A fire-safety regulation introduced on Gov. Brown’s watch in the 1970s spawned a dangerous standard. More than 40 years later, activists want him to correct the mistake....
The L.A. Philharmonic last week unveiled Gehry’s design for its $14.5 million YOLA Center (the full name is the Judith and Thomas L. Beckmen YOLA Center @ Inglewood), a permanent home for the organization’s youth orchestra program that provides free after-school music education — as well as instruments, academic support and unparalleled performance opportunities such as the Super Bowl halftime show — to young people from underserved communities....
From the imposing specter of England's public bathhouses to the pristine aqua gems embedded in the Hollywood Hills and so many chlorine dreams in between, The Swimming Pool in Photography, a new art book from Berlin-based Hatje Cantz, illuminates an essential iconography, its disparate histories and prismatic charms....
The three-year, multi-agency federal investigation dubbed “Narconetas” culminated in a dramatic crescendo this week when authorities arrested 25 defendants in a barrage of Southland raids targeting criminal networks accused of running drugs and cash across the border for Mexico’s notorious Sinaloa cartel....
Five days after a dramatic police standoff captured national headlines and ended in shocking tragedy, the Silver Lake Trader Joe’s remained boarded up. Neighbors, customers and employees wearing the company’s signature tropical print shirts gathered intermittently in the midday heat along a sidewalk memorial dedicated to Melyda Corado – the 27-year-old assistant manager who was killed here Saturday by police crossfire....
The formula is familiar: A disruptive tech product creates a brand-new market overnight, antagonizing or evading regulation long enough to assert cultural and economic dominance. Not surprisingly, the furtive, ambitious rise of the e-scooter in Los Angeles is laced with at least as much controversy as excitement....
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At an L.A. City Council meeting on Tuesday, Joumana Silyan-Saba, a director in Mayor Garcetti’s office of public safety, could barely get through a sentence without interruption from a gallery of people who had come to protest a $425,000 federal counterterrorism grant. The protesters contend that the grants target and stigmatize Muslims, marginalize communities and pose an acute threat to civil liberties....
In “A Journey That Wasn’t,” the Broad’s new exhibition exploring “complex representations of time and its passage,” the concept of time is an inspired thread that unleashes layers of meaning and intensity in a diverse pick of works from the last several decades, including recent acquisitions and debuts....
Sale began holding workshops, in and outside of prisons, with inmates and ex-offenders and other participants across California to create personal, aspirational artworks formatted as large-scale ID cards. Photos and text paired with small icons, not unlike like government seals and symbolism, reference their lives, hopes, accomplishments....
As fallout over the Trump administration’s zero-tolerance immigration policy continues, attorneys representing migrants apprehended along California’s southern border are grappling with the next crisis: a shadow justice system they say will deprive defendants — most of them poor and desperate — of due process....
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