time for his job

Art School or LAUSD Folly?

A gorgeous downtown high school has no plan, no curriculum — but sure looks fab

Eli Broad's luxury Grand Avenue project is now half-owned by Dubai

Latino Leaders' Clinton and Obama Endorsements: California's Wannabe Kingmakers

Deciphering the payback, ambition and backbiting behind it all

LACMA + BCAM = A FUTURE

The not-so-little engine that could

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The Encyclopedic City

Michael Govan wants to change the face of L.A. What are you going to do to help him?

Be Afraid. Be Very Afraid

The Sopranos-like takeover of Tribune Co. could mean cement shoes for employees

Goodbye Baquet, Hello O'Shea

The Chicagoan comes out fighting

The Secret of His Success

Why does a billionaire think Steve Barr is worth $10.5 million?

Crosstown Rivals

When USC and UCLA put on their academic game faces, nothing less than the future of the city is at stake

Baquet's Billionaire Boys' Club

Is Dean of Arc playing a dangerous game with the Times’ integrity?

8 Angelenos on ArtReview's International Power 100 List

8 Angelenos on ArtReview’s International Power 100 List

Curatorial Ecstasy

MOCA’s Paul Schimmel on his new big show, his old big show (“Helter Skelter”) and everything in between

Eye of the Sky

The Grand Illusion?

Downtown project may need blessing of new power - residents

This Watchdog Can Still Bite

Tokofsky overcomes the attack of the toilets

Endorsements

Our recommendations in the March 4 Los Angeles municipal election

Riordan the Meddler

Ex-mayor is out to dump the renegade school-board member who tried to stop a project that benefited his law firm

The Unelected

. . . and to spend more time with their families . . .

No Experts Please

Mayor Riordan backs interested novices for the school board

The Anti-Reform Movement

As election eve approaches, see who opposes the charter — and why